Classes
Five class types. No mystery about what each one is.
Read this before you book. It will save you a class that wasn’t the one you wanted.
The five classes
Pick by what you came for, not by the time slot.
Each class type has a job. Vinyasa is for movement. Hatha is for detail. Restorative is for the nervous system. Pilates is for strength. The schedule lives on the booking page — what each class actually is lives here.
Vinyasa
Breath-linked movement, peak posture around minute forty. Sixty minutes. Levels 1 and 2 only — “all-levels” tends to underserve everyone.
Hatha
Slower, hold-based, posture detail. Sixty or seventy-five minutes. Good for new students, returning students, and experienced students who want quiet.
Restorative
Five supported postures over sixty minutes. Lights low, no talking over the holds. Sunday evenings are the calmest.
Before the room fills
Mats out, music off, doors closing on the bell.
The desk sets the room ten minutes ahead. Loaner mats stacked, blocks at the back, the teacher’s mat at the front by the window. If you arrive while the room is being set, take any spot — nothing is reserved.
Pilates, in detail
Mat work and reformer work, programmed differently than most studios.
Fewer reps. More attention to alignment. The point is loading the body well, not racking up a number. Mat is fifty minutes; reformer is fifty minutes with six reformers on the floor.
- Mat pilates
- 50 min · cap 14 · all levels
- Reformer pilates
- 50 min · cap 6 · books 8 days out
- Reformer first-time fee
- $10 setup, applied to your pack
- Late arrivals
- Door closes at the bell. We will not let you in mid-cue.
Studio B, the reformers
Six reformers. No seventh.
We bought six because that is the number of bodies one teacher can cue well in fifty minutes. Adding a seventh is the easiest way to halve the value of every other slot in the room. We will not do it.
If this is your first class
Start here, not in the room that looks the most photogenic.
- Pick Hatha on a Tuesday evening or Saturday morning. The pace is right for learning the postures.
- Arrive fifteen minutes early. The desk will tour you. The locker room has a code.
- Borrow a mat at the desk. No charge. We have blocks and straps already in the room.
- Tell the teacher anything that hurts. Before class, not during. They will adjust the cues for you.