Delphine Blue

Delphine Blue majored in Theater Dance at Skidmore College but ended up with a lengthy radio career. She took her first Pilates class in 2004 and eight years later Delphine completed a 500 hour certification in classical Pilates.

She sees the Pilates method as a challenging but safe way to improve core stability, postural alignment, circulation, and balance while toning and lengthening musculature. Her goal is to provide clients with a Pilates ‘aha’ moment.

Delphine loves to teach on various apparatus including the reformer, tower, cadillac. jumpboard, and wundachair.

Certification: Core Pilates, New York
Specialties: Modifying for injuries
Philosophy: Following Joseph Pilates’ quote, ‘If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you’re old. If it is completely flexible at 60, you’re young.’

Mary Foster

Mary has a background in ballet, which she has studied for over 30 years. She has also studied modern dance, yoga and Argentine tango. At Elite Body Pilates Mary teaches private and group Tower, Reformer and Mat classes. She is also certified as a Prenatal Pilates teacher and very much enjoys working with pregnant women.

Certification: The Kane School of Core Integration, New York
Teaching Style: Stressing and carefully explaining the core principals of Pilates and then building up her client’s strength to go on to more advanced work.

Elise Sherman

Elise Sherman is a certified Pilates Instructor, born and raised in New York. Elise first discovered Pilates while traveling on vacation and quickly became a huge fan, continuing her practice for the last 20 years. 

After a long, successful career in advertising client services, Elise decided to pursue her passion for Pilates even further and earned her certification through the Kane School of Core Integration at the Kinected Studio. With five years of experience teaching contemporary Pilates, she has had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of clients ages 14 to 83 of every shape and size and skill level. Elise truly enjoys seeing the progress her clients make with every session. 

Certification: The Kane School of Core Integration, New York
Teaching Style: She’s driven to help clients gain strength, flexibility, movement and most importantly, confidence.

Yveline Dossous

Yveline is a 30 year veteran in the fashion, beauty, and modeling industry. At age 18, she became an international model and traveled the world, and walked many runways. Her first runway job was with Calvin Klein and she went on to work in TV, print and editorials. She founded Yveline Models out of a passion for helping other young women begin their careers in this diverse industry. Yveline started practicing Pilates 15 years ago as part of her modeling fitness regime. After a knee injury, Pilates was the only exercise that helped her heal. She became a certified instructor in 2020 to inspire and heal others with the Pilates Method, and has attended many workshops and continuing education classes to give her clients the most effective training and teach to the best of her abilities.

Certification: Kathryn Ross Nash, Inelia Garcia & Pilates on Fifth, New York
Teaching Style: To help clients strengthen what is weak, challenge what is strong, enhance the power house (core), relieve pain, and to make people feel great, overall.