Best Pilates in Boston: Endurance Pilates and Yoga
Best Pilates in Boston: Endurance Pilates and Yoga
For over 30 years, Julie Erickson has been teaching classical Pilates in Boston — long before it became a fitness trend. Endurance Pilates and Yoga, her South End studio, is built on an unbroken lineage tracing directly back to Joseph Pilates himself. If you’re searching for the best Pilates in Boston, this is where that search ends.
The studio works with every kind of body: Olympic athletes and marathon bombing survivors, women in the final days of pregnancy, people rebuilding after spinal injuries, and complete beginners who have never set foot on a reformer. What they share is a teacher who has seen it all and knows exactly what each body needs.
Why Endurance Pilates and Yoga Is Different
Most Pilates studios in Boston offer a version of the method. Endurance offers the real thing.
The studio trains on authentic Gratz equipment — the original apparatus designed to Joseph Pilates’ exact specifications, used by serious practitioners and rarely found outside of classical studios. Every session is taught in small groups or privately, with the kind of personalized attention that gets results.
Endurance is also home to the only Tower class in Boston — a classical apparatus that most studios don’t even offer. It’s one of many reasons that clients who train here develop differently than those who train elsewhere.
Julie’s lineage runs through teachers including Sari Mejia Santo, Brooke Siler, ahnnd Mejo Wiggin — among the most respected classical Pilates educators working today. That direct line to the source matters. It means what’s being taught here is Pilates as it was designed, not a diluted version of it.
Pilates for Rehabilitation and Injury Recovery
Julie has built much of her career at the intersection of Pilates and physical recovery. She has worked with:
- Boston Marathon bombing survivors rebuilding strength and mobility
- Clients recovering from serious spinal injuries and paralysis
- Post-surgical patients returning to movement
- Athletes working around chronic injury
If you’ve been told Pilates might help your recovery — or if you’re skeptical that it could — Julie is the teacher to work with. She will meet you exactly where you are.
Classes, Equipment, and Scheduling
Endurance offers private sessions, small group classes, and the signature Tower class — a classical apparatus experience unavailable anywhere else in Boston. Sessions are designed with intention, not filled to capacity. You will be seen and corrected here.
The studio is located at 1636 Washington Street in Boston’s South End, easily accessible from the Back Bay, Roxbury, and surrounding neighborhoods.
Begin Your Practice
Whether you’re new to Pilates or returning after years away, Endurance Pilates and Yoga is the right place to start. You’ll be taught by someone who has devoted her life to this method — and who has the results to show for it.
