Kathy Jannino-Faino
Certified Pilates Instructor
Cordially invites you to experience the invigorating, delightful and body changing feeling of Pilates.
Our Studio
Our small, intimate and personalized Studio has
state-of-the-art Pilates equipment and caring,
certified instructors. A winning combination.
Our classes are kept small to insure safety, proper
form and execution, adequate supervision and
individualized attention.
Our continual focus is on your body, your
comfort, your wellness and your goals.
The Benefits of Pilates
With regular, committed Pilates workouts you can expect to:
- Improve strength, flexibility and balance
- Flatten your belly ☺
- Reduce midriff bulge
- Diminishes & often cures back pain
- Tone and build long, lean muscles
- Shrink your waistline
- Create a stronger, more flexible spine
- Restore postural alignment
- Increase joint range of motion
- Offer relief from pain and joint stress
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- Enhance mobility, agility & stamina
- Develop ease of movement for daily activities
- Improve circulation
- Increases metabolism
- Perk up your derriere
- Engage the mind & enhance body awareness
- Reduce stress, relieve tension, boost energy
- Improve the way your body looks and feels
- Compliment sports training
- Build a strong core
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"If you think this is another Pilates class, you will be wrong. I've taken Pilates on a mat and done a workout following a DVD. Both worked my core, but nothing else. This class on a reformer is a total body workout! I wish I had taken my measurements before I started in October, but I'm sure I've lost several inches, as well as toned my muscles. Kathy is incredibly well trained. She has learned what you should and should not do to avoid injury. She also has a very upbeat personality. This is fun, and the time flies!"
Our Style
Passport Pilates integrates both the STOTT® and the Balanced Body Pilates Methods of instruction. We have instructors certified in one or both methods and each studio has equipment from both companies.
Our Instructors
Kathy Jannino-Faino
Kathy has been a part-time fitness instructor for nine years. Certified through American Aerobic Fitness Association, she is a certified group exercise instructor with concentration on strength training, step aerobics, hi/lo aerobics, pilates mat all levels and circuit training. After a devastating year of breast cancer resulting in a mastectomy and reconstruction, her transverse abdominus (deep abdominal muscle) was cut during surgery. Left with limited range of motion and inability to perform most exercises involving her abdominals, she decided to try Pilates using an apparatus called the Reformer. The Pilates Reformer changed her life and body. She decided to return to school and become comprehensively certified in Pilates. She wanted to study under one of the best, and she did…. Zayna Gold of Boston Body in Newton, MA. Zayna’s Pilates portfolio is quite impressive as she has 27 years of Pilates training and instruction under her belt. Originally STOTT® trained, Zayna also teaches the California based Balanced Body Method. Zayna heads Balanced Body University in the northeast. Both STOTT® and Balanced Body teach the method founded by Joseph Pilates. Kathy has apprenticed in studios following both methods and has performed Pilates on all three of the top equipment suppliers; Balanced Body, Stott and Peak.
Kathy’s full-time career has been a Meeting/Event Planner and Travel Agent for many years which she enjoyed tremendously. Originally from Woburn, MA she resides in southern New Hampshire. She has two sons, 18 and 14.
Marybeth Tom
Certified Pilates Instructor
Something inside has continually whispered, "You've got to move. Move your body, move!" My body, like an idling engine waiting to be shifted into gear. And so, I've been moving for thirty years: running, bicycling, skiing, step aerobics and Pilates.
As a pilates instructor I am able to combine my passion for movement, and my belief in the Pilates method with my love of teaching. I came to pilates with twenty years of chronic back pain and became addicted to the reformer when my pain disappeared after only a few short months.
I find joy in teaching the pilates method and sharing my personal story of the healing benefits of pilates. I am committed to living a healthful lifestyle and wish to give encouragement and inspiration to our pilates clients.
Education:
Bachelors Degree in Management, Bentley College
Mat & Reformer Certified, Balanced Body University
Sarah Nadeau
Sarah is a graduate of Lesley College in Cambridge MA where she earned a Bachelors degree in Human Services/Psychology. Currently Sarah works at Derry Medical Center as a Health & Lifestyle Educator. She worked as an outreach family counselor, coordinator for a corporate fitness facility, Jazzercise business owner, Jazzercise instructor trainer, and Health & Fitness Director at the Executive Health and Sports Center. Sarah holds a number of certifications including HMR weight loss educator, Stott Pilates trainer, 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher ( RYT), Spinning and Personal Trainer. Sarah has coached for the Arthritis foundation "Joints in Motion" Marathon fundraisers and has run 3 marathons herself. She enjoys swimming, trail running, bicycle touring, and backpack adventures. She and her husband are proud members of the Bike Walk Alliance of New Hampshire, Rails to Trails organization and the Sierra Club. Sarah is excited to be part of the Passport Pilates team!
Trish Marfione
For over thirty years Trish has made it her mission to help people achieve good health, fitness and increased vitality through exercise and balanced nutrition. She enjoys working with anybody who is interested! She loves teaching, whether it has been teaching school, coaching gymnastics, or working with group fitness classes, hi/low, sculpt & tone, seniors, etc . But Pilates has a special place in her heart because it’s such a wonderful way to exercise your body.
Education: BS in Ed (minor in Physical Education), MS in Education, AAFA Certified Group Exercise, Instructor, Certified Stott Pilates Instructor, Certified Nutritional Counselor.
Trish owns her own Wellness Company offering health products and nutritional counseling. She enjoys hiking, kayaking and gardening. She lives with her husband and has three grownup sons.
Cally Wickson
Cally has been dancing and competing for over fifteen years and teaching for more than seven. She graduated high school six months early to pursue her acting career and teaching career. First studying down in Boston for more than two years and choreographing musicals to compete in L.A she then went to Los Angeles to compete and won overall in her dance category. After starring in two movies, winning overalls with her musicals she realized that teaching is what she really loves. Now back in Hampstead Cally is teaching all types of dance with all ages and starting to teach with Kathy at Passport Pilates…
Pilates Certification is quite costly, requires thousands of hours in workshops, observation, student teaching and self practice on a private and group basis.
Beware, some people will take a weekend course and call themselves Pilates certified.
Our instructors at Passport Pilates are certified by either STOTT® or Balanced Body methods.
