Pilates with calleja

Now offering virtual private sessions! Take a movement break with me and have the chance to feel more energized, grounded and strong. Click on the “what I offer” tab or send me a message for more details. No previous experience necessary, and only a mat required. See you on the other side of the screen!

Meet Me

Hello! I am a fully certified STOTT PILATES® instructor and post-rehab specialist based in NYC. I cam to Pilates as a young pre-professional dancer. After my career in modern dance, I have since become a writer and writing teacher, but I still find it crucial to remain grounded in the body and help others to do so. You can currently find me teaching group classes and privates at Kinespirit Riverside Gyrotonic and Pilates. I am passionate about helping people discover how to live and move well in their bodies, and achieve their fitness goals.

I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia and a BFA in dance from Alonzo King LINES Ballet/Dominican Univ. of CA and I have been teaching Pilates in Houston, the San Francisco Bay Area, Metro Detroit, and New York City since 2011. I have worked with a wide range of clients, including athletes and dancers, teenagers, senior citizens, clients sustaining chronic injuries and conditions, and those undergoing post-rehabilitation from surgeries.

I tailor each class and private session specifically to my clients’ needs. I incorporate sound biomechanics within all of the workouts that I teach to ensure the safest and most effective Pilates experience. I would love to meet and work with you in person if you live in the NYC, or online if you are anywhere else in the world!

Certifications

STOTT PILATES®

Level 1 Full Certification (All Equipment)

Post-Rehabilitation Conditioning Specialization

Level 1 Full Certificate

Post Rehab Certificate

What I Offer

Private Sessions

Enjoy a workout that is tailored specifically to your postural type, needs, and fitness goals. My private sessions are ideal if you would like to achieve a solid foundation in the Pilates method for the first time, you are looking for a safe and effective way to address a particular injury/condition while building overall fitness, or if you would like to take your workout to the next level of intensity. You will receive individualized cues and modifications on a broad range of equipment to move with precision, strength, and joy!

Group Equipment Classes

I offer group equipment classes on a variety of Pilates apparatus, including the Reformer, Cardio Trampoline and Jumpboard, Chair, Cadillac tower, and Spring Wall. In each group equipment class, the core and extremities are challenged and supported with spring resistance. Experience a wide variety of exercises designed to improve posture, strength and flexibility, with a number of modifications offered to accommodate every person’s needs.

Virtual Sessions

These 1/2 hour or hour long sessions work great as a pre-work or mid-day boost, and provide real time instruction, programming and cues to give you the most of an in-home workout. Private sessions include a first time postural analysis, and subsequent personally designed sessions. Send me a message through my Contact tab above for discounted virtual private rates. Click here to sign up for my online group classes through Kinespirit Riverside in which you can join students worldwide in developing and maintaining a strong Pilates practice!

Testimonials

I took private Pilates lessons from Calleja for almost three years.. and would have happily continued “forever,” absent her move to the East Coast! What I especially appreciate about Calleja’s sessions are the following:

She keeps it “fresh;” each lesson is different, and she’s able to adapt to whatever is feeling tight, or out of sorts. Her new approach to each session keeps me motivated – during the session, and afterwards. She is sensitive to my body’s strengths and limitations.

Because of her strong dance background, coupled with lots of Pilates training, she really hones in on proper alignment and form. You find muscles deep down in your core that you never, ever knew you had! In addition, because of her understanding of anatomy and musculature, she’s able to fine-tune my alignment to improve my performance, and explain to me the reason why.

And last but certainly not least, she’s engaging and fun to be around!

~Carole G.

I valued Calleja’s classes so greatly that I eagerly came to 2 classes per day 6 or 7 days a week. She applies her vast knowledge of kinesiology & physiology for her students’ benefit. Calleja prescribed movements to strengthen physical weaknesses that PTs & doctors did not recognize or treat.

She made kind, gentle, non-judgmental suggestions & corrections to refine my technique.

Calleja encouraged & inspired me to work hard to get stronger & become more capable!

~Fredda K.