The Method

When it comes to delivering phenomenal fitness results, no other barre practice can match what we offer. Our exercises are carefully crafted to target and sculpt muscles in ways you’ve never experienced before. Our trainers are not just experts, they are also passionate individuals dedicated to helping you achieve your fitness goals.

Here’s WHY:

Our innovative cardio and strength training sequences use your own bodyweight as resistance and a ballet barre for support.
Using our proprietary formula, your muscles are challenged to the maximum stimulus possible, and your body transforms in as few as 8 workouts.
No two workouts are ever the same. You’ll never plateau.
Our top-notch trainers offer personalized attention in a group setting. Not only will they motivate you to achieve your goals, but they will also ensure proper alignment and positioning to keep you safe so you can tap into your unlimited potential.
It is a fitness experience that will leave you feeling like you can take on the world!

RESULTS YOU CAN EXPECT

Beautiful, strong, toned muscles like a dancer
All day calorie burn due to increased lean muscle mass that will boost your metabolism
Increased endurance from our cardio sprints
A supple body with improved flexibility
Confident posture and full body alignment
Improved bone density from our weight baring exercises
Mind-body connection – Our program encourages clients to increase body awareness and concentration

Warm-Up

Bicep Curls in Wide Second

Step your feet wide, slightly turned out.
Bend knees deeply and lower your hips.
Lift heavy weights up towards your shoulders and down towards the thighs

Barre Tips: Try to keep hips around knee level. Keep elbows tight to ribcage and shoulders down to target the biceps and work with proper posture.

Targets: Thighs, Biceps

Push
ups

Start with your arms long, hands in line with your shoulders/chest.
Inhale: Bend your elbows and bring your body towards the floor.
Exhale: Press your body back to the starting position.

Barre Tips: Engage your glutes and core to keep your spine neutral. If you can’t find a full range of motion or keep a neutral spine, lower to your knees (keeping your weight slightly in front of and off the knee joint).

Targets: Full Body

Tricep Kickbacks

Leg back. Bend your front knee and lean forward.
Rest one weight on your front thigh, and pull your working elbow back.
Press the weight behind you and back to your hip, keeping your elbow still.

Barre Tips: Slightly turn out your back leg and press your heel into the floor. Keep your hips and shoulders square as you move the weight, stopping at the hip every time.

Targets: Triceps

THIGHS

Curtsy

Start with feet in a narrow-V (heels together, toes 2-3 inches apart).
Bend your knees, hinge from your hips, inclining your torso forward.
Pop one heel high, slide that leg back behind you so that back toes and front heel are about in line. Pulse!

Barre Tips: Make sure your front knee stays still, and your back knee moves towards the floor directly underneath your hip. The majority of your weight should be over the front leg.

Targets: Outer Thighs, Glutes, Abs

Upright V

Start in a narrow-V (heels together, toes 2-3 inches apart).
Bend your knees, lift your heels to a hover (about 1 inch) off the floor.
Pulse making sure your knees track directly over your toes.

Barre Tips: Maintain neutral alignment, with ears over shoulders. Keep heels hovered (not high) to ensure your deepest range of motion.

Targets: Thighs and Core

Wide Incline

Start about a forearms distance away from the barre. Step your feet out slightly wider than your hips.
Take an underhand grip, bend your elbows to incline your chest forward.
Sit your hips back and down. Pulse!

Barre Tips: Feet are slightly turned out. (Don’t force it!) Try to keep hips at knee level for maximum burn!

Targets: Thighs, Hamstrings, Glutes

GLUTES

Pretzel

Start on one forearm, knees bent 90 degrees in front of your hips.
Slide your top working leg back so your knee is in line with your spine.
Engage your abs to maintain neutral spine as you flex your working foot and press it back.

BARRE TIPS: Keep your working knee lower than your foot. Smaller movements are better here!

TARGETS: Glutes, hamstrings, ab

Mermaid

Start on your forearm, legs bent about 3/4 length.
Lift top leg about hip height and tap toes front and back.
Add top arm moving in opposition for more cardio and ab work.

Barre Tips: Keep abs engaged and emphasize the lift of the leg to target glutes more.

Targets: Glutes, Obliques

Side Forearm Glutes

Place one forearm down on the barre.
Stretch the top leg long, keeping the abs engaged.
arm,Add top arm reaching toward your toes as you lift and away as you lower.

Barre Tips: Think of lengthening the leg—longer is better than higher in this case.

Targets: Glutes, Obliques

ABS

Scissors

Lay down. Start with legs extended long above hips.
Lower one leg at a time.
Lift chest and add a twist towards the incoming leg.

Barre Tips: Maintain neutral spine. Try to keep shoulder blades hovered off the floor the whole time.

Targets: Glutes, hamstrings, abs

Round Back Abs Forearm

Start on the floor, both forearms down. Round your spine so that you feel a deep C-curve.
Lift legs off the floor.
Rock your hips under, depending the C-curve.

Brre Tips: Focus on moving from the core rather than moving the legs. Smaller movements are better here. Try to keep legs relaxed so that they act as weights for the abs.

Targets: Transverse Abdominals (deep core muscles)

Forearm Plank

Forearms down. Elbows under shoulders, nose over thumbs.
Tuck toes and lengthen legs long.
Pull abs in and lower hips to shoulder height. Bend one knee at a time.

Barre Tips: Keep hips still as you bend knees. Drop shoulders out of your ears to ensure proper posture.

Targets: Shoulders, Core, Glutes

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