Springwater Pilates

I am additcted to Pilates after working w/​Sally Kohnstamm here at Springwater Pilates for the past 4+ years. The studio itself has a peacefulness to it that puts your mind in the right place to work with your body. Her equipment/​reformers are top of the line (all brand new) which makes it so nice to have all the movements on the machines be so fluid and smooth. My posture has improved and my core has been strengthened through this method. I tend to get bored in «exercise classes» hense the beauty of pilates is that your actions & motions alter with each session. I highly recommend this studio! I don’t know the other instructors, but she speaks highly of them all, so I’m sure you can’t go wrong w/​whoever you work w/​here! Enjoy!

I was lucky enough to take a reformer class from Vicki Ratzlaff at Springwater Pilates and it was a wonderful experience! Vicki is attentive and thorough — she made my first Pilates experience fun and accessible. Vicki’s style of teaching was friendly, warm & informative. I was nervous about my first time in a Pilates studio but once I met and spoke with Vicki I felt completely at ease. She very clearly explained what we’d be doing and what our goals were, all the while checking in to make sure we were comfortable yet challenged. The studio is a nice space — private yet filled with natural light. Unfortunately, because I live in SF so I won’t be able to take classes from Vicki on a regular basis but if I lived in Portland I would! Vicki approached my first Pilates experience as a way to introduce me to something that changed her life for the better and to give me a foundation for when I started looking for classes in San Francisco. Thank you Vicki & Springwater Pilates!