Pilates Oasis Brings Decades of Body Training Experience to Middletown

Pilates Oasis owner Tysan Lerner and her husband and co-owner, Zenon Dolnyckj, at the ribbon cutting ceremony of Pilates Oasis in Middletown, N.Y., on June 13, 2026. Oliver Mantyk/The Epoch Times

MIDDLETOWN, N.Y.—Pilates Oasis studio in Downtown Middletown officially opened with a ribbon cutting on June 13, bringing a Pilates approach grounded in the method’s original lineage to the city’s historic district.

Tysan Lerner, co-owner and founder of the studio, started learning Pilates when she was 22 years old after a back injury as a dancer. She found the help of then-80-year-old Pilates instructor Kathy Grant, who was a direct student of Joseph Pilates, the creator of the exercise method.