Our Team
Northshore Pilates has been training and empowering practitioners in our Evanston location since 2009. Our instructors are dedicated to teaching the visionary method of Joseph Pilates. We provide an intimate approach by creating an atmosphere of warmth, communication, and collaboration. Our small class sizes offer a personalized experience for each participant regardless of fitness level. We take great pride in empowering our clients with control over their minds and bodies with an ultimate goal of uniform development of the muscular system.
Janis Parisi Luby
Janis Parisi Luby
Pilates Instructor, Owner
A certified personal trainer, triathlon coach and Pilates instructor, Janis Parisi Luby apprenticed under Master Pilates instructor, David Englund. Before realizing her dream of opening her own studio in 2008, she was an elementary school teacher and coached tri-athletes at Northwestern University. Janis values teaching, learning, and the transformative benefits Pilates offers. She loves seeing her clients succeed, no matter what their individual challenges and goals are. Sometimes, just showing up is the greatest task! With her sharp eye for detail, Janis adjusts workouts according to her clients’ needs by strengthening backs, recomposing gaits, and ironing out posture - all delivered with compassion, enthusiasm and precision - much in the spirit of Joseph Pilates himself. Janis is nationally recognized by the Pilates Method Alliance.
Iryna Piatnochka
Iryna Piatnochka
Pilates Instructor
Iryna is a NASM certified personal trainer, Balanced Body Pilates instructor, and ISSA Nutrition Coach. With many years of experience, she is passionate about helping others — from pre-/post-natal training, to injury, trauma, and surgery recovery — plus anyone in between who may need special attention, gentle modifications, or extra care.
Learning about and exploring the mechanics of how bodies function and move has always fascinated Iryna. So naturally, while on her own fitness journey, she gravitated towards Pilates. Through Pilates, she developed a deeper understanding and connection to the body—the way it feels, moves, and grows. Our bodies are not simple machines. There are many aspects to consider when helping them grow or heal, which Iryna finds to be both the most challenging and the most exciting part of her work.
For her, Pilates is the mind-body connection through strength training and physical therapy that leads to a stronger foundation, able to carry us throughout our lives. Through her work, Iryna considers herself blessed to witness her client’s bodies and minds transforming, positively affecting other spheres of their lives as well.
Deanna Nord
Deanna Nord
Pilates Instructor
Deanna is a Pilates Method Alliance Certified Pilates Instructor with over twenty years teaching experience. She studied under David England who studied under Romana Kryzanowska, a Joseph Pilates protégé. Using Pilates principles such as concentration, centering, fluidity, imagination, intuition, breath and integration, Deanna will guide you through ideas and movements for embracing every day and the changes life brings. Deanna’s classes are attuned to your needs and abilities, improving your natural rhythm and coordination to feel and look your best.
Deanna is also a published writer, speaker, creative and marketing strategist and principal of Nord Strategy Group. She is also president of the SDG Health Alliance, an organization that advocates for improving global health, climate, and agriculture.