Inside the doors of Studio Soma, you’ll find NBA players working on their flexibility, Academy award-winning actors getting ready for their next movie and Broadway stars strengthening their core. So what attracts them to this unique Pilates studio? What separates this Pilates studio from the rest is its undying dedication to the traditional Pilates Method. Tucked away in a private location, Studio Soma is on West Hollywood’s exclusive Melrose Place cul de sac.

 

For more than 22 years, Australian born fitness expert Thalia Thomas, has been teaching Pilates and dance both in the United States and internationally. As the demand for Thalia's expertise grew, her only hope of reaching a wider group of people without sacrificing quality and personal attention was to open Studio Soma. Thalia personally designed this newly renovated space to ensure safety, efficiency, comfort and hygiene.  This exclusive Pilates studio offers the complete range of traditional Pilates equipment on its lower level for those needing personal one on one attention.
 

Studio Soma’s entire second floor is a spacious wood floor dance studio, where one can take a variety of group classes from Pilates mat work, group apparatus classes, prenatal Pilates, Ballet, Pole Dance, and Cardio Dance.  In fact, Soma is the only Pilates Studio in Los Angeles County that also houses a dance studio.
 
Soma's whole-body approach to fitness combines a healthy blend of strength, flexibility, balance and control all under one roof.  Clients are taught essential techniques in correcting alignment and strengthening their muscles to prevent injury.  

To ensure Soma results, clients receive the utmost in personal attention. Before any training regimen begins, each client is evaluated thoroughly to determine his or her strengths, challenges, and imbalances. Soma’s staff, each of whom is certified in the official Method designed by Joseph Pilates himself, is expert in the East Coast style of Pilates exercise. This extraordinary level of expertise allows Soma’s trainers to design for each client an individually-tailored exercise plan that will enhance their physical well-being and avoid the potential of injury that comes with mass market programs.  Soma has that something special!  
 
Some of Thalia’s personal clients have included fellow Australians Kylie Minogue and

Cate Blanchett as well as James Cameron and Jodie Foster.  
 
Studio Soma promises to give you a "healthy mind in a healthy body." 
 
"I have yet to find anywhere else in the world that is as cozy, fun, and inspiring as Soma. My body has transformed and I now look forward to exercising. Every teacher is brilliantly different. The training is geared to the individual, no matter what your level of fitness or experience is. I would encourage everyone to go but I try not to talk about Soma too much as I don't want to lose my spot."

--Tara Summer (Boston Legal – NBC)

"I cannot express the love I have for Thalia Thomas and the staff at Studio Soma. I've tried other Pilates studios before and they have left me feeling cold and unmotivated. The structure and personal attention you receive from the staff at this studio is first-class. I have never felt better in my life,

 physically and emotionally.”--Eden Espinosa (Lead in "Wicked" - Broadway and Los Angeles)

"The fitness market is now inundated with Pilates studios which I find are mostly run by folks who're cashing in on a fad.  Studio Soma is the exception. Thalia Thomas, a gifted dancer herself, is a remarkable teacher who not only understands the subtleties of the Pilates system, but also inspires each of her clients to deepen their work, no matter what level they're at.”  

  --Jane Anderson (Writer/Director)

“Forget about just staying in shape, Soma is like therapy for the soul...” --Parminder Nagra (ER – NBC)