Ms. Franklin received her early dance training at Pasadena Dance Theatre and later studied at the San Francisco Ballet School and the Pacific Northwest Ballet School. In 1993 she received her B.A. in English Literature from UCLA. In 1997 she studied Pilates fundamentals at Long Beach Dance Conditioning under Marie-Lose Blom and completed the training course for teaching Pilates-based techniques as applied to dance, including technical training, rehabilitation, and body conditioning. In 1999 she became certified to teach the Gyrotonic Expansion System. She has been teaching at Pasadena Dance Theatre since 1996.