MARC ADAMEC
Marc, has been a certified personal trainer for over 15 years and is the co-owner of Core Studios. As a former division I lacrosse player for the University of Delaware, he knows the importance of movement quality and the need for a strong, balanced body.
He believes that each client has different needs and goals and strives to create programs specifically designed for every person he works with. In opening Core Studios, Marc has worked to build a facility that combines that best of many training disciplines with a welcoming atmosphere for everyone who visits.
DAPHNE LEE
Health and Fitness is a way of life and Daphne is passionate about her clients, their experiences at Core and in their health education. With a masters in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition, ACSM, ACE, AFAA and Polestar Pilates certification, her focus is on the individual needs of her clients. She is currently a PHD candidate at the university of Maryland. Her career started with a Ms. Fitness title and a management position with Cory Everson’s-6 time Ms. Olympia Fitness Facilities. Daphne’s versatility and vivacious personality make her one of the best fitness professionals in the Washington area.
JASMINE OSGOOD
Jasmine, a graduate of the State University of New York at Brockport, began studying Pilates while acquiring her undergraduate degree in dance studies. Soon after, while teaching ballet, modern and creative movement, Jasmine became certified to teach both mat and apparatus work through Stott Pilates and the Physical Mind Institute. Jasmine is also an ACE certified personal trainer and often guides her clients through a combination of Pilates and Core training programs.
BILLIE MEYER
Billie began practicing Pilates in Aspen Colorado as a way of managing her own chronic neck and shoulder issues. She quickly realized the benefit of the Pilates work as an underlying tool for almost any physical endeavor. She completed her teacher certification at the Boulder Pilates Center and has been teaching for eight years. Billie's focus in her teaching is to help her students feel energized from the inside out and to move freely with strength emanating from the core muscles. She also thinks that “if you are not laughing, you are not doing Pilates”. She has a BFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder and enjoys hiking and Zydeco dance.
SHARON BOURKE
Sharon Bourke, is an ACE certified Personal Trainer/Health Consultant who for the past ten years has been working with corporations and individuals to effect change. Getting her start with group exercise and pre/postnatal work, she soon decided with her eye for detail, form and function, that Personal Training was the way to go. Helping people feel better drives Sharon to create unique programs that equal success for all of her clients.
HSIAO-FANG LEE
Hsiao-Fang has over ten years experience teaching Pilates, Gyrotonics, fitness, stretch and dance and has a masters degree in dance with a focus on kinesiology. She is a fully certified Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis® instructor and a fully certified Pilates instructor (both mat and equipment). She discovered Pilates after a fellow dancer rehabilitated an injury through Pilates and saw the transformation in her movement and physique. Utilizing both systems, Hsiao-Fang is able to create programs for her clients that are varied and dynamic.
GURJEET KHALSA
Gurjeet has been practicing the Pilates method for eight years and is certified through the 700 hour plus Articulate Eye teacher training program. In addition to Pilates she has taught yoga for twenty years. Gurjeet enjoys sharing the experience of strength and sense of well being that Pilates brings. When not teaching Pilates, Gurjeet teaches music at the Mclean school in Potomac.
NICK HARTENEAU
Nick is an NSPA certified personal trainer with an athletic background that includes basketball, boxing, Krav-Mega, and Eurhythmy. He became a personal trainer after working as a fashion model in New York City. Nick is dedicated to helping his clients look, feel, and move their best. He believes that healthy and sustainable lifestyle changes are the keys to fitness success.
