The Team
Pauline Sylviane Biahun, Owner
Licensed GYROTONIC® Level 1&2 Trainer, Level 1 Pre Trainer, Licensed GYROKINESIS® Trainer, Jumping Stretching Board, GYROTONER®, ARCHWAY™, Pre and Post Natal, Osteoporosis, Pelvic Floor Health, Golf , Shoulder Girdle, Certified Labor Doula, Martha Graham Technique Teacher.
Pauline trained in ballet in France and Geneva, receiving a scholarship from the Princess Grace Foundation of Monaco before dancing with Le Grand Théâtre de Limoges. She expanded into contemporary dance in Mexico, studying the Martha Graham Technique at la Escuela Superior de Danza y Música de Monterrey and Centro Nacional de Danza Contemporánea while teaching ballet at Centro ProArt.
She later moved to New York City on a full scholarship at the Martha Graham Center, performing with Graham II and earning her teaching certification. She taught Graham technique and ballet at several institutions—including the Martha Graham Center, The MoveShop, Talent Unlimited High School, New York Theatre Ballet, and Park East Day School—and helped reconstruct Panorama for the Martha Graham Dance Company at the Joyce Theater. Pauline also served as artistic director of Caliince Dance, performed internationally, earned an Outstanding Choreography award with The MoveShop, and completed an artist residency at Lycée Français de New York.
Currently based in Charlotte, NC, she teaches ballet, Graham technique, and GYROKINESIS® at Open Door Studios and Caroline Calouche & Co., and performs with Movement Migration.
After overcoming a long-standing lumbar stress fracture through the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM®, Pauline became a licensed trainer with over 15 years of experience, using the method to support her own body—including through pregnancy and postpartum recovery—and to help clients improve strength, stability, and movement awareness.
Alyce Cristina Vallejo
GYROTONIC® Level 1 Apprentice Trainer, 300 hour Certified Yoga Instructor, 95 hour Grounded Kids Yoga Instructor
Certified Lightyear Leadership CoachAlyce Cristina Vallejo began her ballet and modern training at the North Carolina Dance Theater (Charlotte Ballet) and The Charlotte School of Ballet. She graduated from Northwest School of the Arts in 02’ and continued her training and budding professional career at Florida State University. This is where she first discovered and practiced Gyrotonic under the direction of Anjali Austin. Every morning before ballet class she would warmup with Gyrotonic, not realizing the great impact she was absorbing. Alyce has had the honor to perform the works of Balanchine, restaged/coached by Suzanne Farrell and Patricia McBride, Jules Perrot, restaged by Richard Sais, and Alonzo King, among others. She has spent 15+ years in the Charlotte community growing as a performing artist and teacher.
Between 07’-21’ Alyce performed with Martha Connerton/Kinetic Works, CPCC Summer Theater, and as a guest artist for the Charlotte Youth Ballet. Alyce joined Moving Poets (CLT/Berlin) in 2013 and served as a creative contributor, choreographer, and performer for 10 years. In 2017 Alyce was invited by Artistic Director, Kim Jones to join Movement Migration as a performance artist. She is currently still a company member serving as a teaching artist, choreographer, performer, and administrative assistant. In 2020, Alyce dove deeper into her choreographic expression with support from an ASC Artist Support Grant and was accepted to a choreographic mentorship with “HAVEN,” led by Alex Ketley and David Maurice. Resulting in the creation of her dance on film “Glimpses of Me,'' which has been shared in 4 installtions throughout Charlotte and as part of her first ever solo show in the 2023 BOOM Fringe Festival.
Outside of dance, Alyce is 395 hour certified yoga teacher and shares her passion for movement as an embodiment coach through classes, workshops, and has led over 150 participants on international retreats. This past June, all came to a halt when she slipped in water and tore her meniscus. Immediately, Alyce’s mind went to “how am I going to move?” She dug in her memory box and reached out to reconnect with Pauline and Gyrotonic. Since, she has not stopped moving! After surgery in August, Alyce began to explore the path of Gyrotonic certification, for her own benefit of recovery and sustainability as a movement artist, to share with her community, and grow the Gyrotonic community in Charlotte! She applied and received another ASC Artist Support Grant to support the process and is currently studying at Body Evolution in NYC.
