The Pilates LAB

10/31/2025

Please help us support the food drive for those in our community who are impacted by the loss of their SNAP benefits. This basket will be in the studio all winter.

We will also be collecting warm clothes for the work is doing to help those in need.

Getting through these tough times is going to take a lot of grassroots effort. LFG

10/29/2025

08/30/2025

Friends! Amy’s egg is ready! Check out this beautiful space. If the experience is anything like Amy herself, it’s sure to be calming, supportive, and very special.

https://www.harmoniceggbuffalo.com/

08/11/2025

Beth here.

I just spent a lovely, peaceful week in the Adirondacks with my family, and I did a good deal of hiking with my parents. I’m posting about them, because what they can do “at their ages” (79 & 81) is pretty incredible. And it’s very relevant to what we do at The Pilates LAB.

They walked on slippery logs, jumped over creeks, got in & out of their canoe, sat on low rocks— these are the things we practice— and this trip is exactly why.

Move so you can keep moving.

07/01/2025

If youve been to The Pilates LAB lately, you know weve been witking on grip strength!!

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/30/the-grip-secret-it-could-be-the-key-to-a-long-and-healthy-life-heres-how-to-improve-yours?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social_img&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLQzYVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrGzXZmmMXwEIyRk_088grS8ImjmgJTGDL_NS4jnozDAB9iltvnE6oP3cYtl_aem_bXp5yIAmYh0BaA_7d7tdCg =1751263868

A weak grip goes hand in hand with higher risk of heart attack and stroke, and is linked to everything from diabetes and obesity to muscle loss. Here’s what to do about it

06/27/2025

Love this video!
Outdoor Saturday Mat classes will resume in August.

06/18/2025

NEW CLASS ALERT! 🔔

Thursday Evening Pilates Series
w/ Molly Vine
Beginning June 26 | 7:15pm | $15!
The Pilates Lab | 164 Allen St

Join us Thursday evenings this summer for a thoughtfully-paced Pilates series designed to build strength, confidence, and body awareness from the ground up.

Taught by Molly Vine, this easygoing, progressive class begins with foundational Mat work before gradually introducing the Tower, Reformer, and other apparatus.

We’ll spend several weeks exploring each modality, giving you time to feel grounded and comfortable as your practice deepens. Whether you’re new to Pilates or looking to refresh your technique, this class is the perfect place to move mindfully, ask questions, and grow at your own pace.

Come as you are — no experience necessary, just curiosity and a willingness to move.

Questions?
716-866-8200

06/01/2025

Happy Pride— this month & always!

Sending love and strength to all our LGBTGIA+ friends.
We see you.
We love you.
We fiercely protect you.

👀 You Belong Here

05/05/2025

Want to become a Pilates teacher?!

We are starting a new Core Dynamics Teacher Training cycle at The Pilates LAB! May 17 + 18 (changed from the og post that listed May 3 + 4)

Founded by Michele Larsson and now directed by Kevin Bowen, Core Dynamics celebrates the legacy of Joseph Pilates through the lens of Eve Gentry. Eve (yes— of Eve’s Lunge fame!) was a dancer who studied with Joe for years and eventually took the work to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Eve’s development of the Gentry Technique has become the widely-used basis for Pilates Mat work and is a distinctive element of the Core Dynamics Teacher Training syllabus.

Core Dynamics is a globally-recognized teacher training program! See link in bio for more details.

Teacher trainings at The Pilates LAB are fun, inclusive, and highly participatory. We dive into language & cuing, helpful teaching tools & motivational skills, as well as learning the hows and whys of the exercises, how to teach them effectively & safely, and how to structure a session or class.

•You can participate via Zoom!
•Kevin Bowen runs free tutorials for CD participants and alum.
•CD has sessions in other cities; those teachers & participants may be a part of your training.
•CD has resources on PilatesAnytime.

DM us here!
We are happy to answer any questions.

04/17/2025

This photo, clipped from the Jamestown Post Journal, is of my BFF during a class with Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, at the Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet, circa 1998. Kudos to photographer, Michael D. Anderson, for his impeccable timing in capturing this grand jeté.

In 1996, Mr. Bonnefoux hired me to teach the Open Enrollment Classes Chautauqua Institution That meant if you were on the Chautauqua grounds and wanted to take a community ballet class, I would be your teacher! He rounded out my responsibilities that summer by adding “camp counselor” duties to my plate— essentially I planned activities for the youngest dancers who had auditioned to spend their summer with the illustrious faculty at CHQ.

I was allowed to take company class and took full advantage of this generous opportunity. At the end of the summer Jean-Pierre invited me to perform corps roles in Nutcracker with his home company, North Carolina Dance Theatre. Incredibly, I declined because I was planning to go to Europe to find a job!

While in Europe, Jean-Pierre contacted me to ask if I would be interested in directing a small ballet school in Jamestown, with which he was affiliated through Chautauqua Institution. (He was the Artistic Director Emeritus and he needed a boots-on-the-ground Principal Teacher and Director.) I’d been backpacking through Europe for five weeks, with marginal success, and my backpack was feeling extra heavy. Move to Jamestown, run a school, still perform in Buffalo, and make a whopping $35k? Ummm. Sure!

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