Body Alliance offers one-to-one and small group Pilates equipment classes taught by highly qualified and friendly teachers. Our teachers are trained by the best Pilates training institutes in the UK including Pilates Foundation, Alan Herdman, Polestar Pilates, and Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Institute (APPI). They are members of Pilates Foundation UK or equivalent body.

We offer Pilates for all ages, abilities and fitness levels. Pilates is extremely beneficial for anyone seeking an enjoyable, balanced exercise programme. Read more about it below!

What is Pilates?

Pilates is an exercise technique carefully developed and refined over a period of more than sixty years of use and observation. It has been taught for nearly a hundred years. Pilates’ goal (beyond slimming and strengthening) is to create a closer connection between mind and body. The result is that you will effortlessly move with economy, grace, and balance. You will hold yourself correctly and you will use your body to the greatest advantage, making the most of its strengths, counteracting its weaknesses, and correcting its imbalances.

There are eight basic principals of the Pilates method: Concentration, relaxation, alignment, breathing, centring, precision, flowing movement, coordination. Qualified Pilates practitioners are mindful of these principles at all times, during both the execution of the exercises and the teaching of the movements. They are the foundation of this mind-body system and are what make the Pilates method unique.

“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.” What Joseph Pilates’ opening statement claims is that the mind and body are intricately linked. The condition of the body influences state of the mind, and vice versa.

Benefits of Pilates

We provide an individual and tailored approach for each of our client’s needs, such as:

• Pilates for back, neck or shoulder problems
• Pilates for Stiffness in joints and muscles
• Injury prevention Pilates
• Joints, muscular strength, endurance and flexibility focused Pilates
• Fitness Pilates
• Pre and Post-natal Pilates
• Postural improvement Pilates
• Body awareness Pilates
• Pilates for stress
• Pilates referrals from Physios, Osteopaths, Chiropractors and GPs

Pilates Matwork or Equipment?

Both Equipment and Matwork can be used for all of the above bullet-pointed specialised purposes such as Pre- and Post-Natal, or Postural improvement. We always advise any new clients to carry out an initial Postural assessment for a tailored programme of Pilates classes to be individually designed.

Why do we think our teachers are the best teachers in London!?

Most of our teachers have been teaching Pilates with the equipment for at least a decade! Find out more about their training below:

Our teacher Kirsty Mathieson trained with the Pilates Foundation. Pilates Foundation is widely regarded as one of the very best sources of expertise, providing stringent training programmes. It also ensures Foundation teachers attend specialist workshops and training on an ongoing basis in order to maintain membership. For more info please visit www.pilatesfoundation.com

Alan Herdman trained with First Generation teachers in New York. Our teachers Joanna Blake, Andrea Whiting and Melissa Momple trained directly with him. For more information on Alan Herdman and his classes visit www.alanherdmanpilates.co.uk/

Tania Matos trained with APPI, focusing on rehabilitation and improving lifestyle. APPI ensures Pilates instructors keep up to date with Continued Professional Development to maintain membership. You can find out more about the APPI on www.appihealthgroup.com

A De La Fe and Giuliana Fierro trained with Polestar Pilates. Polestar Pilates uses evidence-based research to apply the theories of movement to Pilates teaching. Find out more about Polestar Pilates on www.polestarpilates.co.uk/

Book your Introductory Pilates class here!

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