What reformer Pilates costs in Dundee
Nobody enjoys the bit where you have to work out what something costs from a website that would rather you enquired. So here is ours, written plainly, along with the thing most price pages leave out — what you are actually comparing when you compare two studios.
The sensible way to start is three classes for £45
If you have never done reformer Pilates, this is the number that matters, because it is the only one that answers the real question: is this for me.
Three classes for £45, valid for 21 days from your first booking. That works out at £15 a class, and three is deliberate — one class tells you very little. The first is spent working out where the straps go. The second is where you start to feel what the exercise is asking. By the third you have a real opinion, which is the point.
It covers any of our group classes, so you can try a Reformer class, a Studio Circuit session and a Mat class if you want to compare, or spend all three on the reformer.
After that, most people move onto a class pack
Once you know you want to keep going, packs are how the cost comes down:
5 classes — £105 (£21 a class)
10 classes — £190 (£19 a class)
15 classes — £255 (£17 a class)
They are mix and match, so the same pack covers reformer, Studio Pilates and mat. If you come once a week, a ten-pack is roughly two and a half months of classes.
There is a single-class price of £25, and it exists mostly for people passing through. If you are going to come more than a handful of times, a pack is straightforwardly cheaper and we would rather you were on one.
The number on the website is not the number that matters
This is the part worth reading if you are comparing studios, and it is not really about us.
A class price only means something alongside how many people are in the room. Six people paying £20 each and twelve people paying £12 each look very different on a price page and produce almost the same revenue per hour — but they are completely different hours for the person on the machine.
Our reformer classes are capped at six, which is the number of reformers in the room. There is no waitlist that quietly becomes seven. At six, an instructor can set every machine individually, watch every person move, and change your springs mid-exercise because they saw something. At larger numbers she is teaching from the front and hoping.
So the questions worth asking any studio, ours included: how many people, how many machines, who is teaching, and what happens if something hurts. The price only makes sense as an answer to those.
What you are paying for here
We are not the cheapest reformer classes in the area, and we are not trying to be. Some studios in Dundee and around run introductory offers at a lower headline than ours. That is a real choice and for some people it will be the right one.
What is different here is what sits behind the class. The studio is physiotherapy-led — I am a Chartered Physiotherapist as well as a Pilates teacher, which means the person who set up your machine can also tell you whether the class is the right thing for your knee. Classes are capped at six because that is the number of people one instructor can genuinely attend to. And if it turns out that a class is not where you should be starting, we will say so, which occasionally costs us the sale and is the correct thing to do anyway.
If your back or a specific injury is the reason you are looking at Pilates, this piece on reformer Pilates when your back has been trouble is probably more useful to you than the price list.
The rest of what we do, so it is all in one place
1:1 Studio Pilates — £75 a session, or three sessions for £205 to start. This is the route for anyone who wants the exercises built entirely around them before joining a class, and for bodies that need more attention than a group can give.
1:1 packs — 5 sessions £340, 10 sessions £580.
Physiotherapy — initial assessment £75 for fifty minutes, follow-ups £58 for thirty. A physiotherapy assessment is often the most efficient £75 if you genuinely do not know what is wrong.
Mat Pilates — £17 a class, capped at six.
Post-natal Starter — £99 for one 1:1 session plus three classes.
Pilates At Home — £30 a month for unlimited livestream and on-demand, with a seven-day free trial. Studio clients get the on-demand library included anyway.
Is it worth it?
That depends entirely on what you want from it, and I would rather you decided that with three classes than with a paragraph from me.
What I would say is that the people who get the most from this are not the ones who came for a bargain. They are the ones who found an hour that was theirs, in a room where somebody knew their name and what their shoulder does — and then protected that hour, because it turned out to be the thing that made the rest of the week work.
If you want to see what runs when before committing to anything, the class schedule is public, and if you are still weighing up whether reformer is even the right form for you, this one is about whether it suits beginners.
When you are ready
Start with three classes for £45. Book Foundation first, wear grip socks, arrive ten minutes early. No contract, nothing rolling, nothing to cancel. Whenever you're ready, we're here.
Ailsa Bell MSc BSc is a Chartered Physiotherapist and Pilates teacher at Nutrio Physio & Pilates, 594 Brook Street, Broughty Ferry. HCPC registered (PH127188), CSP member (112899).
