Meet Pamela

Pamela Khoury has more than 50 years of trained movement experience. Beginning in her native Texas, Pamela started her movement education in dance at the age of five. As a teen, she added competitive swimming and diving while continuing dance studies in ballet, jazz, and tap. At 15, she became an assistant dance instructor and soon after, taught her own classes and coached dancers for competitions and performances. She went on to study the performing arts and movement education, earning a B.S. in Physical Education and a minor in Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin.

Pamela then moved to New York City where her musical talents led her into a professional theater career spanning more than 40 years and 25 countries. She has performed in WHICH or NUMEROUS dance companies, Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals, national and international tours, regional productions, television and film. While on tour, she met her husband, Tim?, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to raise their daughter. During this time she taught swimming, water fitness, and dance while also coaching xxx performers.

Having used Pilates as a AN INVIGORATING/ RELIABLE SOURCE FOR SUCCESSFUL AND ENDURING REHABIITATION mode of rehabilitation during her dance career in New York, she became interested in teaching Pilates TO USE AS TOOL FOR HERSELF AND HER CLIENTS. WHY? She received her original certification from Body Kinetics in San Francisco, taught by Master Teacher Carol Appel who was personally trained by Romana Kryzanowska, a protégé of Joseph Pilates. (FOUR DEGREES OF SEPARATION!)

Upon certification, she began working for Carol at the newly opened Mill Valley Health Club & Spa where she taught for 10 years. During this time, she also assisted Carol with her highly regarded teacher training program, teaching Pilates classes and workshops, and mentoring student teachers through apprenticeship. Since 2005, she has been teaching private lessons in her home studio and classes at Pilates of Marin.

Pamela holds two additional Pilates certifications from Power Pilates in New York  and BASI Pilates in California. She continues to study Pilates privately and at national conferences where she has had the privilege to learn from Pilates “elders” and many senior teachers. She is a current member of the Pilates Method Alliance.

Pamela also has certifications in GYROTONIC®, GYROKINESIS®,  FRANKLIN METHOD®, and MELT. She has been practicing yoga for over 30 years and continues to enjoy swimming, biking, hiking, dancing and performing. Her extensive movement and teaching experience enables her to work with students of all ages, abilities, and with special considerations such as spinal injuries, scoliosis, osteoporosis, hip replacements, shoulder and knee surgeries, and much more.

I have a gift for being able to identify physical imbalances to restore flow and ease of moevement whether following injury or a lifetime of repetitive stress or mindless habits. :-)