Elana Jacobs

pilates // art & core// healer

With her clients, Elana seeks to foster body literacy and promote a healthy practice. Through movement and private instruction, she reminds her clients of their innate beauty and invites them to challenge society’s messages about what is an acceptable body.

After being certified in Romana’s Pilates at True Pilates NY in 2010, Elana Jacobs has taught more than 6,500 hours of individual Pilates sessions in highly regarded Pilates Studios in New York, Seattle, Boston, and Chicago.  During these sessions, she has witnessed firsthand how this form of therapy can be profoundly healing.

In an effort to be an advocate for women’s bodies and health, in 2019, Elana began additional education in this field. Her certifications include Pre and postnatal Pilates Specialist™, Support your Floor™ (pelvic floor), and The Center Method for Diastasis Recti Recovery™ through The Center for Women’s Fitness with Carolyne Anthony.

Over the last 9 years, Elana has served as the Artistic Director of performing arts company CabinFever that she co-founded. Institutions have commissioned Elana to create new choreographed pieces at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Theaster Gates’ Stony Island Arts Bank, the Soho House, Town Hall Seattle, Comfort Station, Velocity Dance Center, On the Boards, and Stimson Green Mansion.

In order to effectively teach Individual clients Pilates and groups for ’Art & Core’, Elana has drawn from her own teaching and artistic directing experiences, her education as a Dance Major and Exercise science Minor at Skidmore College and from workshops with dance companies Batsheva, Joe Goode, Bill T Jones, and Doug Varone. Her mentors include Debra Fernandez, Lori Coleman Brown, Teresa Shupe, Victoria Torrie-Cappan, Chick Owens, & Eiric Orvid. (Photo by Hillary Olsen)