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Pilathon's Pilates Revolution: Community, Core Strength, & Special Events!

• Bryan The Botanist • Season 1 • Episode 32

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In Episode 32 of Sneaker Impact News, host Bryan the Botanist welcomes Natasha and Adriana from Pilathon, a renowned Pilates studio in Miami. They discuss the studio's history, celebrating their third anniversary at the Little River location, and the upcoming Members’ Appreciation Day on March 8th which includes a Pilates mat class and meditation sound healing session. The conversation spans Pilates’ benefits, its origins by Joseph Pilates, and its impact on various body types and injuries. They also highlight an upcoming sneaker drive collaboration between Sneaker Impact and Pilathon, supporting a charitable cause for footwear recycling and reuse. Tune in for a deep dive into Pilates, community building, and innovative health practices.

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Meet the Pilathon Team

Bryan The Botanist

Welcome back to Sneaker Impact News. I'm here with the lovely ladies from Pilathon Natasha and Adriana. Welcome ladies.

Pilathon

Thank you, Bryan. We're excited to be here.

Bryan The Botanist

Yeah. So guys, Pilathon are my friends. They're a local Pilates studio based in Miami, in Wynwood and in Little River. And Sneaker Impact is based in Little River. So they're just down the street. They're our neighbors. And I've been going Actually, for about the last 10 years, uh, to the Wynwood location off and on with Emily Bench, one of the founders and I recently with recently opened Little River. What was that? About a year or two

Pilathon

ago, actually, three years ago, we're coming up on our third anniversary in April.

Pilathon's Special Event Announcement

Bryan The Botanist

Awesome. So three years you've been a little river, um, and educating people about Pilates and the benefits. So I heard you have a special event next week. Tell us more. We

Pilathon

have a special event, um, on Saturday, March 8th. at 1130 a. m. It is going to be a mat class hosted by me, um, followed by a meditation sound healing. Um, it's for, it's a membership appreciation day and a celebrating women's international day. International women's day.

Bryan The Botanist

So that's next weekend, next Saturday?

Pilathon

Correct, yes. Which will

Pilathon's Location and Offerings

Bryan The Botanist

be the 8th? March 8th,

Pilathon

yes. March 8th, and it's at the Little River location. What's

Bryan The Botanist

the address?

Pilathon

8301 Northeast 2nd Avenue in Little River in front of the Citadel.

Bryan The Botanist

Across the

Pilathon

street from the Citadel.

Bryan The Botanist

Yeah, the Citadel is a place people go to like work and hang out and it's a big, lot of restaurants in there and cool things. Yeah, it's a

Pilathon

great place to go to before or after. Yeah, they have coffee, smoothies, all sorts of things. Yeah. And speaking of, during the event, we will have different goodies from different women owned businesses, including one from Doña Posada. Thank you. Across the street, there in the Citadel.

Bryan The Botanist

What do they do?

Pilathon

They make smoothies, they make pastries Desserts. They have an amazing breakfast sandwich that I get too often. So, yeah. The owner is Venezuelan, so a lot of the food is Venezuelan inspired. Pilathon is also founded by a Venezuelan woman, Emily Bench, so, you know, we thought it would be very, like a very natural relationship to have.

The Origins and Benefits of Pilates

Bryan The Botanist

Yeah, shout out to Emily Bench. She taught me so much over the years. I used to lead her Wynwood art yoga run with Cat Hayen and Bea Pernia and her husband Guillermo. And we used to go for runs throughout Wynwood, teaching people how to run with Chi running. Good form. Just like in Pilates, how you're supposed to, you know, keep your spine. Like, on the mat, right? And not cheat. Neutral spine. Neutral spine. So tell us about some of the benefits of Pilates and how it all got started.

Pilathon

Of course, turn

Bryan The Botanist

the mic if you don't mind a little closer. Just to

Pilathon

me,

Bryan The Botanist

if you're gonna this way. Okay.

