Every instructor on the floor holds comprehensive Pilates certification — six hundred to eight hundred classroom hours, supervised practice teaching, and ongoing continuing-ed. Not one of them earned their stripes in a weekend reformer course. Read on.
Saoirse founded the studio in 2018; the rest of the team joined within five years. Their backgrounds split across rehab (Petra, Imani), athletic performance (Caleb), classical mat (Aurora), and — Saoirse's own — quiet, posture-led reformer. Most clients see two of them per week and consider all five "their" instructor by month six.
Each profile lists certification, classroom hours, specialty, and the formats they teach most. Click "book" on the practice page to see their week's schedule live.
Saoirse opened the studio in 2018 after a six-year apprenticeship under a senior Polestar instructor in Galway. She teaches Foundations and Reformer Strength most days, plus the slow Sunday class. Her cuing is verbal, gentle, and unmistakable; you'll know her voice by week three.
Imani trained through BASI and apprenticed in a New York post-rehab clinic before moving to Austin. She runs the studio's post-rehab consult: clients return to movement after surgery (knee, shoulder, c-section, low-back) under her care first. Tower is also her room — book her 9:30 AM Tower for posture work.
Petra holds STOTT comprehensive certification with a 700-hour add-on in pre and post-natal programming and pelvic-floor rehabilitation. She designed the studio's pre-natal reformer track and runs the once-a-week Wednesday morning post-natal small group. Her screening intake is the gold standard at the studio.
Caleb is a Doctor of Physical Therapy who certified through Polestar mid-career. He works with the studio's runners, cyclists, and tennis players — strength built around sport-specific patterns, with an eye on what the gym alone can't do for a serious endurance athlete. He also teaches Strength Reformer two evenings a week.
Aurora's path was classical — she danced ballet professionally for ten years before moving into Pilates. Her mat classes are the most-attended on the schedule; she also teaches the Wunda Chair small-group three afternoons a week. Cuing is musical and precise; expect to leave taller than you arrived.
Pilates certification is unregulated. Anyone can teach a class after a weekend course. The four credentials below are the ones we hire against — comprehensive, hour-counted, and supervised.
The Pilates Method Alliance's industry-standard credential. Requires 450 hours of comprehensive training, a written exam, and ongoing continuing education. All our senior instructors hold this.
/ 4 of 5 instructorsComprehensive certification covers all apparatus — reformer, tower, chair, barrel, mat — across 600 to 800 supervised hours. The minimum bar to teach at the studio.
/ 5 of 5 instructorsThe three programs we hire from. All three are PMA-accredited, evidence-led, and emphasize anatomy. Not the fast-track reformer-only programs you may see online.
/ programs we hire fromEach instructor completes 30 hours of continuing education per year. Topics rotate: scoliosis, post-rehab, athletic populations, pre + post-natal, fascial work. Their notes show up in your sessions.
/ 30 hr · annualOur instructors share an approach. It's not a brand or a syllabus — it's a set of working principles that show up in every class on the floor. Here is how we describe it to new instructors and to clients.
Lateral breathing is the chassis of every Pilates exercise. We will spend ten minutes on it during your first class, and we will return to it every class after.
"Lengthen the side body" instead of "lift up." If a cue doesn't have a body part attached to it, we don't use it.
Hands-on cuing is the fastest way to find a muscle. We always ask before we touch and we never touch a body part you didn't agree to.
Reformer at speed feels good — but speed is not the goal. Tempo is what protects the joints. We move slowly on purpose, and we make it harder by moving slower.
Every class closes with three to five minutes on the mat. We rest, breathe, integrate. The body does its work in the resting minutes, not the working ones.
Every intro three-pack starts with a one-on-one orientation with Saoirse, Imani, or Petra. Twenty minutes of intake, twenty minutes of moving on the reformer, no charge beyond your three-pack. We pair you with the right ongoing instructor by the second class.
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