Workshop is August 17-23 with a performance on August 23 and 24. Register here: https://forms.gle/nH5z8EKcdt7GLdqL7

Rotational Pilates starts! Come this Saturday between 9-9:30 to get your 30-minute circuit training in!

Mission Improvable is April 10-14 of 2024 The guest artist is Stephan Koplowitz and you are invited to use your dance improvisation skills to create a site-specific performance at St. John's Grace in this Buffalo-based dance intensive.

At Center Pilates your first class is complimentary. Come in and try a one-to-one class with our teachers. After that you have options: sign up for 30 days and take 1-5 classes a week for $750. Then you can choose: 11 more months for $487 6 more months for $497 3 more months for $507 We also offer mat classes for $25 or $225 for 10 Look out for more group class offerings like small group Reformer class and Rotational Pilates. For Rotational Pilates you can rotate around the room as well as rotate your body! Email us for more info or sign-up in the schedule.

It is okay to feel your lower back working.

Rock to the left and to the right. Feel you much weight you put on your right foot and left foot. This is a great prep to start lifting your legs off of the floor.

It is fall. Nancy Hughes can also connect you with contemporary dance classes including contact improvisation. All of her events will be announced on the website.

These are my corrections for my scoliosis. Contact us for classes to find your scoliosis corrections.

Putting the vinyl straps on the Allegro 2 hooks is challenging. This is how I do it.

Oov is a great piece of equipment to take on the road

Starter Package Oov: small ball: theraband: mat:

The Role of Fascia in Everyday Life --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lead by guest artist Chris Aiken --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $40 - $50

Chris Aiken is an internationally recognized performer and teacher of dance improvisation and contact improvisation. His approach has been guided by the effort to link our poetic sensibility with the capacity to engage ecologically through perception, action, and imagination. In this sense, ecology includes our sense of self, our sense of other beings, and our sense of the world around us. It includes culture and human artifacts. Chris has performed and collaborated with many renowned dance artists including Angie Hauser, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Peter Bingham, Andrew Harwood, Ray Chung and Steve Paxton. His work has been shaped by years of practice in the Alexander Technique, Gyrokinesis, ideokinesis, yoga, and fascial body work and movement training. He is a Professor of Dance at Smith College.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Location: St. John's Grace 51 Colonial Circle Buffalo, NY 14222 register for Mission Improvable: Contact Improv Intensive: http://buffaloci.weebly.com/mission-improvable-2023.html

Buffalo - How do you recover from sitting all weekend or shoveling your butts off? Maybe practicing some splits!?!? sign-up for your personal practice at Center Pilates!

Are you looking for individual attention? At Center Pilates we create workouts based on your goals. Through September 5 we have a 3-individual session special. Go to appointments before September 25.

Have you heard? We have so many Pilates offerings you can move with us all the time now.

Center Pilates NY: Workshops

Center Pilates NY: Workshops: Register Now! First class starts on June 14.

Dates: June 14, 21 & 28 7:15-8:15 am (arrival starts at 7:00 am) This class is for Pilates beginners as well as Pilates practitioners who want revisit fundamentals of invigorating and meditative movement with a focus on Pilates. Workshop focus: 1.breathing in relationship to the respiratory system 2. Mat work and equipment work 3. Individualized exploratory movement 4. challenging exercises The rate is $220 for the series. This includes one private lesson with Nancy Hughes. There is a pay via installment option.

photo by Mark Duggan

Scoliosis Workshop!

New Scoliosis workshop! May 25, June 1 & June 15 Link to workshop in Bio It is Three Class series with one private lesson option. The focus is on you understanding your curves better and how to work with them in comfort and power.

Photos: by Jared Of Nancy Hughes and Kelly Cornelius Photo 2 by Nancy Hughes of @kleinhansmusichall Photo 3 by Hannah Cain

I have scoliosis. I have spent time in my life embracing it, ignoring it, not understanding, fixing it and working to understand it. I have learned how to help my body get more gel-like and enjoy my movement practice more. I would like to share my practice with you. There is a new workshop starting on April 6. email us to sign-up: nancy@nancypilates.com

My scoliosis has caused pain, caused me to not be able to balance and confused me. It is great to move the body and I understand needing a knowledgeable outside perspective to collaborate on how to make movement more comfortable and feel less limitations and pain. Our spines and bones move just like everyone else’s however ours our “facing” different directions. Do you want to understand your curves and move with them? Sign-up for scoliosis workshop.