The latest Pilates news from around the Web. Enjoy!

“Surviving breast cancer comes down to the three Ps,” Fletcher client Catherine Kennedy (above) told the Malibu Times. “Preparation, prayer and Pilates. JoAnn changed my life.”

• Malibu Pilates instructor and breast cancer survivor JoAnn Fletcher donates 100 percent of proceeds from her Pilates for Pink classes, making her the top BCRF donor on the West Coast. Congratulations, JoAnn!

• Remember Vic Hart? He launched new Pilates equipment line Root Manufacturing—the first to utilize eco-friendly bamboo—in September, and was featured in his local Colorado paper, the Longmont Times Call.

• Here’s a nice overview of Pilates breath.

• Las Vegas is chock full of injured perfomers. Could Sin City be a Pilates goldmine?

• Naval combat veteran Jon Belanger, owner of Jonny Pilates, who teaches a regular Sunday-morning-in-the-park class, was featured in San Diego’s Uptown News. 

• Confirmed: Michelle Obama does Pilates. At 4:30 a.m. no less.

• The YMCA is getting in on the Pilates game: A Boston area YMCA is opening its own Pilates and Yoga studio. Is this a nationwide trend?