MIKI Kim
CLASSICAL PILATES TEACHER
Miki is originally from Seoul, South Korea and came to the United States to study in health science. While she was in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she was encouraged to pursue her career as a Pilates teacher by Dr.Chung who had been coaching her weight lifting and cardio exercises. After a single session on apparatus, she experienced the total transformation of her body and life including relief from back pain, increased flexibility, and a good night of sleep.

In 2015, she was introduced to Classical Pilates by one of her colleague while teaching in Korea. She was deeply inspired to learn the exercise in its original form taught by Joseph Pilates. She began Classical Pilates teacher certification program under Martt Lawrence and world-renowned Master teacher, Dorothee VandeWalle. She believes that Classical Pilates provides the foundation for healthy life and should be offered for everyone.

Miki tailors each lesson to a client’s needs to improve precision in muscle control, strength, and flexibility. Clients will gain the quality of movement and function by creating body awareness, coordination, and endurance. Her lessons offer various benefits, including nutrition and wellness coaching, specialized pre/post-natal exercises (Diastasis Recti, Prolapse, Inconsistency), rehabilitation, and injury prevention, including ankle/knee/hip replacement, scoloisis, herniated disks, laminectomy, flat back, labra tears, bursitis and etc. She’s been teaching Pilates since 2014, and holds a BS degree in Human Nutrition at UIUC.

She is only teaching at the studios where are known for its dedication to preserve Pilates in its original form. She is privileged to be a part of the group that is a direct lineage of teachers trained by Joseph Pilates.

She is the co-owner of Contrology Studio in the heart of Mission Disctrict in San Francisco.

METHOD
THE CLASSICAL PILATES
Miki is the 3rd generation teacher in the direct lineage of the founder Joseph Pilates and Romana Kryzanowska, and privileged to be trained by the leading Master Classical Pilates teachers of our generation, Dorothee VandeWalle.