01 — PHILOSOPHY
We are private by design: just you and your teacher for a full, unhurried hour, with the focus entirely on the quality of your movement. We care more about how you move in twenty years than how sore you are tomorrow.
Breath is our first principle. Before any spring is set, we anchor the body in deep, intentional breathing. The strength comes, and it lasts, because it is built on that breath.
02 — THE FOUNDERS
Co-founder & teacher
Functional Movement Coach and Reiki Master with 15+ years guiding hundreds of clients back to strength, mobility, and focus. A former athlete herself, she blends energy medicine and movement into a practice that meets you with both compassion and precision.
Co-founder & teacher
Yonatan trained under Carrie Samper, who was certified by Romana Kryzanowska, Joseph Pilates' own protégée. Carrie went on to build the teacher training program Equinox now runs nationwide, and Yonatan earned that certification in 2019. It is a short line back to Joe, and it shows up in how exact the work is. He teaches the way he makes music, shaped to your body's rhythm on the day. No "no pain, no gain." Just careful work that builds a body you live well in.
03 — HERITAGE
Joseph Pilates · Romana Kryzanowska · Carrie Samper · Yonatan Elkayam
Yonatan trained under Carrie Samper, who was certified by Romana Kryzanowska, Joseph Pilates' own protégée.
The other half of our practice is energy work. It lives at Word of Mouth.