Pilathon

Okay. So we do contemporary Pilates. We're all certified and trained. Most of us came through Emily's training, which she's fantastic trainer. Um, we're trained in all We have six apparatuses comprehensively, um, so we learn about anatomy, we have a physical therapist that partners with the training and teaches us about different, um, things that could be going on in the body that we might see within our clients so that we can best optimize, um, their experience and make sure that they're moving their body safely, um, first and foremost. Um, Joseph Pilates created Pilates, um, um, He is a man, which means, which means Pilates is not just for women. It's for men as well. Um, for anybody. Um, so he created Pilates. He had some ailments as a child and he was made fun of in school. And so he started to study animals in the wilderness and got a lot of inspiration through animal movement. So he then moved to, I believe, England and during World War ii. World War I World, world War I. Yeah, thank you. He, they put, he was placed into an intermediate camp because he was from Germany.

Bryan The Botanist

Mm-hmm

Pilathon

And he was seen as the enemy of the state. Correct. Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

Weren't they trying to recruit him

Pilathon

Anybody from Germany, they put them in a camp, in, in this camp. There were a lot of people who were sick and that's kind of where the first creation or idea for the reformer was built. He would take springs from spring beds. Hook them onto the bed and then he people were able to have movement in their body who maybe were bedridden, right? Because movement heals. We know that, right? So, um, you know, Pilates in a nutshell, we're moving our body in every direction, focusing on spinal articulation, breathing, core control, body awareness. So slow, I percent precise movements. Um,

Bryan The Botanist

mindfulness to

Pilathon

mindfulness, proprioception, proprioception. Yeah. Tongue tied. Yeah. Uh, so, you know, we, we, again, work with all body types. Everybody is welcome to, I've seen all ages. Um, You'll see a lot of different types of people coming into our studio and we focus again on just you know Moving the spine in every direction creating functional movement that will help you in your day to day Joseph Pilates never intended Pilates to be something where you're like Working the muscle to fatigue.

Bryan The Botanist

Okay,

Pilathon

we definitely will do that for you Our

Bryan The Botanist

abs and

Pilathon

glute class is what that's designed class.

Bryan The Botanist

Abs-Oh-Glutely.

Pilates for Everyone: Inclusivity and Rehabilitation

Pilathon

Correct. Yep Fitness oriented classes.'cause also I feel like a big misconception is that Pilates is just for fitness and Pilates is fitness and rehabilitation at the same time.

Bryan The Botanist

Okay. Yeah. I'm rehabilitating from herniated discs. Exactly. I have L four and L five herniated, so if you have any kind of injury,

Pilathon

yeah. Pilates would be a great place for you to start moving again safely and while the same time getting really strong. Yep. But it's not necessarily your traditional bootcamp class where you go and you, you know, kind of like beat your body into a six pack. You know, you just kind of do it slowly, gently, mindfully. Yeah, but you'll definitely see results. Um, that's not what I'm saying. Strengthens

Bryan The Botanist

a lot in the hips and in the lower back and in the core. We're desk warriors, all of

Pilathon

us, right? Like even if you don't work at a desk, you're probably hunched over a steering wheel, a cell phone, a baby, in my case, a Chihuahua. Um, so you know, we're, we're just. our society is becoming more and more slouched. We don't work like we're, I know everybody's so tall. Um, we don't, we're not cavemen anymore. So, uh, we're not doing the same movements with our bodies that we used to in today's society. And so we're trying to counter through Pilates. We're trying to counteract some of those bad posture that can lead to ailments in the body and the spine. Bad posture can inhibit many things, including your breath, hormones, um,

Bryan The Botanist

Yeah, I've noticed the breath is part of the central part of the class. Like from the very beginning, the very, at, at, before the class even, you have us start focusing on our breath before we do any movements. Yeah. And we carry that throughout the whole class.

