About May Yang

May Yang, Your fitness coach

May Yang, founder of My Fitness, has Pilates, Aerobics, Yoga and Kick-Boxing instructor certifications and Dance qualifications from Australia, Singapore and China, and more than 20 years teaching experience. Her mission is to impart her rich and diverse experience gleaned over the years to enable her clients to achieve their fitness goals and improve their well-being.

Childhood talent, Performing for Queen Elizabeth II in China, 1986

Childhood talent, Performing for Queen Elizabeth II in China, 1986

May started dancing at a young age when she attended the Guangzhou Children’s Dance Palace from the age of 5. As a child she was selected to lead dances for the Chinese political leadership in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing as well as for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on her first state visit to China in 1986.

Passion for Dance, Singapore, Australia, USA

Her training progressed to focus on Chinese folk dance and choreography at a leading Dance Academy in China before moving to Singapore to specialise in contemporary dance, ballet, jazz, choreography and Pilates at LASALLE.SIA College of the Arts. She excelled at LASALLE.SIA obtaining Classical Ballet qualifications from the Royal Academy of Dance (UK) and winning its Outstanding Student Award in Dance and a prestigious Scholarship Award for her Performing Arts Degree.

Ballet & Contemporary Dance, Performing in New York

Ballet & Contemporary Dance, Performing in New York

Her passion for dance and fitness then took her to Australia, where she attained a Distinction in her Bachelor of Dance at Queensland University of Technology. She performed with a Sydney dance company and broadened her experience in dance and choreographic performance by moving to New York where she performed with the New York Ajkun Ballet Theatre and Ellen Sinopoli Modern Dance Company (New York) among others.

May Yang, a fitness professional

Thereafter, she pursued a full-time Pilates teaching course with the leading Pilates Institute of Australasia in Sydney and subsequently broadened her teaching repertoire with certifications in classical ballet, yoga, aerobics, body combat and kick-boxing. After returning to live in Singapore in 2003, May worked for six years as a lead instructor at Fitness First, Amore Fitness, True Yoga and True Fitness.

MY Fitness Studios

In 2010, she branched out on her own and set up her first MY Fitness studio to teach a wide range of Pilates (reformer, chair, mat), fitness exercise and dance classes. She also has specialist expertise in Pilates for rehab and pre/post-natal, plus has run MY Fitness Pilates instructor courses in Singapore and Botswana for many people seeking to become professional trainers.

MY Fitness, Corporate Classes and Events

In addition, several corporations retain her to run regular fitness classes for their staff plus she has led fitness events for more than 5,000 people for the Singapore government.

MY Fitness, Africa

During 2012-14 May travelled back and forth from Singapore to Botswana in Southern Africa, where she ran Pilates instructor courses, trained the fitness instructors at a chain of gyms, and choreographed the dance for Miss Botswana at Miss World 2013.

MY Fitness, Dance

Wherever she has lived over the past ten years, May has inspired others with her passion for dance through teaching dance classes (Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, …) in Singapore, Vietnam and Botswana.

May Yang, featured on fitness

May and her fitness routines have been featured in Shape, The Peak, WestEast, and Her World magazines; on “Morning Fitness” on Singapore TV; and in the Straits Times newspaper.

May Yang, Fashion model

She has modelled for major brands including L’Oreal, Cartier, Nine West, Far East Organisation, DBS Bank, VISA, Singtel, Resorts World Sentosa, Vicks and McDonalds.