About Playhouse Pilates
For over 25 years Charlyn Huss d’Anconia, MA, NCPT, DHS, has been teaching movement and Pilates. Her own struggles with scoliosis and pain from childhood inspired her to begin a Pilates practice and discover its life changing effects. Charlyn opened Playhouse Pilates in 2007 on the belief that she could help people of all age and stages transform their health and lifestyle through the practice of Pilates.
Since 2007, Playhouse Pilates has specialized in Private and Semi-Private sessions in a welcoming setting for people of all ages and stages of life for whole body|mind conditioning, wellness and better living. This Studio model provides an excellent space to focus on a seriously good Pilates Practice with a good amount of play to make it fun; something often missing in a traditional ‘workout’.
Though the South Pasadena location closed in summer 2020, our products and services have relocated to various locations in Pasadena and online. Charlyn continues in private practice, and in referral and partnership with other practitioners, to provide high quality services, programs and products to our beloved San Gabriel Valley community and beyond with life-long solutions for exercise, body contouring, nutrient assimilation, health and wellness.
With the pandemic, some dramatic changes came about for Playhouse Pilates. We went live with online classes on March 18, 2020 and have not looked back. Being unable to see clients in-person due to shut-downs in California our shift to online programming continues and now even outdoors, weather permitting! Our teachers have disbursed to pursue their own path, so if you need to get in touch with anyone previously affiliated with us, let us know and we'll do our best to connect you.
Being in solo practice put our extremely popular focused 45 and 90-Day-Great-Body Challenges on hold but, they are getting an amazing makeover and restructuring to accommodate the now normal with both online and in-person offerings and an array of new products and services in 2024.
This is possible because of a new partnership and business venture we are entering into. Since just before the Pandemic broadsided our world, Charlyn was deep into developing a new program inspired by Pilates but limited to it. PHP has been hosting this new method and apparatus development privately and exclusively with online classes and in-person sessions and we are now getting ready to launch this year, 2024! So stay tuned…
To work with Charlyn and her partners one-on-one or in group classes and workshops, make contact by scheduling an online, phone/FaceTime or in-person consultation with Charlyn to find out if what we offer is right for you. Call or text (626) 371-0000 or, playhousepilates@gmail.com
Our mission is to empower people to live strong, vibrant and pain-free lives through optimal alignment and movement.
Optimal alignment of the spine and pelvis and strengthening, what we call ‘the powerhouse’, through learning and practicing Pilates concepts and principles (including centering, breath, concentration, control, precision and flow) can restore balance throughout the body and mind and make all activities more efficient and pleasurable. All of our programs are approached through the prism of Pilates.
‘Body Smarts’ simply refers to those classes and programs that are focused specifically on physical and mental conditioning, understanding, healing and wellness. Such as our Pilates, Yamuna Body & Face, and Body Conturing Programs. This also includes our Gut Health Program that is customized to you for optimizing both the foods and supplements you are consuming, but also what your body uniquely requires to assimilate what you consume.
‘Performing Arts’ refers to those programs that use specific techniques in performance and acting training – including subtle and often rigorous physical training – to help you learn how to exercise your imagination, understand and care for your body as an instrument, achieve vocal and physical confidence, gain poise and process anxiety. This training can bring you closer to your Peak Performance potential through our workshops and classes in Performance (acting, music and dance), Creative Wellness, and Performing Arts Pilates™ .