Pilathon

You'd be surprised how many people are not breathing. in a day to day basis. Like, I've, I've actually asked my clients to kind of like, my students, I guess, to like, take note of the times when they're holding their breath. And they're like, I never realized that as I'm driving, I'm always holding my breath. And it has a really big impact on your health, both physically and mentally. Like, your body feels it's consistently under attack because you're not breathing. So that's like one of the things that Pilates does for you. It teaches you to connect your breath once again, which is something that we should naturally be able to do, right? Right. And I think it got worse. Since covid. Um, I think we just in general started to hold our breath because we were afraid to breathe. Right? We have masks. Oh, you're right. Yeah, it

Bryan The Botanist

got worse. And

Pilathon

I think it got worse. It definitely. Um, but yeah, I started all of my classes introducing you to Pilates breathing, which we breathe 3 60 laterally into our rib cage. And when we exhale, we engage the core. And then at the end of class, I switch you back, uh, to belly breathing, which is like the breathing that you should be doing on a day to day basis. Um, not chest breathing, that's shallow breath. Yeah, so there's different, you could, you could do, uh, breathe into your chest, your back, your belly, or your laterally into your ribcage, so. Um, we try to teach proper ways of breathing along with it because breath work is core work. If you're breathing properly, you're working your core.

Bryan The Botanist

You engage your diaphragm when you're exhaling. I learned in Qi running. Yeah.

Pilathon

Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

The yogic breath. Yeah, we see those,

Pilathon

those guys are, are who are super into breathwork and they just have killer abs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like, oh, I don't do anything but breathing. And it's like, hello?

Bryan The Botanist

Pilates will get you that six pack then. But it helps all abilities and I've seen all ages at the studio. I want to see more men. I, I've been going. I want to see Robin too. We have, we kind of have a, we have a piece in a mile. Joseph, Joseph wants, yeah. We have a couple, yeah. I mean, in the classes I've gone, I see mainly women, but I know you have other men besides me coming and you, I've seen people even in their seventies there. Yeah. I've seen people in their twenties. So all ages, all abilities. You don't have to be scared. Um, because you guys are really gentle to beginners, you know, I took my friend the other day Gina and she'd never gone before and you were teaching her the basics because she'd never been on a reformer

Pilathon

and actually one of the reasons why a lot of these people in their 70s are coming is because they've been coming. Does that make sense? Like they've been doing Pilates for a long time, so they continue doing their Pilates until they're older, older, older, older.

Bryan The Botanist

Certain cultures too, I've been more into it. Or is it an American thing?

Pilathon

Um, so he, so going back to the Joseph Pilates story, after he was released from the camp that he was in, he went back to Germany, and I think he owned a boxing gym, and then he was recruited by the American Boxing League, I could be messing up exactly what it was called, and then he moved here, so he moved to New York.

Bryan The Botanist

So it became a very, you know, American thing. And yeah, and that's kind

Pilathon

of like when it became, actually not even, I think that it more became widespread after he passed away. After he passed, no, the original name of the practice was called Contrology. Like it only became Pilates after he passed away and his disciples decided to name it after him. But the reason why it gained so much popularity is because his studio in New York was in 9th Avenue, very close to Lincoln Center, right? And a lot of ballerinas discovered that it was a great way to train their bodies while staying off their feet. Like, it's very low impact, so it wouldn't impact their joints, but they could still get really strong for their ballet. So that's kind of like Wow, I didn't know that. Yeah. Makes

Bryan The Botanist

sense. Ballet, you have to be so strong.

