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Pilates DNA

Classical Pilates taught by a second generation teacher and longtime student of Jay Grimes.

12/05/2025

We’ll keep you safe, but make no mistake, you will work hard. (Bubble wrap not included) 🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧

11/26/2025

Heads up if you’re joining Friday’s Contrology Group Class: We’re shifting the time from 3:00 PM to 12:00 PM this week. With the holiday and shifting work schedules, noon seemed to make more sense.

If you’re joining in person or online, just book as usual. The time is already updated.

11/24/2025

Mood: determined.

The holiday season gets busy. Schedules shift, routines get interrupted, and excuses get louder. But movement is part of my weekly rhythm, and I protect it. For me, five Pilates sessions a week is the sweet spot. It keeps me strong, centered, and able to handle everything else with more ease.

Some weeks feel effortless, while others require discipline and planning. But consistency is non-negotiable, because the benefits go far beyond the workout itself. Staying connected to my body, my health, my overall sense of wellbeing through every season, trip, deadline, and celebration is a priority. As it should be.

You don’t have to wait for a new year to recommit. Just keep moving.

11/20/2025

What does it mean to practice Pilates?

The answer lives in that key word: practice.

Practice isn’t perfection. It’s commitment. It’s a willingness to show up and stay curious. It’s a kind of surrender to the process—an embrace, if you prefer a different word. You’re not giving anything up. You’re choosing to commit to something that takes as long as it takes.

The goal isn’t to perfect every movement or to perfect anything at all. The goal is to teach your body how to move through life with more balance, ease, and strength. Along the way, the work strengthens your connection to everything else in your life: how you show up, how you move through challenges, how you relate to your body, and how you trust yourself.

Confidence builder.
Lifelong companion.
Reliable truth teller.

That’s what it means to practice Pilates.

11/18/2025

I stepped into a surprise this morning. The floors were soaked and one of the walls appears to be warped. The frames of both my arm chair and ped-o-pul are wet (drying now, hopefully without damage), and most of my rugs are trashed, but I feel like I dodged a potentially huge blow. Heads up, we’ll be operating on a lighter than usual schedule today, but we are otherwise up and running as before. Minus a few rugs.

11/14/2025

If you’ve been thinking about starting Pilates, or you’ve been practicing for years and feel like there’s still something missing, this space is for you.

Pilates DNA is a small, inviting space built for real work. We teach with intention, personalization, and respect for the method. We are not a run-of-the-mill fitness trend.

Every piece of equipment in this studio is built by the best manufacturers in the world, chosen with care so your body can learn, strengthen, and transform with clarity.

If you’re ready to move with purpose, and to deepen your understanding, come train with us. Your body will thank you.

11/11/2025

Time for an office monkey break. 🐒

After twelve weeks into the semester (I spend part of the year teaching academic writing to college students) and way too much sitting (and leaning to one side), my back has been falling into old patterns. I’m guessing I’m not alone, so here’s a quick reset you can do right in your office:

Step 1: Find a wall.
Step 2: Line your body up against it, feet included. Reach behind to feel that natural curve in your low back as a reference point for how far to step out until your back is fully aligned along the wall. Keep your heels together and toes apart (aka anatomical neutral — think da Vinci’s David or the stance you take for footwork toes on the Reformer).

Step 3: Soften your knees if needed, and don’t jam your head (or anything else) into the wall. Instead, go for connected length along your torso.

Step 4: Holding this position, you’ll already feel your stomach, back, and seat working to maintain that connection. Then challenge it with some basic arm movements. Move the arms from the back, keeping a solid connection to your center. Try lifting and lowering, or circling the arms (I went with circles here), testing your full range without sacrificing integration.

Done right, this should leave you feeling energized, balanced, and more connected in your movement ➡️ It’s quick and convenient — a perfect antidote to all that sitting.

11/06/2025

MOVE: Jay used to say it all the time. Yep, right again: Turns out you can’t talk your way into a MINDBODY connection. Idle introspection doesn’t make you stronger. Movement does.
Above all else, remember that, because movement is how we learn, how we connect, and how we change. It keeps the body intelligent and the mind alive. Every exercise begins with this simple truth. Thanks for the reminder Jay 💕

11/04/2025

There is some misconception about what makes a good teacher.
Is it someone who knows the sequence for Flying Squirrel? Or someone who knows who it’s for / isn’t for?

Learning new movements and refining their ex*****on is interesting, and it keeps us engaged and progressing as teachers. In fact, there was a time when I felt proud just knowing all the exercises. But that alone didn’t feel like teaching Pilates as a method.

The more difficult and more meaningful development comes from understanding when to assign something and when to avoid it.
It involves critical thinking, experience, and intuition in exercise selection.

Anyone can memorize a list.
Not everyone can read a body and make the right choice in real time.
The skill is not in how many exercises you know,
but in knowing what matters for this person, today. That’s the difference.

10/31/2025

This zombie knows the role of fitness in making it to the next meal: brains don’t catch themselves, especially if you’re slow and dragging one leg behind you 🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️🧟🎃

10/30/2025

Twenty-two years of MAT work and here’s the truth: it’s only “easy” when I’m not actually doing it.

When you put your mind to your body and move with purpose, the MAT demands it all: power, precision, flow, and even distribution of effort. It isn’t a warm-up. It is the work.

I’ve heard the idea floating around that MAT Pilates is “entry-level” or something you do before you “graduate” to the equipment. When it comes to the real deal, nothing could be further from reality. The MAT is one of the most challenging parts of the method. The equipment doesn’t necessarily make Pilates harder, but instead it gives you feedback so you can learn to do the MAT properly.

If you think you’ve mastered the MAT, come take class with me. I love helping people make new discoveries in their own bodies.

Practicing Contrology as it was meant to be is the key to transformation.

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4924 Vineland Avenue
North Hollywood, CA
91601

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 8pm
Tuesday	8am - 8pm
Wednesday	8am - 8pm
Thursday	8am - 8pm
Friday	8am - 8pm
Saturday	9am - 3pm

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+18185100827

Website

http://www.pilatesdna.com/

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