My Body My Pilates

My Body My Pilates is a Tokyo studio founded by Helen Zhang, who turned to Pilates in her late twenties after knee pain made everyday movement difficult, and found that a dedicated practice resolved her pain within about a month while improving her overall fitness. That personal turnaround led her into more than a decade of teaching and, eventually, into running instructor-training programs in both English and Chinese. The studio goes beyond reformer work, offering a fuller range of equipment-based classes including Cadillac, chair, mat and Gyrokinesis, all taught in English in small groups capped at around five people for individualized attention.

Its approach treats Pilates as a mind-body discipline as much as a physical one. The instructor team includes specialists in prenatal and postnatal care and clinical rehabilitation, and the atmosphere is described as warm and internationally minded.