Welcome to Studio Vitality, Yoga & Pilates

Specializing in 1:1 Classical Pilates & Vinyasa flow yoga, while offering an accessible and integrated perspective.

Classical Pilates

Pilates is a system of controlled exercises that engage the mind and condition the total body. The blend of strength and flexibility training improves posture, reduces stress, and creates long, lean muscles without bulking up.

Vinyasa Yoga

Vinyasa flow focuses on centering the mind, body, and spirit while practicing a series of poses that develop both strength and balance making them the perfect restorative combination.

Get to Know Dana

Dana has over a decade of experience teaching and training the integral principles of yoga and Pilates. She first discovered the power of Pilates at her local gym. With encouragement from her admired teacher, she began her studies of Pilates with IM=X and was teaching by 2006.

It wasn’t until after a skiing accident and ACL repair in 2011 that her Pilates and yoga teaching paths would cross. While in physical therapy, Dana discovered the transformative and vital benefits both the traditional and modern movement modalities offer while incorporating the reformer along with the shape-shifting balance of a yoga practice. This motivated her to pursue the study of multiple yoga certifications, ultimately becoming an E-RYT500 yoga teacher.

In 2014, she opened a yoga and Pilates studio, leading classes and a RYS200 Hour Vinyasa Yoga Training certifying yoga teachers.

In realizing her true passion for teaching Pilates, she went on to continue her education and completion of the comprehensive and classical methodology of Pilates with the renowned Authentic Pilates Learning Center in Mahwah, NJ.

Daily, Dana learns new and insightful aspects of the body in motion while working with clients or observing the esteemed teachers with whom she has the pleasure of working, or in self-discovery by applying the Pilates Method and yogic philosophy.

Dana now combines teaching classical Pilates and the breath-centered mindfulness of yoga to develop clients’ mind-body abilities with a mind for healthy musculoskeletal function, proportion, and the daily activities these abilities will enhance.