About

Reiko Makino was born and raised in Japan and moved to California in 2009. Since childhood, she has enjoyed music and moving to it. Fueled by this love, she began studying piano, jazz dance, ballet, hip hop, tango, aerial and contortion. Soon she began teaching jazz & hip hop classes and performing professionally all over Japan, Korea, and China. Reiko’s latest love is for Pilates. Her work as an instructor has been featured in the culture and entertainment publication “LALALA” in 2012 and 2015.  She is a certified BASI and Pilates Sport Center instructor, training at BASI in Costa Mesa. Her session is all level and her method combines elements of Pilates, Dance and personal training. She has designed a unique program to bring a fun, challenging varied workout for you and she believes in the ability of pilates to make you better at everything you do. She looks forward to the opportunity to share her knowledge and give her clients noticeable result.

Certification

- BASI Pilates - Pilates Sport Center - Pilates Functional Anatomy by Pilates Method Alliance - Kinesio Stretch Therapy