Body in Balance Pilates Studio opened in 2000 and is founded by Liz Ann Kudrna. Liz Ann has been teaching Pilates since 1994. Early on, she had a keen interest in physical therapy, which was the impetus for choosing to certify with Polestar Education, a more rehab-oriented focused Pilates. Liz Ann also worked in California as a Physical Therapist Assistant adding Pilates to that practice. Additionally, she practiced massage therapy in those early years, but now focuses on teaching and studying Pilates and healthy movement. Other areas of study include yoga, continuum movement, dance, and breath work.

Liz Ann has now expanded her teaching style and instructs from a wheelchair since an accident in 2008. Living her life in a wheelchair has given her a new perspective on being in one's body and body awareness. Liz Ann is excited about teaching Pilates to others in a wheelchair and is developing a new repertoire from that perspective, including different ways to access the core of the body. For her disabled students Liz Ann helps create a new awareness around a new body.

For her able bodied students, Liz Ann has turned her loss of certain body parts into an asset with her teaching. For example, not having the use of her lower powerhouse (i.e. stomach muscles) Liz Ann is now more acutely aware of how her students can access, hone in on, and develop those muscles and incorporates imagery into her teaching to guide her students to find the details of certain muscle groups.

Liz Ann has also studied with the Ron Fletcher Pilates Program. Ron Fletcher was an original disciple of Joseph Pilates and Liz Ann feels honored to have studied under one of the last living Grand Masters. More recently she continues her study of movement with Yoga. She took a teacher training workshop from Matthew Sanford, a paraplegic Inyengar Yoga. She has also studied Anusara Yoga. These are both alignment based methods that complement Pilates and add another dimension to the practice.