Team Kinespirit

Chantal Deeble is the owner and studio-director of Kinespirit Studios.

After a fulfilling dance career that had her performing and teaching internationally for over 15 years, Chantal founded Chantalko LLC – a GYROTONIC®, Pilates & Personal Training company, before the inauguration of Kinespirit Studios in 2006. Chantal is a Specialized Master Trainer qualified to offer all aspects of GYROTONIC® Education: GYROTONIC® Level 1 and Level 2, GYROKINESIS® Level 1 and Level 2 & all Specialized Equipment and Musical courses. Chantal co-authored the specialized course GYROTONIC® Applications for Runners, and is one of only a few Master Trainers worldwide authorized to conduct the GYROTO®IC and GYROKINESIS® Final Certification Courses.

Chantal is also fully and comprehensively certified on all Pilates Apparatus and Mat and is honored to be a Teacher Trainer on faculty at the Kane School of Core Integration at Kinected.

Claire’s journey in movement began with a passion for ballet from childhood through early adulthood. After reaching a physiological limit with ballet, she found her way into the healing movement community- first with yoga and eventually GYROKINESIS® which allowed a truly transformational range of fluid movement without pain. These experiences in self-healing led her to dedicate herself to sharing and learning all she can about healing movement and self-compassion. Claire is a certified GYROTONIC®, GYROKINESIS®, Pilates, and Zero Balance practitioner. She is a mother of two young children and strongly believes pelvic floor strength and awareness are vital to our health. She thrives on the collaboration between instructor and client and looks forward to each session!

Muffie Delgado Connelly is a Certified GYROTONIC® instructor, dancer, mother, and dedicated women’s health researcher. Muffie’s teaching reflects an extensive background in modern, contemporary and ballet dance techniques, Alexander technique, and yoga. In 2010, after the birth of her first daughter, Muffie began to focus on GYROTONIC® for rehabilitation and women’s health. Muffie believes that exercise should feel good and that, with commitment and consistent practice, all people can achieve heightened levels of comfort and efficiency. She uses the low impact exercises and breathing methods of GYROTONIC® to create workouts that stabilize the pelvis, maintain connection with the abdominals and pelvic floor, open the chest and promote relaxation. Muffie understands everybody is unique and every person has their own goals, she tailors each session to meet the individual needs of each client.

As a former professional ballerina, Andrea understands how to fine-tune the body for peak performance. She received her formative ballet training from Ceci Klein in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho and has performed with Ballet Idaho, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Oregon Ballet Theater. She began practicing Pilates as a form of cross-training in 1997 and has been a certified instructor since 2013. She began practicing GYROTONIC® during her ballet career with Oregon Ballet Theater in 2010 and received her instructor certification in 2018. Her passion for anatomy and a lifetime of dance and constructive exercise gives her an edge for mastering muscle recruitment and injury prevention/recovery. She loves that both movement systems meet you where you are, and her mission is to help her clients realize their power inside and out.

Anna Hooper (she/her) grew up and currently resides in Vancouver, WA. From a young age, Anna received dance training from numerous local dance schools and companies. She graduated from SUNY Purchase College in 2018 with a BFA in dance performance/composition and minor in psychology, and has continued to perform professionally since. Anna is an avid Pilates and GYROTONIC® student and serves as Studio Manager to Kinespirit Circle.

Ariel is a self-professed body nerd who is constantly studying human movement, and he believes that our bodies have a natural and logical way of moving that we’re all rediscovering together. Ariel first began training in the GYROTONIC® method in 2004 and it has played a central role in his movement education ever since. Additionally, he has professional training and experience as a licensed massage therapist and certified chiropractic assistant, with specialized training in injury recovery, structural bodywork, craniosacral therapy, and thai massage. Ariel has also had jobs sitting at a desk all day, standing as a hairstylist, and working on construction sites - so he appreciates how important holistic movement practices like GYROTONIC® are for counterbalancing occupational stress in its many forms. Ariel’s love of movement has led him to explore a wide array of activities including different forms of dance, sports, and martial arts. GYROTONIC® is a big part of what helps him prevent and recover from injury, and he’s so happy getting to support others as they cultivate their own embodied experience.

Chantal entered the world of pilates to support her daughter through a dance injury. She quickly fell in love, finding the focus and mind body connection both stimulating and calming at the same time. “My hope is to use pilates to help people connect their mind and bodies, building strength and most of all confidence to function in their daily lives with less pain, stress and fear of injury. Lift those groceries! Reach for that box! You CAN do it! Motion is the lotion, movement is medicine!”

Karta Khalsa has a movement background, with advanced training in contemporary dance, ballet, and yoga. Karta was first introduced to the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® in 2007. After that brief introductory experience, she returned to the practice in 2011 to pursue her GYROTONIC® certification. She brings an inspiring and exuberant energy to her sessions, and enjoys helping her clients find the freedom and joy within the body’s inherent movement capacity. She structures her sessions uniquely for each client, helping them return to their own body’s natural movement patterns. Karta continues to study movement, and increases her knowledge and experience of the body.

Clara was introduced to GYROTONIC® when she was a dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, guided by Master Trainer Magali Messac. After her dance career, Clara maintained an active lifestyle playing tennis, snowboarding, climbing big mountains, and raising three boys. A chronic back injury prompted Clara’s return to GYROTONIC® and she became a certified trainer with Master Trainer Chantal Deeble in 2018. She has gone on to be certified to teach all Level 2 material, specialized equipment and many focused courses, including GYROTONIC® for Dancers. Additionally, Clara has studied with Inner Life of Ballet founder and GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer Alicia Head, learning to apply dance science and intelligent movement principles to classical ballet. Clara loves helping people learn a somatic approach to movement and seeing their strength and confidence build.

Victoria is a Portland native. She trained as a dancer in San Francisco, where she was first introduced to the GYROTONIC® expansion system. She later moved to London where she studied for her master’s in dance science. As well as teaching GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®, Victoria enjoys teaching ballet and vinyasa yoga. In her free time, she loves hiking, salsa dancing, baking, and reading a variety of genres.

Sara is a movement and dance artist in Portland, OR. She is a dancer, certified yoga instructor, GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® Instructor. Sara also holds a B.S in Dance from the University of Oregon, and an MFA in Modern Dance from the University of Utah. With over 18 years of movement teaching experience, Sara is passionate about empowering people to find physical and expressive freedom through their bodies.

Jessica Post completed her comprehensive Pilates certification through Power Pilates in 2008 and has been teaching enthusiastically ever since. She began studying GYROTONIC® here at Kinespirit Circle and completed the GYROTONIC® certification in 2020. Jessica holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Michigan and a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts, and she continues to teach dance throughout the Portland area. Jessica is grateful to join clients on their movement journey and to support their fitness goals.

Kitty Sailer joined the Kinespirit team in 2014. A previous studio manager of the New York location, she now teaches Pilates and The GYROTONIC® Method at the Portland, OR studio. She has also worked for BodyVox Dance as the Grants and Events Manager since 2022.