Master Pilates Instructor, two-time author, composer of ambient Hz soundscapes, and the founder of SOVA within and the GLOW Inner Circle. I own GLOW Body Pilates Studio in Ridgewood, NJ, founded Flow Pilates Centre in Tenafly, and have spent over three decades guiding women through movement, diet, and what the body knows first.
Each person is on a distinct wellness journey. The right approach, individualized and whole-body, helps you reach your goals and feel genuinely well.
I started dancing at age three, ballet, tap, jazz, and didn't stop until I was eighteen. In my twenties I discovered Callanetics, and that practice quietly rewired everything I understood about the body. I became a certified Callanetics instructor in the late 1990s.
In the early 2000s I opened Flow Pilates Centre in Tenafly, NJ, one of the first dedicated Pilates studios in Bergen County, and built it into a 3,000-square-foot studio with eighteen teachers.
But the bigger Flow grew, the more the managing pulled me from the work I love most. So in 2016 I sold it, thriving, at its peak, and decided to open GLOW Body Pilates in Ridgewood: private, by appointment, and highly individualized, exactly the work I wanted to be doing.
My approach is rooted in Pilates, alignment, breath, control, precision, and built outward to include strength training, functional movement, and the small daily choices that compound into lasting health.
Depth matters when someone is reading and adjusting your body. Here's the training behind every session:
STOTT PILATES, trained across every apparatus (Reformer, Cadillac, Stability Chair, Barrels, and Mat), every level from beginner through advanced, and deep anatomy; STOTT PILATES training host facility
Yamuna, Body Rolling, Foot Focus, Face Focus, and full anatomy, under Yamuna Zake since 2003
Callanetics, Exercise Certification (1997), 3-D Spiralling (2000), and Cardio Callanetics (2001)
Also trained
Xtend Barre I & II · Cardiolates (rebounder cardio Pilates) · Balanced Body Core Align · TRX Functional & Group Training
Specialized
Injuries & Special Populations · Prenatal Pilates · Osteoporosis Management · Golf Conditioning · Athletic Conditioning · The Knee: Stability & Function · The Lumbo-Pelvic Region: Stability & Function
General & CEC
Equipment-Based Circuit Training · Group Fitness Reformer · Jump Board Interval Training · Intensive Reformer · Intensive Mat-Plus · Intensive Cadillac, Chairs & Barrels · Advanced Mat · Intermediate Mat (Pilates Edge) · Vertical Frame Training · Anatomy Training · Functional Anatomy
FAMI Anatomy Workshop, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Anatomy Through Movement, ten-week intensive with Irene Dowd of Juilliard & the National Ballet School of Canada
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, studying under Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Dr. David Katz, Dr. Walter Willett & Geneen Roth
Master Level Reiki Practitioner
Iridology, Certified Comprehensive Iridologist, IIPA
Pink Ribbon, Breast Care Coaching Specialist
First Aid / CPR / AED, American Red Cross
5 to Thrive, my signature wellness & mindset framework
The SOVA Six, the step-by-step coaching method inside my SOVA within app
Eat Clean, Live Free, A Woman's Guide to Health, Beauty, and Youthful Energy
Pilates for Beginners, A Woman's Guide to Strength, Flexibility, and Balanced Posture
SOVA within, my wellness app, on iOS
SOVA on YouTube, original humming-drone Hz soundscapes
GLOW Inner Circle, my free women's community on Instagram
Decades in, I still believe the same thing: the body knows first. My job is to listen with you.
I teach private and semi-private sessions in studio and virtually via Zoom. Over the years I've distilled a lifetime of movement into three signature programs of my own, each meeting the body at a different place:
GLOW Body Pilates, the foundation. Classical and Contemporary Pilates across the full Merrithew apparatus and mat: Reformer, Cadillac Tower, Ladder Barrel, Arc Barrel, Spine Corrector, the Stability Chair, and floor work. Decades of teaching distilled into alignment, control, and precision, tuned to your body.
GLOW Body Evolution (launched 2018), everything in GLOW Body Pilates, expanded. Apparatus and mat woven together with Ballet Barre, Callanetics, and Yamuna Body Rolling for strength, alignment, and whole-body integration.
The Muscle Integrity Program: Strength for Life (launched February 2025), a strength-driven evolution of Pilates that builds lean muscle and bone density for the long arc, so you stay strong, capable, and independent as the decades add up.
Mindfulness, dietary, and lifestyle coaching are woven into every program at no additional cost. You never have to know which one you need, I read the body in front of me, and in the end, we all get there strong.
Explore the Strength Program
The world doesn't need a better version of you. It needs the one that's here.
Gina SantangeloI've written two books for women who want lasting change, not the next trend.
Eat Clean, Live Free: A Woman's Guide to Health, Beauty, and Youthful Energy (2015) is my deep guide to clean eating, gentle detox, and the mindset shifts that make wellness actually stick. It introduces my signature 5 to Thrive framework, Nourish & Nurture, Choose Happiness, Pause & Balance, Align The Non-Negotiables, Journey To The Positive, five principles I still teach in my one-on-one work today. Foreword by Jared Koch, founder of Clean Plates.
Pilates for Beginners: A Woman's Guide to Strength, Flexibility, and Balanced Posture (Kindle, 2016) was born from years of clients asking for a clear, safe place to start. A foundational Pilates guide with my Callanetics roots woven in, focused on alignment, posture, pelvic floor wisdom, and the form that makes movement actually work.
An app for when your mind needs somewhere to land.
Released on iOS in May 2026, it's the audio companion I built for the moments when the mind won't quiet, drawing on every layer of my decades-long practice in movement and women's wellness. I compose every soundscape myself: ambient drones layered with restorative frequencies, alongside short guided practices, pages to reflect on, and gentle daily prompts, all designed for women who are done performing okay.
Home, a quiet place to start
Pages, untangle your thoughts
Companion, short guided resets
The House, a room for however you feel
GLOW has always stood for Gina's Lifestyle Of Wellness, movement, nourishment, and stillness, woven into one way of living well. There are ways to start living it today, even before your first session with me:
And when you're ready to begin with me, reach out for your complimentary call, then a 30-minute demo.
Contact GinaI’m watching how you move. Where you’re holding, where you’re compensating, what’s strong and what’s ready to wake up. And the whole time I’m asking one quiet question: what does this body need today? Instead of running you through the same routine as everyone else, I move you through the planes your body is designed for, but only the ones that are right for you. That’s the whole difference. A routine can’t see you. One on one, I can.
