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Pilates at MINT: Strength, Alignment & Low-Impact Training for Every Body

At MINT, we offer a complete Pilates experience designed to build strength, improve mobility, and support long-term wellness. Whether you’re looking for the personalized attention of 1:1 Reformer Pilates Training or the community energy of Mat Pilates Classes, our instructors will help you move better, feel stronger, and create lasting results.

Our Pilates program blends mindful movement with functional strength, making it ideal for beginners, seasoned athletes, and anyone focused on improving overall wellness.

1:1 Reformer Pilates Training at MINT

Our private Reformer Pilates sessions are tailored to your body, your goals, and your preferred pace. Using specialized equipment — including the Reformer, Tower, Stability Chair, and other Pilates apparatus — these sessions create controlled, resistance-based movement that helps: Build deep, functional strength, improve alignment, flexibility, and balance, reduce injury risk and support injury recovery, enhance sports performance and everyday movement, and increase body awareness and mind–muscle connection.

Reformer Pilates is especially effective for individuals seeking personalized guidance, targeted strength work, or low-impact training that still challenges the whole body.

Private sessions are available by appointment.

Mat Pilates Classes at MINT

Our Mat Pilates classes are designed to strengthen your core, improve posture, and increase mobility using your bodyweight and small props. These classes are ideal for members looking for a dynamic, low-impact workout that complements strength training, cardio, and recovery.

In every class, you’ll move through sequences that help: Strengthen the core and stabilizing muscles, improve posture and spinal mobility, enhance coordination and control, build long-term mobility and flexibility, and support injury prevention and functional movement.

Mat Pilates offers a great balance of foundational training and full-body conditioning—all in a supportive, community-driven class environment. View our class schedule.

Why Pilates at MINT?

As Washington, DC’s wellness-focused gym, MINT integrates Pilates into a broader approach to recovery, mobility, and strength. Our programming supports sustainable training, helping members build strong, resilient bodies through mindful movement and expert instruction.

Whether you want individualized reformer work or energizing mat classes, our Pilates offerings help you move with confidence, strength, and ease.

Mat Pilates vs. Reformer Pilates at MINT

Mat PilatesReformer Pilates (1:1 Training)
Bodyweight-based, using small propsEquipment-based using Reformer, Tower & Stability Chair
Builds foundational core strengthOffers deeper, customizable resistance training
Improves posture, mobility & controlEnhances alignment and supports injury recovery
Great for all fitness levelsHighly personalized to your goals + movement patterns
Community class environment1:1 private instruction
Included with membershipAvailable by appointment

Meet our Instructors

Laura Trejo
Laura TrejoBarre, Yoga

Laura is one of the most credentialed instructors you will find. A 500-hour Yoga Alliance registered teacher, she brings training in vinyasa yoga, prenatal and toddler yoga, barre, mat, and reformer work, and a Yoga of the Heart certificate earned through study with Nischala Joy Devi at the Kripalu Center, a program designed to adapt yoga for people living with heart disease, cancer, and other health challenges. She is also a NASM-certified personal trainer with Corrective Exercise and Senior Fitness Specialist certifications, a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and a trained Reiki practitioner through the Center for Integrative Medicine.

Laura’s classes reflect everything that breadth of experience has taught her. She has a particular passion for working with athletes who want to use yoga to prevent or recover from sports-related injuries, students managing stress, and those with special needs. She believes deeply in the body’s innate ability to heal itself, and she uses yoga as a vehicle to support physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Her classes weave in deep relaxation exercises to cultivate a calm mind and a steady heart, and she makes yoga philosophy accessible by encouraging students to carry their practice into everyday life. Laura’s goal is clear: leave every student sleeping better, moving more freely, and feeling more resilient with every class they take.

Meg DiRuggiero
Program Director
Meg DiRuggiero
Program DirectorAdvanced Master Trainer/Pilates Trainer/Instructor

Meg DiRuggiero wears many hats at MINT and excels at them all. As Programming Director, she plays a central role in mentoring instructors and shaping the experiences that define MINT, all while showing up as one of the most talented instructors and Pilates trainers on the floor.

Meg is certified in the STOTT contemporary method for Pilates and through NASM for personal training, and brings expertise in TRX and functional strength training to her teaching. She was first drawn to Pilates for its emphasis on core strength and stability, and experienced firsthand how blending strength and flexibility can significantly reduce back and knee pain. That personal discovery became a professional conviction: training rooted in Pilates principles creates the most sustainable and effective workouts for everyone.

Behind her teaching philosophy is a personal story. An instructor whose engaging, supportive approach made a lasting impression early in Meg’s own practice continues to shape how she shows up for her clients today. She aims to be that same instructor, someone who challenges you while keeping every session approachable, welcoming, and enjoyable.

The numbers behind her experience are hard to ignore. Meg brings over 4,000 hours of one-on-one training and more than 5,000 hours of group class instruction to every session, with a client base spanning all ages and a wide range of abilities and limitations.

Sally Tyler
Sally Tyler

Sally Tyler is a Pilates and yoga instructor who brings a uniquely real-world perspective to the studio. As an attorney, published author, and policy professional, she understands firsthand the challenge of carving out time for movement in a demanding schedule. Her 50-minute Pilates and yoga classes are designed with exactly that in mind: efficient, purposeful sessions that help you dig deep, meet your goals, and get on with your day.

DC is full of busy people, and Sally is one of them. That shared experience makes her classes feel less like an obligation and more like a reset.

Her favorite piece of fitness advice comes from the great Arthur Ashe: “Start where you are, do what you can.” It is a philosophy that shapes everything about how she teaches and who she welcomes into her classes.