Pilates
We are proud to have built our Rise Pilates program on the principles of Joseph Pilates.
Improved core strength, stability, posture, balance and flexibility are just a few of the benefits that Pilates provides. Pilates is a gentle but challenging workout that helps create an evenly conditioned body which is great for injury prevention and overall performance. Our goal is to provide a motivating and supportive environment in our classes and individual sessions. We offer both Pilates reformer classes and private sessions with the reformer to give you individual attention and to address your concerns and goals in a private and safe space. In both our classes and private sessions we will teach you specific strategies to manage or prevent injuries and build core strength.
We show you how to harness the power of mindful movement and focus on training all parts of the body to work in unison, increasing your balance, core strength and coordination.
RISE Pilates instructors

Angella Coleman
Angella’s desire to challenge her bodies’ physical limitations first started with dance. Then eventually athletics became her passion. Angella was a two sport athlete with collegiate and Olympic dreams. Unfortunately, after tearing her ACL senior year in high school, that road was cut short. Her training and her injury has given her the insight on how to challenge the body and how to patiently deal with injury. She has been a pilates instructor just short of a year. Her classes reflect years of personal training experience, 300 pilate reformer certification hours, experience teaching TRX, and barre. Angella’s style derives from her love of dance and fitness. She looks to improve her students flexibility, core strength and coordination, while building their confidence in their fitness journey.

Erika Matos
Erika takes a fun, fresh and holistic approach to fitness by integrating multiple disciplines and innovative styles. Her Pilates journey began in 2003 as a way of rehabilitating her body and rebuild foundational strength from sustained injuries in a car accident. It wasn’t until 2011 that official training began leading to certification in All Mat, Reformer, and Apparatus Modules including Springboard. In 2013, she added prenatal and postnatal certification. Erika believes that, together, we can enhance our life experience by supporting and strengthening our mind-body connection, pushing ourselves outside our comfort zone in order to discover new levels of untapped vitality within.

Jean Zartler
Jean Zartler is a certified Pilates group instructor and Private Pilates trainer. After 17 years of Pilates Mat and Reformer experience and training, Jean has taken her expertise, following her dreams, to become a valued Pilates motivator at RISE. Jean has a passion and desire to elevate her students’ practice through breath work, mind centering and high-intensity cardio Pilates. She brings enthusiasm with encouragement in a way that promote health and well-being through foundational Pilates, with an edge. Get ready to get your body engaged and heart rate up with Jean!

Jessica Lizardo
Jessica first discovered her love for yoga and fitness in 2010 after training to be a classical cellist starting at the age of 5. She spent years and even her first year of college training at a conservatory of music in Manhattan, New York, and realized she wanted the experience of not just being the accompaniment to dancers on stage but to embody these movements herself. She came back to the Bay Area where she’d grown up in 2009, took her first yoga class and transferred those years of practice and dedication as a musician into becoming an avid yoga student. Eventually, she yearned for something more than just the physical practice of yoga and so became trained as a registered yoga teacher in 2012. And that was just the beginning. She discovered another exciting path to explore during her college career, which was her love for pilates. It is the way that these movement-based practices incorporate a form of art, healing and discipline that brings deeper awareness and strength, that led her to become a lifelong student of yoga and pilates. She has been teaching yoga since 2014 and became trained in the Power Pilates Mat series in 2019. She has taught classes at studios and community centers in Orange County, as well as a trauma-informed yoga series at her alma maters, the University of Southern California and UC Irvine and at a mental health facility in Burlingame. She has proudly been part of the Rise BodyWorks community since 2019 and carries the same trauma-informed lens and approach in her teaching through the use of language, modifications and safe exploration of exercises in one’s body. When she’s not teaching pilates or yoga, she is deepening her understanding and knowledge of both practices, exploring the greater outdoors and great music, and developing her clinical skills and working as a community-based psychotherapist for youth, with hopes of merging both practices to help others experience a sense of freedom and alignment in both body and mind.

Sarah New
Sarah New is a certified Pilates instructor with over 4 years of reformer experience. Sarah came to the Pilates world when she suffered a debilitating back injury and was looking for a low-impact exercise to rehab. She quickly fell in love with the practice and saw firsthand how Pilates can not only aid in injury recovery but also enhance flexibility, balance, and strength. Due to this Sarah brings with her a passion for helping people improve their overall health and wellbeing through the practice of Pilates. Her approach to teaching Pilates is rooted in the principles of alignment, breath, and flow and she is always looking for a way to challenge clients with creative and dynamic exercises that target specific muscle groups while also focusing on proper form and technique. When not teaching don’t be surprised to see Sarah on the carriage next to you or spending time at a pool watching Water Polo.

Stacz Sadowski
A certified Pilates Instructor, Stacz is passionate about movement, dance, and helping others achieve their goals. As a child, Stacz was diagnosed as hyperactive and created an active lifestyle to help him manage it. His interests range from dance to weightlifting. An enthusiastic, positive practitioner and teacher, he finds Pilates to be one of the most amazing exercise systems. He looks forward to sharing this with you!

Stephanie O’Loughlin
Stephanie O’Loughlin is a certified Pilates instructor who teaches group and private Pilates reformer lessons. As a seasoned pilates instructor and group fitness manager, she has dedicated her life to helping others achieve their health and wellness goals. After years of starting her fitness journey simply as a hobby, she quickly realized that her passion lay within creating classes and programs which motivate and inspire others to live their best, healthiest life. With close to a decade of experience as a pilates instructor, Stephanie has had the privilege of working with clients of all ages and abilities and specializing in developing classes that not only improve physical strength and flexibility, but aid in stress reduction, injury rehabilitation, and overall body awareness. When Stephanie is not guiding clients through their workouts, she is furthering her knowledge in the field through ongoing education, attending conferences, and keeping up with current research on exercise science and nutrition. Most importantly, her dedication to living a healthy lifestyle spills over into all aspects of her life, both professionally and personally. Stephanie is thrilled to continue her journey at the forefront of the fitness industry, empowering those around her to live their best life with a focus on strength, confidence, and overall wellness.