Personal training through classical Pilates, with instructors who each trained directly with a master of the method.
At its core, this is personal training through Pilates. Your instructor learns how your body works, builds the work around it, and teaches you what they see. Over time, you come away with something like an owner's manual for your own body.
We start where you are. The classical sequence, adapted to your posture, history, and goals.
Session by session, we learn your particulars: how you move, where you compensate, what helps. Then we teach them to you.
Gratz apparatus, built to Joseph Pilates' specifications and set up to fit you.
Instructors, each trained with Romana Kryzanowska or Bob Liekens
Hours of apprenticeship behind every instructor
The original apparatus
Romana Kryzanowska, in white, with teachers in training, including Wendy (back row).
For more than half a century, a small group of stewards has kept Joseph Pilates' method alive, passing it from teacher to student with its precision intact. Chief among them was Romana Kryzanowska, his longtime student, who taught it for decades.
Wendy, who leads Mind Body, met Romana in New York in the 1980s and was mentored by her, completing her training with Romana in 2000.
Master educators such as Bob Liekens later formalized how the method is taught. All five of our Pilates instructors trained with Romana or Bob.
Romana taught one person at a time, adjusting the work to the body in front of her. We still teach that way.
"You can say what Pilates is in three words: Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind."
Romana Kryzanowska
Start with Foundations, four private lessons. We learn how your body moves, and you learn the basics of the method.
