Penny Johnstone Pilates

Happy New Year everyone. I wish you all good health and peace in 2026.
I am now taking bookings for the next term of Pilates.
Classes resume on the 13th January. The timetable is as follows.

Tuesday 9.15am - post beginners working towards Intermediate. FULL
Tuesday 10.30am - Beginners and post beginners.

Wednesday 10.30am Seated - online

Thursday 7.15am Intermediate/advanced - online

Thursday 9.15am Intermediate/advanced FULL

Friday 9.15am post beginners working towards Intermediate. Online

Friday 6.15pm Intermediate.

In person classes are held in the small hall at Bellfield. Online classes are delivered via Zoom.

Classes are 1 hour long.

Cost £10 per class paid in advance for the term or £11 per class as a drop in.

All equipment is provided.

I look forward to guiding you towards a strong flexible future.

I hope everyone is enjoying the festive break. Classes are filling up so if you want to secure a place on the mat in January please get in touch.

We have one last full week of classes before we break for the festive season.
I wish you all peace and good health for 2026.

💥💣🧨ATTENTION: You know that if we don't reach £100k then we can't go ahead with the share offer right? Months of effort, 100s of hours of volunteer time, the countless resources that have been spent, will BLOW UP💥. We don't want to panic you, just to LIGHT A FUSE🧨 behind anyone who has been slow to donate, or could donate more, because we're approaching the final week and it would be fantastic to DIFFUSE some of the tension here - this is nail biting stuff. We're at around the £76k mark just now. You can see this week needs a BOOM in donations! If we can reach our target by Saturday then we can all party at the Showcase (2-5 - free just turn up) and the Ceilidh (6-10)

Sumup payments here: https://bellfields-big-build.sumupstore.com/

If you missed that a bomb surfaced last week on Porty Beach, we're told it was likely from a plane shot down in 1939. The bomb was safely removed by officials, no-one was harmed. Here's the story about what happened in 1939: https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/history/reason-10000-edinburgh-residents-lined-22324798

Excited for the improvements to our class venue. Please read and buy a share (or two) if you want to be involved.

Thanks to everyone for your help in making Bellfield a place to belong for the future! We've had 100s of investors and supporters in the last 2 weeks, but many new people have just joined us, so it's worth outlining once more what exactly we're doing:

Action Porty is a community benefit society owned by its members. We are now half way through our community share offer, with a minimum target of £100,000. Raising this money will unlock a further £450,000 in government funding that we need to enable this transformation to proceed. Without the community investment this other funding will fall through.

What is going to happen?
We will transform the Celebration Hall (the old church building) into a spacious upper floor for events, weddings, workshops and performances, install a lift to make it accessible, and turn the ground floor into flexible and accessible spaces. There will also be new toilets, a kitchen, as well as new heating and ventilation.

How can you help us secure the deal and make this happen?
The simple answer is to invest in Bellfield by buying community shares. We need as many people as possible to buy in! Sharing and interacting with our posts and talking to your friends about this really helps as well.

Link to our shares shop: https://bellfields-big-build.sumupstore.com/

Why are you doing this?
This is about much more than a building. We're all about building community, welcoming everyone into that and rallying against the loss of public spaces. This isn't a 'nice to have' it's the foundation around which we grow collectively.

Link to find out more: https://www.bellfield.scot/buy-shares

Or get in touch with us at [email protected]

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A reminder that classes resume this week following the mid term break. I look forward to seeing you all.

Thank you to all who attended todays neck and shoulder workshop.Was great to see you all and I hope you are all feeling the benefit.

There are still places available in the Neck and Shoulder workshop if anyone else would like to join me.

It will be held in the small hall at Bellfield on the 2nd Feb at 4.30pm - 6pm.
Cost £20.
Booking essential.

We will take a look at the relationship between our heads, spine, shoulder girdle and of course breath.
There will be a combination of release and strengthening/stabilising repertoire to cover all concerns.

This class is open to all.

Any questions do get in touch.

Tonights class at Bellfield has been cancelled. All attendees should have received an email, please check that you have received it. The class will run via Zoom, you have been sent the link.

Emails have gone out with links to classes and confirmation of places in face to face classes.
If you haven't received yours do let me know.
Please note I have corrected my error in the date/month of the shoulder workshop.
The correct date is the 2nd February.

Hello and best wishes for a happy healthy New Year,

I am now taking bookings for classes starting the week beginning the 6th January 2025.
If you would like to start or restart Pilates with me please get in touch so that I can guide you towards a stronger more flexible future.

I continue to offer three classes online via zoom;
Monday Intermediate at 7.30pm
Thursday Intermediate at 7.15am
Friday Post Beginners/working towards Intermediate at 9.15am.

And in person at Bellfield on Bellfield Street Portobello.
Tuesday Post Beginners/working towards Intermediate at 9.15am.
Tuesday Beginners/Post Beginners at 10.30am
Thursday Intermediate at 9.15am
Friday General at 6.15pm

Date for your diary
Sunday 2nd February Neck and Shoulder workshop 4.30pm - 6pm.
We will be looking at Shoulder mobility and strengthening.
Open to all levels.
Cost £20

Classes run in blocks.
Dates 6th January - 4th April ( no class the week of 10 - 16th Feb )
Cost for the block is £108 ( this can be paid in 2 instalments )
OR
£10 per class drop in by arrangement. Priority will be given to those who have paid for the block.
Monday and Fridays online classes run as drop in only.

Missed classes can be made up by attending another of a suitable level, either in person or online.

I am also available for 1:1 appointments either in my home, your home or in a fully equipped Pilates studio situated in the city centre. Price £35 - £45.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Our last class of the year is on Friday the 20th December.

I would like to thank all class attendees for their hard work and commitment in 2024.

I wish you all a happy healthy festive season and 2025.

An email has been sent out with information about classes in 2025. If you haven't received yours please let me know.
If you would like to receive emails from me let me know and I'll add you to the list.