Group Fitness Classes in Santa Barbara
Welcome to San Roque Pilates, Santa Barbara’s premier boutique fitness studio offering high quality instruction in Pilates, Barre, and group fitness classes.
New Clients
Interested in signing up for one of our Group Reformer classes? Check out our New Client Specials for pricing and to sign up for a drop in or a package.
Amenities
- Lockers, Shower and Hot Towels
- Free use eco-mats and grip socks
- Free Coffee, Express, and Tea
- Pressed Juice
- Warm and Stylish Studio environment
- Fitness tracking system
- Boutique apparel including ALO, Elisabetta Rogiani, Splits59, and Planet Blue.
Take your workouts to the next level with our CORE™ Athletic Conditioning & Performance Training™ – developed exclusively by MERRITHEW™ experts. This unique training program focuses on functional fitness targeting core strength and kinesthetic awareness leading to improvements in total-body strength and power. This multi-layered system is designed for both novice and high-level athletes.
You’ll enhance your performance by improving precision, control, strength, power, and agility. Jumpstart your metabolism, optimize your athletic performance, and train smarter with our combination of body control and power movements that transform regular training regimens into high intensity, results-driven workouts. Our system will help retrain unbalanced muscles, initiate the core, and build strength from within that will transfer on and off the playing field!
Athletic Conditioning @ Virtuosa
Benefits of CORE Training
- Small classes at SAN ROQUE PILATES allow for an intimate and non-intimidating setting. Instructors pay close attention to form and alignment, ensuring each session is safe and effective.
- Our team of barre instructors have multiple fitness certifications, years of teaching experience, and are motivating and supportive.
- Barre classes are fun, dynamic, and engaging. Choreographed to the latest, upbeat music, you’ll feel uplifted and energized.
- Using body weight and light weights, get full-body toning for long and lean muscles. We work multiple muscle groups at once, targeting both major and supporting muscle groups.
- Build muscle and burn calories at the same time, getting more rapid results, while losing weight and inches. The lean muscle mass you’ll build will help increase your metabolism and burn more calories throughout the rest of your day.
- Classes are cardiovascular, good for your heart, and stress-busting.
- Barre is high intensity, yet low impact. It’s easy on the joints, and helps prevent future joint wear, while increasing flexibility, range of motion, and endurance.
- With small classes and attentive instructors, we can modify each class, making it suitable for almost anyone. Our barre is effective for beginners as well as seasoned barre pros. You won’t get bored with San Roque Pilates barre, helping you always stay challenged and motivated.
- Our barre classes emphasize balanced training that targets all areas of the body, including the arms and shoulders, back and hips, abs and legs, and of course, the booty.
- By working with good form and correct alignment in mind, you can improve posture and reduce common aches and pains.
- Barre is a great cross-training modality for other sports and activities, like running or cycling. Barre incorporates exercises with full range of motion, and trains the body evenly, unlike other sports which are linear in motion and injury prone.
San Roque Pilates Instructors
Barre Method
All of San Roque Pilates barre instructors are certified Pilates and/or yoga instructors, adding expertise and functional movement to each class. We limit our class sizes to 14 people, less than half of what other studios allow, as we are committed to personalized attention and maintaining the safety and effectiveness of each session for our clients.
Tasha Holmstrom
Studio Owner, Pilates & Barre Instructor
Tasha is the founder and senior instructor of Virtuosa Studio located in Santa Barbara, California. Over the past fifteen years, Tasha has developed an extensive and diverse background in the areas of fitness, nutrition and wellness. In her twenties, she became a certified massage therapist and aesthetician. After a bout with cancer, Tasha became inspired by the healing mind/body fitness properties of Pilates and obtained certification through Physical Mind Institute; teaching for several years at studios throughout Palm Springs and later in Santa Barbara. Wanting to deepen her knowledge of the rehabilitative aspects of Pilates led Tasha to STOTT Pilates where she recently obtained a full certification. Tasha combines an insatiable passion for learning with a detailed style of instruction which is praised by her loyal following of clientele. Tasha is also a certified Booty Barre instructor and certified nutritionist with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.
Laura Haston
Pilates & Barre Instructor
Laura began her career in health and fitness when she became a Jazzercise instructor 30 years ago while pursuing a PhD in environmental science at UCSB. Maintaining a regular exercise routine enabled her to manage the stress of academia. She taught Jazzercise regularly for 16 years in Santa Barbara and Carpinteria while working as a professor at Cal State Northridge and later as an Assistant Dean at UCSB. Also, during this time Laura because interested in yoga and Pilates and became a regular practitioner of both and pursued her first Pilates certification through IM=X Pilates. After 20+ years in academia, Laura decided to take the bold step and retire from the university so that she could pursue fully what had always been her primary passion—helping individuals maintain active lifestyles and enjoy dignified longevity through mindful fitness and movement. Laura pursued certifications in Bikram Yoga, Hatha/Flow Yoga from Santa Barbara Yoga Center and Stott Pilates and has taught at a number of studios in Santa Barbara. She is a certified Stott Pilates mat and reformer trainer. She has also completed Stott Pilates trainings in Stability Chair, Barrels, and Injuries and Special Populations as well as a number of specialty workshops. Laura is devoted to continuing her education and training. Most recently, she took Stott’s foundation courses and numerous workshop for ZEN•GA™, a synergistic blend of mind-body modalities. In addition, Laura participated in Booty Barre training and is excited to offer these fun, high-energy dance-inspired classes which weave together her past experience in dance fitness and her more recent passions of Pilates and yoga. Laura is committed to making her classes and sessions with clients a mind-body experience so that students can learn long-term, effective movement patterns that nourish and/or heal their body while simultaneously focusing their mind to bring a greater sense of calm and self awareness.