ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Restore Yoga & Wellness in St. Clairsville added a new service to help clients increase their core strength.

The studio had its grand opening Sept. 21 to announce its new location and new service, Pilates reformers.

Restore Yoga & Wellness moved at the beginning of July from 150 W. Main St. to 51342 National Road East, Suite L behind Pizza Hut in St. Clairsville. The site is 1,000 square feet bigger than the old location, which brings a new room for a new service called Pilates reformers. Pilates reformers uses a large piece of equipment to reform someone’s body, improving core strength dramatically and improving one’s overall strength and lengthening their muscles.

Owner Nicole Snodgrass thought Pilates reformers would be beneficial to her clients’ health.

“I knew it was in high demand. People were really wanting that type of service in the area,” she said. “So, when we moved and we had the extra space, I knew that would be perfect to add to our business model.”

Snodgrass said she felt she and her employees grew out of the old space.

The studio will become a host training facility for Pilates reformers starting in February. The training will be in the new reformers room and train teachers for teaching those classes. Snodgrass also plans to add a few more teachers to her studio in the future.

Snodgrass said by moving to the new location, the studio has become more accessible to a lot of her clientele because at the old location, she was on the second floor. The studio now has a whole parking lot in the plaza, which it did not have before.

The studio has added chair yoga to its class schedule now, which offers another clientele the ability to do yoga, Snodgrass said. It also has more earlier classes.

The studio has three massage therapists on staff, two estheticians who work on the health of one’s face, two reiki therapists for energy body work and nine teachers.

Snodgrass said business has been amazing since the move to the new location, and clients have responded very well. She has also gotten new clients since the move.

“The response to this new location has really been amazing,” she said. “I’m really grateful for the people that have come out to check out our space and have tried classes and tried our services.”

Snodgrass said clients enjoy the accessibility of the location and extra space at the studio.

She said it’s been an enjoyable summer creating a space for clients.

“I hope more people try yoga, try Pilates, learn to love to move their bodies, just like we all love to move ours,” Snodgrass said, “and realize that it is an accessible form of movement for all bodies and also our healing services are more accessible now, too, from where we’re at.”

People can find information and schedule details on the studio’s website, restoreyogaandwellness.com.

Snodgrass wants people to come to the studio and feel comfortable trying something new.

“I understand, and all of us understand here, that it is very intimidating to walk into a new space, to a new type of class that you’ve never done,” she said. “We try to make the person as comfortable as we can, help them as much as we can.

“And my piece of advice to get over that hurdle of that intimidation is just to come, just do it, and we will make that client feel as home as possible.”