Pilates with April

Four years ago, PWA opened its doors not knowing who would walk through them 🤍

Since then, we’ve watched women rebuild strength they thought was gone 💪🏼
Mums find their bodies again after birth. 🤱🏽
Men who swore this wasn’t “their thing” become some of our most consistent faces. 😅

Swipe through for 6 things that journey has taught us. 👉

None of it would mean anything without the people who kept showing up. So — thank you. 🙏🏼

What has Pilates taught you since you started? We’d love to hear 👇

You don’t need to be advanced to feel challenged in this room ❤️‍🔥

Friday’s flow moved from standing to kneeling to lying and back — same sequence, same magic circle, but layered so it meets you exactly where you are and builds from there. That’s the part people don’t expect from Pilates: one movement flows straight into the next, and it still gets harder the stronger you get ✨

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Some post-challenge Signature class favourites from this week ❤️‍🔥

What does everyone want to see next week in our Signature classes?

That feel good spinal movement inspired by Jordan | Pilates Coach, London

Still on a high from Sunday. 🍉✦ Can we do it again?!

The Sunday Session with Noot | Non-Alcoholic Cocktails was everything and more — mats out, LEON 🍸 on the decks and behind the bar shaking up zero-proof magic (what can’t he do?!), and the best community energy we could’ve asked for. Genuinely still buzzing. ✨

Swipe through some of the magic captured by the incredibly talented F L A X M E D I A H O U S E 📸

So… do you want more of these? Tell us in the comments. 👀✦

End of the PWA Classical Challenge - the full Classical Order.

No trending audio on this one. Just April’s cues, left in exactly as she gave them 🎧🤍

Listen closely and you’ll notice how simple they’ve become.

After five weeks of learning, layering and repeating the same exercises, Week 6 was about bringing it all together. We spent the week moving through the Classical order… well, our slightly shorter PWA version because our classes aren’t 90 minutes long 😂

Starting with footwork (which didn’t make the cut because Instagram only gives us 20 slides 🫠), we worked through the order with reps instead of layers, less talking and simpler cues. *Opening slide was in the middle of the class, not at the beginning but this was so impressive and controlled we had to start with it.

By this point, we call the exercise and the room finds it. That’s not us going easy on the cues. That’s five weeks of repetition until their bodies know where they need to be ✨

And we are SO proud of this group.

Six weeks in, the difference is impossible to miss. More strength, more control and so much more confidence in exercises that felt completely foreign back in Week 1.

This is why we run the Classical Challenge every year 🤍 It’s not about learning more exercises. It’s about learning your own body within them. Building proprioception, understanding safe entries and exits, and finding the full expression of an exercise without needing someone to talk you through every second.

Even our cueing gets simpler by Week 6.

That’s the whole point 🥹🤍

We can’t wait for the next round.

Some weeks in the Challenge are about hitting new shapes. Last week was about control ✨

The focus was Control Front and Control Back — the kind of quiet, precise strength that doesn’t always look impressive but changes how your whole body moves IYKYK 🥵.

Friday’s class warmed things up with back rowing into the sternum, plus some supine tricep and ab work, and we threw Russian splits into the class plan too — part of the repertoire, and a good challenge for the room!

This is the stuff that makes everything else possible — it’s just not always the part that makes the highlight reel ❤️‍🔥

Final week of the challenge - Let’s go!!

Another Sunday Session in the books and honestly? We’re never going back to normal Sundays 🥂✨

Reformer first, Noot second, good people always 🪩

This is what “starting the day right” actually looks like 🕺

More Sundays like this coming — you know where to find us 🖤
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