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START YOUR BEGINNERS REFORMER PILATES JOURNEY TODAY

Welcome to our Beginners Reformer Pilates Course in the heart of Liverpool City Centre! Whether you're new to Pilates or looking to deepen your understanding of the reformer, this course is designed to introduce you to the fundamentals in a supportive and welcoming environment.
 

Why Choose Reformer Pilates?

Reformer Pilates offers a low-impact yet highly effective workout that strengthens and tones muscles, improves flexibility, and enhances overall body awareness. Using the versatile reformer machine, you'll engage in exercises tailored to your fitness level, ensuring a safe and effective experience.
 

This course is perfect for:

  • Beginners seeking a guided introduction to reformer Pilates.

  • Those recovering from injury or aiming to improve mobility.

  • Anyone looking to build strength and balance while relieving stress.

What is Reformer Pilates?

Reformer Pilates is a dynamic form of exercise that uses the Reformer machine, a specialised piece of equipment designed to add resistance and support to your Pilates workout. This apparatus enhances your strength, flexibility, balance, and alignment through a wide range of movements, all while focusing on your core.
At ELEVEN:ELEVEN Studios, our Reformer Pilates classes in Liverpool are designed to accommodate all levels, offering both challenge and support.

COURSE OUTLINE

What to Expect from Each Session

Session One: Building the Foundations

  • Health & Safety: Learn how to safely and confidently use the Reformer, including setup, spring changes, alignment and posture.

  • Footwork & Springs: Master essential footwork and understand how different spring settings can challenge or support movement.

  • Supine Exercises: Learn foundational movements focusing on core connection, control and lower-body strength.

  • Hand Straps: Introduction to upper-body movements to build strength, stability and confidence using the straps.

  • This session is all about getting comfortable on the Reformer and understanding the fundamentals before progressing further.
     

Session Two: Building Strength & Control

  • Refresher: Revisit the foundations from Week One and build confidence changing springs and setting up independently.

  • Side-Lying Exercises: Target the glutes and lower body while developing stability and control.

  • Leg Straps: Explore lower-body exercises designed to strengthen and lengthen the legs while improving hip mobility.

  • Lunges: Introduce Reformer lunges, focusing on balance, alignment and controlled movement.

  • This session builds on the foundations while introducing more movement variety and increasing confidence on the carriage.
     

Session Three: Progressing Your Practice

  • Introduction to the Box: Learn how the box is used to expand your Reformer repertoire and create new movement possibilities.

  • Standing Exercises: Develop balance, coordination and core stability through standing Reformer work.

  • Planks & Full-Body Strength: Introduce plank variations and more challenging exercises combining strength, stability and control.

  • Progressions & Modifications: Learn how exercises can be adapted or progressed, helping you understand the options you'll encounter in regular classes.

  • By the end of this session, you'll be moving with greater independence and experiencing more of what a full Reformer class feels like.
     

  • Session Three: Putting It All Together

  • Full Reformer Flow: Bring everything you've learned together in a complete class-style session incorporating footwork, straps, lunges, standing work, the box and full-body exercises.

  • Independent Setup: Build confidence choosing equipment, changing springs and transitioning safely between exercises.

  • Technique & Confidence: Refine alignment and technique, with individual guidance on anything you still feel unsure about.

  • Your Next Steps: Learn what to expect when joining the main ELEVEN:ELEVEN Reformer timetable and receive recommendations on the best classes for continuing your practice.

  • You'll finish Reformer Foundations feeling confident with the equipment, familiar with the key movements and ready to move into our regular Reformer classes.

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MEET YOUR TEACHER

Allie is a Liverpool-based Reformer Pilates instructor specialising in helping people build confidence, strength, and a deeper awareness of their bodies. Living with scoliosis, she first turned to Pilates to improve alignment, but soon discovered how profoundly it supported her anxiety and overall wellbeing. This personal experience shapes her passion for teaching and sharing Pilates as both a physical and mindful practice.

 

Her approach is supportive, clear, and empowering, creating a space where clients feel encouraged, understood, and capable from their very first class. Allie focuses on strong foundations, mindful movement, and building connection through breath and alignment.

 

She leads our Beginners Reformer Courses at ELEVEN:ELEVEN, guiding you through essential techniques that improve posture, strength, and confidence on the equipment.

 

Expect thoughtful instruction, accessible progressions, and classes that leave you feeling balanced, supported, and truly at home in your body.

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