Pilathon

Yeah. You do. But at the same time, you have to protect your joints because you have to be on point and your hips have to do a lot of work. So if you're running You're putting more impact on your knees, ankles, hips, and that's exactly what they want to avoid. They want to have, like, really healthy joints to be able to dance. Dancing is an Olympic sport. I don't care what anyone says. Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

And we have a lot of runners that follow Sneaker Impact and are friends of ours with all the running stores we work with. So, like, Cobi Morales, who is the owner of iRUN. I know he's your friend, Adriana, and he's one of my best friends, too. And, um, he's been going, you know, for a while, and we're both really fast and accomplished runners, but We need Pilates to like work on our weaknesses and you know areas that were, you know Yeah, we're not strong because running is very lateral. I don't know. It's not lateral. It's straight

Pilathon

You're

Bryan The Botanist

just going straight forward. You're sagittal.

Pilathon's Class Offerings

Pilathon

You're staying in your sagittal plane, which is like your walking plane, right? So we always move in all three planes in class and

Bryan The Botanist

you take off your shoes and you have socks that are non slip So and I know that some of them I love the chair class. I know you have different classes. You have Pilates plus chair Pilates plus props.

Pilathon

Yeah, so we have Pilates, uh, Pilates props. And then we have abs and glute, which is the advanced class. We have sweet Pilates, which Beginner slash pregnancy. Beginner slash pregnancy, but also, you know, we, we take suggestions during class and what people feel. Um, and then we have chair and reformer. And then we have tower. Um, so tower, we just flip our reformers into like one long bed. And then there's a tower. Um, so it kind of mimics a half of a trap table, which you'll see in, yeah, the Cadillac tables, which you would see in mostly private classes. Um, and then we have tower and chair class.

Bryan The Botanist

Yep. Yeah, I, I like the, uh, the chair class because you do a lot of stuff for the Achilles and I recently had an Achilles surgery, two of them last year. So I'm back now though. I can run and slowly and, you know, smaller amounts but the Pilates has helped me, um, to do stuff that is really good for stretching it and strengthening it and Yeah, but you see a lot of different people coming there now. It's not just, you know, Um, it's not just people that are, um, wanting to get, you know, a certain look to their body. It's people in general. Um, so next step. It's for

Pilathon

everybody. Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

Yeah. So you're celebrating soon your three year anniversary next, next month in March, in April.

Pilathon

Correct. Yes.

Membership and App Information

Bryan The Botanist

And then you're doing member appreciation day. So how do people sign up for the membership and what type of specials do you have?

Pilathon

Yeah, so the membership appreciation day, they can, it's just for, just for members. So how do you become a

Bryan The Botanist

member?

Pilathon

So you become a member, um, through our website. Or downloading our app. Or downloading app, that's right, I have

Bryan The Botanist

the Pilathon app, yep, that's how you schedule your classes.

Pilathon

Yeah, actually, there, I told, I was telling everybody in class, I was announcing this in class today, and everyone's like, You guys have an app? I'm like, yeah, download it, what are you doing?

Bryan The Botanist

So you could register through the website, because I just use the app. Yeah,

Pilathon

you can register through the website, however, we're on our phones all day, like, just download the app. It's much easier. And it has our pictures, so you actually know who you're going to. And it has announcements, so you'll see, like, different announcements, if you have a sub for your class, or I love the photo of the instructor,

Bryan The Botanist

though, because you give a little background down there.

Pilathon

Yeah, there's a bio under our names. You can pay for things there. So you could, if, if you're a member, you can sign up through the app. Um, in general, if you want to try Pilathon, we do have, uh, the buy one, get one free promo for new clients, which is a good deal for a birthday

Bryan The Botanist

gift. Very reasonable.

Pilathon

It's a very good deal. Um, and then there's different, you could do membership where you do like so many classes per month. Or you could do, uh, my husband likes to do classes a month. Yeah. So you could do that. That's more the

Class Packs and Flexible Options

Bryan The Botanist

introductory package. Yeah. Yeah.

Pilathon

And then you could also just do class packs. Like my husband likes to do class packs because, you know, he doesn't want to commit every week to going. Yeah. He's in

Bryan The Botanist

San Francisco. He's right now.

