Pilates Garage

Small but nicely accommodated studio.
Classes are usually 3 – 5 people and there is a personal approach to everyone which is nice. It’s a bit price to be able to do it twice a week, but if you can afford it– give it a try.

great space, great instructors and equipment. The studio is clean and open, a nice and relaxing environment.

I have been lucky enough to find the wonderful Theresa at Pilates Garage! Being pregnant, I was searching for a great way to stay in shape and prepare my body for pregnancy, labor and beyond. Theresa is extremely knowledgable in all facets of prenatal pilates. She modifies exercises based on my needs and is genuine in her wisdom and care!
Pilates Garage is a wonderful space with great energy. I highly recommend Theresa and Pilates Garage to all!

After experiencing lower back pain for months, I began to take Pilates and Alexander Technique as a way to recover (in addition to swimming, and eventually, indoor cycling). Let me tell you, these people really know their way around the body. I was treated gently and was gradually worked up to more challenging exercises. The environment was relaxing, warm, and comfortable. My posture is longer, my core has been strengthened, and I feel so much better. I have learned techniques that I can take with me and do anywhere to keep my back pain away. I am so grateful!

The Pilates Garage has incredible staff. They make it a point to understand all your strengths and weaknesses and help you make your body stronger, leaner and longer — at least it feels longer every time I leave class. I have been taking private lessons for a number of years and thank pilates and the personal attention I get for keeping my aging body in good shape so that I can do all the things I want to do in my retirement. Being able to be physically active and having help working through the periodic aches and pains of aging would not be possible without the wonderful work that I do at the Pilates Garage. Attention to individual needs, whether in an individual session or a class make this a very special and life enhancing experience.

Just when I thought that finding affordable pilates classes in the Slope was impossible, I stumbled upon the $ 10 community mat class at Pilates Garage!
The space is small, but the class size is smaller. The instructor, Theresa, is professional, knowledgable, and has offered a drastically different work out each time I’ve attended. She makes an effort to get to know each student, and offers customized modifications for my angry-runner’s-knee and carpal-​tunnel-​wrists.
I’ll be there every week until I master that «teaser»!

«Mommy & Me Pilates»? Come on now. But it’s real. It exists. I signed up for a class on Friday afternoons. And it’s really fun and affordable and after only one session my muscles were screaming and my posture even seemed better. The baby didn’t necessarily have the best time but at his age, he’s still very portable and I carry two excellent pacifiers under my shirt, so whatever.
This is the first Pilates class I’ve ever taken, so my opinion on the value of this little studio is pretty much worthless. But it’s in a cool old carriage house in Park Slope and the instruction seems top notch. Frances teaches my class and she’s very sweet and seems to know what she’s doing, and she’s great with babies. Even my baby, who is a yeller. And a screecher. And a drooler. Isn’t he cute?
Pilates Garage is laid back and the classes are inexpensive and they even do private sessions, if you’re really serious about your abs. A few more weeks of this and I might even be able to wear a bikini again someday. For a while I was sure I was doomed to a life of swimsuits with those little ruffly skirts.
Recommended.

An extremely comfortable space, offering beginners (mat) and advanced (mat, ball, machines etc) classes with few students per class, as well as private lessons and duets. I’m a beginner myself, so hopefully somebody taking an advanced class and/​or private lessons will post something here soon.
The place is a renovated garage, thus the name. The narrow railroad space has hardwood floors, good enough lighting, really nice atmosphere, art on the walls, no mirrors, two class areas and a bathroom.
Classes are ten for $ 150 ($ 130 for beginners). I don’t know how well that compares to other pilates places, as I sort of jumped at this one for its location, schedule and that i didn’t think it was going to remind me of high school gym class or any of the other unpleasant experiences i’ve had attempting to «work out». My instructor, Jessica, both totally knows what she’s doing (pilates seems to be a course of study, like karate) and knows how to communicate where things are supposed to stretch, what such and such an exercise does, etc. The classes are an hour long. People showing up hipster-​late can thus cut off some of your time, which is a drag. But it works.