Meet Melanie
Melanie Lopez is a certified Pilates instructor based in New York City, known for her detailed, down-to-earth approach to movement. With a background in ballet and a deep understanding of functional movement, she creates Pilates classes that are both physically challenging and deeply supportive — helping people build strength, resilience, and a more thoughtful relationship with their bodies.
Melanie’s first found Pilates as a ballet apprentice and rediscovered the practice later in adulthood while searching for solutions to pain from hypermobility and dance injuries. What she found in Pilates was a stabilizing, empowering movement practice that did more than help her heal her own pain—it changed the way she moved through the world. Driven by a desire to share these benefits with others, Melanie became a certified Pilates instructor in 2018 under the mentorship of Daniel Giel, director of the long-standing NYC Pilates institution, Movement Salon.
Since then, her teaching has reached a global community through her growing YouTube channel and online studio, where she offers Pilates reformer and mat Pilates classes designed to meet people at every point of their movement journey, and empower them to get stronger, feel better, and ignite their love of movement. Her classes blend the precision of classical Pilates with creativity of contemporary Pilates styles, the adaptability of functional movement, and the technical foundation of dance, always focused on quality of movement, not aesthetics.
Melanie believes that good movement is good communication with your body, your focus, and your energy. Whether you're training for strength, recovery, a way to let go of the stressors of daily life, or simply looking for a better way to move through your day, Melanie’s goal is to guide you there with clarity, intentional instruction and sequence design, and a bit of fun along the way.
