About Us
Romana's Pilates is family-owned and operated from Fort Lauderdale, FL USA. Since our company opened its doors in 2002, we’ve treated every customer like they were a part of our family. Other companies may offer similar services, but our services are the best, and come with a personal touch. Contrology or Pilates may be just words to many people, but at Romana’s Pilates it’s the exercises and philosophies of Joseph and Clara Pilates that we teach, as handed down to their world renowned protégé Romana Kryzanowska and her daughter Sari Mejia Santo. Through Romana's Pilates you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then, through proper repetition of its exercises, you gradually and progressively acquire that natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your mental and subconscious activities. Romana's Pilates is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, play and work. You will develop muscular power with corresponding endurance, ability to perform arduous duties, to play strenuous games, to walk, run or travel for long distances without undue body fatigue or mental strain.
Romana Kryzanowska is the world-renowned protégé of Joseph Pilates and has been teaching the method for over six decades. Long ago Romana made a commitment to Joe and Clara Pilates to continue their life's work, and Romana delivered on that promise by traveling the world and teaching the next generation of instructors. Romana's daughter, Sari Mejia Santo, also shares her mother's lifelong passion for teaching the Pilates method; she also had the opportunity to train directly with Joseph and Clara Pilates, and taught at Romana's side for more than three decades. Sari's daughter, Daria Pace, represents the third generation whom also shares the family passion for teaching the Pilates method.
Romana’s Pilates instructors go through a demanding training regimen that includes hundreds of hours of observation, rigorous training and thorough performance evaluations over a period of several months. They’re trained on much more than just the mat and must successfully pass performance assessments that cover all the key pieces of Pilates equipment.
When you work with a Romana’s Pilates instructor, you can be confident you’re getting quality and experience, not an instructor who achieved certification over the weekend or using a fast track approach. Romana’s Pilates instructors will teach you much more than just the mat; they will teach you using all the key pieces of Pilates equipment to build a workout specific to your needs and abilities!
Romana's Pilates instructor trainers are handpicked, guided and directly mentored by Level I Instructors' Sari Mejia Santo, Juanita Lopez and Cynthia Lochard. Such individuals were selected to participate solely on Romana, Sari, Juanita and Cynthia's long-term observations of their experience, dedication and prowess as Pilates instructors. These efforts were undertaken in order to offer you the highest quality instructors in the industry and to prepare instructors for a lifetime of learning or teaching Pilates the way Joe intended.
Romana's Pilates also operates a global instructor network that works together as a community to assure clients and instructor trainees are provided the most experienced, committed trainers available. Additionally, Romana's Pilates uses a proprietary instructor leveling system to identify instructors with the appropriate level of skill and commitment to work as a member of our network.
Another advantage we offer is independence. We simply don’t have competing priorities or special interest that interfere with us adhering to our strict quality standards. Our unique structure eliminates conflicts between studio operations, trainee acceptance, certification testing and continuing education.
Independence means objective training delivered in the best interest of our clients and students.
