willPower & Grace
by The willPower Method. Training instructors since 2000.
Barefoot. Rhythmic. Built on repetition.
A twenty-five-year-old Method, relaunched for today's world.
as philosophical as it is physical
willPower & Grace is a barefoot workout built on rhythm, repetition and breath. Functional, flowing patterns traverse all three planes of motion — squatting, lunging, bending, twisting, balancing and pushing — linked together for a sustained cardiovascular effect.
It's the cardiovascular challenge mind-body practitioners have been seeking, and the foot-fitness conditioning athletes didn't know they needed.
Productive effort, not exhaustion. We train smarter, not harder.
six things happen at once
PHYSICAL
Smart, multi-level movement develops muscular endurance, flexibility and stamina — with sustained cardio that challenges without exhaustion.
get a feel for our vibeBAREFOOT
Reconnect to the ground beneath you. Build strength, stability and awareness from the feet up. Use all ten toes.
see how we do itMENTAL
Rhythm, repetition and focused attention build the ability to stay responsive rather than reactive. Clearer, steadier, more capable under pressure.
EMOTIONAL
Move what you feel. Breath, rhythm and movement help regulate your response to stress, shift energy and create space for what comes next.
feeling is believingMINDFUL
Repetition creates focus. Breath anchors awareness. Movement becomes a practice in presence — not just performance.
TRANSFORMATIONAL
This practice extends far beyond the workout. Greater confidence. Deeper resilience. A stronger connection to yourself.
start where you are
Most people arrive at willPower & Grace from somewhere else — a mat, a track, a studio, a long break. willPower meets you where you are today.
Yogisyou want to move, sweat, and feel stronger
It feels something like vinyasa, with more rhythm and repetition. Many of the exercises are best understood as dynamic asana — postures practiced rhythmically rather than held. Squats rooted in Utkatasana, lunges in Virabhadrasana. You'll still get breath and presence. You'll also get cardio, momentum, and a healthy sweat.
Pilates & barreyou love precision, posture, intelligent movement
If you appreciate alignment and thoughtful movement, this is an expansion of what you already love. More athletic than Pilates, more dynamic than barre, and still entirely intentional. You'll strengthen your feet, challenge your endurance, and build functional mobility without giving up form.
Runnersyou want strength, mobility, better movement quality
Running asks a lot and gives back narrowly. This supplies what mileage alone misses: foot strength, balance, posture, multi-directional movement. Runners tend to recognize the cardiovascular feel immediately, then get blindsided by what happens to their feet.
Athletesstrength with mobility, power with control
Multi-planar, barefoot, coordination-heavy. We build foot strength, balance, and movement variability — the things traditional training tends to skip. Then people get surprised by how mentally focused they feel walking out.
Dancersyou miss feeling connected to your body
You'll recognize the rhythm, the musicality, the feeling of moving with purpose. What's different is that the goal isn't performance. It's presence. Former dancers often say class wakes up something they thought they'd put down for good.
Midlifeyou're reclaiming strength, confidence, energy
Midlife asks you to adapt — physically, hormonally, emotionally. This was built for real life, not perfection, and it scales. You can work hard and work wisely in the same hour. The bigger shift tends to happen outside the fitness of it: steadier, more capable, more willing to trust yourself.
Burnoutyou move, breathe, repeat
You don't have to figure anything out. That's most of the appeal. The structure holds you, the rhythm carries you, and over time people describe feeling stronger, clearer, and more like themselves again.
Starting againgently, wisely, and with confidence
Whether life got busy, stressful, painful, or simply got in the way, returning to your body can feel intimidating. The workout is layered and scalable, so you set the pace. Because the choreography repeats, familiarity builds fast — and familiarity is where confidence comes from.
the choreography stays the same. that's the point.
of the sequence is identical, week to week
That's not a shortcut. It's the mechanism.
When the choreography is familiar, your attention stops asking what comes next and starts noticing everything else: your alignment, your breath, your foot pressure, the habits you've been carrying around without seeing them. The class becomes a moving meditation.
Motor learning research describes three stages of skill development. Repetition moves you through them. Effort becomes efficiency. Movement becomes instinctive.
Repetition is not the absence of progress.
Repetition is the pathway to progress.
This is why we call it a practice.
give yourself three
You never forget your first. It's completely unfamiliar. You won't know what's coming. Just keep moving.
The second time, it feels more familiar. You start recognizing the shape of it.
By the third time, you'll know.
We already know you're in.
25 years of willPower moments
Stacey Lei Krauss created willPower & Grace in New York City in 1999, teaching at Equinox. Nearly three decades as a movement guide, fitness educator, program creator, and master trainer.
Her work has always tied mindful awareness to movement in a way people called slightly ahead of the curve. For the past decade she's studied yogic philosophy, breathwork, meditation, and healing modalities, largely under a team of teachers in South India.
The 2026 relaunch is a return to the original — the workout that started it, strengthened by twenty-five years of refinement and hundreds of instructors teaching it in the real world.
learn the signature series.
then teach it as yourself.
Learn our signature choreography first, then discover the Method behind it — the principles, progressions and coaching that make willPower & Grace unmistakably willPower. From there, learn to teach it with your own personality, your own voice, in your own room.
everything you need to spread the word
Marketing tools created specifically for willPower & Grace — audience-specific pitches, ready-to-use class descriptions, and resources to help you introduce the program to studios and students.
a global community
Join willPower instructors across the U.S. and around the world. Have a question before you teach? Need an idea or some inspiration? You've got a team.
access to the source
Continue learning and stay inspired with Stacey Lei Krauss, creator of The willPower Method. Through ongoing education, live sessions and fresh ideas, you'll stay connected to the Method as it continues to evolve.