Body & Ballet Co

Nashville's Most Aesthetic Pilates and Barre Workout Is Built for the Way Real Bodies Move

Body & Ballet Co started because its founder, Melissa Chera, threw out her back doing an MC Hammer move at a Halloween party. A Nashville native who has lived with POTS and hypoglycemia, Melissa was tired of fitness studios that only worked for one kind of body, one kind of pace, one kind of person. So she built BBCO instead: a barre and pilates studio in Midtown Nashville designed to be gentle on the joints and nervous system, with workouts strong enough to actually change how you move and feel.

Nashville's Most Aesthetic Pilates & Barre Workout Isn't Trying to Burn You Out

Walk into a studio in Midtown Nashville on any given morning and you'll find oyster shell mirrors, soft natural light, and a room full of women moving through slow, controlled flows that look more like ballet rehearsal than a typical sweat session. No blaring music, no yelling instructor, no post-class crash. That's Body & Ballet Co, and it was built on the idea that a workout doesn't have to wreck your nervous system to change your body.