SENIOR EDUCATOR

Leila’s Pilates journey began in 1985, and has taken her across the work from London, to New York, to Athens. For the past 25 years she has been the PIlates instructor for the Netherlands Dance Theatre and the Dutch National Ballet. Her knowledge and expertise are unparalelled and we are very fortunate to have her in the Polestar Benelux team.

Leila educates for the Comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training in Leuven & Amsterdam, as well as teaches some continual education courses.

EDUCATOR & DIRECTOR

With a dance and sports background, as well as being a Clinical Exercise Physiologist, Katina has spent the last 15 years involved in the industry. Originally from Australia, she has worked in multiple public and private settings. She is now the co-founder of Waves Leuven and is a strong believer in active support and empowerment in supporting people through their health journey.

Katina specialises in chronic pain, women’s health & neurological conditions.

She educates for the Comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training in Leuven & Amsterdam, as well creating and delivering multiple continual education courses.

EDUCATOR

Andrea graduated as a Certified Polestar instructor in 2013 after taking classes since 2000. She has a huge passion for Pilates and gets a lot of energy from supporting new and enthusiatic teachers to be. She has developed strongly, first developing her skills with clients, and then progressing as a mentor and now educator.

Andrea educated for the Comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training in Amsterdam, as well as hosting some workshops and exam preparation meetings.

Fenna was always athletic and had an interest in many different sports. When in 2012 she discovered Pilates and immediately fell in love.

‘I started practising Pilates after a recommendation by a physiotherapist whom I consulted due to continuous lower back pains. Pilates turned out to be the solution to my back issues, and I was eager to learn more and more about Pilates and the human body.’

In 2014 Fenna graduated from the Polestar Mat Instructor training and started teaching Mat classes in Amsterdam. A year later she graduated from the Polestar Comprehensive training.

Fenna is an educator for the Comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training in Leuven and Utrecht.

Barbara is our newest educator to the team, however comes with ample experience in the Pilates and movement world in both Mat and Comprehensive Pilates. Coming from a professional singer background, Barbara also knows first hand the power movement and breathe can have across the body and mind.

‘Pilates was love at first try for my body. Having dealt with lower back pain since age 12 due to a scoliosis and with a continuous flow of injuries from dance classes at performing arts school, Pilates proved to be the solution. Though I can’t recall what drew me to Polestar Pilates in the first place, I do know what I appreciated: it trains you to have a keen eye for what a client needs. Rather than impose a movement system onto an individual, adjust the system to suit the individual’

Barbara is an educator for the Mat Teacher Training in Leuven and Amsterdam.