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About Purely Mat Pilates
Purely Mat Pilates is a mat Pilates and yoga studio at 62 Main Street, Tuckahoe, founded by Jennifer Pagoto, a certified Pilates instructor and licensed occupational therapist. It began as the name of a single class she taught and became a studio of its own in 2026, with six instructors and twenty classes a week.
How the studio got its name
Purely Mat Pilates was the name of a class before it was the name of a studio. Jennifer chose it when she started teaching because it says exactly what she does.
I'm a classical teacher. I work from the original exercises created by Joseph Pilates.
The word “mat” is in the name on purpose.
I chose my mat certification very carefully. People think that doing Pilates on the apparatus is actually the goal. This is untrue. The opposite is actually true. If you are a beginner, it's actually easier to begin on the reformer, but your ultimate goal should be to get to the mat, where nothing is assisting you. It's just you, your body weight and gravity.
She began by covering classes for other teachers, then taught at gyms around the area, then rented space of her own and built a following class by class. One of the first places she had a class of her own was the studio at 62 Main Street. By the time that room became hers, in 2026, her students already knew the class by name.
Everyone knows my class as Purely Mat Pilates, so I decided to name my studio after my original class. It's my signature class that I offer at the studio, and that's where it all began.
It is still on the schedule. Purely Mat Pilates is the class Jennifer teaches, eight times a week. The other instructors teach under the studio's name, and their classes carry names of their own.
Why a Pilates studio teaches yoga
Because yoga was already in the room. Arta, Nicole and Christine all taught here before the studio was Purely Mat Pilates, and when the room became Jennifer's they stayed. So the week has eight yoga classes beside the mat Pilates, on one price list, and a stretching class besides. Six instructors now teach twenty classes a week, all levels in the same room.
The founder
Jennifer Pagoto is a certified Pilates instructor and a licensed occupational therapist, and she teaches Purely Mat Pilates eight times a week. About Jennifer →
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