About Core Arts Pilates

If you have been told to just stretch more, or try a group class, and it has not worked, you may be exactly who we are here for.

About Core Arts Pilates

Core Arts Pilates has been serving Anaheim Hills and Orange County since 2005. Founded by Sharmila Mitra, who trained directly in the Romana Kryzanowska lineage, the studio was built on a single conviction: that real, lasting change in the body requires precision, genuine attention and instruction that is built around the individual in front of you, not around a preset program.

We are a classical Pilates and GYROTONIC studio. Every session, whether private or semiprivate, is led by a certified instructor whose focus is entirely on you.

Our teaching staff holds certifications in classical Pilates, GYROTONIC, BodyStrategies™, and specialized movement training. Every instructor on our team has completed rigorous hands-on training and continues to teach under the standards Sharmila established when she founded Core Arts Pilates more than 20 years ago.

Who We Serve

Our clients come from many different starting points. What they share is a need for instruction that is specific to them, delivered by someone with the training to understand what their body actually requires.

• Dancers, pre-professional through professional, youth through adult. Core Arts has deep roots in the dance community and has trained dancers at every level, including those preparing for professional auditions, managing performance injuries and developing the physical artistry their training demands.
• Performers and athletes who need their body to be both strong and responsive under pressure.
• Postpartum clients navigating the physical changes that follow childbirth with safe, targeted, one-on-one guidance.
• People managing chronic illness or complex conditions, including scoliosis, arthritis, neurological conditions and post-surgical recovery. We work alongside your medical team, not in place of it.
• Anyone who prefers private or semiprivate instruction for the quality of attention, the pace and the results that a personalized session produces.

We serve clients in Anaheim Hills, Orange, Yorba Linda, Placentia, Brea and Fullerton. Online sessions via Zoom are available for those who cannot come to us in person.

What We Offer

Core Arts offers four distinct areas of instruction. Each is available as private or semi-private sessions. Each begins with an individual assessment.

Classical Pilates

Taught in the Romana Kryzanowska tradition, following the full sequence on all major apparatus. Private and semi-private sessions for beginners through advanced practitioners.

GYROTONIC

A movement system built on circular, spiraling patterns that open the joints, decompress the spine, and develop three-dimensional mobility. Particularly effective for dancers, performers, and clients managing spinal conditions. Core Arts is one of the most established GYROTONIC studios in North Orange County.

BodyStrategies™ for Dancers

Core Arts’ signature dance conditioning program, created by Sharmila Mitra. A hands-on, personalized training practice that draws from classical Pilates and dance medicine principles to develop the strength, control, and artistry that dance training demands.

Online Sessions

Available via Zoom since 2013. All four areas of instruction are available online. Our online clients receive the same quality of instruction as in-studio clients, adapted for their home environment.

Train With Us

Core Arts Pilates offers a 600-hour comprehensive Pilates instructor certification program, one of the most rigorous in Southern California. Our graduates teach in studios across the region and bring with them the same standards of classical instruction that have defined Core Arts since 2005.

Movement and wellness professionals, dance educators or fitness instructors looking to add classical Pilates certification to their practice are welcome to start a conversation about our program and upcoming cohorts.

Our Team

Core Arts is led by Sharmila Mitra and taught by a small, carefully trained faculty. Every instructor on our team completed certification at Core Arts and continues to teach within the classical tradition Sharmila brought here from New York in 2005.

Meet our instructors.