TEACHERS
Nina Pearlman
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Nina Pearlman is the owner and founder of The Body Los Feliz, and has been a Gyrotonic & Gyrokinesis Trainer, and most recently Pre-Trainer, for the past 15 years. In 2025, Nina became a Reiki Master under the mentorship of Lara Elliot and incorporates both modalities into her teaching practice.
Nina began her study of movement at a very young age as a dance student at the Los Angeles Ballet Academy. She later received her BFA in Dance from the Alonzo King Lines Ballet BFA program in association with Dominican University. During her BFA, Nina was introduced to the Gyrotonic method by master trainer Debra Rose, and immediately felt the transformational benefits. Nina went on to study more extensively with master trainer Kathy Van Patten and became a fully-certified Gyrotonic trainer.
During her 11 years in the Bay Area, Nina danced professionally with numerous companies, such as the Oakland Ballet and Bay Pointe Ballet, and performed in a variety of movement and music projects. Nina also taught Gyrotonic classes at The Seed Center in San Francisco and independently with clients.
In 2021, Nina returned to Los Angeles and opened The Body Los Feliz with the vision of creating a safe, welcoming space where people could explore, learn, move, and feel good in their bodies within an inclusive and diverse community. In 2024, she expanded that vision with a second location—our Silverlake studio—designed to further grow the community and offer group classes, workshops, and wellness events.
As a teacher, Nina combines her intuitive understanding of the physical and emotional body, with her lifetime of dance training, to create a unique workout experience for each client. She loves figuring out how individual bodies move, the challenges and gifts that they hold, and creating individualized movement plans to help her clients reach their goals. Nina works with a variety of clients across many age groups, from professional ballerinas and high-level athletes, to new moms, people pre/post op, artists, performers, and people who just want to keep their bodies moving. Nina loves it all!
Sarah Lozoff is a certified Gyrotonic trainer, as well as a lauded Intimacy Director for theatre and dance. As a second generation dancer, Sarah trained at Miami Conservatory (now Armour Dance Theatre) and nationally renowned New World School of the Arts, in Miami, FL. Professionally, Sarah performed soloist and principal roles with Ballet Rosario Suarez, directed by Cuban prima ballerina, Rosario "Charin" Suarez. For twenty five years, Sarah taught ballet for professional companies, conservatories, public schools, and outreach programs. Over the last ten years, she's also choreographed and provided movement direction for theatre productions across the country, as well as intimacy direction for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, RudduR Dance, UNCSA, and American Ballet Theatre.
In 2018, Sarah chose to add the Gyrotonic method as another speciality, as it’s made a huge impact in her own health and wellness journey. She trained in Miami, Minneapolis, Boulder, and Los Angeles with master trainers Mari Kasich, Rich O’Connor, Adrianna Thompson, Jenn Depalo-Peterson, and Jane Gotch. Her rich movement and teaching background has given Sarah an optimal knowledge base and deep insight for Gyrotonic. Her clients have said, "Sarah is an experienced teacher, hands on, funny, and warm. You will leave feeling taller, longer, breathing deeper, wrung out and activated but in a therapeutic way." "I always feel restored after a session with Sarah, and I'm learning things about my body’s patterns that I can apply to all my other movements." Sarah enjoys working with a full range of skill levels, aiming to meet clients where they're at, while fostering integration of new, healthier movement patterns.
Mary Beck is a certified GYROTONIC® instructor, movement director, and embodiment specialist whose work is rooted in fostering a harmonious connection between mind and body. With a deep understanding of sensorial awareness, 360-degree engagement, and the brain-body connection, Mary guides clients through movement experiences that cultivate resilience, alignment, and fluidity.
When Mary was younger, she was diagnosed with severe scoliosis, a condition expected to significantly limit her mobility. This began a years-long journey through agonizing corrective and rehabilitative therapies. Through this experience, she gained a first hand education in anatomy, a profound understanding of how trauma lives in the body, and an intimate connection to the humanity found in both pain and healing. Her recovery journey allowed her to experience, on a physical level, how even the smallest adjustment in the body can create space for profound transformation—shifting not only movement but also perception, perspective, and overall well-being.
She works with a diverse range of clients, offering personalized sessions that support strength, mobility, and deep embodiment. Through an integrative approach, Mary helps clients expand their awareness, enhance movement efficiency, and reconnect with their body’s innate intelligence.
Natalie McCall grew up in Los Angeles, where a love of movement quickly became a way of life. She trained in the Vaganova method with Marat Daukayev and Hasmik Amirian, later continuing her studies at The Ailey School and the LINES Ballet Training Program. While at LINES, she was introduced to the GYROTONIC® Method by Master Trainer Debra Rose, sparking a two-year
period of focused retraining and pattern-building in her body.
