In the alley between 34th & 35th, centered between Union & Pike! You can view a customized map to our real door at the bottom of this page.

We do not have an entrance on 34th Ave.

We recommend the angled parking on Union St. From Union, walk north into the alley east of 34th Ave. Our bright yellow door is north of the Glassybaby hotshop, on your left. Ring the doorbell at the right of the yellow door for your appointment if the door is locked.

No-shows or late cancellations (fewer than 36 hrs in advance) will still take a session credit from your account. If there are more than 36 hours until your appointment, please cancel & rebook in Momence as early as possible.

Thank you for respecting our instructors’ and other clients’ time! As is the industry standard, BCP teachers are paid their full rate for no-shows and late cancellations.

In private training, your teacher will always tailor your sessions to be both safe & appropriately challenging for your own individual fitness level & needs! At your first visit, plan to tell us about your goals & interests in Pilates, other movement/exercise you do or used to do, and health conditions or injury history. Teachers usually use verbal & hands-on cueing; simply let us know if you prefer not to be touched.

Grip socks are required. Please wear clothing that allows your body to move comfortably (no sharp zippers, which damage the equipment).

Be sure you’ve eaten recently, though not immediately prior to your session. Don’t forget your water bottle!

For clients choosing to wear masks, we recommend K- / N95 masks, or any other mask which does not have material directly touching your mouth while you exercise.

Short answer: YES. Pilates is infinitely customizable for just about every body.

Longer, more specific answer:

The beauty of the Pilates method is that it’s grounded in principles that apply to people of any ability or fitness level: Control, Breath, Concentration, Flow, Precision, & Centering (moving from your core).

• For any person looking for a consistent, full-body workout to gain strength, mobility, and coordination, you will absorb these principles through exercises that build progressively over time, at an entry point for anyone. You’ll feel and move better within weeks, no matter your baseline fitness level.

• For seniors or those with arthritis, osteoporosis, reduced mobility, or similar, Pilates is safe, accessible, and has particular advantages. You can improve strength and mobility to support your joints, and improve your coordination & balance. You can get a full-body workout without any movements contraindicated for your diagnosis. Plus, Pilates actually feels good, which makes it easier to show up consistently!

• For athletes & intermediate to advanced outdoor recreationalists, these principles are embodied through challenging exercises tailored to your needs, enabling you to perform at your highest level. Uniquely efficient muscle recruitment and precise agility will become your superpowers!

• For those recovering from injuries (cleared by a physical therapist to return to exercise), Pilates can guide your body back into balance, rewrite the neurological connections broken during injury, and help you get back to your strength & range of motion.

• Pilates can be extremely beneficial for pregnant/postpartum people cleared for exercise by their doctor, and our postpartum clients have had great things to say about their experience with BCP during & after pregnancy. They’ve even told us that their Pilates experience became an asset in childbirth. Please let us know if you are at any stage of pregnancy or breastfeeding.

Many members do! To reserve a timeslot for a standing appointment, email hello@backcountrypilates.com to ask for the current calendar of available times. Please review the following policies regarding standing appointments:

• If your schedule allows daytime attendance, please leave evening appointments available for those whose work schedule limits their attendance options.

• Clients with standing appointments must cancel any appointment they cannot attend as early as possible in Momence, to allow others to book, and should book a make-up appointment within the week before or after the missed date, if possible. If that doesn’t work, no problem; see the next FAQ item for details.

• If your regular teacher will be away or unavailable for your appointment, we will provide another teacher or let you know as far in advance as possible to reschedule.

• Clients who frequently cancel standing appointments will be asked to return to ad-hoc calendar booking. 

For travel longer than a week, email the studio with your dates. We will freeze your membership for the length of time you are away- no freeze fees, ever. For travel around a week or less, book one or two make-up appointments in Momence the week before and after your trip to use up your monthly appointment credits.

If you have unused credits at the end of your membership month, they will roll over, with the maximum being your monthly credit allotment. For example, if you are a 4/month member, no more than 4 credits will roll over.

The Pilates industry is changing quickly! Many studios are limited to offering only group reformer classes, and some teachers are now only trained on the mat and/or reformer. As a fully-equipped Pilates studio with comprehensively certified staff, BCP teaches with the full Pilates system: reformer, tower, chair, mat, cadillac/trapeze table, ladder barrel, and other apparatuses & props. Most sessions utilize multiple apparatuses.

Currently, we are a private- & duet-only studio. While we do enjoy a good group class, working across multiple apparatuses 1-on-1 with a very experienced teacher who knows your body’s history, needs, habits, & preferences offers clients a depth of study, physical accessibility to all, and individualized training that cannot be replicated in a group fitness setting. The client-teacher relationship is what makes BCP special, and it’s why our clients have stayed with us!

• We kindly request that you please cancel your appointment if you are sick. When our teachers get sick, it necessitates rescheduling and subbing for many of your neighbor’s appointments.

• Clients should always sanitize their hands upon arrival.

• The apparatuses will always be thoroughly cleaned between lessons.

  To keep clients with compromised immune systems safe, and to minimize cancellations due to sick teachers for the whole studio community, we’ve adjusted our policies around COVID recovery time as follows:

  If you’ve had…

  • known COVID exposure (Close quarters, unmasked, for an hour or more): reschedule any appointments that are booked within 5 days (the incubation period).

  • COVID symptoms, Day 0-3, with a negative test: reschedule for later in the week, or further out. Tests are often negative in the early days.

  • a positive COVID test: wait until EITHER 10 days after the first day with symptoms to return to the studio, OR 2 days after symptoms subside, if they last longer than 10 days.

    • If you’d like an N95 mask or would like your instructor to wear one for any reason, please don’t hesitate to ask!

Only if you bring us a moving van for the reformer!

But actually, Studio A has a 16-ft wide garage door, allowing us to open the entire east wall to the fresh air during the warmer months! It’s your choice whether you’d like to keep the wall open or closed. Either way, you’ll feel like you’re doing pilates in the trees as you watch the evergreen branches waving across our skylights.

We’re grateful to Seattle-based photographer Haley Freedlund for capturing the feeling of our PNW wilderness-inspired studio!