Catherine Wu’s Method

I teach Pilates in New York — mostly private sessions, and small group classes across studios in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

I'm fully trained through Balanced Body's comprehensive program — a leading contemporary Pilates method — under master teacher Ann Toran, who pioneered the group class format that much of modern Pilates is built on. Teaching since 2024. Before movement, I studied the mind — I hold a master's in psychology — and it shapes everything about how I teach. I don't believe you can change a body without paying real attention to the person inside it.

I've worked with bodies of all kinds — from age 8 to 80, through pregnancy, and alongside those moving with lower back discomfort. Every body arrives somewhere different, and the work begins by meeting it there.

The work begins with the body: strength, length, control, ease. Done well, it changes more than how you move.