The Pilates Studio Swansea

01/03/2026

✨ New Blog Post ✨
‼️Gym Reformer is NOT Pilates‼️

The fitness world is experiencing a Pilates boom in the form of reformer gyms and weekend certifications, but is it really Pilates? Driven by social media and the mass production of inexpensive reformer like machines, the original method is being diluted with classes claiming to be pilates. As a Comprehensive Pilates teacher trainer, I put a gym reformer class to the test to see how the differed from a comprehensive pilates session. I found gym reformer:

❌ Lacked any movement created by Joseph Pilates

❌ Focused on muscle isolation over whole-body connection

❌Used equipment in ways that were awkward and potentially unsafe.

❌Failed to contain any of the tenants of the Pilates system

Crucially, I also provide you with questions so you can go beyond jumping onto the pilates bandwagon and experience the benefits of The Pilates Method, far superior to a gym experience!


Have you experienced authentic Pilates yet?

24/02/2026

22/02/2026

✨Happy 60th Birthday to a very dedicated client!✨

Less than 5 years ago, we were faced with a challenge: back surgery or a last ditch attempt where all else had failed: Pilates. There was no guarantee we could overcome the spinal damage and return the client to pain free running and racing.

Yet here we are, celebrating his 60th birthday with a birthday Traditional Ending. The journey from having almost no spinal stability or mobility to returning to running regularly ( including several races) has been the result of perseverance as well and dedication to the principles of pilates. To say this client has maintained consistency, control, and consistency is an understatement. I am humbled by his work ethic and commitment.

✨Happy 60th Birthday!✨

10/02/2026

Why Your Reformer Matters
Trying out the authentic Pilates system on a gym reformer.

Gym reformer studios are the current boom in the name of Pilates. Yet reformers are only a part of the entire system. Worse, the machines being mass marketed to equip reformer studios bear little resemblance to the apparatus developed concurrently with the complete system of Pilates.

What are these changes? How do they effect the exercises of the system? How does this ultimately affect the benefits of a pilates session?

Check out this month’s blog about how the changes to reformers for commercial aspects negatively affect the benefit of actual pilates to clients.

Have you tried authentic Pilates Apparatus?

06/02/2026

Amazing original footage.

Eve demonstrating the telescoping ped-of-pul. This is one of the pieces of equipment Joe gave Eve for her breast cancer rehabilitation. Circa 1957 The Pilates LAB Central Studio Pilates Miami Shores

28/01/2026

Brilliant blog about the importance of understanding the difference between authentic Pilates and the gym reformer craze: https://www.lifespanpilates.com/blog/beyond-the-burn-why-precision-is-the-ultimate-nyc-luxury?fbclid=IwY2xjawPmsrJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe2CLzWnhZhFU9xGUveptPngL6dygt7lwC_BOKvKCrLUNLVdKlb9vqEZIvc4U_aem_u4KAY-aIFAK6-QnXZij4aQ

In a standard fitness class, the goal is often to reach muscular failure through high repetition. In Romana’s Pilates , we aim for muscular intelligence . If you can perform ten repetitions of an exercise, but your form begins to waver by the fourth, the remaining six reps are not just ineffective

27/01/2026

🏆Winner! Best of Welsh Business Awards- Business Southwest Heath and Fitness 2026!🏆

Thank you to all my clients /colleagues/friends who not only voted for me but also support in me and our truly special little studio.

It is such an honor to have won this award as the studio looks to celebrate 10 years this year and I look to celebrate 20 years of teaching in Wales! Teaching Pilates is a humbling job, running a studio takes long hours, and continuing to grow as a teacher and a trainer takes a lot of dedication and effort. This recognition means so much to me. Thank you All!

25/01/2026

Guess where we are tonight….. 🥳

Who’s here?? Give us a whoooooooooo!

07/01/2026

Our sister studio in the North. Know someone who needs Pilates near Leeds? This is the place!

Honesty…. The beauty & genius of Joseph Pilates’ work is the honesty you find in yourself when you move. To move well, and move with honesty is a gift we give ourselves. It’s not about being perfect, making a pretty picture, doing something that makes others go wow…. It’s about building strength by being honest with yourself, trusting your instincts, moving from inside… not about the out. When you move with honesty and from within…. It always looks beautiful. 🤍🤍🤍
Honest and pure Pilates…. Everyone welcome.

01/01/2026

✨About our Award Winning Pilates Studio✨

The Pilates Studio Swansea is an original Pilates studio established in 2009 and resident in our current studio since 2016. Unlike the recent trend of reformer studios, our studio is rooted in the full Method developed by Joseph Pilates with the only 2nd generation teacher in Wales.

Our Studio:
🌟Client Focused - Committed to clients learning to move optimally and independently through the medium of The Pilates Method.

🌟Full Method of Pilates: Incorporate the full system with all the apparatus to provide individual attention, both in our apparatus and group sessions.

🌟Highest Standard of Teacher Training: Provides the highest standard of hands on comprehensive teacher training of the method of pilates.

🌟Direct Lineage to the original method. The Only second generation teacher in Wales, trained comprehensively with a protege of Joseph Pilates.

Our Studio does not:
❌Provide reformer only large group gym style exercise classes.

❌Use Pilates apparatus to do PT exercises.

❌Focus on isolating muscles and feel the burn workouts.

❌ ‘Teach flows’ or difficult choreography rather than good movement.

❌Invent exercises to entertain clients.

❌Reinvent our services for marketing purposes. We just Pilates, to the highest standard.

The proof is in the decades of experience, high standard of our client’s practice, depth of knowledge in our teaching, and well, being an award winning studio. For more about our studio and the awards, please check out the link in our bio!

26/12/2025

Dear clients, join me in my sunrise mat in the clients’s group page!

14/12/2025

✨Vienna Workshops 2025✨
It was an honor to attend the inaugural workshops for in Austria, Vienna this month. And what a fantastic experience it was! Warming up with full body prep with Jamie, followed by a study of an archival mat by Emre, the a fascinating discussion of anatomy by Alexandra ( yes, in classical pilates we use science to back the genius of pilates), and finishing with a thought provoking and interactive discourse on scoliosis. Completed with private sessions, this was a weekend truly rich in inspiring pilates!

A shoutout to
💪Jamie Trout for her wealth of experience in imbalances
💪 Emre Onuk for his devotion and continued study of the archival work of Joseph Pilates.
💪 Alexandra Frankl for sharing her study of the human body and being a fabulous host in the beautiful city of Vienna!

Finally, to my pilates family- .futures for a fabulous weekend!