Meet Rachel
Pilates Instructor
Rachel May is a dedicated fitness professional with a deep passion for empowering others to live their best life through movement, awareness, and connection. With multiple certifications in movement disciplines, she specializes in helping individuals and groups build strong foundations through breath, alignment, strength, flexibility, and balance, both physically and mentally.
Rachel May
Rachel's journey began in childhood, working out beside her mom to Jane Fonda tapes which planted the seeds for a lifelong love of fitness. Since 2006, she has been teaching a variety of classes including Pilates, yoga, strength training, TRX, and stretch, as well as offering personal training sessions tailored to meet clients where they are.
Rachel is a Comprehensive Pilates Instructor through Balanced Body. She is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) 200 with Yoga Alliance. At the core of her approach is the belief that everything starts with breath. It’s the gateway to our core and the source of movement and stability. Rachel is especially passionate about helping people experience those “light bulb” moments when mind and body connect, and things just click.
Whether you’re beginning your fitness journey or looking to deepen your existing practice, Rachel loves building a strong foundation together with her clients.
Outside of teaching, Rachel loves being outdoors and some of her hobbies include paddle boarding, hiking, and walking along Raleigh's greenways. She is also a musician and plays the violin. Rachel loves hanging with friends and playing board games and card games so challenge her anytime.