Our Bombshells
We teach the classical method of Pilates with humor, empathy, and expert guidance. We’ll help you find strength through the focus and control. You’ll work deeply from your powerhouse with precision and concentration, executing each movement to the best of your ability. With our bombshell teachers, you’ll find something deeper than repetitive HIIT classes. Our Pilates practice integrates all the systems of the body to move with ease and grace through your every day life.
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Kelly Korn
Senior Pilates Instructor / Owner
Movement has been a big part of Kelly’s life: she’s a trained classical and musical theatre singer, dances jazz, ballet, and swing (specifically Lindy Hop). She’s taught kids how to sing and people of all ages how to dance.
While managing an NYC Pilates studio, Kelly decided to be come a teacher. She began in 2012 after training with classical masters Lori Coleman Brown, Lauren Stephen, and others. She continues to train with Cary Regan and Jennifer DeLuca.
Kelly loves Pilates for so many reasons. With it, she’s worked through numerous dance injuries and body alignment issues, as well as her struggle with depression. It gives her focus. It makes her feel connected to her body. She feels honored to have the opportunity to pass this to others, and to be taught and challenged by her students every day. She has helped people work through hip replacements, disc herniation, pre- and post-natal, severe anxiety, MS, scoliosis, and many other challenges.
She loves the discipline and structure of the classical method, but is in constant awe of how flexible it is. Kelly will focus on your goals and extract what you need out of the method.
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Meg Young
Pro Pilates Instructor
Meg is a certified Romana’s Pilates Instructor, with over 900 hours of comprehensive training and practice through Pilates of Dunwoody certification center in Atlanta, GA. She studied under the direction and mentorship of Senior Instructor Holly Pruell (Level III), Master Instructor Rhonda Celenza (Level II), and Grand Master Instructor Juanita Lopez (Level I).
A transplant from Atlanta, Meg has lived all over the east coast as well as international waters while she worked as a Featured Vocalist and Assistant Cruise Director for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. She has performed and taught in the entertainment industry since graduating from Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts. In 2015 after an ACL tear from dancing and subsequent surgery sidelined her for over a year, she stumbled (quite literally) upon Romana’s Pilates. She fell in love with the practice instantly and the rest is history!
Pilates helped Meg get back to doing the things she loves with more strength, mindfulness, and mobility than any other mode of fitness. Meg brings her theatre arts background and love for the authentic classical method to her teaching, combining conscientious technique and joy through movement.
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Camilo Gomez
Pro Pilates Instructor
Camilo is a former professional dancer with a BA degree in dance from Laroche University. He studied subjects which included training in movement anatomy, biomechanics, and kinesiology.
Camilo found Pilates through summer intensive classes while at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York in 2005. He began training with teacher trainer Victoria Torrie-Capan at Pilates on 66. Camilo furthered his Pilates training apprenticing at True Pilates New York under Sari Mejia Santo under the supervision of Cynthia Shipley, Jerome Weinberg and Nancy-Jean McNamara, and was certified through Romana’s Pilates.
Camilo takes great pride in helping his clients achieve their unique goals. He works with clients to help address individual needs by developing a plan that improves their overall health. Utilizing the various Pilates apparatus in the studio, he is able to create skills that are applicable to everyday life.
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Brooke Reynolds
Pro Pilates Instructor
Brooke discovered Pilates as an undergraduate theatre student and never looked backed! She learned many techniques of dance, movement, and alignment but nothing stuck quite like Pilates did. She has been practicing for 9 years and teaching for 4. Brooke loves the mental and physical healing powers of the classical Pilates method—but will try any kind of Pilates class once! She is passionate about helping clients progress and surprise themselves again and again. Young and old, new and veteran, layperson and athlete—movement will enrich your life!
Brooke also has her Masters in Social Work and is a certified mental health clinician post-graduation. She is an avid believer in the mind-body-spirit connection.
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Niki Cheeves
Senior Pilates Instructor
Denise Nicole “Niki” trained and completed her certification at Romana’s Pilates headquarters, which was based in Drago‘s New York City studio, in 2006. She has trained Pilates apprentices, professional athletes, advanced practitioners, and ballerinas at the Dance Theater of Harlem, in addition to beginners and children. She has worked extensively with severely injured clients, many with decades-long, chronic pain from neck, back, or knee issues, who have benefited from the efficacy of Pilates for their physical therapy/rehabilitation.
Prior to teaching Pilates, Niki studied and taught yoga. She is also certified as a Perinatal Doula and a Lactation Counselor.
Niki’s 20+ years of experience teaching yoga and Pilates have been effective practices to implement with pre and post natal women, especially in strengthening the pelvic floor, increasing core strength, and supporting mental health, including those with postpartum depression (PPD) and PTSD.
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Lynda Lippin
Master Pilates Instructor
Pilates has helped Lynda navigate endometriosis, surgeries, car and boat accidents, and arthritis. She understands what it's like to manage chronic pain, because she does it for herself, staying pain-free and very functional with Pilates.
For 35 years, Lynda’s clients (including Donna Karan, Laurie Anderson, and Joe Walsh) have trusted her to help them get stronger and function better, with less pain. Former Financial Times travel editor Rahul Jacob says that Lynda is the best Pilates teacher and personal trainer he’s ever worked with. Lynda was a Master Teacher at Real Pilates for a decade, spent a few years at A-list Parrot Cay by COMO resort, and owned award-winning studios on Philadelphia's Main Line. She helps all of her clients feel and function better, and specializes in chronic back, neck, joint pain; osteoporosis; and diastasis recti.
Lynda lives in lower Manhattan with her husband of 30 years and their senior rescue dog, Juniper Peanut.
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Evy Barnett
Front Desk and Marketing Specialist
Evy Barnett is from New Jersey and has been a Brooklyn resident for 8 years. She studied Graphic Design at Pratt Institute and has expertise in design, marketing, and communications. Evy has a passion for community, fitness, and mindfulness.
As a long distance runner, she has found that Pilates supports her marathon training through building strength and mobility. Incorporating movement into her routine helps Evy stay present and release stress, which is why she is excited to be on the Bombshell team.