PILATES | YOGA
Find Balance. Build Strength. Feel at Home in Your Body.
Brooklyn | Manhattan | The Hamptons | Virtual
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In Home, In Office, In Studio, or Virtual
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Private, Semi-private, or Small Group Sessions
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Mat Pilates, Reformer/Apparatus Pilates, Yoga
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Personalized Movement Designed for Your Wellness Goals
About Us
We are a team of experienced, certified movement instructors dedicated to helping you build strength, improve mobility, and cultivate lasting well-being. Through personalized private and semi-private sessions, as well as thoughtfully designed small group classes, we create an experience tailored to your individual goals, needs, and abilities.
We believe that mindful movement is a powerful way to strengthen the connection between body and mind. By focusing on alignment, breath, and intentional movement, our approach supports greater physical strength, balance, flexibility, and overall wellness—helping you move through life with greater ease and confidence.
As Joseph Pilates said, "Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it." This philosophy continues to inspire our work, empowering every client to build sustainable habits that support lifelong health.
We offer mat Pilates, reformer/apparatus Pilates, and yoga for all ages, experience levels, and abilities in a welcoming, supportive environment where every body is encouraged to move, grow, and thrive.
The My Brooklyn Experience
At My Brooklyn, we believe every client deserves a personalized experience. We take the time to understand your goals, preferences, and evolving wellness needs, creating sessions that are tailored specifically to you.
Our experienced instructors offer private and semi-private sessions in the comfort of your home or office, at LiftHampton Gym in East Hampton, or virtually via Zoom—making it easy to fit mindful movement into your lifestyle.
We also offer small group Pilates and yoga classes both virtually and in person in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Interested in starting a class for your workplace, community, or group of friends? We'd love to help you create one.
Whether you're brand new to Pilates or yoga or have years of experience, you'll find a welcoming and supportive environment here. We work with clients of all ages and abilities, including prenatal and postpartum clients, those returning to movement after physical therapy, and anyone seeking a safe, customized approach to movement and wellness.
Gift certificates and class or session packages are available for purchase. We also offer gift certificates through Be Her Village for expecting parents who are registered, making movement and wellness a meaningful gift during pregnancy and beyond.
"My scoliosis was visibly better after just one session with Mark! I felt so good afterwards like I've never felt after any other bodywork." - Mushky H.
"Jen's sessions are challenging but fun. My first session with Jen was the first time I've ever taken an exercise class without looking at my watch wondering when the class would be over." - Esty K
"Kath's online yoga classes are a great mix of stretching and strengthening. I always feel I worked out and have less stress after her classes." - Jen M.
Jennifer
DeVane-Mulhern
CEO, Mat Pilates, Pilates Apparatus, SilverSneakers
Jen is the Owner & Manager of My Brooklyn Pilates. She has a deep passion for movement and has been instructing in the field for over two decades. Jen's professional dance training began in college and continued through dance teacher conventions. Once moving to NYC she continued honing her skills as a dance instructor, studying with various instructors in multiple styles throughout the city. Studying, instructing, and choreographing dance led her to Pilates, which she quickly fell in love with and began incorporating into her dance lessons. After almost a decade as a student of the Pilates Method, she gained her teacher certification and began her career and soon created My Brooklyn Pilates, LLC.
She created My Brooklyn because, in the world of big gyms, she feels fitness has lost its personal touch. "Fitness should be personal to your body's ever-changing needs; fitness is not one size fits all.' My Brooklyn is a company designed to be yours!
Jen tailors her classes and sessions to the wants and needs of her students and believes the mind-body relationship and the connection of what is done in a class or session to real-life movements are what make bodywork like Pilates so effective.
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Balanced Body Comprehensive Pilates certification
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Steele Mat Pilates certification
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Steele Pre-Post Natal Pilates certification
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SilverSneakers certification
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Gait and Shoulder Girdle workshops with Leslie Powell
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Pelvic Floor workshop with Rachel Parrotta, DPT
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Feldenkrais Pelvic Floor workshop with Mary Susan Chen
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Regularly takes Pilates, yoga, dance, and Feldenkrais classes
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BFA in Art Education (Bowling Green State University)
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Over two decades of dance teaching experience
Mark Bankin
Yoga, Pilates, Reiki
Allison Mulhern, DPT
Wellness Consultant on Zoom
Allison has been working with My Brooklyn from the very beginning. As a college dance major, her love of movement led her to Pilates. Upon moving to NYC in 2007, she completed her initial Pilates certification. Over a decade and several more certifications later, Allison embarked on a journey and is now a graduate of the University of Maryland with a Doctorate in Physical Therapy and practices outside of Baltimore, MD.
As an instructor she feels it's all in the little details. Allison's classes and sessions begin with the basics of the Pilates Principles and transition smoothly and creatively to increasingly more difficult exercises.
