“thank you for creating and sharing a safe space for healing. artful, soulful, raw and imperfectly fluid are a few adjectives i associate with your teachings. your guidance is truly unique.

-krystle snodgrass

Villa Pilates and Yoga.

a Pilates & Yoga Studio in Newport Beach, CA. I created this studio in the winter of 2010 & sold it in the fall of 2018.

studio Amor Fati.

a private pilates studio in Los Olivos, Opened in 2020 and sold in the summer of 2022. AMOR FATI.

“I love this term ~ amor fati ~ ‘ love of fate.’ Instead of bemoaning your fate ~ and sometimes our fates are terrible ~ we love our fate, Amor Fati.

It’s a way of being grateful. I’m going to love what happened to me because I trust it’s here to remove a veil. I’m going to search for what’s happening to me in this time so I can take away yet another misconception.”

- elizabeth lesser

“I was overcome by the feminine energy in class. it was like this healing, unspoken sisterhood. you have created such an amazing space for others to heal and move and breathe.

-Meghan gracida

Embody Pilates Studio. Santa Ynez, CA.

opened May 2024. the glamorous chapter.