The planned week
One floor, five parts of the day, seven days
This is the week the studio is planning around: which format has the room in each part of each day, and which windows are kept for people coming in for the first time.
It is a plan, not a timetable to book from. There is no opening date yet, so nothing below carries a clock time. Times inside each window are set when the timetable is published, and the plan can still change before then; this page changes with it.
Window by window
Groups early and late, one or two people at a time around midday, Sunday for the machines.
- Reformer group
- Foundation block
- Mat class
- Privates and duets
- Intro sessions, tick to ask
- Care, or closed
Capacity rules every window keeps
The number of reformers on the floor is published with the timetable. These rules do not wait for it: they are how a class is sized whatever that number turns out to be, and they are what the studio holds itself to.
Reformer groups
One person to one reformer. A class is never bigger than the machines on the floor, and nobody shares a machine or waits beside one.
Foundation blocks
A closed group: the same people at every session of the block, and nobody joins after its first session. Never bigger than the machines.
Mat classes
The reformers go back to their marks and mats are laid between them. As many people as there are mats with room to move round each one.
Privates and duets
A private is one person with one instructor. A duet is two people sharing an instructor and a plan, each on a machine of their own.
Intro sessions
One person, or two who ask to come together. The welcome conversation and orientation on the machine happen in the same visit.
Changeover
Every window ends with time to reset and wipe down every machine before the next people come in. A class that runs over takes that time from itself, never from the clean-down.
Out of service
A machine with a fault comes off the floor at once. That class loses a place for the day rather than share a machine; how the machines are looked after is on the care page.
A full class
When a class is full, a waiting list keeps the order people asked in, and a place that frees up goes to the next person on it.
What each format is for, and how it runs: the formats.
Intro windows: preferred, not booked
Six windows of the week are kept for newcomers. You name up to three, in order.
An intro session is the first visit on the route in: the welcome conversation, then orientation on the machine, for one person or two who come together. In the planned week they sit at midday on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and in the afternoon on Tuesday and Thursday.
A request is for preferred windows, not a booked slot. With no opening date there is no time to promise. You give up to three windows in the order you would choose them and the month you could start from, and the studio offers a real day and time inside one of them once the timetable has times.
The request asks four things: the windows, whether you come alone or as a pair, how much of Pilates you have done before, and the month you could start from. Nothing about health, injuries or your body is asked online, and there is no box for it: that is talked through in person, at the welcome conversation.
After you ask
A request moves through four stages, and only something real moves it: the studio, by hand, or you. Until the timetable has times it stays at the first one, and your account says so rather than pretend otherwise.
Received
You sent it. It stays here until the studio itself moves it.
Time offered
Once the timetable has real times, the studio writes with a day and time inside one of your windows.
Agreed
You say yes to that time, and the studio marks it agreed.
Done
You came in: the welcome conversation and orientation are behind you.
Changing your mind
From your account you can change the windows, the month or anything else in the request at any time; a change sends it back to Received, because an offered time may no longer fit. Withdrawing deletes it at once. Deleting the account deletes it too.