Throughout the past 14 years, Jill’s client base has continued to stay loyal to her approach and the beautiful, light-filled studio enjoys a long-term following. Jill’s success is a result of varying the studio’s offerings and keeping client work as well as conversations interesting and fresh. She continues to incorporate classical Pilates with elements of personal training, dance conditioning, massage and alternative physical therapy. Her goal is to keep her clients strong, healthy and pain free.

In 2007, Jill authored and published the “5 Guide” to provide current and prospective clients with health tips to lead a long, healthy, injury free life. Jill believes an Informed Body is one who moves with purpose and conviction, is aware of its movement through space and does so with grace and ease.


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Pilates Instructors:

Artemis Anderson
Artemis Anderson is a Pilates and Gyrotonic instructor. She received her Pilates certification in 2001 from Physical Mind and her Gyrotonic certification under Tamara Yoneda in 2006. She holds the fitness philosophy that movement keeps you young, healthy and attractive. She works to challenge movement ability, strength and confidence through building flexibility and tone. She enjoys exploring how focus and determination can help people increase their fitness and freedom of movement. She also loves post-rehab work, shifting people from pain to functional movement.

Artemis has studied Reiki and Orthobionomy and draws inspiration from Yoga and functional strength training. She also holds strong views on nutrition and has started a food blog at thehealthtart.wordpress.com. She's received degrees in dance, teaches movement at The Sports Club LA and moonlights as a performer both locally and abroad.

Heather Arnett
Heather Arnett is a native of St. Louis, Missouri who enjoys gravity, momentum and coffee. She holds a Masters degree in kinesiology and knows that one day she will invent an exercise suit that can assist perfect Roll Ups. Sometime in the 90’s, Heather danced with Illinois State Dance Theater, University Dance Theater at Western Illinois University and became a founding member of Suite 132 Dance Company in Chicago, Illinois. Concurrently, Heather became a Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor through the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and realized that dancers actually can make money with their bodies. As a Certified Laban Movement Analyst and BASI Pilates Instructor, Heather often uses scientific tools in class such as marbles, balloons and bendy straws. Heather and will soon graduate with an MFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah and briefly consider a break from collecting college degrees.

**There is no record of someone being kicked out of Heather’s classes for refusing to play with Slinkies.

Lisa Bower
Lisa Bower began to study Pilates in 1997  while also pursuing her interest in yoga and meditation. From 1999 to present, she has been a devoted student of Iyengar yoga, and incorporates yoga poses, stretches and breathing in her work with clients. In 2002, she began the teacher training program at the “Ellie Herman Studio” in San Francisco. She subsequently rehabilitated a repetitive stress injury, and completed her certification in 2005. Her training with master teacher Ellie Herman was complemented by work with Lizz Roman, a gifted rehabiliation specialist.

Lisa lived for two years in a Buddhist monastery, and has a BA degree in social theory from Vassar College, and two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in political science. She is interested in the relationships among and between mind, body and spirit, particularly as they affect the body at rest and in motion. She believes that Pilates is a unique method for accessing those connections for clients of all ages, no matter what their physical condition.

Suzanne Foster
Suzanne is new to Informed Body and is coming back to teaching Pilates after having a son 6 months ago. She has been teaching movement for 15 years and has a MFA in dance from Arizona State University. She received her Pilates Certification at The Kane School of Core Integration in New York City and is also certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. She worked as a dancer, fitness, and Pilates Instructor in several studios in both New York and San Francisco and was invited to teach workshops in both Barcelona and Jordan.

Erin Malley
Erin Malley recently relocated to San Francisco from New York City. She received her initial training in Pilates through STOTT in 2003 from Equilibrium in Michigan, and then at Pilates on Fifth in New York. Following a desire for greater rehabilitative and anatomically focused work, she took on a second certification from the Kane School of Core Integration (NYC). Upon graduation, she was immediately offered a position teaching there, and shortly after went on to become a certifying instructor. She continues to teach for Kinected and The Kane School when she visits NYC.

Erin loves teaching all different kinds of people, and helping people use pilates to reach their movement and fitness goals. Her specialty lies with the biomechanical details of movement: getting you to move with greatest beauty and efficiency so that you can take on the world physically! Erin’s teaching is specific & detail-oriented, because the details make the difference!

Erin is the Artistic and Executive Director of NYC and SF based Malleable Dance Theater, specializing in multimedia dance theater collaborations.
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Erin’s pilates blog: erinmalleable.tumblr.com

Katie McMahon
Katie has always been into dance and exercise and had spent years searching for what worked best for her body. Katie knew she had found her calling when she started Pilates with Shona Curley. Their work together inspired Katie to complete her own teacher training. Katie completed classical training under the direction of certified teacher and studio owner Jill Harris. Katie has been teaching Pilates for the almost two years and practicing for four years. Katie is driven to work hard and strives for strengthening and toning her clients. Sessions with Katie are intense, energetic and fun!

Jonathan Roberts
Jonathan Roberts has been a fitness professional for the last 20 years. He came to teaching fitness, Pilates, Gyrotonic and Dance after a 12 year pursuit of a performing career in theatre and dance that took him from his hometown of San Diego, CA to New York City. His Pilates certification was granted in 1998 by PhysicalMind Institute through Jean Sullivan and Madeline Black. Jonathan has supervised/managed Pilates training programs successfully for major health clubs in the SF Bay Area. He is excited to work with Jill and her wonderful trainers at Informed Body, SF.

