Well-Balanced Pilates

Feb 2023

I began working with Stephanie when I was six weeks postpartum with a body rocked by pregnancy and painful diastasis recti. With each session, I felt stronger and within a couple months of working together 2x a week, my diastasis recti was 100% healed. I credit Stephanie with "pulling me back together" after my pregnancy. Her incredible attention to detail and understanding of the body, and the specifics of my body, far surpassed anything I could have expected. Each session was completely tailored to me and my needs with compassion, care, an amazing sense of humor, and great results.

Oct 2019

I have seen Stephanie Bishop at Well-Balanced Pilates twice a week for 6 years. I had a laminectomy and spinal fusion many years ago so core strengthening and pain management were my goals. I had tried many different modalities when I chanced on Stephanie's studio....gym memberships, yoga, Gyrotonics, PT, accupuncture and osteopathy. I had gotten hurt in almost all of them. Stephanie is amazing. She listens to my body and adapts each session to my needs. Whenever I come in with with a pain she respects it and devises exercises to alleviate it. She is constantly going to advanced professional classes to learn about the relationship between body and movement. She makes exercising fun and I always feel better when I leave. Young and old, agile and stiff, suffering from chronic pain or injuries, no matter, you are in the best of hands. I am now strong enough to carry my 1 year old granddaughter up and down stairs and push a stroller up the hills of Hudson Heights. I credit Stephanie with keeping me fit!

Oct 2018

stephanie is the real deal. have done pilates fairly regularly for the past 10 years and have realized how hard it is to find studios doing proper classical pilates in nyc. stephanie is an incredible instructor who knows the body and will teach how to move. her studio is always immaculate and because it’s nice and small instruction is always personal. i traveled all the way from brooklyn to this studio for several years, that’s how good it is.
if you’re looking for a pilates studio for i can’t reccommend well-balanced any more highly.