TONE | Your Body and Your Mind

Where Personal Attention meets Invigorating Pilates

TONE is Astoria’s premier boutique Pilates studio offering an exclusive, intimate setting for your workout experience. Whether you are an athlete or new to physical fitness, we can create a personalized plan. We are dedicated to helping you feel balanced in mind and body. Tone's clients connect to their deepest inner strength, pushing you to your limit and then enabling you to push harder in ways you never expected. Each session is transformative, making you feel you taller, stronger, and longer than before.

TEACHER BIOS

JESSICA HOPE is the owner and director of TONE Pilates. Jessica was introduced to Pilates as a first year dance student at NYU Tisch of the Arts, where she studied with Kathy Grant. She is a graduate of the LaGuardia Performing Arts High School (Fame School) and a native of Queens. Her certification in Pilates was with masters Dawn Marie Ickes and Allyson Cabot and has a specialty in Rehabilitation through Pilates. She holds a BFA from NYU and has danced professionally on Broadway, off Broadway and on tours through North America and Europe as well as TV and movies.

Jessica is a commander of the classroom and strives to provide an engaging and supportive environment for all clients. Her mission with TONE is to keep a homegrown style, artisan feel for the studio. The staff focuses on our clients and wants them to feel that they cared for as they achieve something new each time they step through the door. We know your name so you will never feel like a number at TONE. Our boutique studio is small and intimate and each client becomes part of the TONE family.

The transformation that Jessica has experienced in her body through Pilates by believing in herself and taking risks outside normal expectations has given her the focus, energy and drive to open TONE. Jessica needed to share the journey with others so that they can experience real change in themselves.

Change is possible through hard work, whether you are being provoked by an Evil Finger or feel your abs slowly burned, you are assured to leave the space feeling longer and stronger and with a smile on your face, because you've begun your own personal journey of transformation.

MARY SHERWIN originally from Seattle, Washington, moved to New York City to pursue her dance career. She holds two Bachelor degrees in both Dance and Communications from the University of Washington. She furthered her education with a Masters degree in Choreography from Middlesex University in London, UK. To preserve her body from the strenuous dance training, she grew a love for Pilates. She went on to get her Mat certification from LindaFit Pilates and Reformer and Cadillac certification from Pilates on Fifth. Her teaching philosophy is to bring high energy into the room while still preserving the classic Pilates repertoire with fun and unique twists, leaving her clients spirited and consistently challenged in both body and mind.

MICHELLE CADY recently moved from Detroit, MI to New York City to become closer to the Pilates scene and performing arts scene. She is Stott Certified in Mat and Reformer and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts-Dance from Wayne State University. She became deeply involved with Pilates through Wayne State University and began her Instructor Training while pursuing her dance studies. Since becoming an Instructor she has trained a variety of clients ranging from advanced dancers to senior citizens and physical therapy clients. After studying Pilates she has come to find a better understanding of her body and how to keep it healthy and feeling good. Part of her practice in Pilates is bringing this to her clients. By helping them find their understanding of their bodies clients can then feel lengthened, strengthened and balanced.

ANDREA DUSEL-FOIL grew up dancing. Originally from Wyoming, she went to college in North Carolina and has been fortunate enough to pursue her dance and teaching career in Annapolis, Las Vegas, and New York City. She began Pilates and Yoga as a result of a dance injury, and the method became an ongoing source of strengthening and rehabilitation for her. Andrea became certified to teach Pilates in 2010 and added on her Ashtanga Yoga certification in 2012. She loves sharing her passion for health and fitness with others and believes in a challenging workout that will leave you feeling inspired and stronger than you could have ever thought possible.

SUSANA MOREHOUSE is from the long and skinny country of Chile. She began her physical training as a gymnast and later as a dancer in college. Susana moved to New York City to study at the Martha Graham School and dance professionally. She uses Pilates personally as a way to stay healthy, fit and free from injury. Susana received her Pilates certification from the Fitness Guru Teaching Lab in Brooklyn, NYC. She loves to work with clients who have specific goals such as marathons, weddings, weight loss or just bikini season!.

ABBY PRICE joins the TONE team eager to strengthen bodies and minds. She grew up training as a serious Classical Ballet student and went on to recieve a BFA in Ballet Pedagogy from The Hartt School where she was introduced to Pilates to relieve chronic lower back pain. After graduating from college, Abby moved to NYC to pursue her dance and movement career. Through teaching Pilates, she provides her positive energy and vast knowledge of movement to others while assisting them with the strength and confidence they (sometimes unknowingly!) are developing.

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