Ryann Pinkerton Pilates

08/24/2026

Today would have been our best friend's 8th Gotcha Day/12th Birthday. We miss him with every fiber of our being. He marched into our lives 8 years ago today and changed our lives for good.

He was so sensitive to our emotions, scared of everything, and absolutely the most spoiled and demanding little boy. When handed food, he ate first and asked questions later, loved tomatoes and watermelon, and only ever spit out celery. He would stare you down and make you move if you were sitting where he wanted to sit. He could only settle in storms if I slept on the floor next to him with brown noise blasting. He never met a sunny spot he didn't sleep in.

And he never met a person he didn't love. He was obsessed with every person he ever met, needed them to play fetch with him. Everyone who has ever come to our house knows you were required to play fetch with him, and that he would put on a super sad face when you left.

He was our whole entire lives and I still cry every day missing him.

Happy birthday, Oscar (aka We**ee aka W***y) 🧡 I'll never stop loving you. I hope you and Kallie are taking care of each other, I just know she's spoiling you.

08/10/2026

It is with the saddest of hearts that I have to share that our baby boy Oscar was laid to rest this Saturday. He had been battling a cancerous tumor growing in his nose for about 6 months and though he spent the vast majority of that time not having a clue anything was wrong with him, he eventually couldn’t breathe through his nose and couldn’t sleep and deserved a peaceful final rest.

There are no words to explain the impact he had on our lives. If you ever met him, you know how unabashedly he loved everyone he ever met. It was as if there was nothing else in the world when he was with you. He was so full of joy, and he was silly and a menace and trusting and sweet and sassy and such a Brutus.

He made us Mama and Papa. He lives in the bones of this house that we bought so we could have him. We took ownership of the house and he took ownership of our hearts the very next day when they dropped him off to us.

We are millennials with no kids but that boy was our son. Our entire lives revolved around him and we are bereft without his presence. And though it still hurts like hell, we are so thankful that we could spend his last 4 days taking him everywhere he loved. We got to send him along the rainbow bridge while holding him in our arms in our living room surrounded by all his favorite toys and treats.

He will live in our hearts forever and ever as the bestest boy there ever was.

05/06/2025

She's done and dusted, y'all. Officially a Registered Massage Therapist after 2 years.

Mostly posting this because some of y'all are chomping at the bit to know when you can book with me, and I promise it's coming soon!

I needed some decompression days and time to set everything up, but I'll be posting soon when and where you can book with me!

03/15/2025

Only a few weeks late but Mardi Gras filled my soul 💜💚💛
vidrine .barrosse

11/26/2024

✨One year without my person, my light, my best friend.✨

It feels like one year, and also one lifetime without you. I still catch myself needing to call you to say “Omg YOU died...wtf”.

Seeing Wicked this weekend was a monumental experience to have without you. And honestly, I’m glad I have another year to prepare to see For Good. I’ll never be the same, Kallie Wallie. But dammit if I haven’t learned some of the hardest lessons of my life in the past year. You’re gone, but you still have a powerful effect on who I am.

I’m so thankful for my renewed friendship with .vidrine so that I can watch your goddaughter grow into an incredible human. I’m so thankful for the emotional growth I’ve *been forced* to have since losing you. I hate growing like this without you, but we can only move forward. And you’ll always be my guiding light. I carry you in my heart in everything I do.

💜 It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me is made of what I learned from you
You’ll be with me like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have re-written mine by being my friend
Because I knew you, I have been changed for good 💜

05/08/2024

Oscar and I went on a magnolia walk to see some GORGEOUS magnolias in our neighborhood that we found thanks to .

Don't sleep on magnolia time, y'all. 🌸

My lil southern heart is so full now 💜

10/22/2023

Oh hey, she's a full time student again! 🤓

I'm back in school for massage therapy and loving it. I thought going back to school as an adult would be hard but I think somehow I'm even better at it now than I was when I was a kid.

No surprise at all that I'm just going deeper into the field of bodywork. Started with dance and cheer, then physical theatre and circus, then fitness, Pilates, pelvic floor work, gait work, and now massage.

And really loving how treatment massage works compared to what I always thought massage was: just spa and relaxation. Both are great, but y'all know treatment is my jam.

So there's my life update. Don't expect to see much more from me for a while.

05/17/2023

Just me and my favorite things on my birthday this year 🌸

Maybe the best thing about living in Nova Scotia is that my favorite flower and tree, the magnolia, comes alive for my birthday 😍

02/18/2023

Mardi Gras Barre fills my soul every year! 💜💚💛

It was a party in Mardi Gras Barre with .pinkerton this morning! Thank you to everyone who came out to join in the fun and celebrations! Ryann teaches Barre on Tuesday evenings at 6:30 pm and Saturday mornings at 10 am. It’s a great way to work out and have a lot of fun!!

02/06/2023

Mardi Gras Barre Time 💜 - https://mailchi.mp/72fbf8957e24/hows-your-posture-16824228