Built for one body at a time.
Stillwater Pilates & Strength is a one-on-one Reformer and strength studio in the Mill District. Every session is coached, and every plan is written for the person in front of it.
Maya Linden
“I opened Stillwater to be the studio I wanted when I started: small, unhurried, and built around the person on the Reformer, not a class plan.”
- 8 years instructing Mat and Reformer Pilates
- Comprehensive Pilates certification, plus strength coaching
- Background in dance and physiotherapy clinics
- Works with posture, back pain and return-to-exercise clients
- Every session one-on-one, never a shared floor
Three principles, every session
Not a fixed class script. A way of moving that gets applied to whatever your body brought in that day.
Flow
Using breath to embody physical space: feeling through each motion and letting the body lead the pacing.
Precision
Ensuring alignment and using every joint to its maximum potential, so effort goes exactly where it should.
Control
Embodying each motion to ensure proper muscular activation and support through the whole range.
Autonomy, then everything else
The studio exists to build autonomy in your body, so you can build the life you want. In practice that means training for the things you actually do.
- Building muscle and lasting strength
- Playing sports without paying for it later
- Practising the hobbies you actually care about
- Getting through long days of work upright
- Coming back from an injury with confidence
“I have seen with my own clients how a personalised approach and a mix of movement can build a happier, stronger, more mobile body.”
A lot of clients come in with a sore back or a posture that’s been creeping forward for years. Maya works with them through personalised movement and alignment work: finding stability first, then loading it.
Find the studio
Address
220 Mill Street
Riverside, ON
Sessions
By appointment, scheduled around your week
Inquiries
Let's start with an assessment.
Two things to include: what's the problem, and where you want to be. You'll get a starting point back.
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