Cynthia Weeks
Owner/NPCP Certified Pilates Instructor
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!
In Cynthia’s classes, you will receive hands on correction and layers of movement and breath adaptations, within a safe, creative, and fun environment.
Jodi Calkins
Certified 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.
Kestrel Cervenak
Certified Pilates Instructor
Kestrel Cservenak was certified in 1999 by the Pilates Center in Boulder, CO, which is based off the work of Romana Kryzanowska.
She has taught Olympic athletes as well as people recovering from back surgery and is adept at teaching ANY body.
She credits her quick recovery from a motorcycle accident that fractured her leg in 4 places to Pilates (she was back teaching within a week of being out of the hospital and practicing within a month).
She is also certified in Vinyasa yoga and Women's Hormonal Health.
Christina Goodwin,
Certified Pilates Instructor
Christina took her first Pilates reformer class in 2009 and fell in love with Pilates training. As a Registered Nurse in hospital operating rooms for 23 years, she quickly realized that Pilates helped her make it through long grueling shifts and alleviate stress after a long day on her feet. Under the tutelage of Cynthia Weeks and Jodi Calkins, Christina began her Pilates instructional certification journey traveling to Maui Pilates Studio, Align Pilates in Austin, Texas and the University of Utah. She completed her Pilates instructional certification in 2023 and now wants to help others discover the benefits of Pilates in their life. Christina hopes to help others fall in love with Pilates like she had many years ago.
Christina fell in love with exercise at a young age as her parents were always very active as she was growing up. She started working out as a teenager and tried various forms of exercise including aerobics, Taekwondo, spinning and TRX suspension training. In 2002 Christina successfully reached the rank of '1st Dan Black Belt' issued by Grand Master Jong Uhl Kim for the United States Taekwondo Union. Christina is married and a proud mother to her two daughters.
We are excited to have Christina onboard as you will find that her dynamic personality is infectious. You will laugh, be challenged, and feel nurtured simultaneously.
Nadine Calloway Reese
Yoga Instructor
Nadine has been practicing yoga for over 15 years on the Big Island, previously a half-marathon runner, yoga become her way of balancing and strengthening. To her surprise, she began to fall in love with how yoga transitioned her lifestyle becoming a new way of living. Yoga has allowed her to stay mindful in her day-to-day life, it has given her peace and balance as she has navigated the obstacles of her nursing career and day-to-day life. She enjoys leading others to peace and balance in their lives. Nadine teaches a relaxing Slow Flow class for beginners and seniors that includes slow static asanas (poses) for all by sequencing movements with breath work and meditation. In addition, she is a mobile practitioner who provides private session in your home for all yoga styles.
Heather Williams
Certified Pilates Instructor
Heather Williams is a comprehensively certified Pilates instructor through Body Arts and Science International (BASI), trained under Rael Isacowitz across the full Pilates system—including the Reformer, Cadillac, Wunda Chair, Ladder Barrel, and Mat work, including small props. Her teaching style is rooted in therapeutic movement, shaped by her first Pilates mentor who is also a physical therapist that helped guide her during the first 8 years of her Pilates teaching career.
Heather’s journey with Pilates began after a failed spinal fusion surgery that left her with chronic, debilitating back pain. Through Pilates, she not only found relief but reclaimed an active, fulfilling life. That powerful transformation inspired her to pursue Pilates as a full-time career, which she’s been dedicated to for over a decade.
Heather holds a BS in Public Health and Wellness with a focus on Kinesiology and has completed hundreds of internship hours alongside physical therapists, occupational therapists, movement specialists, and bodyworkers. A lifelong learner, she continues to deepen her expertise through advanced training and certifications from master trainers in contemporary Pilates and other movement modalities.
Some of Heather’s continuing education includes certifications in Anatomy in 3D, Reconditioning Specialist Programming Levels 1 & 2, Primal Movement Foundations, and Primal Pilates with Balanced Body Master Trainers Claudia Moose and Louise Johns. She’s also earned specialty certifications through Body Harmonics in Hip & Knee Pre/Post Replacement Protocols, Anatomy in Movement, and Core Integrity. In addition, she holds a ParkinsonWise professional certification and has studied Hanna Somatics under co-founder Eleanor Criswell Hanna. She is also a certified yoga instructor through Yoga Vidya Gurukul in India.
Heather truly believes that movement is medicine—and it should be empowering, restorative, and fun! She’s passionate about helping people of all ages, ability levels and backgrounds move and feel better in their bodies.
