2008 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - First Place

Best Pilates Studio

The first studio to offer both ballet and Pilates programs at one location, Los Gatos Ballet and Pilates believes that physical fitness can transform both the body and the soul. Both ballet and Pilates target core muscles to develop flexibility and posture by improving overall fitness through body conditioning. The studio’s two 1,500-square-foot venues on Lyndon Avenue in Los Gatos feature state-of-the-art sprung floors and spring-resistive equipment.

-- Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 24, 2008


2007 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Staff Pick and Reader Survey Winner - First Place

Best Pilates Studio
The reformer, the trapeze table, the chair and the ladder barrel were all contraptions designed by Joseph Pilates in the 1920s to rehabilitate injured people. Then ballet dancers, like Los Gatos Pilates/Ballet owner Marcie Ryken, discovered the therapeutically strengthening benefits of Pilates exercises and have been using them for decades to build long, lean muscles. In the past 10 years, celebrities have caught on and made Pilates popular--studios in the South Bay dedicated to the technique are springing up almost as fast as yoga centers. You get addicted, said Ryken, who pointed out that low-impact, body-trimming, joint-stabilizing virtues of Pilates will do good for anyone. It's worked wonders for her since she's been doing it every day for 20 years.

— Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 26, 2007