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Native New Yorker, Graduate of The High School ofPerforming Arts
(Music Dept.); Scholarship student at The Juilliard School of Music
(Dance Dept.). Performed on Broadway, Television and Movies.
Worked for Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Donald Mckayle, Jaime
Rogers and Anna Sokolow. He moved to Los Angeles in 1972 to assist
choreographer Jaime Rogers on The Sonny and Cher Show and Mary
Tyler Moore Television Specials. Under the auspices of Dr. James
Garrick he created the first Pilates Certification Program with the 1979
opening of The St. Francis Memorial Hospital’s Sports Medicine Center
in San Francisco. He trained Karma Kinztler in implementing Pilates at
The Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Arizona and relocated to Florida in 1999,
where he began the Pilates program at Frenchman’s Creek in 2000.
Michael Podwal
Pilates Trainer
Mike Soldo
Personal Trainer, Massage Therapist
NASM, LMT# MA38063
Mike Soldo has over 22 years experience as a fitness trainer. He is
certified through The National Academy of Sports Medicine and The
Titleist Performance Institute as a golf fitness instructor. He is certified
to teach Mat Pilates, Dynamic Stretching, he is a Senior Fitness
Specialist and has completed the TRX group Rip Training Course.
Michael has also been in massage therapy for 12 years through Palm
Beach Academy.