Vitality’s experienced, certified staff will help you meet your goals with attention to stability and freedom through movement. Our exercise programs combine stretching, strength work, and aerobic exercise for all around performance.
Jessica Meeker
Jessica Meeker, owner of Vitality Studio, has a wide range of movement experience. She earned a BFA in Dance at The Juilliard School, and was a member of the Stephen Petronio Company in NYC. As a professional dancer she has performed and taught throughout the world. She is a certified Pilates and Yoga teacher, and has recently completed a Level 1 Gyrotonic® exercise teacher training course with Chantal Deeble of Kinespirit in NYC. Jessica is a thoughtful and caring teacher who is continually inspired by the positive changes she sees in her students. Jessica lives in Mt. Airy with her husband and two sons, and is very grateful to be a part of such a wonderful community.
Emily Smith
Emily Smith has been enjoying teaching Pilates for eight years. A Narberth native, she recently returned to the area from Frisco, Colorado, where she opened, operated and sold Trinity Wellness Studio. Emily is excited to be among familiar roots teaching at Vitality. Emily’s teaching style is steeped in a background of dance, yoga and the rehabilitating quality of Pilates. She offers great attention to detail and form, helping clients to maximize efficiency of movement with attention to their specific goals.
Christina Fanizzi
Christina has been teaching Pilates for over 12 years. Throughout her journey as a teacher she is continually amazed and inspired by the work that Pilates can accomplish for everyone. She began her training with Fran Lehen in NYC and is certified through The Kane School of Core Integration and the PMA. Recently she completed the Masters Program at The Pilates Center in Boulder, Colorado. In addition, she has had the good fortune of teaching Pilates in London, England and Orvieto, Italy.
She believes in the true intention of Joseph Pilates’ vision and the powerful results that follow when practiced weekly. While encouraging overall health and well being through the original philosophy of Joseph Pilates and his exercises, she tailors every Pilates workout to her clients needs depending on their experience and current condition.
Tara Culp
Tara began her practice in NYC in 1997 . She completed her first certification from “It’s Yoga” in San Francisco in 1999. After the birth of her daughter in 2001 she became passionate about studying and teaching prenatal and postnatal yoga. She has studied with Jyothi Larson of Integral Yoga and author of “Yoga Mom, Buddha Baby” . She completed her prenatal training with Mia Borgatta of MaYoga NYC. She has been joyfully teaching in Philadelphia since 2007 but it wasn’t until 2009 that she found her teacher, the incomparable Kelly Morris, director of Conquering Lion Yoga. Tara received her certification from CLY in 2010 and is deeply honored and blessed to be teaching this holy lineage.
Patty Segal
Patty Segal became a certified Pilates instructor as a second career move. For more than 20 years, Patty’s first career was in the field of school and educational psychology. Always physically active, she became both a serious tennis player and avid folk dancer as a young adult—two hobbies she continues to pursue passionately. In 2004, she became a serious Pilates student and entered the teacher training certification program in 2006 with Phylinda Moore, former owner of Vitality Studio. Her focus is working with individuals 50 and over who want to remain strong, vigorous, and flexible. In 2008, Patty started to do GYROTONIC® ® exercise. So convinced of its physiological benefits, she entered and completed the GYROTONIC® ® teacher training which she also teaches at Vitality Studio.
Lana Jaclyn
Lana Jaclyn began her yoga practice in 2001, in a little loft in NYC. During this time, Lana was also learning to skydive. Yoga was a helpful tool for staying focused, calm, and flexible, not only with the sport, but with moving through a big life transition.
Lana spent 6 years working in skydiving.
While taking care of a friend who was hurt in ’04, Lana realized her calling to help people to ease their discomfort and suffering so that they can feel their best. Shortly after, she earned her 600 hour Therapeutic Massage Certification through Omega Institute in ’05. Working as a bodyworker and delving into a world of wellness ignited her interest in teaching yoga. She felt that she can stay engaged and go deeper in her yoga practice through sharing it’s very evident and bountiful benefits with others.
Lana got certified to teach in ’09 through Wake Up Yoga, after completing a 250 hour teacher training, and has been teaching group classes and private classes ever since.
Lana is also Reiki I and II certified through the Reiki School of Philadelphia.
Other studies include: Ayurveda 100 hour training with Ed Zadlo, a 20 hour training in Essence Bodywork in Costa Rica, and multiple trainings with Anodea Judith on yoga and the chakras. Lana continues to delve deeper into her yoga practice/teaching through the studies and experience of anatomy, kinesiology, philosophy, meditation, and a continuous bridging of yoga on the mat with life off the mat.
Katie Jasmin
Katie Jasmin is a native of Rhode Island. She began studying Pilates during her undergraduate experience at Rhode Island College, where she received a BA in both dance performance and music. In 2007, she began training at the Jen McWalters Pilates Studio in Pawtucket, RI and received a comprehensive Pilates certification in 2008. In 2009, she became a PMA certified instructor. Katie, now a graduate student in Temple University’s Masters of Dance Education program, has also been studying at The Center for Body-Mind Movement to become a Somatic Movement Educator. She enjoys incorporating elements from her training in dance & somatics, as well as yoga, to enhance her clients’ experiences. She believes that Pilates is a versatile system that can accommodate any body of most circumstances and looks forward to working with a variety of individuals who want to move!
Phylinda Moore
Phylinda has enjoyed teaching Pilates since 1999. Initially certified through The PhysicalMind Institute, Phylinda audited two additional Pilates certification programs and completed further training in yoga and bodywork methods before founding Vitality Studio in 2002. Phylinda works with all levels from those with specific conditions to professional trapeze artists. She has taught in Oklahoma, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, and Kuala Lumpur, where she helped train instructors for the first Pilates studio in Malaysia. In addition to creating an apprentice based Pilates training program, she offers bodywork sessions in a technique called Mashing. (Mashing addresses chronic tension, myofascial tissue, circulation, and muscle flexibility. Mashing is a blend of Thai massage, foot Shiatsu, and compression technique. Similar to various Eastern forms, Mashing practitioners use their feet to effect deep and lasting changes in the body.) Phylinda has a BA from Oklahoma State University and an MFA from Rosemont College. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in a variety of journals.
