* Pilates | The River Valley Club

In the Pilates Studio, our mission is to enable and educate personal development and body awareness through biomechanically balanced and efficient movement. We offer a fully equipped studio and Certified Pilates Instructors, with several holding multiple fitness certifications.

Classes with an Additional Fee

- Single Class – $32
- 6 Pack – $186
- 12 Pack – $360
- 24 Pack – $696
- 36 Pack – $1008
- 48 Pack – $1296

Non-Members – fill out the form to inquire about taking our Pilates classes as a non-member – here

If you have any questions about RVC Pilates, please email our membership team.

Class Descriptions

Pilates Mat

This class will improve your core strength, mobility, stability, posture, balance, and flexibility. This low-impact class is a perfect standalone exercise or complement to weight training because it focuses on deep, stabilizing muscles in and around the spine, abdomen, and hips that are essential for sports and everyday life. Focused breathing enhances the meditative benefits of each exercise and modifications make Pilates suitable for all levels. After just a few weeks, you’ll know what so many professional athletes and celebrities already know…Pilates is an essential part of your total fitness. All levels.

Reformer

Pilates Reformer classes offer all the benefits of traditional mat Pilates while using a specialized piece of equipment called the reformer. The reformer is a bed-like frame with a flat platform on it, called the carriage, that rolls back and forth on wheels within the frame. The carriage is attached to one end of the reformer by a set of springs. Most Pilates reformer exercises involve pushing or pulling the carriage or holding the carriage steady as it is pulled on by the springs. The springs can be adjusted to change the resistance and thereby personalize the exercises to your own level. Exercises can be done lying down, sitting, standing, pulling the straps, pushing the footbar, perched on the footbar, perched on the shoulder blocks, with additional equipment, upside down, sideways, and many other variations. The wide variety of exercises that can be done on the reformer promote length, strength, flexibility, and balance. These important aspects of fitness lead to better posture, graceful and efficient movement, and even potential relief from pain associated with physical imbalances and tension.

Power Reformer

This athletic version of our classic reformer class is created to challenge the body and mind at optimal levels. By taking traditional and not so traditional Reformer exercises and adding additional challenges by incorporating weights, therabands and iso-balls. The result? A deep level of intricate muscle toning, sculpting the body, strengthening the core. Improving posture, flexibility and the mind/body connection. You will be challenged, chiseled and sweaty.

Meet our Instructors

Niki Muckenhirn

I love pilates because it challenges me to achieve a stronger, healthier body and a more peaceful, focused thought, thus enabling me to live a freer life every day.

Teresa Urnezis

I love Pilates because it challenges my entire body and leaves me feeling aligned and refreshed. Ready for life!

Marie White

I love Pilates because it gives me a healthy body, mind, and lifestyle. Every day I heed it’s message of balance.

Pilates Studio Etiquette

The Pilates Studio is primarily a personal training and class space. Due to space restrictions classes and personal training have preference over all other activity in the Pilates Studio.

Current personal training clients are welcome to use the equipment when there is no class in session, please check the schedule for class time. The equipment should be used according to the directions and program your trainer has provided you. If a trainer needs a piece of equipment you are using they may ask you to give up that equipment in order to train their client. **NOTE you have to have prior approval at this time to use the Pilates Studio without trainer supervision (as of 10/19/2020).

If you have never used the equipment in this space, please contact us to coordinate a time to learn how to use the equipment.

Please silence cell phones while working in the Pilates Studio.

Please limit conversations in the Pilates Studio when there is a Pilates Reformer class taking place.

Please remove shoes at the entrance to the Pilates Studio and store in the cubbies at the entrance. If you also store personal items in the cubbies, please take them with you when you leave the Pilates Studio. We are not responsible for any lost personal items.

Wear comfortable clothing that is not too loose; this is for your safety around the equipment and to ensure that those around you do not see something they may not want to see. And dress in layers so you can be comfortable.

All equipment should be used in the Pilates Studio only, please do not remove any equipment from the Pilates Studio or bring in any equipment from other spaces.

On completion of your workout, please wipe down all equipment and return it to the original location. Reformers should have springs affixed with carriage set at 2 and gear bar set at 2, straps hung without tension from shoulder rests, and boxes placed under the carriage.