About
Bodies and Plants is a fully equipped Pilates studio. Paring movement and plant life all in one space. Calming the nervous system, shedding away anxiety and stress, and leaving you feeling happier with a healthier mind and body. Through Pilates, Yoga, and Pilates inspired exercises, we are here to guide the body and mind while influencing the way you approach movement.
andrea Lanzetti |
founder/owner
Andrea Lanzetti is a New York based dancer, teacher, and founder of Bodies and Plants. Her career in dance has led her to become a certified Pilates instructor and movement advocate. Andrea is a firm believer that movement is therapy and can transform lives. She has 600+ hours of comprehensive Pilates training as well as a B.A. in dance from DeSales University and over a decade of teaching experience. She respects the traditional Pilates method while continuing to evolve and push it’s boundaries by pulling influence from outside movement modalities. Andrea strongly believes in the method as a way of training the body in both a functional and therapeutic way. Her passion for movement and knowledge of the body allows her to be intuitive and attentive during a session while staying creative and open minded. Andrea’s teaching style focuses on proper biomechanics while also encouraging movement exploration and autonomy. Her sessions are focused and intentional. Andrea enjoys training a wide range of clients from dancers and athletes to those with osteoporosis or other rehabilitative needs. Balancing the body and mind can benefit everyone.
Sarita Radley | Pilates instructor
Sarita Radley was born and raised here in the Catskills. In 2003 she received her Pilates training and certification through Romana Kryzanowska’s school, Romana’s Pilates, which was originally located in New York City. Romana inherited the school from Joe and Clara Pilates and preserved the Pilates’ legacy by traveling the world for six decades to educate the next generation of Pilates instructors.
Sarita is also trained in classical ballet through the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, The Harid Conservatory, and the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet.
Autumn Marie |
Yoga
Autumn was born and raised in the heart of the Catskills with a love for, and connection to, Nature - always barefoot - listening, feeling, breathing, and moving freely outdoors with her three older brothers. Autumn eventually moved to Brooklyn to study Photography at Pratt Institute, before moving to Central America for several years where she took her first Ashtanga Vinyasa class with her teacher, Aura Reverol. She then traveled to India to study and practice under Ajay Kumar of Sthalam 8, receiving her certification to teach in 2013 (and again in 2017). She has continued to travel to India each Fall to further her practice and studies, receiving her certificate of Pranayama with Sri BNS Iyengar in 2017, as well as her certificate of Mudras & Bandhas with Sri BNS Iyengar in 2019. She has practiced under students of Sri K Pattabhi Jois including Sharath Jois, Eddie Stern in NYC, and Greg and Tracy Cooper at the Ashtanga Yoga Centre in Melbourne, Australia.
Rachel Dilworth | Yoga
“Yoga is not about self-improvement. It is about self-acceptance.” - Gurmukhi Kaur Khalsa
It is true that we find yoga out of a great need. In Rachel’s case, that great need arose in 2005 after a serious knee injury while attending college as a dance major. This dark moment in her life lead her to one of her greatest passions and life’s dharma; To teach yoga asana and become a lifelong dedicated student in the study of the eight limbs of yoga. Though her dharma is ever-evolving, it has grown to encompass the teaching of functional mobility, the inclusion of accessible asana for ALL BODIES and abilities, and the sincere desire to help her students to witness themselves as they truly are; complete and beautiful sentient beings. The eight limbs of yoga have allowed Rachel to find harmony, peace and balance in her life. Which, she greatly desires to share with you.
She has studied and taught many different forms of movement throughout her life including various styles of dance (ballet, modern, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, African, and contact improve), Pilates, and Yoga Asana (Ashtanga, Iyengar, Bikram, Hatha, Pre-natal, children’s yoga, Restorative, Power, and Vinyasa). She draws on this knowledge to inform her teaching style. Rachel also holds a B.S in Elementary Education and Early Childhood development.
Rachel Completed her 200 hr. Vinyasa yoga certification and training at Rasa Yoga Center in Medford, and Ashland, OR. in June 2016 under the guidance of Sarah Sol, Krista Holland, and Jaimie Elmer. In addition to this she has had the blessing of continuing her education with such prevalent teachers as Max Strom, Desiree Rumbaugh, and Djuna Mascall. She looks forward to continuing her education throughout her lifetime and believes the best teachers are dedicated students.
Rachel is authentic, compassionate, humble and non-judgmental. Her goal is to make yoga accessible and challenging while bringing greater awareness to the spirit, energetic and physical body, and mind. She cares deeply about holding and creating space for her students practice and dedicates her time to developing safe, creative, and satisfying classes that honor the lineage of yoga and cultivate and inspire personal awareness and inner peace. Her sincere desire is that each of her students find the essence of themselves that is Sat Chit Ananda; Truth, Consciousness and Bliss, through the practice of yoga.
When she is not obsessing over all things yoga, Rachel enjoys dancing, painting, singing, cooking, camping, hiking, adventuring, and most of all spending time with her beloved husband, three children and dog.
Megan Hillman-Hammer | Virtual Group Pilates
Megan has been an active mover, athlete, and performer her whole life. She began with climbing trees and swimming in the ocean under the Florida sunshine. She competed as a majorette, swapped her baton for jazz & ballet shoes, added running in high school, and made the switch to fully pursue dance in college. She received her BA with honors from the University of South Florida in Dance Studies, focusing on Dance Injury and Prevention. After moving to New York, Megan received her Pilates certification through the Kane School of Core Integration. She is also a certified TRX Suspension Training instructor. Megan has had a passion for movement and kinesiology for as long as she can remember and enjoys sharing her knowledge with clients to help them better understand exercises and how the body moves. She loves variety and has experience working with clients ranging from teens, athletes, professional dancers, stay at home parents, working professionals, models, injured clients with limitations, retirees, and a blend of every day people who just love Pilates! She employs a healthy use of imagery to enhance the understanding of action, pattern and sensation. Megan is a choreographer and dance educator currently teaching at the University of Michigan. She recently completed her MFA in Dance from the university after many years of performing and choreographing in New York City. Her experience as a lifelong mover and professional dancer provides her with a detailed kinetic sense, allowing her to facilitate a thorough movement experience and workout for each client.
audra lang | pilates instructor
Audra aims to inspire students to appreciate and love where their bodies are right now, while pushing students to rigorously refine their form, build strength and improve breathing techniques with each and every exercise. Practicing Pilates since her teens, Audra received her Pilates Teacher Certification from Catskill Pilates in 2022. She has trained in various forms of dance over the years including classical ballet, modern, polyrhythmic forms and Butoh.
She studied Religion and East Asian Languages & Cultures at Columbia University. Audra went on to work in galleries, performance spaces and art service organizations that serve independent performing artists in NYC from 2002-2012, and taught several arts business courses and workshops at NYU’s Tisch and Juilliard School of Dance. She moved to Berlin, Germany in 2012 and produced time-based performing art projects in 43 cities around the globe, working on five continents. Since 2016, she’s been living in the Catskills with her partner (and his Middletown-based brewery project, Equilibrium) in a lake-side cabin filled with Bengal cats and Hyla versicolor tree frogs.