Pilathon

He is. But, um, he typically comes every Saturday. So he's another guy that comes to class. You just haven't met him yet. Um, but yeah, it's, uh, there's different, different ways of signing up. And you can just

Location and Schedule Details

Bryan The Botanist

pop in if you're curious too, right? It's on Northeast second Avenue

Pilathon

and

Bryan The Botanist

82nd or 83rd street.

Pilathon

Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

83rd. We're

Private Classes and Special Programs

Pilathon

typically there in the mornings, maybe like. Give or take, you know, 30 minutes or so, but around like 7 to 11. And then typically, you know, we have that break in the midday, and then there's always somebody back at night. There's some evening classes too usually. Yeah, there's evening classes too, and if you ever want to do some extra learning or have more one on one attention, we also offer one on one sessions just for you. Private classes. If you want to expand your education, or if you have like an injury you want to work on. It's very popular among pregnant women. I don't know why. Uh, or I can understand like a lot of first time moms are very nervous about joining a group class, so they start through privates, you know, so we also offer that.

Bryan The Botanist

Yeah, I had a private class one time with Emily.

Spring Colors and Jump Board Classes

Pilathon

Yeah, it's a great way to bring awareness into the principles and what it's really about. Because the tendency is the first time you come, you want to add in really heavy springs and go really fast. Yeah, there's different colors

Bryan The Botanist

to the springs, like blue, red, yellow. And the

Pilathon

new one, a green. So you guys, you

Bryan The Botanist

guys tell us, you'd be like one red. Yeah. Yellow and red, or just blue. And it's cool, because it's different strengths. Yeah. And different parts of your body. And then you have the jump board class, which I haven't tried yet.

Pilathon

Where I'm going to do jump board this weekend.

Bryan The Botanist

Mm hmm.

Pilathon

Uh, 9 a. m., 10 a. m. It's, I do jump board every first Saturday of the month in Little River. And

Bryan The Botanist

that's where you're like pushing off the

Pilathon

foot

Bryan The Botanist

bar?

Sound Healing and Class Sizes

Pilathon

So there's an attachment, you put the foot bar down, and then there's an attachment that goes on to the foot plate, and then you, yeah, you jump off of it, it's like, so fun, it's like your inner child, and we do like, I do really fun ones, and everybody laughs at me, and Also a great way to jump and get cardio when you're on impact. Right, yeah, you're, you're getting cardio while lying on your back, I mean, you can't complain. Yep. Um, and then, yeah, it's really great for lymphatic drainage, bone density.

Bryan The Botanist

I always leave the class feeling very zenful, and I love how you end with the sound healing.

Pilathon

Yes.

Bryan The Botanist

And with our eyes closed, and you have us kind of put our knees open like this on the reformer and

Pilathon

on

Bryan The Botanist

the sound healing, I can hear it and feel it in my brain.

Pilathon

Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

And it like, it feels like it's detoxifying me. Well, think about it. How,

Pilathon

what's our percentage of water? 80 percent of our body is water? I mean. Maybe even more. Might be 90. Yeah. Don't quote me. Uh, but our body is mostly water. What happens to water when it vibrates?

Bryan The Botanist

Changes structure.

Pilathon

It, it moves. Moves,

Bryan The Botanist

yeah.

Pilathon

So, I mean, there's science behind the sound healing. You can feel it. The sound healing, yeah. It does

Bryan The Botanist

this like, almost siren effect where it goes, Zoom. Zoom. I know, even when I'm

Pilathon

doing it, I'm like, closing my eyes. Yeah, you can feel it. Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

It's very powerful.

Pilathon

Yeah. Um,

Bryan The Botanist

it's really cool. There's smaller classes of like, how many people? Five to ten people in a class.

Pilathon

Um, the, the max a class will have is eight. So it's very boutique, very, you know, which is good because we can give everybody the attention that they need. And, and modifications. Any class you're in, if something doesn't feel right, if you want it harder or easier.

