WE HAVE PLANS🎃
It feels like we've spent most of the last few weeks saying "coming soon," "rescheduled," "weather permitting," and "we'll let you know as soon as we know." So it feels really good to finally have things actually happening around here.
First up: the weather finally cooperated, and we got to welcome ourselves to Riverdale by holding our first free outdoor Pilates class at Van Cortlandt Park! After being rained out about a million times this year, getting a little crowd together on a dry day to do Pilates outside felt like a small miracle. It was a fun preview of what it's going to be like to have a Pearl community on the west side of the Bronx.
Meanwhile, October is shaping up to be a busy month.
Our Mott Haven birthday party has officially found a new home after the rooftop version got rained out. We're celebrating at the studio on October 18th from 1:30-3:30pm with cake, Prosecco, music, photo ops, and other birthday shenanigans. It's totally free, with a tiny pressie for the first 100 people who come through :) Come hang out and toast one year of The Pearl Pilates Haven 🥂
We also have a whole bunch of workshops coming up at both studios. Sensual Movement Lab is back for an evening of exploration, confidence, and getting out of your head and into your body. Candlelit Sound Journey is on the calendar for anyone who'd like to spend an evening horizontal and vibrating peacefully. And we're squeezing in our last outdoor Sunset Yoga of the season before the sun starts setting at lunchtime.
Halloween gets its own moment this year, with ways to celebrate at both studios. 🎃 Full Body Takeover is getting the spooky treatment (Mott Haven, prepare to get possessed!), and over on City Island I'll be teaching Kiss My Abs 🖤⚡️ - Reformer Pilates with a glam rock twist. Big hair, a killer playlist, costumes, and a seriously good workout. Think Jane Fonda wandered backstage at a KISS concert and somehow ended up teaching Pilates.
Our fall kids classes start this week, too, so the littlest members of The Pearl are back in the studio for another season of moving, dancing, stretching, and hopefully having a much healthier relationship with exercise than most of us had growing up :)
Our next Pilates Teacher Training cohort begins October 24th, which means a whole new group of trainees is about to discover that taking Pilates and teaching Pilates are two very different things. We can't wait to welcome them in and watch another group of teachers take shape.
And in extremely last-minute getaway news: one shared room just opened up on our Hudson Valley retreat this weekend. We'll be in Kingston for Pilates, yoga, fall leaves, good food, aimless wandering, and leaning very hard into October-in-the-Hudson-Valley energy. If you can suddenly disappear for a few days, come with us 🍂
Riverdale is getting closer every day. After months of paperwork, insurance, surveys, planning, waiting, more paperwork, and 400 DMs asking WHEN ARE YOU OPENING, it's very exciting to start watching this third little Pearl turn into a real place.
Outdoor Pilates, birthday parties, kids classes, retreats, new teachers, sound journeys, sunset yoga, Halloween workouts, and a whole new studio coming to life. October is BUSY. In the good way :)
See ya on the mat 💙