About JP Pilates
JP Pilates is a small studio in Castlefield offering Reformer Pilates in a welcoming and sociable environment.
With 6 reformers you can be assured that you will receive high quality instruction whether you are a beginner or at a more intermediate/advanced level. With a small group, instructors are able to assess everyone's needs and ability, allowing you to get the most out of each session and receive personalised feedback.
Our timetable is structured so there is a 10 minute break between classes, allowing instructors to give feedback and answer your questions, and also check whether anyone in the next class has any injuries or anything they need to be aware of. This also allows time for you to get to know your teachers and chat to other members of your class if you wish to. This means that each class should start and finish on time, allowing you to get the full hour you have paid for.
Why are we called JP Pilates?
JP Pilates was set up by Joanna and Penelope Weaver, a daughter and mother partnership, and thus the name JP Pilates was formed to incorporate both our initials and the link to Joseph Pilates.
Joseph Pilates was the founder of the Pilates method of exercise and inventor of Pilates equipment. Born in Germany in 1880, Joseph Pilates moved to England in 1912 where he worked as a boxer, circus performer and trained detectives in self-defence. When WW1 broke out Pilates was interned as a POW in Lancaster and later moved to the Isle of Man. Pilates was trained as an orderly in the hospital, but was apalled to see so many ill people in bed not exercising. He devised a gentle exercise programme for these patients and it soon became apparanet that those practicinsg his exercises were improving faster. Pilates then developed his exercises to incorporate the use of resistance using the spring from old hospital beds - this was the start of Reformer Pilates.
