Our instructors are trained and certified
under the Romana’s Pilates®
Teacher Training Program.
The Romana’s Pilates®
training, passed on directly from
Joseph and Clara Pilates
to their protégé,
Romana Kryzanowska,
is the most rigorous
Pilates training program
in use today.
Teacher Certification in the program requires a minimum of 600 hours of training; renewed annually through a Romana’s Pilates® Continuing Professional Education course.
“If you had to say that he
had a daughter that he passed
his ideas and system onto,
Romana is the one.”
- Jacques d'Amboise
Circ Pilates Studio is a
fully equipped studio with
Gratz Industries® Pilates
equipment and mat space.
Gratz Industries® is the
original manufacturer of
Pilates apparatus and the
industry’s established source
for authentic equipment.
Started by Frank Gratz in
New York City in 1928, this
legacy of high-end fabrication
and tradion continued with
Frank's son Donald Gratz who applied his engineering
and metalworking expertise working closely with
Romana Kryzanowska
in the late 1960s.
“Pilates is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.”
- Joseph Hubertus Pilates
Pilates is a full-body
workout that balances
strengthening and stretching
with alignment and toning.
Named after German physical fitness specialist Joseph Hubertus Pilates
who devised a system of exercises
using special apparatus and mat exercises
designed to improve physical strength, flexibility and posture in the individual.
In the studio sessions: Your instructor will guide you through apparatus and mat exercises
and design for you a daily strengthening
and flexibility routine you can do anywhere
and that will last a lifetime!
“Pilates is the complete
coordination of
body, mind and spirit.”
- Joseph Hubertus Pilates