Kirsten Adler is a Pilates, GYROTONIC®, and interdisciplinary movement teacher with over 21 years of experience helping people improve strength, reduce pain, and increase flexibility.

Kirsten’s passion to explore the parameters of dance led her to explore various movement modalities, including: Pilates, Gyrotonic, yoga, Alexander Technique, and the Bartenieff Fundamentals. Sessions with Kirsten include a synthesis of techniques and a dose of humor.

Kirsten graduated from The Boston Conservatory with a BFA in dance and her certifications include: 500 hour yoga (Ishta Yoga), Pilates mat and equipment (Sal Anthony’s Movement Salon and Balanced Body), Gyrotonic Level 1 (Vincent Macagone), CoreAlign Level 1 (Finetune Pilates), & Pre/Postnatal Pilates (Jennifer Gianni). While teaching in NYC for 16 years, Kirsten was fortunate to study with master teachers Clarice Marshall, Peggy Wallin-Hart, Lesley Powell, Jim Philips, and Blossom Leilani Crawford.

Kirsten moved to Portland, Maine with her husband and son in 2020 and founded the Explore Movement Collective in 2023.

Cate Beehan is a certified Pilates teacher with over 20 years of teaching experience and helping people feel better in their bodies.

A native New Yorker, Cate has always been someone on the move. She trained in classical ballet for 15 years and studied with the prestigious New York City Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet. After deciding to focus on a career in acting, Cate moved to Los Angeles and sought a workout that would challenge and keep her interest over time.

Cate fell in love with Pilates after her first session and as a teacher loves that every body can benefit from the practice. Cate is pre/postnatal certified and most recently received certification in Anatomy Trains Structural Integration (ATSI). She is a Board-Certified Structural Integrator (BCSI) and had the opportunity to train with Tom Myers (founder of Anatomy Trains) in Warpole, Maine. Cate brings a keen eye for detail, paired with a deep knowledge of anatomy to her work.

Colleen “CC” Clark is a passionate Pilates instructor focused on building strength, balance, and confidence through intentional, form-based movement. She blends classical principles with a modern, athletic approach and specializes in accessible workouts that support injury recovery, core strength, and functional mobility.

CC received her comprehensive Pilates certification from Balanced Body with Zayna Gold.

With a warm, encouraging style, she meets clients where they are and helps them feel strong, supported, and successful in every session.

Dr. Laura Hohm built Maine Dance Medicine around a single conviction: serious dancers in this region deserve the same standard of care as the professional performers she spent over a decade treating in New York. She has been a Company Physical Therapist for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She worked across more than 100 Broadway productions and for the Rockettes. She treated company dancers from American Ballet Theatre, The Royal Ballet, and Paul Taylor Dance. She brought that standard to southern Maine.

As Maine’s only Certified Functional Manual Therapist — a credential held by fewer than 300 practitioners in the country — Dr. Hohm treats the whole movement system, not just the site of pain. It is why she starts with the foot when the complaint is the hip. It is why she catches what others miss, and why her patients often recover more completely.

Before bringing her practice to Maine, Dr. Hohm served as a Company Physical Therapist for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, touring internationally and providing on-site care for Ailey II and the Ailey School.

She then joined PhysioArts — the premier performing arts PT clinic in New York City — where she served more than 100 productions over a decade, including Broadway (Hamilton, Wicked, The Book of Mormon, Chicago, Aladdin), Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular, and Film/TV (The Greatest Showman, Smash).

She has treated concert dancers from American Ballet Theatre, The Royal Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance, Complexions, and Cedar Lake, and has provided preventive care for pre-professional programs including Ellison Ballet and the Gelsey Kirkland Ballet Academy.

Dr. Hohm has lectured at the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science and published in peer-reviewed orthopedic journals on dance rehabilitation.

She is available for individual patients, studio partnerships, and institutional consulting across the greater Portland area and the NH Seacoast.

Kate Marchessault is a Pilates and dance professional with over 20 years of teaching experience. She is the owner/director of Casco Bay Movers Dance Studio in Portland, Maine, and holds undergraduate degrees in dance and psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Kate has taught, choreographed, and performed in New York, Brazil, Boston, and northern New England. In addition to sharing her love for dance with students of all ages at Casco Bay Movers, Kate teaches jazz dance at Bates College and modern dance at Southern Maine Community College and serves as Artistic Director of Portland Youth Dance Company. She is certified in the Simonson Method of Training and Progressing Ballet Technique and completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training.

Kate completed her comprehensive certification in Pilates through the Kane School/Scarborough Pilates and is working on additional certification for neurological conditions through The Neuro Studio.

Jordi Mas is a Certified Pilates and Fitness Instructor with 32 years of experience working in the health & fitness industry.

Jordi specializes in post-rehabilitation, stress management, chronic pain, and overall quality of life. His approach is holistic, taking the whole person into account, to get to the causal factors of a client’s challenges and to create a safe and effective path to health, happiness and improved daily life.

Jordi is a Certified Fitness & Indoor Cycling Instructor through ISSA (International Sports Science Association) and a Certified Pilates Instructor (mat and apparatus) through International Pilates under the apprenticeship of Ivon Dahl, PhD. He also apprenticed in Strength Training and Body Sculpting with Elio Samame, Positive Psychology and Counseling with Dr. Mic Mackenzie, and Spirituality, Religion and Philosophy with George Falcon, Qigong Master.

Jordi moved to Portland from Southern California in early 2022 to enjoy a different way of life here in Maine.

Stacey fell in love with GYROTONIC® while recovering from the birth of her children. In addition to restoring her body, it reconnected her with the motions she loved as a dancer and became not only a passion, but a new career. After practicing regularly since 2012, Stacey studied with Master Trainer Kathy VanPatten to become a teacher in 2019, working out of her home studio in Marin and at The Seed Center in San Francisco. Stacey is a GYROTONIC® Certified Trainer and is also certified in a GYROKINESIS® Specialized Course. 

Stacey’s love of movement began during her training as a modern dancer while growing up in New York. After graduating from Colby College, she discovered her passion for education. Her Master’s degree from Stanford in International Educational Policy launched an extensive career in international educational development.

Stacey brings her dance and education background to her GYROTONIC® teaching. She is a thoughtful listener and facilitator, as well as a lifelong learner. She partners with clients to optimize their practice for their own needs, while helping them gain strength, improved flexibility, increased physical awareness, and ease within the body.