ABOUT US
RANA KENNEDY
A mentor, educator, and forever student, Rana has more than 20 years experience in mind, body, and coaching practices. Rana's professional modeling career landed her multiple health and fitness magazine covers, advertisements, billboards, and national commercials. Her success was greatly enhanced by her fit body, healthy lifestyle, and outgoing personality. While pursuing her career in NYC & LA, she also competed in windsurfing and running races. Her passion for heli skiing, snowboarding, and long distance bicycle touring began at age 22. Yoga became the glue that protected her from injuries which began at age 21. She completed her first teacher training with the famous "Yoga Works" in Santa Monica, California in 1997. Since then she has completed additional teacher trainings with Eric Shiffman, Rod Stryker, Paul Grilley, and Anna Forrest. Her drive was ashtanga yoga and practiced this style regularly for 12 years!
Rana also completed a 500-hour massage therapy certification from Santa Monica Healing Arts College in 1996. Celebrity clients include: Madonna, Melanie Griffith, Rodger Clemmins, Phill Nevin, Tommy Armour, Don Johnson, and Daryl Hannah. With her combined knowledge of healing through postures, hands, and a healthy lifestyle, Rana took her first Pilates certification with Polestar Pilates and Elizabeth Larkam in 1998. Read more
kristin stevenson
Kristin Stevenson is owner of The Pilates Training Institute and co-owner of Steamboat Pilates and Yoga in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She is a fully certified instructor, who has been teaching for 18 years with a background emphasizing rehabilitation and sports conditioning. Her clients have included world-class Olympic athletes to post surgical and acute pain patients. Her bachelor of Science/Kinesiology degree, former job as a University of Colorado athletic trainer, injury prevention educator for Italian cycling teams and international dancers in Italy summer sessions, as well as six years in a physical therapy clinic brings a well-rounded knowledge to assist clients of all levels. Her interests include skiing, soccer, running, and soon to be interests of triathlons, rock climbing, and surfing. As a former competitive ski racer she realizes the importance of a strong core and balanced muscles. She is also a former educator for The Physicalmind Institute and a frequent guest speaker to Pilates studios around the US. She has been published in Skiing magazine and her current research and creative programs involve kids and Pilates and the benefit of special needs children connecting to their core through creative exercise. She is a mom of two little crazy boys and currently resides in Oceanside where she is delighted to be a part of Agility Studio.
