Uptown Pilates

11/25/2025

10/25/2025

“If your teacher doesn’t cue, correct, and care… you’re just bouncing on a bed.”
Pilates isn’t about moving for the sake of moving!!! 🙄
It’s about moving with intention, precision, and connection!
A great teacher doesn’t just count reps or demonstrate exercises 🤦‍♀️
they see you.
They guide you.
They care about how every movement lands in your body.
✅ Cueing — helps you understand what you’re doing and why.
✅ Correcting — ensures you’re doing it safely and effectively. Hands on people!!!!
✅ Caring — turns the session into transformation, not repetition.
Without these, Pilates loses its magic — it becomes just another workout 🤷‍♀️
But when your teacher cues, corrects, and truly cares…
that’s when your body changes, your posture transforms, and your mind awakens.

10/19/2025

I had a client once who came in after shoulder surgery. She said, ‘I just want to get strong again.’ After working with her I realized what she really meant was, ‘I want to trust my body again.’ That was another reminder of the power of movement as medicine — not just mechanics.

It’s not just medicine for the joint. It’s medicine for the person — for their confidence, their joy, their journey back to themselves. You can’t separate the body from the human being who lives inside it.

Joseph Pilates understood this long before the science caught up. His work wasn’t about fixing the body — it was about restoring wholeness. He saw posture, the spine, breath, and circulation as one living system, deeply connected to nature, to community, and to the individual spirit.

When we move, we’re not simply seeking a return to congruency or a return to range of motion — we’re seeking a return to life.

Because movement isn’t just about aligning bones and muscles. It’s about reconnection — to the self, to others, and to the world around us. It’s how we remember our strength, our balance, and our belonging.

That’s why movement is medicine. Not just for the body — for the whole person.

I see this every day in our community — people who understand that movement isn’t just exercise, it’s a way back to wholeness. I love being part of a community that already knows this, that lives it, and keeps reminding each other what real strength looks like 💫🌎

-Dr.Brent 🙏

07/29/2025

Join Ruth Tru for a Full Moon & Estatic Dance, August 8, 2025, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

07/27/2025

Fernando Echeveste returns with his Yoga & Reiki class beginning Sunday, August 3, 2025, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

The class format is: the first 40 minutes of the class is a Vinyasa flow incorporating Qigong movements that integrate seamlessly into a nice flow and smooth transitions. In the last 20 minutes, people rest in Savasana and Fernando offers (based on the person's choice) hands-on or hands-off Reiki. The style of Yoga-Qigong combined with Reiki makes this class very unique.

​Please wear comfortable clothing that allow for unrestricted movement. You can bring your own mat and props or we have mats and props available in the studio. Cost $20

11/12/2024

Fernando Echeveste returns to Uptown Yoga to offer Yoga & Reiki every Friday in December and the first two Fridays in January. You can book online at www.uptownpilatesmn.com/book-online. We look forward to seeing you at the studio!