October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, and Shape magazine and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) are again inviting the Pilates industry to support the cause with their Pilates for Pink initiative.

Like last year, studios and fitness facilities nationwide can sign up to host classes. If you’re interested, e-mail Shape, stand by for your “Pilates for Pink” kit, which includes promotional materials and sign-up/pledge forms, and then host away. Don’t forget to wear pink! Check out the Pilates for Pink site for information about how to get involved or to find participating classes/studios.

And if you can make it to the Big Apple on Sunday, Oct. 4, Shape and the BCRF are hosting “Pilates in the Park” in New York City’s Union Square, with a full day of classes from an array of top instructors. You can check all of that out here. A $25 donation lands you one class and a mat, along with admission to all tents and a host of product samples and giveaways. For each additional class, you’ll donate $5. Last year’s event sold out two weeks in advance so more classes were added this year.

Shape is also offering a new 2009 Pilates for Pink Core Challenge DVD along with 2008’s Shape Mari Winsor Pilates for Pink DVD; a percentage of the proceeds of both benefits BCRF.