Johanna Ricouz’s lululemon Feature Celebrates Her Pilates Roots

The Johanna Ricouz’s lululemon feature, TheWarm Up is here, and it is one of the more revealing conversations the series has produced. Peloton Pilates instructor Johanna Ricouz sits down with yoga instructor and fellow lululemon Ambassador Mai Izumitani for lululemon’s The Warm Up, a content series featuring Ambassadors in conversation about movement, mindset, and what drives their practice. Her Pilates identity takes center stage.

During the Johanna Ricouz’s lululemon feature, the two compare disciplines, trade perspectives on their respective practices, and get into the kind of honest, community-minded conversation that defines the Warm Up series.

Johanna Ricouz on Pilates: “I’m a Pilates Girl Through and Through”

“I always practiced it growing up,” she says. “I didn’t know it was Pilates until I got older.”

That origin story tracks with everything she has built since. Johanna joined Peloton in late 2025 after more than a decade developing her own methodology, The Pilates Plug, a signature approach built around accessibility, community, and the idea that you do not have to be a watered-down version of yourself to show up on the mat. For a full look at her background and how The Pilates Plug came to be, The Clip Out’s profile on Johanna and The Pilates Plug is a good place to start.

The Nemesis Move: Teaser

Every Pilates practitioner has that one exercise. For Johanna, it is the teaser.

She names it without hesitation when asked about her nemesis move in the Johanna Ricouz’s lululemon conversation. The teaser is a classic Pilates exercise that demands spinal articulation, core control, and balance simultaneously. Even for someone with Johanna’s background and teaching experience, it remains the move that keeps her honest.

It is the kind of candid answer that makes her popular as an instructor. She does not perform perfection.

Pilates Versus Yoga: A Debate She Is Ready to Settle

One of the more interesting moments in the Johanna Ricouz’s lululemon feature comes when she and Mai Izumitani address the so-called rivalry between their respective disciplines.

Johanna acknowledges it directly. There is, she says, an unspoken internet rivalry between yoga and Pilates. But her take on it is measured: the two practices have far more in common than most people realize. Both draw on breath, body awareness, controlled movement, and community. The debate, in her view, does not need to exist.

“It doesn’t have to be one or another,” she says.

That perspective fits the broader spirit of The Warm Up series, which tends to feature athletes and instructors who are more interested in expanding conversations than winning them. Sitting alongside a yoga instructor and finding common ground rather than contrast is a natural extension of the philosophy Johanna brings to her classes.

A Growing lululemon Presence

The Warm Up feature is not Johanna’s first appearance in lululemon’s world since becoming an Ambassador. In March 2026, she taught a Sunrise Pilates class at lululemon Studio Yet, a pop-up fitness series held in Los Angeles, on the same day as fellow Peloton instructors Olivia Amato and Adrian Williams. Ticket sales from that event were donated to BlacklistLA, a local nonprofit organization. The Clip Out covered that Studio Yet event as part of the Olivia Amato lululemon ambassador story.

Johanna Ricouz’s lululemon ambassador relationship has been building steadily, and The Warm Up feature is a natural next step. She is among a group of Peloton instructors serving as lululemon global ambassadors, a roster that also includes Cody Rigsby, Callie Gullickson, Erik Jäger, Hannah Frankson, Adrian Williams, and Chelsea Jackson Roberts.

The Peloton and lululemon partnership, which launched in October 2023, established lululemon as Peloton’s primary athletic apparel partner and created the pathway for these ambassador roles.

Johanna Ricouz’s lululemon Feature Is Worth the Watch

The Johanna Ricouz’s lululemon feature on The Warm Up, is available in full on lululemon’s Instagram. If you are already in Johanna’s classes on Peloton, it offers a window into how she thinks about the practice she teaches. If you have not tried her Pilates content yet, it is a clear introduction to what she is about.

She has also been candid off the platform. Earlier this year, she appeared on the Good Moms Bad Choices podcast for an episode on identity and wellness. The Clip Out’s coverage of that podcast appearance has more on what she shared there.

Watch the full Johanna Ricouz’s lululemon The Warm Up feature on Instagram.

About Johanna Ricouz

Johanna Ricouz is a Peloton Pilates instructor and lululemon global Ambassador based in Miami. A classically trained ballet dancer, she spent more than a decade building The Pilates Plug, her signature methodology, before joining Peloton in late 2025. The Pilates Plug is built around accessibility, community, and a teaching philosophy rooted in the belief that you do not have to be a watered-down version of yourself to show up on the mat. The Johanna Ricouz lululemon Ambassador partnership is a natural fit for a methodology built around accessibility, community, and showing up as your full self.

Since joining Peloton, Johanna has become one of the platform’s most distinctive voices in the Pilates space. Her classes draw on her dance training and her years of developing a practice that meets people where they are. She has also been open about her personal journey, including her twelve years of sobriety and her biracial background, both of which she has discussed publicly as part of who she is as an instructor and as a person.

For more on the Johanna Ricouz’s lululemon feature, her approach to Peloton Pilates, and the story behind The Pilates Plug, visit The Clip Out’s full profile on Johanna Ricouz.

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