Where to do pilates in Singapore
You want to stick to your fitness goals, but, ugh, you’re tired of the usual cardio routine at the gym. We feel you! Time to tell your treadmill, elliptical, or stationary bike you need a little break, and try a low-impact and calorie-sizzling workout instead. Like yoga, pilates offers a smorgasbord of benefits – including total body conditioning and building strength. Read on for our list of the best pilates studios in Singapore.
Upside Motion
Set within a minimalistic studio, Upside Motion offers a range of pilates workouts – a whopping eleven of them – to help you build strength and stability. Pick one to achieve that now-attainable body goal – Circuit Pilates is great for cardio endurance while Cardio Tramp Pilates provides minimal joint impact. Men, don’t scoff at what you may think is a girly activity – the classes for men are intensive full-body workouts and helps to enhance agility.
Upside Motion, 36 Armenian Street, #02-03, p. 6636 6859.
Sky Pilates
One of Singapore’s largest machine-based studios, Sky Pilates keeps classes small to ensure personalized feedback and focus on your personal needs. Aside from the usual matwork and reformer classes, the studio also offers TRX suspension training with pilates to challenge your core and endurance (while blitzing the fat). The clincher? It overlooks the treetops along Orchard to put your mind at ease.
Sky Pilates, #09-01 Forum (Office Tower), 583 Orchard Road, Singapore 238884, p. 6100 7597.
Pilates Fitness
Lauded as the first (and only) pilates studio that offers classes to suit specific lifestyle needs, Pilates Fitness offers weight-loss classes like the HIIT Pilates series, recuperation-specific sessions such as the Body Aches class, and even a couple pre-natal class (the first of its kind here) to allow parents-to-be to sweat it out together.
Pilates Fitness, 434 Telok Blangah Road, Singapore 098854.
Be free to move with Breathe Pilates’s reformer classes
Breathe Pilates
You can breathe easy here; this is a pilates studio that pays heed to your body’s needs. Mums-to-be can reduce back pain and strengthen pelvic muscles for smooth deliveries, while new mums can regain core strength while bonding with their newborn bubs. Or try something new – the Zenga (the only of its kind here) balances exercises on the mat and reformer for a more fluid and balanced body.
Breathe Pilates,#13-02,1 Marine Parade Central, Singapore 449408.
Core Fitness
At Core Fitness, you’ll find rehabilitation treatments coupled with pilates classes to help you recover from musculoskeletal injuries and conditions. The physio-pilates classes ($1,350 for 10 classes) will first kick off with a consultation so your therapist can best understand your needs. The pilates classes are also kept intimate (a ratio of 1:6) to ensure you’re given the utmost attention.
Core Fitness, Forum The Shopping Mall (Office Tower), #05-04, 583 Orchard Road, Singapore 238884.
COMO Shambhala’s Pilates Arc Class
COMO Shambhala
Step into the urban escape of COMO Shambhala and find a sense of tranquility. What sets it apart from other studios is its belief in the synergy of mind, body and spirit in each of its wellness classes. Single drop-in classes are $40 – perfect if you’re always on the go and can’t commit – while unlimited monthly rates are $300.
COMO Shambhala, Delfi Orchard, #06-01/02, 402 Orchard Road, Singapore 238876, p. 6304 3552.
The Pilates Flow
Forget about fancy-shmancy equipment and get down to the classics with The Pilates Flow. There’s no new-age pilates methods here – the trainers live and breathe the original teachings of Joseph Pilates himself. 10-session individual classes are $120 each while group ones are $30.
The Pilates Flow, #02-06, 2nd Avenue Junction, 733 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 269748, p. 6469 4126.
Focus Pilates
With two outlets in Orchard and Raffles Place, you can easily squeeze in a dose of mid-day rejuvenation with the studios’ lunchtime slots. Open and well-lit, the state-of-the-art studios are equipped with private pilates areas and physiotherapy rooms to aid you in the recovery of your injuries.
Focus Pilates, RB Capital Building (Royal Brothers), #08-00, 22 Malacca Street, Singapore 048980, p. 6235 3938.
PowerMoves Pilates’s breezy studio
PowerMoves Pilates
Tall, lush vegetation is the kind of view you get from the floor-to-ceiling windows at this calming, bright and airy studio, also one of the best-kept secrets of the fitness fraternity. Located in green spaces around Singapore like Bishan Park and Dempsey, PowerMoves’s studios offer a serene ambience and matwork or reformer sessions to suit your individual body needs and goals.
PowerMoves Pilates, 6 Dempsey Road, Singapore 249683, p. 6472 2221.
Pilates Bodyworks
Classes offered at this trusted studio suit everyone, from senior citizens (their eldest client is in her 80s!) to preggy mummies and kids. Need to target the flab? The cardio and sculpting workout will pave the way for a slim and slender bod. The studio also runs evening classes if you’re hoping to squeeze in a little me-time after work.
Pilates Bodyworks, 1 Finlayson Green, Singapore 049246, p. 6538 8922.
Donna O Shea Fitness
We get it – exercise after work or on a weekend can be quite a bummer. But how about working out in the comfort of your own living room? Personal trainer and mat pilates instructor Donna O’ Shea is a godsend especially if you’re pregnant, too tired to leave the house, or if you just can’t leave the kids. Take note though – travel charges do apply if you live outside of certain vicinities.
Donna O’Shea Fitness, p. 9231 1528, e. info@donnaosheafitness.com.