About Us

 

Our “Feels Fear but Does It Anyway” Leader, Kristin “Kiki” Lovelace:

Kristin ‘Kiki” Lovelace began her career in movement at the age of six in tap shoes and a pink tutu, and took her first yoga class at age eighteen. She considers her own daily Pilates, Forrest Yoga and Vipassana Meditation practice as her foundation for healing, growing and evolving as a human being. She has been teaching full-time since 2001, and has a particular gift for helping students work with injuries and chronic pain.

As Owner and Director of Education at Innerstellar, Kiki is a Certified Forrest Yoga Teacher, Certified Pilates Instructor and anatomy nerd. Her passion for functional alignment and the therapeutic applications of Pilates and Forrest Yoga sprouted from her 5-year apprenticeship with her mentor, master educator and healer, Pilates Instructor Tom McCook.

Kiki opened Innerstellar in 2011, and delights in the ever-emerging beauty of each of her students, staff and teachers. She has deep reverence and gratitude for her Forrest Yoga Hoop, including her dear teacher and friend Ana T. Forrest, and all of her Forrest Yoga colleagues and students. When not teaching, she is often volunteering, meditating, hiking and hanging out with her friends and loved ones in the East Bay or performing with her 1960’s go go dance troupe, The Devil-Ettes!

 

Our Staff:

Marisha Doan:

Marisha Doan, Innerstellar Assistant Manager, Retail Goddess, and Forrest Yoga teacher has been following a windy path combining her loves of art, yoga and wellness for the last 7 years. Since moving to San Francisco in 2007 she has worked in yoga studio management, for arts non-profits, for an aromatherapy company, and for an organic farm operating farm stands at local and regional farmer’s markets and driving huge produce trucks. When not at Innerstellar she can be found practicing yoga (and becoming familiar with the healing practices of Pilates), riding her bicycle, taking long picturesque walks with her dog, cooking elaborate meals, and studying to become a health coach at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Marisha is thrilled to bring her talents to Innerstellar and to be among so many amazing kindred spirits dedicated to healing both themselves and their community.

 

Jennifer Mizel:

Jennifer Mizel, Innerstellar Experience Manager, resident tea sommelier and founder of Lightwell Nutrition, has been involved with the world of Pilates for over a decade. Though immersed in dance for over 15 years, it was the path of Pilates that increased her strength and turned on her inner mojo. In this work, Jennifer has come to understand that movement is a key component in pushing past our own physical barriers so that we may connect with the energy that resides within.

You can find Jennifer at Innerstellar preaching the gospel of Yoga, Pilates and Love, serving up some herbal elixirs, or engaged in a dynamic discussion of bringing the body into balance through her nutrition, detox and wellness programs.