About Scarsdale Pilates - Scarsdale Pilates

About Scarsdale Pilates

We are fully committed to providing top customer service. At Scarsdale Pilates it’s our goal to help you feel the best you possibly can in your body. We will ensure you walk out of our doors feeling stronger, leaner, more flexible and more aligned after every single visit.

Founded in 1998, formerly the Center for Movement, this flagship studio was one of the first in Westchester to offer Classical Pilates. It quickly developed a reputation for its welcoming atmosphere, excellent instructors, results oriented program and commitment to the principles of Classical Pilates.

Continuing in the same vein, Scarsdale Pilates provides true Classical instructors in the original tradition of Joseph Pilates himself. Newly fully updated; the studio boasts 6 Gratz Reformers, 2 full-length Cadillacs, 2 Ped-O-Pulls and 8 Tower Mats. Additionally, we teach using our Wunda Chairs, Small Barrels, Swedish Bars, Spine Correctors, Electric Chair and all forms of Pilates small apparatus. We also have Gyrokinesis as a special add on upon request.

Clients have been coming for over two decades and continue to remain loyal because of the excellence of our classically trained teachers.

“Physical fitness is the first requisite to happiness”

Joseph Pilates

Meet Our Owner

Renee Weingrad

Born and raised in Manhattan in the world of musical theater, Renee spent her childhood studying at the Steps School of Dance. She moved to California and obtained her BA from Stanford University. She studied dance in the School of Humanities and Sciences along with history, anatomy and physiology. In LA, she danced under Maria Del Bagno and Cindera Che of the Beverly Hills Playhouse.

After moving back to start her family, she exhausted many fitness programs to rebuild her abdominals after multiple C-sections. It was only through her discovery of Classical Contrology in 2008 that she was able to restore her core strength. She joined the Center for Movement, received her 550 hour certification, and became a devoted believer in the method and it’s mind-body connection. In 2020 she was thrilled to assume ownership of the studio and its 20 plus year tradition of excellence in Classical Pilates established by former owners, Elle Jardim and Donna Singer.

She is thankful to have found a career doing what she loves and sharing that love with people from all walks of life. She also keeps busy raising her 3 active children, one lazy bulldog and one hyper boxer in Scarsdale, New York.

Additional Pilates/Movement education includes:

– THE BRIDGE PROGRAM AT THE ART OF CONTROL UNDER 2ND GENERATION TEACHER SIMONA CIPRIANI, FORMER STUDENT OF ROMANA KRYZANOWSKA.
-ONGOING WORKSHOPS WITH 2ND GENERATION TEACHER BLOSSOM LEILANI CRAWFORD, FORMER ASSISTANT TO KATHY GRANT AT NYU.
-THREE SEASONS OF PILATES AT THE PILLOW SPONSORED BY THE PILATES SOURCE UNDER ELAINE EWING AND SEAN GALLAGHER.
– 250 HOUR TEACHER CERTIFICATION AT YOGA HAVEN OF WESTCHESTER UNDER OWNER/ FOUNDER BETSY KASE.
-AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF PILATES METHOD ALLIANCE (PMA)

Meet Our Instructors