Teacher Training and Qualifications

Bryan The Botanist

I'm the guy in the class who has all the injuries. You're not the only one. I'll be like, I had two MRIs in January, I had two Achilles surgeries last year, I've got two herniated discs, I have a partially torn labrum. And like, you're like, you guys are so considerate because the other people in the class, you know, I'll be like, oof, I'm not supposed to forward fold my, my chiropractor set, you know, like, so you guys are teaching me how to do other things instead of that. I

Pilathon

will say that a teacher's job is actually to teach you and help you modify. If a teacher is not helping you, or not correcting you, and not giving you modifications, that person's not a teacher, they're an instruction, an instructor who's just yelling out instructions. Do you want to tell them the difference between teachers and instructors? Yeah, how do

Bryan The Botanist

you become an instructor? Is it like 5, 000 hours or 1, 000? So, yeah, if you're

Pilathon

comprehensively trained, it's 550 to 600 hours. Yeah, yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

600 hours. About a

Pilathon

year and a half

Bryan The Botanist

training. a half.

Pilathon

Ish. Through a teacher program. That's how long it took me. Yeah. Through the teacher program,

Bryan The Botanist

not just by taking classes. No, You're actually in a teacher training.

Pilathon

You have like, Six, so at Pilathon we had six weekends where we had to go and learn the entire weekend and then we had to have a hundred, or I, at least I had to have a hundred and fifty observation hours and if you can believe it, that's actually the hardest part because as a Pilates teacher you have a lot of energy and you are required to sit still and quiet. And not talk. Oh, so you're

Bryan The Botanist

like shadowing an instructor. Yes,

Pilathon

you are. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Pilathon Community and Events

Bryan The Botanist

Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Well, um, Pilathon has built up a big name in Miami. Uh, it's that light blue, baby blue, sky blue color scheme. Yeah.

Pilathon

Yeah. It's like teal turquoise. We call it Pilathon blue. Pilathon blue. Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

Yeah. And they are very welcoming people. And we, we've done things like yoga too there and you can do mat Pilates at home. But if you, like some of my friends who had done mat Pilates. They'd never tried a reformer and if you haven't ever been on a reformer, it's really cool because you know, they teach you

Pilathon

how to

Bryan The Botanist

Holds you and yeah, you teach you how to glue your spine like for me It was I keep the pelvis down you put your hands on the pelvis feel like, you know The movement of the arm what they call like, what is that? pelvic tilt and the floor

Pilathon

Yeah, well, yeah, I would like to like tilt your pelvis towards your chest and print your lower back. So, we peel off one

Bryan The Botanist

vertebrae at a time, peel down, try to

Pilathon

teach neutral spine awareness because a lot of us don't know even what neutral spine means, right? One last thought. It's all about this spine. Yeah. I just, but we need a closing special message. Yeah. We need a closing. Yeah. So you mentioned in class that you need modifications, right. And that, you know, you're, you said something about like worrying about other people in the class.

Bryan The Botanist

Well, I'm definitely, some people are more flexible than others. That's No,

Pilathon

but no, hon. One of the best community, it is hands down the best community I've ever been a part of. Everybody that comes to the studio is passionate and kind and if somebody needs a modification, nobody in the room is judging. They, they'll take your time, help that person, they're new. Everybody is great, like that's the best part about. Being, I was a student first. You don't have to be

Bryan The Botanist

anxious. Yeah. I was a student first. Yeah. You were a student, which is why're at hon. Yes.

Pilathon

Which is why we're throwing a member appreciation day because we appreciate such a beautiful C community.

Bryan The Botanist

Yeah, yeah.

Pilathon

Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

So next Saturday, March 8th, and it, what time is it?

Pilathon

1130.

Bryan The Botanist

1130, okay.

Pilathon

Bring your own mat. Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

Okay. Don't have, it's gonna map Pilates. We don't have planning

Pilathon

for everyone, unfortunately. Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

Yeah. And it's gonna be on, it's on Instagram, you're, yeah.