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Doctor of Physical Therapy (University of Maryland, Baltimore)
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Balanced Body Bridge Program
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Pilates Sports Center Apparatus certification
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Steele Mat Pilates certification
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Pilates Sports Center Pre-Post Natal Pilates certification
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Kinected Pilates Center's Wonky Bodies workshop
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Gait workshop with Leslie Powell
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Multiple Steele Pilates props courses
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BFA in Dance Performance (Kent State University)
Kath Pullum
Yoga on Zoom
Kath began teaching for My Brooklyn in 2019. She is a lifelong athlete and has been a practicing yogini for over 15 years. She finally decided to become a trained teacher after finishing a Phd and discovering that the yoga she practiced was more fulfilling than the academic subjects she was studying and teaching.
Retaining a passion for education and knowledge-sharing and a strong grounding in physical fitness, Kath's teaching style both nurtures and encourages students while challenging them to expand beyond their perceived personal limitations. With attention to alignment and the breath, her practice and teaching are by turns physically intense and slow and meditative, using the full range of yogic techniques to enable the mind and body to align for optimal health.
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3 200-hour Pranna Kriya Yoga Teacher Trainings at Tiruvannamalai in India
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100-hour Meditation Teacher Training in London, UK
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Numerous yoga and meditation workshops and retreats
Kim Brandt
Pilates
Lindsey Jennings
Pilates
Mark is a yoga teacher, Fulbright Scholar, and dance archivist based in Brooklyn. He has a Masters degree in Dance and Kinetography Laban from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, is the first foreigner permitted to study dance at the National Minority University of China where he contributed to reporting that exposed the Uyghur genocide, and spent the past five years creating an award-winning movement notation archive of an endangered dance called Gorshay with the Tibetan Diaspora. He has worked as a Butoh dancer in Japan, studied at the Pina Bausch School in Germany, and is a certified 500 hour Yoga Alliance teacher by the Vedansha School in Rishikesh. As a yoga teacher, Mark specializes in supporting people with brain/spinal injuries, strokes, chronic illness, and exercise intolerance. He is on the faculty of the yoga teacher training school Awake Space in France, and his classes include principles from Laban Movement Analysis, Feldenkrais, Kinetic Awareness, Alexander Technique, and Tibetan medicine. He can teach in Russian and is proficient in French and Mandarin.
Kim Brandt is a NYC based Pilates instructor, with over two decades of professional work as a choreographer, dancer and educator. Kim is interested in Pilates as a method for body awareness, injury prevention/recovery, and strengthening of body, mind and spirit.
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The Kane School Pilates Mat Certification, New York, NY.
Lindsey Jennings is a Brooklyn-based dancer, Pilates teacher, and artist. She is passionate about facilitating safe movement spaces for people of all ages and backgrounds in a way that makes them feel confident and strong in their bodies. Lindsey received a BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with highest honors in 2020 and received various scholarships and awards for outstanding research, teaching, and performance. Since then, Lindsey has been teaching dance to students ages 2-82 years old across all five boroughs of New York City at Gibney Dance Center, Notes in Motion Outreach Dance Theatre, MOtiVE Brooklyn, and other places across the country.
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Comprehensive Mat Pilates Certification, the Kane School, 2025.
Madi Gibson
Pilates
Madi is a Brooklyn based dancer, choreographer, and Pilates instructor originally from Alberta, Canada. In 2018 she earned a Dance Performance Diploma with Honors as well as the Modern Dance Award from George Brown College in Toronto. Madi
relocated to New York City in 2021 to study at The Ailey School where Pilates was integrated with her dance training. Since completing her program, Madi has performed
with several dance companies and presented her choreography in dance festivals.
She began her Pilates training in 2024 and received her Pilates Mat Certification from The Kane School. Madisen’s goal as a Pilates instructor is to help others gain the confidence, freedom, and satisfaction that comes from feeling physically strong and
capable.
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The Kane School Pilates Mat Certification
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The Ailey School Independent Study Program
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Dance Performance Diploma from George Brown College
Thainah Freitas
Yoga
Thai is a vinyasa yoga teacher whose classes are dynamic and breath-oriented. She creates thoughtful and progressive sequences tailored to her students’ needs, balancing strengthening, stretching with relaxing moments. Meeting students where they are, her mission is to support them in exploring their bodies with curiosity and acceptance, and to help them find growth, freedom, and stillness through the practice.
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200-Hour Certification, Abhaya Yoga, Brooklyn, NY
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Currently completing 300-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training
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Holly Heidt
Yoga/Thai Yoga
Holly has always loved to observe the intimate connection between movement and mood: the calm stillness that follows a hike in the woods, the rush of endorphins you feel after you've just performed, or the exuberance of handstands, cartwheels, or just hanging upside down on the monkey bars. She believes by gaining greater understanding of our own bodies and minds, we can foster healthy relationships to ourselves, others, and the planet. In her private sessions and classes, she hopes to share feel-good sequences, supportive adjustments and massage, and a curiosity about the mind, body, and breath.
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200 hour teacher training
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30 hour Bridge Training at Kula Yoga Project
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60 hour Thai Yoga training with Al Turner II of Two Souls Thai Massage.
