Club Pilates is often the first Pilates studio people try, and there is a reason. It is the largest Pilates franchise in the world, part of Xponential Fitness, and its Sherman Oaks studio at 13727 Ventura Blvd runs a proven, familiar system. Classes are capped at 12 on Balanced Body reformers with springboards, and your first class is free. Membership pricing is not published online, so you will discuss it in the studio. For a lot of people, that scale feels reassuring. Village Life Pilates, a short drive east at 14516 Ventura Blvd in Sherman Oaks, is the other model entirely. We are independent, not a franchise. This is Dru's fourth studio as an owner, and she and Sasha still teach on the schedule. Every Village Life instructor was trained by them personally in the Village Life method, so the class you take on Monday and the class you take on Thursday are built on the same foundation, taught by a stable team you will get to know. The equipment tells part of the story. Club Pilates pairs its reformers with springboards. Village Life Sherman Oaks pairs premium Elina reformers made in Spain with towers, plus heavier springs and weights. Towers open up a wider range of spring work, standing work, and strength progressions than a springboard set up, and our programming uses it: athletic Reformer built on a classical foundation, with progressive overload and varying tempo so your strength keeps building instead of plateauing. Class size tells another part. Twelve is a workable room. Ten, our cap, gives an instructor more eyes on your form and more room to adjust the work for your body that day. In a franchise system, the program is designed to be delivered consistently by many instructors in many places. In our room, the program is designed by the people teaching you. Neither model is wrong. A franchise offers scale, familiarity, and a free first look. An independent studio offers ownership in the room, teachers who know you, published pricing, and a method with a point of view. Our start is simple and published: 2 Weeks Unlimited for $99, one class per day, a First Class for $30, or 3 Classes for $79, good at Sherman Oaks and at our Beverly Hills studio at 239 S Robertson Blvd. Come take one class and feel the difference for yourself. Book Beverly Hills: https://momence.com/u/village-life-pilates-mnhYXu Book Sherman Oaks: https://momence.com/u/village-life-pilates-sherman-oaks-vRIuVi