CARSON Murphy
Studio owner and director, Carson Murphy, is a highly trained and gifted physical trainer and instructor specializing in Pilates and GYROTONIC® Method. A professional dancer and bodywork instructor for the past 16 years, she combines her love of the body and extensive anatomical training to give her clients a well-rounded, focused and challenging workout.
Carson is a certified master instructor in Pilates and a GYROTONIC® teacher for over a decade. She has also studied Laban and Bartenieff techniques as well as the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education.
Certified through Long Beach Dance Conditioning, she has also studied extensively with the Kane school of NYC with a special focus on injury prevention and treatment as well as scoliosis and myofascial release. Carson holds a BA in Dance and Philosophy from Loyola Marymount University.
JENNIFER Deans
Jennifer is a lifelong fitness/wellness enthusiast and an active hiker, biker, walker, tennis, paddle and pickleball player. After a major ski accident fifteen years ago, she turned to Pilates (with Carson!
REBECCA Oliensis
Rebecca has been with sound MOVEMENT since 2018. She is the Founder and Owner of MetaMotion Mindful Movement, a Pilates & Yoga studio in NJ, and is co-founder of Beyond the Barre, NYC: Pilates for Dancers, By Dancers. She completed her Comprehensive Pilates certification through the Kane School of Core Integration at Kinected NYC, and her yoga training at NY Loves Yoga.
Rebecca works with clients at all levels of fitness and wellness. Her specialty is mindful movement for those navigating chronic pain or recovering from injury —specifically in the spine, hip, and shoulder. She also has extensive experience with pre/postpartum challenges, aging well, hypermobility, nervous system regulation for chronic stress and cross-training for injury prevention/optimizing performance for dancers, athletes and musicians. Rebecca’s approach centers around the mind-body connection, breath, alignment, biomechanics, and functional movement.
Before teaching, Rebecca was a dancer. At the age of 21 she suffered a debilitating hip injury and underwent an unsuccessful major surgery. Kane School Pilates was a critical component of her physical rehabilitation journey —it allowed her to reconnect to the joy of movement without pain (and still sometimes with pain), and live an active life. Her work is informed by her own embodied experiences exploring, practicing, and studying movement —as an art and a science.
JOHN Ramsey
John’s passion for Pilates was born out of the conflict between his love of dance and a complicated case of scoliosis. After suffering a serious knee injury and undergoing a couple of spine surgeries, life as he knew it suddenly became his past. Enter a gifted Pilates practitioner and Kane School Of Core Integration grad who embarked on the rebuild —and what a rewarding journey it was! John not only found a method of movement to rehab his body and stay connected to the physical musicality therein, he also found a new, super rewarding career path —one that holds all the excitement and satisfaction that existed in his dance world. John’s ultimate goal is to expand his Kane School certification to include specializing in cases of scoliosis and spinal injuries. The mind-body connection is a never-ending chase, but also an effective teacher. What a wonder it is that we can all take part. Keep breathing, keep moving, keep growing…
MARIA Sheldon
Growing up in Spain, Maria has been dancing and expressing herself through movement most of her life. As a professional dancer in NYC, she discovered and fell in love with Pilates ~19 years ago. Pilates combines the art of movement with the concentration of the mind —the perfect storm that inspired Maria to become a teacher. She was committed to learning the discipline at the highest level, making sure her form and overall practice was top notch. She received her certification from one of the best Pilates schools in NYC: The Kane School of Core Integration. Continuing education consists of workshops, classes and online courses, always driven to expand her knowledge of anatomy, various injuries/related rehab strategies and working with diverse populations —she is deeply committed to posturology, alignment and optimal form. Her clientele includes but is not limited to those recovering from hip replacement, disc bulges/herniations, stenosis, scoliosis, osteoporosis, arthritis, knee/shoulder injury and pre/current/post cancer treatment. Maria enjoys tremendous success working with athletes and dancers —she has extensive Pilates education/experience with tennis players and golfers and designed a robust Pilates Program for NFL football players.
Most recently Maria lived in Florida where she was certified as a personal trainer by the NASM, joined the St. John Clark Pain Treatment Center in Clearwater and Body Center St. Pete with Shila Lagrua. Pilates was the perfect complement to their neurosomatic therapy treatment focused on body alignment. Maria brings vast knowledge and extensive experience to her Pilates teaching —she consistently delivers results in a caring, supportive, and engaging way.
CHRISTA Thiesing
A professionally trained dancer, Christa first came to the GYROTONIC® Method as a way to find balance within her own body and from there developed a love for teaching —she is also a Certified GYROTONIC® PreTrainer, providing the first step in the teacher training process for aspiring instructors. Rounding out her knowledge of the body and approach to addressing clients’ needs, Christa studied Pilates at the Kane School of Core Integration —her experience is vast, having worked with a wide range of clients including but not limited to: seniors, pre/post natal women, professional dancers, teens, athletes, and individuals with neurological disorders. It is her firm belief that ‘movement is medicine’ —and is so excited to join the team at sound MOVEMENT!
GEORGETTE Massarella
Georgette Massarella LCAT, is an authentic licensed GYROTONIC® Method/Yoga/Pilates instructor and Dance Therapist. She has explored her passion for movement through many years of dance, Yoga, and Pilates. Her discovery of Pilates + GYROTONIC® Method led to her decision to become a teacher —a natural progression of her physical pursuits. A Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance graduate and 30+ year dancer, Georgette began taking Pilates and GYROTONIC® Method to find relief from her own hip and hamstring injury. She earned her teaching certification in GYROTONIC® Method in 2018, Pilates from the Kane School of Core Integration in 2008 and Masters in Creative Arts Therapy from Pratt Institute in 2007. She’s super enthusiastic about sharing Pilates and GYROTONIC® Method with others —& continues to expand her knowledge of the body and mind by teaching all things movement for better health and wellbeing.
HOLLY Hilt
Holly has been teaching Pilates for 16+ years and a student of Pilates for over 25 years. She was first introduced to the practice at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and came to find its true benefits while rehabilitating a major rotator cuff injury. Unable to dance or play tennis, Pilates allowed her to maintain an active lifestyle.
She is mat and equipment certified through Linda Farrell and Pilates Academy International respectively. With this combination, she teaches classical Pilates with a contemporary twist. Due to the number of clients she works with that have limited mobility for one reason or another, this hybrid teaching style has proven essential to allowing a body to feel the benefits that Pilates offers. Her clients run the gamut from beginner to advanced —included but not limited to, they are pre/post natal, athletes, cancer survivors and those suffering from muscular and/or skeletal injury. When not teaching, Holly spends time reading, taking family adventures or running —either by herself or chasing after her two young children and vizsla.
ELIZABETH McClinchie
Elizabeth has been passionate about movement since childhood, inspired by horseback riding and ballet. As an adult her routine included aerobics and traditional strength training. It was the introduction to Pilates that transformed her approach to fitness, the practice dramatically improved her core strength and horseback riding skills. Elizabeth’s commitment to Pilates deepened after sustaining 2 significant injuries: 1st ankle, then a debilitating knee/ACL trauma. Pilates proved to be an extremely effective rehab strategy —it was crucial to stabilizing her knee and mitigating the need for ACL surgery which typically comes with a protracted recovery period.
All led to her becoming an instructor with certification in anatomy, mat and equipment from The Kane School Of Core Integration. Elizabeth knows firsthand and believes in the benefits of Pilates for everybody as it ages —emphasizing its critical role in developing core strength, balance, and the mind-body connection. She takes great joy in guiding clients to feel their best through movement, breath and mindfulness.