What it is
Strengthens and lengthens your deep core stabilisers, and enhances your balance and mobility. Your back will complain less. Done on a reformer: a sliding platform with springs and straps that supports your body while it challenges it. Every spring setting adjusts to you, so the same class works for a first-timer and an athlete lying side by side.
Why it’s on our timetable
Because it’s one of the best-researched ways to build the deep core muscles that hold your spine. The ones ordinary workouts miss. Studies show Pilates improves balance, posture and lower-body strength, supports people with back pain, and does all this while being genuinely gentle on joints. If your body has asked you for a kinder kind of strong, this is it.
The six Pilates principles
Our instructors teach every class around the same six principles Joseph Pilates built the method on: breathing, concentration, centering, control, precision and flow. It is why a Reformer session feels different to an ordinary workout. Every movement is deliberate, connected to your breath, and controlled from your centre outwards. Slow down, and the results speak for themselves.
“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.” Joseph Pilates
Start here: the Foundation Course
The reformer looks complicated, with its springs and straps. And that’s exactly why we don’t throw anyone in the deep end. If you haven’t done Pilates before, you’ll start with our six-week Foundation Course: a hands-on introduction where our trainers teach you the machine, the movements and the breathing properly, step by step. Six weeks later you walk into any class on the timetable knowing exactly what you’re doing.
No one gets thrown in the deep end here. We teach you properly first.
Done Pilates before? Come straight into classes. Can’t wait for the next course? Book a 1:1 or 2:1 session and we’ll bring you up to speed.
Who it’s for
Nearly everyone. Beginners, athletes, pre- and post-natal, anyone whose joints have opinions. Small classes, so your instructor sees every rep.
You’ll leave feeling
Taller. Calmer. Quietly worked in muscles you didn’t know you had.
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Go deeper: Why the reformer is the gentlest path to a strong core