First Time doing Pilates

If it’s your first time doing Pilates, your first step is The Intro Class. Here we can assess your strengths/weaknesses and design your programme for movement freedom.

Following your Intro Class, you can move on to either a pack of private classes or try our Group Equipment Starter Pack.

This starter pack gives you 2 classes at a discounted rate. Try it out and see how your body feels with consistent and regular classical Pilates classes with personalised guidance.

If you have any questions, please don’t be shy! During your intro class we can chat and see what you might need the most.

Both the Intro class and the GE starter pack can only be purchased once per client.

Equipment

Around a century ago, Joseph Pilates designed a comprehensive movement system to be performed on different pieces of equipment, notably the Reformer/ Tower.

Incorporating a chain of pulleys, handles, springs and straps, the apparatus can provide both resistance and support to suit your specific needs as you move through different Pilates movements.

We also have the high barrel to restore your body’s full movement expression in our fully equipped studio.

Each piece of equipment is specially designed to train different body parts for optimal health.

What to expect

At SW4 Pilates we keep class sizes small.

You will use a traditional Reformer/Tower machine initially designed by Joseph Pilates as we reprogram your body.

Our chief instructor Chiara gives feedback in real-time – highlighting your unique weaknesses and misalignments to kickstart profound rehabilitating, strengthening, and injury-preventing effects.

By stabilising and challenging the body with the specially designed apparatus, we recode your muscles, joints and nervous system to build a lifelong foundation for free movement.

Contemporary Pilates can be beneficial, but too often people get lost in busy classes with 20+ people. In this environment, many do not get enough attention from the teacher, and end up cheating the body by performing movements incorrectly.

We stay true to the key principles outlined a century ago by Joseph Pilates to heal our students suffering from chronic pains, niggling injuries and lifelong weaknesses.

With more than seven years teaching classical Pilates and a background in Sports Therapy, Chiara has trained elite athletes, professional dancers, and busy professionals seeking to reclaim their body’s hidden vitality.