Cynthia Weeks
Owner/Instructor/Pilates of Hawaii

Cynthia is so grateful to be able to lead and teach such a spectacular form of movement therapy! She is continuously enriched by those that she has encountered within the Pilates studio, as teaching is one of the greatest gifts there are as it guides, nurtures and cultivates one's life journey.

Cynthia is a ballet dancer at heart and naturally fell in love with the precision, challenge and sense of well-being that Pilates and movement offers. In addition to many years of intensive classical ballet training, she taught ballet and helped choreograph and guide young children through their own discovery of dance within Marin and Sonoma, California.

In 2008, Cynthia received her comprehensive Pilates training for teaching including Mat, Reformer, Tower, Ladder Barrel, and Wunda chair through ITT (Integrated Teacher Training) in San Francisco, guided by Pilates Industry leaders, Madeline Black and Jean Sullivan. In addition, she is a nationally recognized and certified Pilates instructor through the NPCP. She has worked for St. Francis Dance Medicine within the Physical Therapy Department and has certifications with BASI Pilates for Pathologies for Pilates.

In the midst of teaching, she naturally fell in love with Barre Fitness and became certified through BarreAbove. After multiple years of teaching classical ballet, group and private Pilates Reformer classes, including directing the Pilates program at Synergy Sports Club in Petaluma, California she also chose to attain a bachelors degree in Psychology and then later as a Registered Nurse where she worked as an Operating Room Nurse in both California and Hawaii. She been teaching full time with Pilates of Hawaii since 2018.

With almost 30 years of teaching experience, Cynthia hopes to help enrich the lives of others, by sharing how Pilates and movement can invigorate and change more than just the body, but one's journey of life...A journey well worth the time and effort!

Jodi Calkins
Pilates Instructor

Jodi has been an RN for over 35 years, and a Certified Nurse Practitioner for over 12 years, seeing patients in Family Practice, Pain Management, Urgent Care, and Emergency settings.

Over the past four years, Jodi has built upon her knowledge of anatomy, physiology, disease, and movement disorders by receiving hundreds of hours of teacher training in Pilates. She has trained in Reformer, Mat, Barre, Ball, Chair, Cadillac, Tower, TRX, and Circuit Training, and along with this specific training, Jodi has taught Pilates for 3 years at Pendleton Pilates in Ohio.

Jodi spent five months of full-time mentoring under Karen Santo before assuming the control of Pilates of Hawaii and after five years, has passed the reigns and ownership of the studio to Cynthia Weeks. Jodi continues the philosophy of Karen within her practice and she continues to offer group and private classes. Her beautiful and nurturing spirit radiates within all of her classes.