Pilathon

Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

At Othon? Yeah. Yes. P-I-L-A-T-H-O-N, like marathon. It's

Pilathon

a play on Pilates and Marathon. Yeah, yeah. I love it. Yeah.'cause I'm a marathon runner,

Bryan The Botanist

so right? Yeah. Yeah. Emily makes so much sense. She, she's a runner too. Yeah, that's right. She is. She likes to run into the Viva vivo five fingers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she does. Yeah, she's a barefoot runner. That's awesome. Yeah, it makes you really strong. I mean, Emily is a testament to that and all the instructors. You know, I'm doing it to rebuild my body after years of punishing it in the, I mean, I'm a cheer runner, but when you race it's a different thing, you know? Yeah. Racing is like what the horses do on the track, you know? Correct. The horses, you know, the horses get beat up too, you know, so Yeah.

Pilathon

But the difference being is that they have for limbs to run on, we have

Bryan The Botanist

too. True That is true. There's a lot of impacts from Point. Yeah, there's a lot of impact in racing especially, but running too, but also you get all types of people there. Just people that are interested in reclaiming their health or that have just been. learned about, you know, from online or just, you know, fell in love with it because they discovered it somehow, but there's all types of people there from athletes to non athletes and I fell in love with it and my orthopedic surgeon said do it. He's like Pilates is the best thing you can do for your body. including chiropractic, going to Pilates, you know, because yoga is potentially not the best thing. I'd have to modify a lot. I can, I can do yoga, but I have to be very careful because some of the, like the forward folding for me is rough right now. But on Pilathon, I can do the things, many different things on that Reformer that just protect my body. Um, yeah, I love it.

Pilathon

Yeah, if you have something going on, ask your doctor if it's right for you and we're ready for you.

Bryan The Botanist

Awesome. Well, thanks for coming by today, ladies. Do you have any closing thoughts you want to leave us with? I know we got to inspire them hopefully with Pilates today.

Pilathon

The community part was my inspiring thought. Yeah, that's the inspiring thing. Yeah.

Bryan The Botanist

It's a beautiful community, positive. I always, I go there, I like to go to the 7am or 8am classes before work. And, uh, sometimes I'll be a little groggy and I'll get there and it just, I feel so good. And I just, I leave there feeling positive. Invigorated. Invigorated, yep. So come as you are.

Pilathon

Yeah.

Sneaker Drive Partnership

Bryan The Botanist

Yeah. Awesome, ladies. Thanks for coming by the Sneaker Impact studio today and we'll. Oh yeah.

Pilathon

Wait, we didn't say anything about the sneaker drive. What are we doing? Okay,

Bryan The Botanist

let's

Pilathon

do

Bryan The Botanist

it.

Pilathon

Okay, we're here at Sneaker Impact because Pilathon is going to partner with Sneaker Impact and do a sneaker drive and we're really excited about it. We're going to launch it on the membership appreciation day, uh, slash International Women's Day. Um, yeah, yeah, there's men signed up like it's not. Yeah, you can come celebrate. All

Bryan The Botanist

men are welcome to. Yeah.

Pilathon

Um, so we're, we're really excited. We'll have some instagram posts and some other information about a flyer

Bryan The Botanist

out next to a flyer. Yeah, we'll be promoting it on our instagram and you can bring your shoes of any condition. Footwear that'll go to a well needed home in Haiti and other countries where these shoes live a second life after they're cleaned and repaired

Pilathon

Yeah, and some shoes are made into

Bryan The Botanist

yoga mats and flooring. So yeah, any condition.

Pilathon

Awesome

Bryan The Botanist

Thank you ladies for coming by and shout out to Pilathon guys Check them out on Instagram and their website Pilathon. com and yeah, well, thank you for coming ladies.

Pilathon

Thank you. Thank you

Bryan The Botanist

All right. Bye guys

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