Founder, Pilates Master & Healer
Natalia began her career in Pilates in 1996 while training and working with her sister Melissa Laing, trained herself by Pilates guru Alan Herdman in London, when she opened the first Pilates studio in their hometown of Adelaide in South Australia, and gained her full qualifications from the Australian Pilates Method Association in 1999.
She started dancing at the age of 2, trained and worked as an actor and enjoyed a successful modelling career but her passion was dance and she became a professional contemporary dancer graduating from the Adelaide College of the Arts in 2004.
In 2005 she moved to Barcelona with her wife and business partner Mandy Keillor where they founded the renowned Health and Wellness centre Studio Australia Barcelona in 2006.
A passion for healing people
Wear and tear on her body from years of dancing have left Nat with serious back issues and degeneration however this has given her a unique insight into the rehabilitation, stabilisation and ongoing maintenance of the body to maintain a pain-free life. She is a specialist in back rehabilitation, especially disc herniations.
With these years of experience as well as ongoing continuous study about how the body can heal, Natalia has developed her own method of rehabilitative Pilates.
She combines this knowledge with myofascial release, trigger point therapy and energy work, including Reiki. She has an accomplished unique “toolbox” of healing practices that she uses to repair, restore and relieve pain in her clients.
Her passion is to heal, and empower people to understand how to care for their bodies with exercise and holistic health.