Meet Your Group Instructors

Leanna Murray

Pilates Instructor – Fitness/Studio Manager

Leanna has been instructing Pilates for over seven years in the Wake Forest and Raleigh area. After an emergency surgery to safely deliver her third child, she tuned her attention to Pilates to help repair and restore her core control and strength. Those sessions opened up an entirely new awareness about the science behind movement, muscular development, and the immense benefits of the Pilates method. It didn’t take long for Leanna to realize she had stumbled into a new passion and professional calling. She has been teaching private clients and group classes for over 10 years and continues to grow, learn and advance her practice and those of her clients. 

Tori Zillmann

Pilates Instructor

Tori began practicing Pilates in college while earning her B.S. in Exercise Science and Dance Science at Elon University. Initially she was drawn to Pilates to improve her dance performance, but she quickly recognized the benefits it had on other aspects of her life, such as joint pain relief and improved posture and movement quality. Since then, Tori has trained with Balanced Body to help others enjoy the many benefits of Pilates. She has been teaching Pilates at PhysioFit since 2019, and is also a dance instructor and ACSM certified personal trainer. Her classes focus on safety and proper alignment while strengthening and stretching the whole body.

Kelly Zinglemann

Pilates Instructor

Kelly began practicing Pilates Matwork in 2001. She trained privately with a dance and pilates professional twice a week until 2008 when she became certified in Pilates Matwork. Since then, she married and started a family, but continued her personal movement practice for the benefits of healing postpartum, pain and stress relief, sleep quality and overall wellness. Kelly believes movement is therapy and hopes to share her passion for maintaining strength and mobility in her classes.

Kara Keene

Yoga Instructor 

Yoga Instructor Kara has practiced yoga for 15 years. In 2021 Kara delved into her yoga-teaching career, after the birth of her first child and basking in the benefits of a daily yoga and meditation prenatal and postpartum practice. Her yoga-teacher training and practice became her therapy and solace, and remain so today. Kara completed her Prenatal yoga-teacher training in 2021 and is currently enrolled in 300-hour yoga teacher training. She has over 1,200 hours of yoga teaching experience. Kara’s classes mindfully weave together creative movement and functional mobility to create a unique experience for her students. She blends ease and effort into her classes so that students experience a full spectrum of breath, movement, and restoration. For Kara and her classes, “Yoga is a dance between control and surrender…[knowing] when to push and when to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your being.” From the physical to the more subtle, meditative aspects, yoga is a dance of self-discovery and magic for Kara and (she hopes) for her students.