The studio
The room and the machines
One fully equipped Pilates room in Cape Town, kept for people who already know what they are doing in it.
What is in it
Cadillac
A full trapeze table with the bars, springs and straps, for the work that needs support and for the work that needs resistance.
Reformers
For repertoire, for teaching a private, and for rehearsing a class before you take it in front of people.
Mats
Floor space for matwork, for warming up and for filming without apparatus in the frame.
Props
The small equipment that turns up in the repertoire and in an exam: bands, balls, circles and blocks.
The hours nobody can do for you
The training path
Most people in the room are working through a comprehensive certification: a written exam, a practical, and a required number of observation, practice and teaching hours logged before either. Those hours are the reason this studio exists. They are hard to find when every room in the city is running a class, and they are the part of the qualification nobody can do for you.
Who it is for
Qualified instructors, and instructors working their way through a certification. Nobody is teaching you here: the room is hired, not supervised, and you bring your own plan for the hour. If you are new to Pilates and looking for a class, a studio with a timetable will serve you better than this one.
Studio guidelines
- Your hour starts and ends on the hour. Leave time to reset the springs and the stoppers for whoever is in next.
- Wipe down the apparatus and put the props back where you found them.
- Socks on the apparatus.
- The room is yours for the hour. You are welcome to bring one client or one practice partner, unless you have booked it for a shoot with more people in it.
- Tell us when you book what you are doing, so the room is set up the way you need it.
- Anything that breaks or feels wrong, say so the same day rather than leaving it for the next person to find.