Susan Tobiason
Susan has spent over 20 years of study in dance and has danced professionally - primarily ballet and contemporary, as well as Brazilian and hip hop. She discovered pilates during physical therapy when she sustained an injury during a performance season and has been hooked ever since! Susan has completed Pilates training under the direction of certified teacher and studio owner Jill Harris as well as certified trainer Shona Curley.

Susan loves teaching and spreading the word about pilates because it can tone the body in a way that no other exercise can. She is dedicated to developing class curricula to sculpt, tone, and lengthen, and likes to work her clients hard. Susan's classes are inspiring and fun.

In addition to teaching at Informed Body, Susan also teaches dance classes at ODC Dance Commons in San Francisco.


Michelle Wallace
Michelle Wallace completed her classical pilates certification in New York City while interning in the Athletic Training Department at Hunter College. She has both a dance and athletic background and came to pilates after sustaining several debilitating injuries. She fell in love with pilates for the quality of movement that the method demands and for its effectiveness at helping her to heal.

Michelle has been teaching pilates since 2004. Since then, she has trained professional dancers and competitive athletes (the UCB Women's Rugby Team, several tri-athletes, ice skaters, runners and swimmers). As well, she has learned to use the method rehabilitatively, especially to stabilize joint injuries. She has experience working with pre- and post-natal women, as well as with chronic illnesses--polio, cancer, lyme and fibromyalgia. While living in Costa Rica, she assisted with the teacher trainer certification at OmPrem Studio. She has also written for Pilates Style Magazine.

Michelle takes her students through dynamic workouts by setting a rhythm for each exercise and then keeping her students moving one exercise to the next. She weaves in cues and corrections to keep her students performing with precision. She loves teaching and seeing pilates effect the positive changes of strength, flexibility and awareness in her students.

Amber Zuckswert
Amber is certified through the rigorous and renowned Ron Fletcher Program of study. She was first introduced to the method while pursuing her dance degree at San Francisco State University. Pilates cured her of chronic back pain and other overuse injuries related to dance. Amber instantly fell in love with the technique and realized it not only aided her longevity in her dance career, but was a way for her to inspire others through movement and the mind-body connection. She's worked with a wide range of clients from professional dancers, to pre and post natal, to rehab. She has spent the last several years dancing professionally throughout the bay area including work with Robert Moses Kin, Janice Garrett and Dancers, Paco Gomez and Alex Ketley. Most recently, she spent seven months teaching Pilates throughout Australia. Her teaching credits in San Francisco include San Francisco State University and UCSF Mission Bay along with a few private boutique studios.

With over 20 years of ballet and modern dance training under her belt, Amber brings a creative, fluid yet strict and disciplined approach to her classes. She is a lover of all movement and is constantly inspired through continued education in the Pilates method, yoga and all forms of dance. She is ecstatic to be back in San Francisco teaching and furthering her education.

Amber also owns and writes content for her own health and wellness website, Epicself.com . She is passionate about the mind, body and spirit connection and it's importance in our every day lives.

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Yoga:

Adriana Albano
Adriana has been practicing a variety of yoga styles for over eight years. She integrates her yoga practice with swimming, running, biking, squash, strength training, Pilates, and the demands of a student/therapist life-style. She completed her Yoga Alliance Certified teacher training at the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica in December 2007. She teaches all-levels Vinyasa flow classes, semi-private classes (duos), and private sessions at clients’ homes and at Informed Body. She enjoys providing her clients with a range of benefits including strength, flexibility, agility, balance, relaxation, mindfulness, breath-awareness, and self-inquiry. Her classes offer relief from the abuses of desk/computer work as well as sports injuries by supporting overall fitness and well-being. All of her students’ needs are met, no matter their experience or ability level. Adriana is also a Doctoral Candidate in the California Institute of Integral Studies Clinical Psychology program. She is deeply interested in the wide-ranging health benefits of yoga and enjoys exploring these with her clients. Please contact her at adriana1684@gmail.com.

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Kettlebell:

Cecilia Tom
Cecilia founded prAxis Kettlebell Athletica after months of grueling practice to earn her RKC instructor certification from Pavel Tsatsouline, who introduced America to the Russian way of training military and tactical personnel with the kettlebell.  Cecilia taught alongside Pavel at Camp Pendleton for the U.S. Marine Corps, and served as an assistant instructor for various RKC certification courses.  A prominent exponent of the Z Health method in the Bay Area, Cecilia employs neurologically based principles to achieve amazing results for her clients, whose diverse goals include explosive strength gains, weight loss, endurance, pain and injury rehab and prevention, and general athleticism and health.  

Instead of narrowly focusing on one modality, Cecilia uses whatever is in her toolbox to help her clients reach their athletic potential.  Cecilia's coaching is informed by her certifications in yoga, pilates, Indian clubs, and Gray Cook's Functional Movement Screen, as well as two decades of extensive training and practice in the movement arts, including taiko drumming, kung fu, tai chi, qigong, and dance.  Cecilia has been featured in Vogue and San Francisco 7x7 Magazine.  In addition to teaching private and group lessons at Informed Body, she is a Professor of Tai Chi Chuan at the University of San Francisco.

Cecilia graduated with BA and MA degrees from Stanford University, and had worked previously in journalism, investment banking and non-profit development.  For more information, please visit her website at http://praxiskettlebell.com.