ABOUT
Westside Pilates Center
Missoula’s newest Pilates space, Westside Pilates Center, is owned & managed by Joy French and proudly located in Missoula’s Westside Theater.
With a focus on Classical Pilates, clients receive individual attention in a private studio designed to serve your personal needs.
Whether new to Pilates or looking to deepen your practice, the WPC aims to cultivate an inclusive and vibrant community with highly-specialized instruction to help you reach your fitness goals.
Westside Pilates Center
ORIGIN STORY:
I started doing Pilates as a way to stay safe and injury-free for my dance career. I quickly fell in-love with how it made me feel outside of the studio, off the stage! I now trust Pilates to be an essential tools for my “regular”, everyday life - keeping me strong and mobile - ready to chase my sons across the playground or to haul myself up my favorite mountain.
With more than 40 years of movement training, a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Choreography and Dance Performance, and over 20 years as a professional choreographer, I came to Pilates with a rich and nuanced understanding of the body. In 2018, I dove into my first instructor training, eventually becoming a Level 3 Comprehensive Certified Instructor with Peak Pilates®. After years of growing as a teacher and deepening my own Pilates practice as an Instructor at Main Street Pilates (Missoula, MT), in 2025 I was invited to become a Master Instructor with The Pilates Academy of Strength & Transformation (Portland, OR) under the mentorship of Head of Education Jessica Schultz.
I’m excited to build Westside Pilates Center as a home not only for my own private clients, but also as a community resource with teacher workshops and certificate programs, and rental opportunities for other professionals.
