Kristin Hapke hailed from New York, as a successful Pilates business owner in Brooklyn and as an instructor and consultant for The Physical Mind Institute. She has been teaching Pilates since 2001 in diverse settings,including nationally-renowned universities, community and yoga centers, gyms and with private clients. Her deep knowledge of the body comes from her experience with wide-range of clientele, her dance and somatic training for over twenty-five years, and her certification in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis. Certified through The Physical Mind Institute, her influential teachers include Doris Pasteur Hall, Lesley Powell and Tara Stepenberg. Hapke received her Master's degree in Dance from The Ohio State University and her BA in Dance from University of Oregon. As co-creator of Physical Mind Initiation 301 course CircularPilates, her aim is to invite clients to reawaken the rotational possibilities of the body for greater fluidity and connection in the body.