Alyce is so excited to return to Charlotte as an apprentice teacher with Wave Within Studio along side Pauline! She is ready to dive deeper into this amazing practice to promote joyful and revitalizing movement through Gyrotonic to all she meets!
Dr. Brenda Gajowski, PT, DPT
Brenda Gajowski, DPT, is a doctor of physical therapy, a certified Health and Wellness Coach, and the owner of She Thrives Physical Therapy and Wellness. She focuses on pelvic health in women, helping women find and re-connect with their root and core, which is not only the pelvis and the muscles that surround it, but the power and vitality of the body as a whole. She has a special niche of working with women through transitional times - pregnancy, the postpartum period, perimenopause/menopause, and illness recovery. She is passionate about educating women about connection and movement, to enable them to return to the activities they love without pain, tension, or leaking, and loves talking about things that are often whispered about, because open conversation leads to awareness and improvement.
Brenda has 3 children of her own so truly understands the juggle of women managing many things, including their health, fitness, and wellness. She has been a physical therapist since 2001 and was in the sports and orthopedic world until moving into pelvic health and postpartum healing after the experience of having her first baby in 2009, when she recognized the gap in care for women and the need to completely heal her body to be able to return to the intensity of exercise that she loves. She is a lifelong learner and recently became certified in a health and wellness coach because she has learned over the years that the power of lasting change comes from having a full understanding of the body as a whole, a clear actionable plan for what’s important to you as an individual, and a partner who will listen to understand and help you sift through the noise.
Brenda can be found splitting her time between her home office in South Charlotte (Matthews border) and inside Wave Within Studio in Southpark!
Cat Corachado, Yamuna Body Rolling® Trainer
Cat is a U.S. Air Force veteran, movement specialist, and midlife wellness advocate with over 42 years in the fitness industry. After 20 years of honorable military service, she turned her passion for health into a mission to help people feel strong, capable, and confident in their bodies at every stage of life.
She is the founder of Fit For Life Alliance, The Keep It Moving Community, and the 11-Minute Fitness Challenge, all designed to make movement accessible and sustainable for midlife bodies and busy lives.
Cat also created the Revitalize Your Midlife Symposium, bringing together experts to shift the conversation around aging, wellness, and longevity.
A certified Personal Trainer, Pilates Instructor, Yamuna Body Rolling® Practitioner, and CETI-certified cancer exercise specialist, Cat focuses on strength, mobility, flexibility, and restorative movement. She hosts the Sisters-in-Service podcast, co-hosts the Salty Sisters live show, and is known for her relatable, no-nonsense approach that blends truth, humor, and practical tools for lasting change.
Libby Chambers Kluttz, Feldenkrais Practicioner
Libby is a somatic movement educator who helps people rediscover a more easeful, capable, and authentic relationship with movement. For more than 20 years, she has guided and supported people in exploring how they sense themselves, learn through experience, and move through the world.
At the heart of her work is a simple idea: sensing, learning, and moving are deeply connected. When we become more curious and accurate in sensing ourselves, we create more opportunities for learning. And as we learn, we discover new ways to move, respond, adapt, and participate in the things that matter to us.
Her teaching is sensory-driven and experiential, drawing from her training as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, Neuromuscular Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist, and Kinesa Practitioner and Collaborative Facilitator. She brings these experiences together to help people explore movement with curiosity rather than force, developing greater awareness, coordination, choice, and ease.
Her work is not about fixing people or eliminating movement patterns that no longer serve them. It is about bringing those patterns into clearer awareness, learning from them, and creating enough choice and variety for something new to emerge.
Her invitation is simple: What do you want to do? Where do you want to go? And what might become possible?
Sense • Learn • Move