Studio 8

07/26/2025

Strengthen your legs, hips, back and core and Skate with Char in the 9:00am Pilates Reformer this Saturday

07/25/2025

Trying to multi-task last week, Joan made an error when changing the Saturday class to 8:00am. Instead of changing it for the next couple of months she only changed it for one week. Sooo, tomorrow Saturday the 26th, Brandy Ward has agreed to cover yoga at 9:30. We apologize for the confusion. Please join Brandy!

We will go back to 8:00 next week.

07/20/2025

Thrilled to announce a new instructor and new class!

07/18/2025

For the next couple of months our Saturday morning class is from 8:00-8:45am with rotating instructors giving you an opportunity to broaden your horizons.
Tomorrow you can experience an all levels flow yoga with Clare Loftus. Clare completed her 200 hour yoga training with Core Power Yoga. You can expect a rhythmic flow of postures connected to the breath with lots of options to make the practice more gentle and supportive or more vigorous and challenging.

07/17/2025

What’s the greatest benefit you’ve experienced from Pilates?

07/16/2025

Today offers a rare opportunity to catch an evening class with Britt Hagy. Join her for Pilates reformer at 5:30 or 6:30 as she subs for Char tonight.

07/11/2025

9:30 am join Emily for her last class before a 3 month hiatus (we will keep the class going with subs)

And Sonia still has room in her Pilates Reformer class at 9:00.

07/11/2025

Did you know that our very own Clare Loftus is not only a fantastic yoga teacher, operations research analyst for the Corps of Engineers, all-around wonderful person and now a small business owner too?

Clare is kicking off her super cool business venture with this workshop that includes yoga 🥰. Give Blue Thistle Fibers a follow so you don’t miss out.

07/07/2025

A gift to our studio, our clients and our community, Britt Hagy has a birthday today! We hope you get all the gifts you hope for Britt!

07/06/2025

We’re known for our friendly, welcoming atmosphere, instructors and clients. Come on up and make some friends!

Group fitness classes aren’t just about exercise, Mikala Jamison wrote in 2024. https://theatln.tc/z5fhRvrd

When Jamison was teaching indoor cycling, she was the nicest version of herself: “warm, welcoming, and encouraging to the point of profound corniness, despite my usual caustic tendencies,” she writes. People that met in her class started dating; strangers went out for coffee. “These experiences have convinced me that group fitness classes are the best place to make friends as an adult,” she continues, “an idea supported by research that suggests that the glow of exercise’s feel-good chemicals has interpersonal benefits.”

Once, friendships were born in what the sociologist Ray Oldenburg called “third places”: physical spaces that aren’t a home or a workplace, don’t charge (much) for entry, and exist in large part to foster conversation. Group classes don’t quite fit in that definition—they can cost money, and their primary activities are “sweating, grunting, and skipping a few reps when the instructor isn’t looking,” Jamison writes. “But they fulfill many conditions that social-psychology research has repeatedly shown to help forge meaningful connections between strangers: proximity (being in the same place), ritual (at the same time, over and over), accumulation (for many hours), and shared experiences or interests (because you do and like the same things)”—a less awkward way to find people with similar interests than at work or at a party.

Even if you don’t find your next best friend at Zumba class, getting into a fitness habit might help you step out of your comfort zone and make more friends in other spaces.

“A room full of grown adults flailing, shouting, and running miles without ever going anywhere is a fundamentally ridiculous prospect,” Jamison continues. “Ridiculous things, however, play a crucial role in connecting with others: They make us laugh.”

🎨: Debora Szpilman

06/22/2025

Today is the day! It’ll be just hot enough for Sara’s Hot Pilates. Temperatures will be kept tolerable with big fans blowing in fresh air. Stick around for apres pilates cooling infused water and fruits.
Class pass apply.