Natalie is a GYROTONIC® Pre-Trainer, certified GYROKINESIS® trainer, and Pilates instructor. Her teaching style is detailed and steady, giving space for people to feel and respond in real time. Clients often leave her sessions feeling more grounded, more connected, and literally standing taller.
Her own experience with hypermobility, scoliosis, and years of repetitive motion led to hip labral tears and chronic imbalance. Through the GYROTONIC® Method, she reconnected to parts of her body that had gone quiet and found more functional, sustainable ways to move. She continues to study with Master Trainer Jane Gotch and has completed foundation courses with Kathy Van Patten and Christina Stroh.
Natalie teaches across Southern California and serves as Artistic Associate at Sorzano Dance Works, directed by Yusha-Marie Sorzano. Her teaching credits include faculty and guest positions at CalArts, CSSSA, Southland Ballet Academy, Danceology, and the Marat Daukayev School of Ballet. She also holds a BA in English, earned while balancing a professional dance career.
Danica is a certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® trainer whose work is rooted in the belief that movement can be both an art form and a pathway to greater vitality. Her journey began in childhood through classical ballet training, which led to dancing professionally with Oregon Ballet Theatre. Early training at Marin Dance Theatre and Boston Ballet introduced her to various forms of dance conditioning, including the GYROKINESIS® method, sparking a lifelong fascination with the body as a source of strength, expression, and expansion.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Integrative Health Sciences and combines her background in dance, health sciences, and movement education through thoughtful, personalized sessions. Her work is also informed by ongoing studies in Somatic Experiencing®, deepening her understanding of the nervous system and embodied awareness. Working with a diverse clientele and a wide range of goals, Danica supports greater mobility, alignment, resilience, and overall well-being. Her approach invites clients to move with freedom, confidence, and intelligence—all while finding joy in the process.
Renée Donovan is a movement educator and dance artist originally from San Francisco. She holds a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University, along with certifications in yoga (200-hour), GYROKINESIS, and an apprentice teaching certificate in GYROTONIC. In addition to teaching gyro, she teaches adult and youth ballet at several studios in Los Angeles. Her teaching draws upon a lifetime of practicing ballet, a decade of practicing yoga, and an obsession with human anatomy.
Renée first fell in love with movement when she began dancing ballet at the age of four. She pursued ballet pre-professionally at San Francisco Ballet School and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She stepped away from ballet to study Human Biology at Stanford University, and then to teach high school English. After nearly a decade-long hiatus from dance, she began to take open ballet class in Los Angeles and found her way to the GYROTONIC method. Renée fell in love with GYROTONIC and with the dance community in Los Angeles, and in 2023 she began dancing, choreographing, and teaching dance full time.
As a GYROTONIC instructor, Renée aims to help clients build intimacy with their bodies, a gift that ballet gave her and that she believes gyro can give to people of all movement backgrounds and experiences. She sees movement as a means of both self study and self expression and hopes to guide clients to deeper understanding of their bodies and fuller expression in their movement.
Cat Meyer is the Studio Manager at The Body Los Feliz, where she supports Nina with studio operations, client experience, communications, and content creation. Alongside her work at The Body, Cat is a restorative yoga teacher and somatic movement facilitator, Reiki practitioner, and creative producer based in Los Angeles.
With a background spanning the haircare, beauty, and wellness industry and through brand storytelling, editorial production, and community-centered spaces, her work weaves together intuitive care, nervous system support, and thoughtful organization.
Her approach to facilitation blends restorative yoga, somatic movement, fascia-focused practices, and energy work to help people reconnect to their bodies with more softness, awareness, and ease. Drawing from years of experience in both creative production and facilitation, Cat is passionate about creating environments that feel grounded, supportive, and deeply attuned, where people can slow down, restore, and reconnect with themselves.
Allison Bagg is a sound healer, breathwork facilitator, intuitive guide and artist based in Los Angeles. She utilizes a plethora of modalities to help clients ground into their bodies, establish strong boundaries and open portals to magic and abundance within. Certified in gong, crystal alchemy singing bowls, planetary chimes and tuning forks, Allison aims to bring together both hemispheres of the brain in a beautiful marriage of spirit and science.
In addition to her private offerings, Allison co-facilitates The Body’s monthly Soundbath + Reiki evenings alongside Nina Pearlman. These gatherings combine sound healing, gentle movement, breathwork, Reiki, tea, and community in a deeply restorative group experience.
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