Who We Are
Pilates House is a Pilates and movement studio on the Upper West Side. Our main focus is building a community by making each individual who walks through our doors feel better in the skin they are in. We incorporate other mind body modalities to get the most from your Pilates practice. The end goal is to build a solid foundation so you can take responsibility for your body and how it feels on a day to day basis. Our work can improve Injury, relieve chronic pain, improve pregnancy, increase athletic performance, correct foot problems or just allow you to find pleasure in being in your body. We will help you feel strong and aligned and at ease as you move through life.
ANNETTE FLETCHER
Owner and Director
Annette Fletcher is a mover, mother and lover of all things Pilates, dance and the human body. After graduating with a BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts in Miami and studying Pilates with Elaine Wright, she embarked on her Pilates career in NYC. She began Pilates House from her home on 74thStreet in 2005 while also dancing for choreographers such as Robert Battle, Ellis Wood, Heidi Latsky and Daniel Ezralow. She is certified in all apparatus through Pilates Institute of America under the tutelage of Frankie Puglisi. After opening Pilates House, Annette taught certifications in Mat and Apparatus for PIA, specializing on assisting Physical Therapists on how to utilize the Pilates work into their healing practices.
Annette is also certified by Yamuna Zake in Foot Fitness® which assists in restoring healthy foot function and Tom Meyer’s Anatomy Trains® for movement and fitness professionals. Her teaching is driven by the desire to find space, discover movement possibilities and trigger the natural high and awakening that comes from breathing and movement combined.
In this quick-paced, ever-changing landscape of technology and complete outsourcing of a human’s capability, she wants to impart on all she teaches how one’s own power of sustainability and care for the body will long outlive the newest version of Alexa.
“One should find movement that heals and energizes them.” – Paul Frediani friend and trainer