Rachael Gray

Lead Faculty/ Associate Teacher Trainer

Teacher Certification

Rae is our resident queer, burlesque-performing, leopard print-wearing, cheeseburger-eating Pilates glamazon. She was a shoe designer and costumer before one fateful day 10 years ago when she dislocated her hips, sacrum, tailbone, and lumbar spine. She found Pilates after years of living in constant pain so severe she could barely walk. Despite months of physical therapy, only a consistent Classical Pilates practice truly healed her hypermobile body and gave her back her life. This inspired her to earn her Classical Pilates teacher certification, in the hope that she might share this extraordinary method of movement with others who suffer from life-altering pain. Rae is a magician with super flexible bodies. She has thousands of hours of experience working with every type of body, and will keep you safe while making you strong! But don’t make the mistake of thinking you’ll get off easy- she knows exactly how and when to push you to the next level! She didn’t earn the nickname “The Pilates Domme” without good reason, after all. Clients often refer to Rae’s rather unique ways of making complex exercises more approachable. She will have you “reaching for a martini over the sleeping cat on your lap ” and doing “an inappropriate thrust that would make a sailor blush” to get your pelvis in the right position. You will be laughing while your core muscles are dying at the same time.Notable CertificationsClassical Pilates Instructor, certified 2017 by Dorothee VandeWalle at Metropolitan PilatesSpecialties Include:Pilates for Hypermobility and EDSPilates for Chronic PainBack Pain ManagementCorrective Movement TrainingDad jokes and bad puns