According to her Instagram bio, Heather Dorak owns Pilates Platinum, a studio that incorporates cardio and strength training into a pilates workout, according to the company’s official website. There are currently six Pilates Platinum locations; two in Texas and four in California. Interestingly, pilates is how Dorak and Meghan Markle originally met. “17 years ago, she walked into my fledgling Pilates studio and instantly became my rock in all things early 20’s — career, love, figuring out how to adult,” Dorak Instagram caption on a post from March 2021 read, in part.
In an interview with VoyageLA, Dorak noted that her love for pilates stemmed from dance. “Dancing was a priority over anything else in my life. It engulfed me so much that I became a bit too obsessed with trying to have the perfect dancer’s body. Down spiraling quickly, I found myself dancing for all the wrong reasons. It wasn’t a healthy love for dancing anymore,” she told the outlet. In her early 20s, an injury kept Dorak from dance and it was her doctor who advised that she give pilates a shot. “I fell in love immediately with the Megaformer method that people know today,” she said.
