Main studio·50 minutes·12 people
Reformer Flow
The everyday class. Continuous, cued rather than demonstrated, and it assumes you know the machine.
Led byPriya Raghunathan, also taught by Nadia Kellner and Elin Sowerby.
This class isn’t
for you if…
Reformer Flow is not for you if this is your first month on a reformer. It moves continuously and the cueing is verbal — Priya will say "long box, straps in your hands" and expect the room to already be there. You would spend the class one step behind, which is miserable and teaches you nothing. Do Foundations first; it is six classes, not a life sentence. It is also the wrong class if your back is currently painful rather than historically grumpy, and the wrong class if you are pregnant or postnatal.
If that describes you, don’t book Reformer Flow —let the router find the right one, orask us. Nobody here is on commission.
Who it is for
You have done six or so Foundations, or you have trained on a reformer somewhere else and want a studio rather than an introduction. You want to come twice a week and not think about it much. This is the class the timetable is mostly made of, and the one most people mean when they say they do pilates.
What fifty minutes of it feels like
Warm within five minutes and continuous after that. Not brutal — you will not be gasping — but there are no long pauses and the springs change often. Most people are quietly surprised by how tired their arms are by minute forty. You leave feeling like you have worked rather than like you have been punished.
What actually happens
Fifty minutes, twelve reformers, no mirror at the front. Priya sets a sequence at the start of each week and the class works through it — footwork, straps, long box, standing work on the carriage, side-lying, and a proper stretch at the end that people occasionally fall asleep during.
The word “flow” is doing real work in the name. Springs change while you are still moving. Nobody demonstrates; you are told what to do and the room does it. That is what makes it efficient and also what makes it the wrong first class.
It is not a level system
We deliberately do not number our classes. A “Level 2” tells you how hard something is and tells you nothing about whether you belong in it, which is the question people are actually asking. Reformer Flow has people in it who have trained for eleven years and people in their seventh week. It works because the spring load is yours to set, and because Priya will quietly hand you a lighter option without announcing it to the room.
If you are coming from another studio
You will find our carriage travel slightly shorter and our tempo slightly slower than a franchise class, and the room considerably quieter. Tell whoever is teaching that it is your first one here. They will not make you introduce yourself — they will just watch your first ten minutes more closely than everyone else’s.
If that is not it
Foundations
The first six weeks. You learn the machine before you learn the workout.
Tower & Chair
Six people, springs instead of momentum. The quietest hard thing on the timetable.
Jump Board
Cardio, lying down. A board on the end of the reformer, loud music, forty-five minutes.