Classes · six of them, one room

Six ways onto the same eight machines.

Every class in this list runs on the same eight reformers, in the same room, capped at the same eight people. What changes is the spring load, the tempo, and how much of the class you spend upright.

Below, each one is drawn in side elevation with the springs it actually runs on — because the spring bar is the honest description of a pilates class, and no photograph of a smiling person on a machine has ever told you what you were in for.

One spring

Lightest load. The carriage moves easily, so your own control is doing the work rather than the springs.

Two springs

The everyday middle. Enough resistance to push against, light enough to keep a class moving continuously.

Three springs

Heavy. Used for legs, for jumping, and for anything where the machine should push back hard.

Set per person

Private and rehab work, where the load is chosen for one body on the day rather than for a room.

(01) Every class we run · drawn, not photographed

↳ Fig. 05 — Foundations. Two springs, short travel, footbar up.

Reformer Foundations

Beginner50 minSix-week course

The first six weeks, taught as a closed course rather than a drop-in.

The same eight people, the same instructor, six weeks in a row. You learn the springs, the footbar positions, the four foot placements, and what neutral spine actually means — before anyone asks you to hold it under load. Nobody joins halfway through at a different level, which is the entire reason we run it closed.

Week one is mostly footwork and breathing and feels almost too easy. By week four you are doing the same repertoire the Flow 50 room is doing, and you know why your springs are set where they are.

Spring loadTwo red, occasionally one
Class sizeEight, closed for six weeks
Price$220 for the course
IncludedGrip socks and a printed manual

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↳ Fig. 06 — Flow 50. Two springs, full travel, carriage in motion.

Flow 50

Moderate50 minMost booked

Our standard class and the one most people settle into.

Continuous, spring-loaded, and built around the legs and the mid-back. The carriage rarely stops moving for the middle thirty minutes, which is what makes fifty of them feel shorter than they are. You will be warm by minute six and know about it tomorrow.

Sixteen of the twenty-eight classes on the timetable are Flow 50, which means there is almost always one within a few hours of when you want it. It assumes you know where the springs live — do Foundations or the intro offer first if you do not.

Spring loadTwo, changed four or five times
Class sizeEight, capped
Price$34 casual, $29 on a 10-pack
AssumesFoundations or three prior classes

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↳ Fig. 07 — Restore 40. One light spring, headrest flat, carriage still.

Restore 40

Gentle40 minLights down

Light springs, long holds, and the lights down two stops.

Written for the day after a heavy week, for stiff hips, and for anyone coming back from a break who would rather not be brave about it. The carriage barely travels; most of the work is holding a position while the single spring quietly disagrees with you.

It is not a stretch class and it is not a nap. Ana wrote it for her own recovery in 2022 and it turned into the class our long-standing members book on Sunday mornings without thinking about it.

Spring loadOne, occasionally none
Class sizeEight, capped
Price$34 casual, $29 on a 10-pack
Good forRecovery weeks, stiff hips, first weeks back

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↳ Fig. 08 — Jumpboard 45. Three springs, footbar swapped for the board.

Jumpboard 45

Hard45 minCardio

The footbar comes off and a flat board goes on, and then you jump lying down.

Three heavy springs, a plate at the end of the rail, and forty-five minutes of rebounding along it. Because you are horizontal the whole time, your knees and ankles take a fraction of what running asks of them — which is the entire reason this class exists and the reason Dan sends post-injury clients to it before he sends them back to the footpath.

It is the loudest class we run and the only one with music you can hear over the springs. Two a week, Tuesday and Thursday evening. Not a first class — we ask for eight prior reformer classes before you book it.

Spring loadThree, heavy throughout
Class sizeEight, capped
Price$34 casual, $29 on a 10-pack
RequiresEight prior reformer classes

Book Jumpboard 45 Tue & Thu, 19:00

↳ Fig. 09 — Tower & Mat. No carriage. A fixed frame and a push-through bar.

Tower & Mat

Moderate50 minNo carriage

The one class in the room where nothing slides under you.

You work on a flat mat against a fixed vertical frame, pushing and pulling a sprung bar rather than riding a carriage. Because the surface is stable, the springs load your spine and shoulders directly instead of asking your legs to also manage a moving platform.

Most people find it harder than Flow 50 and are surprised by that. It is the class Marta recommends when someone has been doing reformer for two years and has quietly stopped being challenged by it. Wednesday and Saturday only — we have four towers, so this one caps at four rather than eight.

Spring loadTwo on the tower, set per exercise
Class sizeFour — we own four towers
Price$34 casual, $29 on a 10-pack
Good forPlateaued reformer regulars, shoulder work

Book Tower & Mat Wed & Sat

↳ Fig. 10 — One-to-one. Springs unclipped until the instructor has seen you move.

One-to-one

Any level55 minBy appointment

One instructor, one person, and a spring bar that starts empty.

Nothing is set before you arrive, because the point of a private is that the load is chosen for the body in front of the instructor on that particular day. We use these for post-surgical work, for pregnancies past twenty weeks, for anyone whose GP or surgeon has written conditions we need to work inside, and for people who simply learn faster without seven other people in the room.

Dan and Marta take most of them. Book by email or phone rather than through the timetable, because the first thing we will ask is what happened and when.

Spring loadSet per person, per session
Class sizeOne
Price$105, or $480 for five
Booked byEmail or phone, not the timetable

Enquire about a private Injury & pre-natal policy

(02) If you are not sure which

Three honest routes in.

The wrong first class is the most common reason people decide reformer pilates is not for them, and it is almost always a scheduling accident rather than a real verdict. Here is how we would actually point you.

Never done reformer

Foundations if you can commit to six weeks at the same hour. The intro offer if you would rather test it first — book a Flow 50 and tell the instructor at the door that it is your first.

Three classes for $49 →

Coming back from something

One-to-one first, then Restore 40. Email us what happened and when before booking. For anything inside six weeks, or anything with a surgeon attached, we will want their clearance.

Read the injury policy →

Been doing this for years

Tower & Mat, then Jumpboard 45. Both are harder than Flow 50 in ways regulars do not expect, and between them they cover the two things a reformer-only diet leaves out.

Find a slot →

Next Foundations course starts Monday 10 August

Six classes. Eight spots each.

Three classes for $49, valid three weeks, grip socks included. Any of the six except the private — and we will help you pick the first one.

Three classes for $49 See this week's timetable

Cadence Room · 42 Scotchmer Street, Fitzroy North VIC 3068 · (03) 9486 0142