The Pilates Workshop ...you're in safe hands!

The Pilates Workshop hosts Pilates classes in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We offer beginners classes to advanced level matwork, including private matwork and machine sessions. All our teachers are fully certified Body Control Pilates™ instructors. "Dedication is the name of the game" says Shelley Smith, Managing Director of The Pilates Workshop - an established group of Body Control Pilates™ Instructors who provide high quality classes throughout the Home Counties. "Dedication, in terms of focus on clients, my own personal development and teacher training - that's why I've invested my heart and soul into developing this business and with such vigor.” The Body Control Pilates™ Association are Europe's foremost professional Pilates organization and is widely seen as a benchmark for safe and effective teaching of the highest quality, with small class sizes ensuring close supervision and support from your teacher. It is Europe’s largest professional Pilates organization and all its teachers undergo a comprehensive training course and continue to build their own skill and knowledge on a regular basis.

Why do you need Pilates?

The popularity of Pilates has exploded recently with over a million people benefiting from the power of Pilates every week. Many celebrities and top sports professionals including Olympic rowers, cricketers, footballers and tennis players rely on Pilates to give them an edge. It is also widely recommended by doctors, physiotherapists and chiropractors for people recovering from injury and to help keep people injury free. So what can Pilates do for you?

We all pick up bad habits and put ourselves in unnatural positions that can ultimately affect our longer term health and mobility. People who sit for long periods at a desk, cyclists who spend long periods hunched over handlebars, people who play racquet sports and overdevelop one side of their body and runners who suffer from the constant impact associated with their activity - even busy mums carrying and looking after their children. Pilates can help us to continue doing the things we need to do, and enjoy doing.

What Pilates does is target the deep postural muscles, building strength from the inside out, rebalancing the body and bringing it into correct alignment. Moreover it builds our awareness of good posture and movement patterns that we will continue to use in our everyday lives. In that sense the benefits of attending a Pilates class go far beyond the actual hour that we might spend practicing it.

 

For more information on Pilates classes or private sessions, please contact The Pilates Workshop.