Our Team
Cynthia Bahmani
Cynthia is a Certified Pilates Instructor with over twenty years of teaching and professional dance experience. After graduating Tisch Dance at NYU, she studied Pilates at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, where she worked in the Sports Medicine Department from 2000-2002.
Cynthia worked as the Pilates Instructor for the Cirque du Soleil Bay Area cast of “KOOZA” in 2024 and “AMALUNA” in 2019. She is a specialist on the CoreAlign, a physical therapy tool that helps people optimize their gait, posture and alignment. She developed a six hour course for teachers to learn to use this apparatus.
Cynthia has a private studio in Marin County, California and is honored to be a frequent Guest Instructor at Rancho La Puerta (Tecate, Mexico) near San Diego where she grew up.
Lizz Smith
With an extensive background in the health industry and over 30 years of physical therapy experience, Lizz specializes in orthopedics, treating individuals with musculoskeletal pain, postural imbalances, post-surgical rehabilitation, and prevention needs.
Prior to starting a private practice in 2004, Lizz held several positions over a decade at the renowned Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Lizz is certified in Active Release Technique, cupping and aromatherapy. She received a BS in Health Science and a MS in Physical Therapy from Simmons College.
Lizz’s private practice is in Manhattan, living in Brooklyn with her husband and 2 teenage sons.