Downtown Location • 501 W. 3rd St.
Pilates for Specialty, Restorative & Rehab
Pilates supports the body through recovery, rehabilitation, and performance. Whether you’re healing from surgery, managing a health condition, training as an athlete, or expecting a baby — our certified instructors are here to meet you where you are.
Restorative & Recovery
Rebuild mobility and strength after injury, illness, or surgery.
Athletic & Cross-Training
The ideal complement to any sport or fitness routine.
Prenatal
Build strength and stay active throughout your pregnancy.
Bone Health
Low-impact strength training for osteoporosis and bone density.
Restorative & Recovery
Pilates Group Reformer Restorative Session | Stretch, Mobility, Recovery
Open to all experience levels — no prerequisite required.
This group reformer class promotes muscle recovery, flexibility, and mobility. Through targeted, guided exercises, this class — taken regularly — allows you to heal and slowly build up to full movement over a number of weeks.
Taught by Vlada Sheber, Master Certified Pilates Instructor and Post-Rehab Breast Cancer Specialist.
Schedule: Tuesdays 12:30pm–1:25pm at Ballet Austin’s Downtown Pilates Center, 501 W. 3rd St.
This Pilates Group Reformer Session is programmed to promote muscle recovery while creating flexibility and mobility in the body. The aim is to get back to normal activities and a full range of movement after injury, surgery, or illness.
This class is an excellent next step for women who have attended the Pink Pilates post-operative workout for breast cancer survivors, or for anyone looking to restore their body. Come when you can — but the more you come, the better you will feel!
Athletic & Cross-Training
The ideal workout for anyone who wants to stay at the top of their game.
Strengthen your core, improve balance, stability, flexibility, and develop coordination throughout your entire body. Whether you’re a runner, cyclist, dancer, golfer, rower, or involved in any sport — the Pilates Reformer is just that good.
Get started with one of our New Client Private Pilates Special Offers. Questions? Email pilates@balletaustin.org or call 512-501-8704.
Pilates is the ideal workout for cross training. Whether you are an elite athlete, a dancer, or a fitness enthusiast who wants to stay at the top of their game, Pilates is the best choice. Our trained, experienced, and certified instructors are here to help you customize a workout that will bring you the results you’re looking for.
Learn more about the benefits of cross-training with Pilates →
Prenatal Pilates
Pilates for Two — Build strength for labor and stay in shape during your entire pregnancy.
This is a private Pilates session opportunity to work one-on-one with one of our certified Pilates instructors. Sessions promote good posture and spinal alignment, easing the strain and tension involved with a changing body during pregnancy.
5 private 45-minute sessions included.
Cost: $318.75 ($375 value)
After purchase, email pilates@balletaustin.org to book your first session.
Pilates strengthens your tummy, back, and pelvic floor muscles without straining other joints, making it a great exercise during pregnancy. Your instructor will teach with modifications to accommodate all stages of pregnancy and levels of fitness.
Bone Health
Pilates for Osteoporosis, Osteopenia, and proactive bone health.
The Pilates reformer uses spring resistance and provides support, making it a great choice for strengthening bones with no or low impact to protect the skeleton.
- Private sessions: Individual attention customized to your physical condition. Be sure to talk with the instructor about your bone density concerns.
- Osteo-lates Group Class: For those with Pilates reformer experience. Every Wednesday at 1:00pm.
Pilates is excellent for those diagnosed with Osteoporosis or Osteopenia, and for those wanting to be proactive with their bone health. Because the reformer uses spring resistance and provides support, Pilates is a great choice for women seeking to strengthen their bones while protecting the skeleton.
If you are new to Pilates, get started with a New Client Package and mention your bone health goals when booking.
While Pilates is predominantly known for core strengthening and flexibility, studies have indicated that Pilates improves respiratory endurance, lung volumes, and inspiratory and expiratory flow rates. Breath is one of the foundation principles in the Pilates method.
Who can benefit:
- Obese individuals: Improve respiratory function and functional capacity.
- Cystic Fibrosis: Improve respiratory muscle strength.
- Chronic stroke: Improve cardiopulmonary function.
- Following cardiac surgery: Significant improvement in vital capacity and ventilation.
- The elderly: Improve pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength.
- Non-communicable diseases such as cancer and COVID-related breathing.
With a private Pilates reformer workout you will receive individual attention and instruction customized to your physical condition. Be sure to talk with the instructor about your pulmonary function.
Pink Pilates — Post-Operative Recovery for Breast Cancer Survivors
Pink Pilates is a post-operative workout for breast cancer survivors, offering a gentle way to regain physical and emotional health. Classes are held at Ballet Austin’s Downtown Pilates Center and are offered at NO COST.
Pilates helps stretch and strengthen the shoulder, chest, back, and abdominal muscles, allowing women to regain and maintain full range of motion to areas affected by breast cancer and surgery.
Pilates for Back Pain & Spine Health
One of the best practices for reducing the effects of muscular-skeletal back pain.
By focusing on core stabilization and precise, controlled movements, Pilates offers a gentle practice for rehabilitation and restoration. The Pilates Back Rehab Package includes ten 30-minute private sessions with a certified instructor.
Cost: $410 ($500 value) · Introductory package, may only be purchased once.
After purchase, email pilates@balletaustin.org to book your first session.
Research shows about 80% of people have complained about having low-back pain at least once in their life. Pilates has been shown clinically to significantly reduce the effects of muscular-skeletal back pain. The precise movements and instruction on core engagement help to strengthen the core, including the back, and reduce pain.
You will receive individual attention and instruction customized to your physical condition. After 10 sessions you will feel the difference.
As Joseph Pilates said: “If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. If it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.”