BODY by NONNA
Body By Nonna is a private Pilates studio in Los Angeles run by Nonna Gleyzer, a celebrity Pilates instructor. Her studio offers the best Pilates in Los Angeles “Nonna visually puts her body into the client’s body in order to evaluate what will be the most beneficial for their needs at any given moment.” The World’s Best Pilates Instructor, Forbes Magazine 2020
NONNA GLEYZER
Nonna Gleyzer is a Celebrity Pilates and fitness instructor and the founder of Body by Nonna, a private, boutique Pilates and bodywork studio in West Hollywood, California. Nonna was named The World’s Best Pilates Instructor by Forbes in 2020, she has spent more than 30 years refining classical Pilates and therapeutic, somatic-based movement training. Clients and press call her Hollywood’s “body stylist,” a “wizard,” and a “healer.”
Since opening her ultra-private studio in West Hollywood in 2008, Nonna has worked with Gisele Bündchen, Tom Brady, Madonna, Sting, Samuel L. Jackson, Natalie Portman and Kerry Washington, to name a few, along with clients who simply want to move better and hurt less. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Shape, Women’s Health and People.
The studio also welcomes teenagers and young adults, because strength and flexibility built early are a lifelong investment.
METHOD
Every session at Body by Nonna begins with an assessment of how your body is moving and feeling that day. Alignment and energy shift from session to session, so Nonna builds each one around what your body needs today, not around a fixed program.
The Nonna Gleyzer Method combines classical Pilates (New York and West Coast styles) with bodywork and alignment techniques such as osteopathic alignment, craniosacral therapy and reflexology, along with athletic conditioning, injury prevention and rehabilitation. Every session is private, one-on-one or duet, and no two look alike.
The goal never changes: proper alignment, and a balanced, strong tone body that is healthy, built up, not broken down. And enjoying the process.
My method is about strength, flexibility and control.” Nonna believes the body needs all three to function and perform to its full ability.
“I always try new Pilates exercise moves on myself before I do them with the client to see if the move or exercise will be right for that person.”
“Every time a client walks through the door I analyze where they stand at that particular moment as far as alignment and energy level.” By actively assessing each client and their current physical and emotional state, it helps Nonna decide what the client needs in order to get the most out of the workout and avoid any unnecessary injuries.
