‘A comfortable, easeful, strong body happens when we learn how to meet our needs, again and again and again, without rigidity or shame.’
– Cadence Dubus
I teach Fitness through a deep foundation in somatic practices. Learning how your body works is the starting point. Feeling how your body works is our goal.
A bicep curl can be as healing as lying on our backs, feeling our breath move through our organs. There is no “best” method—only what works for you.
When we understand our body, we have power. With consistency, that power is embodied and becomes our strength. Get strong with me, at Brooklyn Strength.
Begin Your Practice
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Start Stability
Start Stability develops coordination (which includes pain relief), deep strength and functional mobility to give you a felt experience of bodily confidence, agency and ease off the mat and beyond the Series.
Blending somatic movement, restorative practices and pre-Ozempic-age Pilates, each class we untangle a common area of concern such as ‘tight hamstrings’ or ‘low back pain’.
Classes are designed to support consistent practice and curiosity, with a focus on embracing physical diversity and powerful internal goals. Fitness should never mean detaching, shutting down or feeling ashamed.
Meet your body in Start Stability. Learn not just how your body works but WHY.
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Start Strength
Strength building is a feminist practice. Taking up space and learning how strong we are starts in deep connection to our own bodies.
Start Strength is an integrated approach to strength, mobility, and cardiovascular conditioning through the tool of learning Kettlebell strength and conditioning.
Start Strength encompasses all aspects of physical fitness; mobility, strength, coordination, balance, cardiovascular stamina without giving up attention to form, safety and care for our own pace, needs and abilities.
Classes progress slowly. Never feel left behind. Connect to your power, discover your own personal Strength.
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Start Release
Start Release is a guided, educational Somatic practice which fosters internal clarity rather than the anxiety that so often accompanies pain.
Based on the study of fascial tissue, the connective tissue that organizes and supports the entire structure of the body, Start Release addresses both upper and lower body patterns, including shoulders, hips, low back, knees, and areas of chronic tension such as the neck and jaw.
Get the support you need to develop the awareness and confidence to care for your body at home. Start Release isn’t only relief, it’s long-term resilience, prevention, and most importantly, embodied self-trust.
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Virtual One-to-One Sessions
Live virtual sessions via Zoom.
We with clients all over the U.S. and even internationally!
One-to-one sessions are a personalized, somatic approach to movement and strength training tailored to your body, your history, and your goals. Drawing from Pilates, strength training, neuro-repatterning, and fascia-informed methods, each session meets you where you are. We work with attention and precision to improve the conversations you have internally as well as how you experience your body in the world: coordination, stabilization, and the movement that makes up everyday life.
Ideally in our first session you have a mat, a block (or book), and a long un-looped theraband. After our first session we’ll know what other strength or rehab equipment you might need.Book an intro pack to get started.
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In-Person One-to-One Sessions
Brooklyn based in-person sessions at Mark Morris Dance Studio Wellness space or at your building gym - location and schedule dependent.
Sessions are collaborative and responsive, combining education with hands-on practice so you understand not just what to do, but why your body responds the way it does. Over time, this work builds clarity, resilience, and embodied intelligence. Our goal is to support you to move with greater ease, strength, and awareness both in and beyond the session. Strength, performance, rehab goals welcome!
Mark Morris Wellness Space has full strength and Pilates equipment as well as a vast array of rehabilitative tools.
Weekly in-person sessions are with Brooklyn Strength founder Cadence Dubus or senior Instructor, Manuel Zelaya
Book an intro pack to get started
Get a custom recommendation!
Begin Your Practice
Unsure where to start?
Take the custom quiz to see which class Series is best for YOU!
The Coaching Series
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Virtual Run Club
This SUPER BEGINNER FRIENDLY program is rooted in consistency, community, accessibility, and support! Coach Rachel and I help you to develop a responsive and sustainable relationship to running. Open to all especially the run-curious or previously run-burnt!
Alongside weekly training, you’ll have three live group sessions for coaching, reflection, and support, as well as injury prevention and mobility guidance with Cadence. You’ll also receive recorded Fascia Release® modules and complementary cardio sessions to support recovery, resilience, and nervous system balance.
The goal is not just to run, but to move with greater awareness, adaptability, and ease in your body.
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Nourish Yourself
Together, we work to understand what your body actually needs, and how to meet those needs within the real variability of life. Through a somatic and educational approach, you’ll develop practical tools to eat and move with confidence, reduce constant self-doubt, and reconnect with your embodied experience.
Rather than prescribing rigid rules, this work helps you identify the patterns, beliefs, and roadblocks that interrupt your sense of ease. We’ll build a flexible, neutral framework for nourishment that can always be returned to as a stable reference point. Together, we’ll support you through travel, stress, illness, celebration, and everyday change to find a place of confidence in your choices and nourishment in your body.
Monthly Live Virtual Workshops and drop-in Restorative Classes
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Fascia Release™
Drop in every last Thursday of the month at 6pm EST
75 min monthly guided Live Virtual self massage workshop using a foam roller and massage ball developed by Cadence.
Release chronic tension, heal chronic pain, learn about your body, gain tools you can continue to use on your own.
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Restorative Mobility
Restorative drop-in Live Virtual class every Thursday (holiday dependent) at 11:·0am EST.
Classes are designed to rebalance your body and brain and leave you centered and refreshed for your day.
Things you might need
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Busy Body Podcast
This is a podcast for people with lives, jobs, families, and hobbies that don’t revolve around the gym, but who still want to find balance in their busy bodies
Cadence
As the founder of Brooklyn Strength, I work with clients wherever they are; scar tissue, injury and recovery, the complexities of pregnancy and birth, the circumstances that make up our lives, struggles and celebrations.
About the studio
Brooklyn Strength Studio is a thriving virtual community, a supportive space that transcends physical boundaries, fostering strength and connection through movement.
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