Hilary Santana

Hilary Santana is the Studio Director and Owner of Little Apple Pilates in Manhattan, KS.  She holds a bachelors degree in Kinesiology with a Public Health emphasis from Kansas State University. She is a Certified Polestar Pilates Practitioner, Certified Pilates Instructor through the worldwide Pilates Method Alliance organization, the first certified Bungee fitness instructor in the state of Kansas through Grounded Aerial Bungee Training, HARDCORE Barre certified, TRX Certified and recently Yoga Certified.

Hilary trained under Doctor of Physical Therapy, Noelle Dowma, owner of Kinesphere Physical Therapy in Kansas City.  The Polestar curriculum, designed by physical therapist and Orthopedic Certified Specialist Dr. Brent Anderson, is based on a scientific foundation of anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and motor control. It integrates scientific research findings in the areas of orthopedics, sports medicine and movement science.  She began her teaching at Pilates Performance & Rehab in Topeka, KS where she worked dominantly with prehab clients and clients released from rehab who still felt that they needed help.

Training ventures includes her volunteer hours training with Get Fit Topeka Style which was a volunteer based community weight loss challenge.  The Career Assistance Networking Program which provides the health component for people out of work to land jobs.  Little Apple Pilates Co. offers fitness and care to the Homestead Group located in Manhattan, Kansas, who provide victims with the tools they need to rebuild their futures after having been victimized by the sex trade.  Hilary also runs and coordinates the Kansas State University fitness credit programs encouraging college students to take a proactive approach at their health and wellness by offering stress free scheduling and no impact options.  We have a lot of faculty and students from Kansas State Veterinarian Medicine coming in for de-stressing.   We affiliate with the Kansas State Vet School to provide lunchtime Yoga on zoom for the professors. We have worked with athletic programs with Kansas States athletes and are gaining traction on working on Fort Riley with the Wounded Warriors Program. 

Her clients from the Midwest has set up her base knowledge and she expanded her training under celebrity trainer, Jeff Halevy and working in NYC at Pilates Bodies NY during company expansion. She specializes in working with clients in a post rehabilitation style of training for correct techniques and postural analysis.  Ages have ran from 3 years old to 82 years old.  Police officers, college athletes, dancers, college professors, physicians, therapists, mothers, firefighters,soldiers, mothers, judges and more are some of her clientele.

Little Apple caters to the niches of fitness that traditional style gyms and yoga studios don’t always fill.  We do not offer weight training and cardiovascular in the traditional sense.  However these options tend to offer a safe place for people to build strength and endurance whether they have soft tissue damage, muscle imbalances, anatomical questions, hypermobility or just want a new scene.