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About EHS Pilates

EHS Pilates is a neighborhood studio internationally recognized as the place where trainers train. The fully equipped studio located in the old historic Greenblat machine shop in the heart of the Mission is women owed and operated.

EHS offers a large array of classes, rehabilitative Pilates, Acupuncture, Massage ,and Chiropractic services. EHS also offers a wide variety of continuing education classes, and is the Bay Areas premier presenter of master teachers in the body mind arts.

The staff at EHS believe that a strong community is a vital part of individual health and continually strives to serve the neighborhood it calls home.



A bit of History...

EHS Pilates, formerly Ellie Herman Studios was founded in 1993 and changed hands to Nancy Myers and Tracey Sylvester in 2007. At that time EHS Pilates was born.

Who is Ellie?

Ellie Herman is an internationally recognized Pilates instructor, author, and inventor.

Based in the Bay Area for more than twenty years, Ellie Herman founded Ellie Herman Studios first in San Francisco, then in Oakland in 2000, and moved to New York to open her third studio in Park Slope, Brooklyn in 2005.

Ellie Herman travels regularly to San Francisco to train instructors and to teach professional workshops at EHS Pilates Institute.

Ellie Herman has authored eight Pilates books including; Pilates for Dummies, Pilates Props Workbook, Pilates Workbook on the Ball, and a series of five self-published professional books; Pilates Mat, Reformer, Cadillac, Wunda Chair and Springboard.

In 1999, Ellie Herman invented a piece of Pilates equipment called the Pilates Springboard which is manufactured and distributed by Balanced Body, Inc.

Residing in Brooklyn, Ellie Herman now runs the only existing Ellie Herman Studio. Her new website is www.elliehermanpilates.com.