About Us
Revelation Bodywork
"Each of us is ultimately responsible for our own wellbeing"
Revelation Bodywork was born from the core belief that in order to achieve your personal best,
you must first honor yourself and advocate on your own behalf. Rather than jumping on the latest trend or looking outside yourself for something to make you feel good, it's most important to tune in and listen. Your body will let you know what it needs. As movement teachers, we're here to coach you in a somatic approach to fitness, helping you recognize the smaller details and less obvious clues. When we don't have the answers, we're happy to collaborate with your chosen therapist or doctor to deliver safe, Pilates-based therapeutic exercise and help you feel and look your personal best.
At Revelation Bodywork, we believe that mental and physical health are interrelated and both are necessary to create a balanced, centered human being. Our teaching style extends far beyond the original Pilates teachings with strong influences based in science and the therapeutic communities we collaborate with. Our Pilates Program focuses on self awareness as opposed to self judgement and creates space for curiosity, allowing clients to inhabit their bodies as opposed to forcing or dominating them.
Unlike traditional Pilates, we go beyond teaching specific choreography into a deeper connection and understanding of your “self” through conscious, healthy movement. We offer you an invitation to experience a sensory practice of finding awareness in the body rather than searching for what you “should” encounter. Expectations and self judgement are suspended and curiosity is encouraged. Ultimately, we aim to support you in connecting with your body as never before and taking this experience with you outside the studio and into your everyday life.
Michele Karlin
Michele Karlin, PMA-CPT is the owner of Revelation Bodywork, LLC. She completed her Pilates training with Body Arts and Sciences International (BASI) in 2010 and maintains her certification with the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA), participating in continuing education in a variety of movement and healing modalities.
Michele is passionate about helping people connect with body, mind and spirit in order to heal the whole self. Within the scope of her Pilates education, Michele has furthered her study of integrative movement, anatomy, modification for injuries, myofascial release therapy, neurobiomechanics, pain management and rehabilitation. She has worked closely with her clients’ physical therapists and doctors for most of her career, providing restorative and therapeutic exercise in a clinical setting as well as in her private practice.
Hailey Shull
Hailey Shull has been dancing since she took her first steps and grew up with an innate passion for kinesiology and wellness. In high school, she taught and competed at the national level in various forms of dance including contemporary, jazz, tap, ballet and hip hop. Following her 2014 graduation from Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, MD, Hailey attended Fordham University in New York City where, along with a full course load, she continued to pursue her career in commercial dance.
While in NYC, Hailey spent many grueling hours in the studio and developed a number of chronic injuries related to hypermobility and overuse. Having seen firsthand how her mom has helped countless clients with similar issues, she turned to Pilates as a method of rehabilitation and prevention of future injuries. As her body strengthened and increased in range of motion and endurance, she recognized the potential opportunity before her and decided to pursue Pilates as her full time career. She completed her teacher certification with Body Arts and Sciences International (BASI) in 2017 and returned from NYC in 2018 to join Revelation Bodywork.
Fotini Pazartzis
Fotini Pazartzis brings more than 20 years of experience teaching Pilates and working as a Feldenkrais Practitioner, a master instructor for the Corealign method and the Anatomy in 3D program of Balanced Body, and founder of the “Back to the Roots; Pilates training program.”
Fotini is certified as a Pre/Post Natal and Diastasis Recti instructor by Carolyne Anthony and the Gentle Birth Project. She has worked with professional and amateur dancers as well as students ailing from Paget’s Disease (Arthritis), Vertigo, Morton’s neuroma, diastasis recti, lower back pain, knee injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, thoracic outlet syndrome, scoliosis and Parkinson's disease.
In her professional life she continually sought to explore movement through the prism of mechanics and functional motions. This quest led her to continue her studies under the best names in the “Body Control” (Pilates) and Feldenkrais methods, the Corealign, Human Harmony.
Fotini is a professional contemporary and classical ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer, graduate of City University and Laban Center in London, UK with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Dance Theatre. She has taught and practiced her profession as a movement specialist in Greece, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the US.
Elizabeth LaMonica
Elizabeths passion for pilates, health, and fitness has been shaped by her love for her family. Having children who have been professional dancers as well as struggling with developmental needs, she found that pilates was instrumental in addressing a variety of needs for her whole family.
Through pilates, Elizabeth has been able to meld her background working in zoology with with her exposure to physical therapy and dance. She knows pilates is a great tool that can be supportive for ALL bodies and incorporates this into her classes! When she isn't in the studio she's playing with her dog and cat, making art, and desperately trying to keep her garden alive!
Milan Jordan
Milan is a 5-star rated, comprehensively certified Pilates instructor. She brings a background in architecture and a passion for health and wellness and aims to welcome a wider audience into a mindful health and wellness space. Milan strives to make the Pilates, health, and wellness scene more inclusive one workout flow at a time. She helps clients of all ages and abilities regain length and mobility in their bodies combating the effects of modern sedentary lifestyles.
Milan holds a Master's degree in Architecture and discovered Pilates five years ago while seeking relief from nonspecific back pain. This experience led her to become comprehensively certified, enabling her to share this effective practice with others to enhance their physical well-being. In addition to studio-based Pilates classes, Milan is passionate about corporate wellness, collaborating with organizations and offering mat Pilates classes during industry conferences to promote a healthy and happy workforce.
Lindsay Grymes
Lindsay Grymes is a professional choreographer, dancer, and a nationally certified Pilates Instructor based in the Washington D.C.
and Maryland area. Lindsay fell in love with Pilates after undergoing
a hip surgery where she utilized Pilates post operation to become stronger than before. She obtained her Comprehensive
Pilates Certification shortly after.
Lindsay offers nuance to her Pilates classes as she obtains
a rich background in the anatomy of movement. She aims to
maximize her clients movement potential in each class through combining her knowledge for the human body and its
physicality in dance. Her background in dance has enabled
her to work across the country being commissioned
by professional dance companies such as The Joffrey Ballet
School in NYC.
Gwendolyn Arthur
Gwendolyn is a certified pilates trainer with 20 years of fitness experience including yoga, barre, dance, and personal training. She believes dynamic movement and flexibility form an important foundation for a healthy, happy life. She is committed to helping clients achieve core stability and strength, postural alignment, and steady, supple power. Her approach stimulates holistic body health, building balance and stamina for everyday movement, injury recovery and prevention, and sports training.
Her holistic approach to health and wellness goes well beyond the training floor. She is a nutritional chef, a Samba dancer, and before diving into fitness full-time, managed a domestic violence and drug abuse counseling center in her hometown in California. When she isn’t teaching or working out, she’s probably dreaming up new recipes, singing karaoke, or camping.