Bushwick’s Pilates-centered wellness studio Manifest Bodyworks is officially opening the doors of its brick and mortar location at 5 Central Avenue between Flushing Avenue and Forrest Street, around the corner from Forrest Point, this weekend, and before the studios opening party, scheduled for, Friday September, 2nd, owner and Pilates-certified instructor Travis Sisk will be kicking the schedule off with a donation-based Pilates class called QUEERLATES: Pilates for Queer Bodies. Bushwick Daily caught up with Sisk to chat with him about his introduction to, and passion for, Pilates.

Sisk tells Bushwick Daily that he has operating Manifest Bodyworks out of his Bushwick apartment since January, and his client base has grown so much that a larger space was necessary to serve the community— “it can be awkward having clients waiting in your living room for their session to start!” he explains.

Sisk would like Bushwick Daily readers and beyond to know that Manifest Bodyworks is, proudly, a “safe space for people of all sizes, gender, sexual orientation, able-bodied and otherwise to come and manifest wellness within their own body.”