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The Pilates Workshop was founded in 2009 with the aim of making the benefits of Body Control Pilates accessible to everyone throughout Herts, Beds and Bucks.

We currently offer more than 80 weekly classes for all levels and abilities, at over 25 locations throughout the Three counties. We have an outstanding team of experienced Body Control Pilates teachers. We also offer private tuition on Pilates machines ie. Reformer, Cadillac, Chair, to enhance your matwork experience.

At The Pilates Workshop we understand that a so-called “perfect body” has little to do with airbrushing but is instead all about “good movement”. Our aim is to teach you to understand your body and the way it has been designed to move, to help you to get the best from your body whatever age, size or shape you are, so that ultimately you can continue to enjoy whatever it is that you enjoy doing and to have fun while you learn!

The Pilates Workshop - fully qualified BCPA teachers

All teachers with The Pilates Workshop have trained with and are members of The Body Control Pilates Association (BCPA), europe’s foremost professional Pilates organisation and continue to develop their professional knowledge and competence in Pilates. We continue to learn both from our students and from other teachers and we have fun while we learn!

The Pilates Workshop - benchmark for safe and effective teaching

Many of the original classical exercises developed by Joseph Pilates are unsuitable for the average person and the average body. In order for someone to gain the full benefits of Pilates whilst still working safely and effectively, Body Control Pilates has broken the more difficult exercises down so that they can be taught as “building blocks”, encouraging in the first place good movement skills taught safely, before progression. These “building block” exercises have been developed for both mat and machine work.

The Body Control Pilates association 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 foremost professional Pilates organisation and is widely recommended by the medical profession for rehabilitation and prevention of injuries and as one of the safest and most effective forms of exercise available. The eight core principles of Body Control Pilates are as folows’:

Many of the original classical exercises developed by Joseph Pilates are unsuitable for the average person and the average body. In order for someone to gain the full benefits of Pilates whilst still working safely and effectively, Body Control Pilates has broken the more difficult exercises down so that they can be taught as “building blocks”, encouraging in the first place good movement skills taught safely, before progression. These “building block” exercises have been developed for both mat and machine work.

The Pilates Workshop - anyone can do Pilates

Anyone who is interested in improving how they look, feel and move. Our students range in age from 13 to 77 and vary from those who spend too much time sitting to those who don’t sit down enough! We work with stressed out executives with bad necks, office workers and drivers with bad backs, and busy Mums. We work with athletes, people with acute injuries and chronic pain, expectant mothers and High School sports teams.