Biography

Devona has been teaching Pilates since 2000 and Yamuna Body Rolling(YBR) since 2008. She is familiar with a wide variety of styles of Pilates, from the original choreography to rehabilitation in the Pilates environment. Devona considers herself not just a fitness professional, but also a body therapist. Her focus is to help clients move with better body efficiency, resilience, and fitness. She can easily adjust to the learning styles, and personal goals of clients, creating sessions with a focus on stress relief and relaxation, or a driving brisk workout, and any where in between.

For her fitness clients she works mainly with in a Pilates framework, focusing on the "contrology" of Joseph Pilates, using his series of exercises to bring discipline to mind, body, and spirit. She uses a number of different cueing techniques, individualized for that particular client, to lead a body toward balanced work. For her clients that have injuries or other interests, she may use her full bag of tools, from Pilates and YBR, dynamic stretching and release work, to targeted neural patterning and strength training.