Faculty

Teachers who trained for years, not weekends.

Seven of them. Every one certified in the classical lineage; most of them came to the method through their own injuries.

The seven

Seven teachers across three houses. Each trained for years in the classical lineage before teaching a single session here.

Founder · Director of Method

Head of Faculty · Yorkville

Director · Tribeca

Director · Mayfair

Senior Teacher · Tribeca

Senior Teacher · Mayfair

Teacher · Yorkville

Founder · Director of Method

Ingrid Solvang

Ingrid danced principal roles for twelve years before a lumbar injury ended her stage career at thirty-one. Pilates was prescribed; it became the work. She trained under a second-generation teacher of the original method in New York, taught privately for six years, and opened the first house in Toronto in 2016 with two reformers and a borrowed cadillac.

House: Yorkville
Lineage: Second-generation classical lineage, certified 2009
Teaches: Private · The Foundation · Teacher training
With the house since: 2016

Head of Faculty · Yorkville

Tomás Reyes

A former national-level sprinter who came to the method after a hamstring rebuild, Tomás runs the Yorkville faculty and the athletes' programme. He teaches the footwork series the way it was written and does not apologise for it.

House: Yorkville
Lineage: Classical certification, 2014 · Athletic conditioning
Teaches: Private · Athletes · Circle · Reformer
With the house since: 2017

Director · Tribeca

Hana Okafor

Hana opened Tribeca in 2021 after four years teaching in Yorkville. She trained as an architect first and still teaches like one: the body as structure, the breath as load path. Her postnatal work is the most requested programme across all three houses.

House: Tribeca
Lineage: Classical certification, 2012 · Pre- and postnatal
Teaches: Private · Pre & postnatal · Circle · Tower
With the house since: 2019

Director · Mayfair

Élodie Marchand

Élodie trained at a conservatoire in Lyon and taught company class for a decade before joining the faculty. She runs the London house and the dancers' programme, and teaches the mat work as its own discipline rather than a warm-up.

House: Mayfair
Lineage: Classical certification, 2015 · Dancers
Teaches: Private · Dancers · Mat · Classical
With the house since: 2022

Senior Teacher · Tribeca

Wren Castellano

Wren came from clinical physiotherapy and teaches the post-rehabilitation programme: members returning from surgery, from a physio's care, or from a long time away from their own bodies. Slow, precise, and quietly relentless.

House: Tribeca
Lineage: Classical certification, 2018 · Rehabilitation-adjacent
Teaches: Private · Post-rehabilitation · Chair & Barrel
With the house since: 2021

Senior Teacher · Mayfair

Sami Haddad

Sami teaches the tower work and leads the Quiet Room sessions: breath, infrared, and the practice of doing less. He has taught in Beirut, Paris and London and describes the method as “the art of not compensating.”

House: Mayfair
Lineage: Classical certification, 2016 · Breath and recovery
Teaches: Private · Circle · Tower · The Quiet Room
With the house since: 2024

Teacher · Yorkville

Priya Nair

Priya was a member for three years before she was a teacher. She completed the house's own training programme in 2023 and now teaches the Foundation series to most new members in Toronto.

House: Yorkville
Lineage: Classical certification, 2021 · Trained in-house
Teaches: The Foundation · Circle · Reformer · Mat · Classical
With the house since: 2023

Begin with the Foundation

Five sessions. Then the rest of your life.

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Request the Foundation

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