About Kara

Kara Wily has taught the Pilates Method for fourteen years. She relocated to Los Angeles in 2000 from New York City. During her time in New York, Kara was on scholarship at the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance, performed at City Center during the Alvin Ailey Company’s winter season, and attended Columbia University for Post Baccalaureate Studies. Prior to her experience in New York City, Kara directed the Pilates Program at Performing Arts School Vienna in Austria. She taught Pilates lessons to performing arts students and gave classes in anatomy. She was also cast in the musical, Cabaret, performed at the Museum Quartier.

Kara works from the fundamental principle that a human body possesses great potential. Her goal is to help people access their physical potential in a systematic, educational, and safe way.

"Before I met Kara I had been to a number of Pilates instructors, and I was astonished by her talent. After my first session, I walked away longer, stronger, awakened to a new way of carrying myself, and immediately noticed a difference in the way my clothes fit. I am a massage therapist, and my work tends to compress my body, and Kara has both the clinical and intuitive knowledge to detect precisely what hinders my posture and range of motion, and how to strengthen the weakness than caused it. If I am injured, she gently puts me right again. When I am strong, she pushes me to my limit with a breathtaking workout that makes me feel like a superhero. With the combination of a perfectionist’s intensity and warmth of a genuine friend, Kara is delightful. I have sent her my clients over and over again to build their core and give them the power to align themselves elegantly, and they all marvel over her competence. She is the rare master." Rachel Smith