ARC Movement Studio

Feels Good Fridays ❤️🌿

Pilates for healthy aging

As we age our strength and flexibility deteriorate. Something as simple as getting in and out of a chair can be a daily challenge for some.
Pilates is a gentle yet affective way to maintain muscle strength, mobility and balance.

Duet classes 💫

Feel the burn with your friend or partner by your side!

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ARC Movement Studio is based in the city bowl making it an ideal location to get your workout in before or after work.

Whether you are new pilates or an advanced mover we love it all! Our well trained and qualified instructors can take you through a class that is appropriate for your body’s needs.

Contact us to start your pilates journey ✨

Back extensions on the reformer (with box) ✨

Delicious for the spine, perfect to strengthen those back muscles to improve posture and release tension in the neck.

teaching her client in a private session.

Happy Mother’s Day from Arc Movement Studio! 🌸

We hope our moms, moms-to-be, stepmoms, furmoms, foster mums, should-be mums, solo mums, dads that are mums, not-yet moms and grand mums all felt loved and appreciated yesterday 🌸

Here’s to a fantastic week ahead!

Daily Health reminder 🌟

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Preggy Pilates ✨

Pilates is the perfect low-impact pregnancy workout (provided your doctor gives you the all-clear to exercise), since it boosts flexibility and balance and prevents back pain by strengthening your pelvic floor and core muscles (your abs), which support your spine.

One of our instructors correcting a challenging plank position on the foam roller.

By adding small equipment such as the roller, we are able to challenge the core, legs, arms and shoulders even more so than flat on the ground as the roller provides instability, taking the strength building to a whole new level. ✨

“It doesn’t get easier, You get stronger” ✨

Early Friday mornings from our beautiful studio oasis 🍃 ☀️

Wishing everyone a happy and safe long weekend! If you’re in Cape Town it looks like we are in for the most beautiful weather so try to get outdoors and mooooove! ☀️

Tag us in your weekend adventures using the hashtag so we can share! 🌟

The Wunda Chair ✨

Although the smaller piece of equipment, it certainly packs a punch!

We love how the different pieces of equipment bring focus and attention to differing areas. The Wunda Chair definitely highlights stability in the spine and pelvis in a functional way.

Private classes combine the use of all pilates equipment in the studio such as the Wunda chair, the Cadillac, the Barrel, the Spine Correctors, small apparatus and ofcourse, the famous reformer.

Our instructors switch things up for your classes each time to keep things interesting and to activate your muscles in different ways using the different apparatus.

Today’s Healthy reminder ✨

Happy Monday! ✨

We hope you get your body moving today in any way possible!

Attention to detail, precision and safe ex*****on ✨

Just a few things our instructors strive to achieve on each and every private class.

Want to try a private class? Pop us an email!

Mermaid in the Reformer ✨

A beautiful lateral flexion/rotation exercise to strengthen our muscles to stabilize the spine in rotation as well as enabling flexibility & mobility.

✨The Arc Team ✨

We had a fantastic year end celebration together to celebrate such a wonderful 2021 🥂✨

We want to think all our incredible clients for keeping us so busy through this tough year and enabling us to do what we love most.

Thank you to and for organizing such a great celebration 🍾 🎉 just missing .henrietta.millar and .by.lauren

And a big WELCOME TO THE TEAM to 💖

We are so looking forward to 2022 with you all ✨🥂

Preggy Pilates ✨

Pilates is the perfect low-impact pregnancy workout (provided your doctor gives you the all-clear to exercise), since it boosts flexibility and balance and prevents back pain by strengthening your pelvic floor and core muscles (your abs), which support your spine.

✨“Balance of body and mind is a moving target. Sometimes we are on-balance, and sometimes being off-balance provides the power to shift, change, and become more aware of what it feels like to BE in balance. Our thoughts direct both movement and balance of the body, and mind. In what parts of your life, do you need to practice better balance?”✨
-Aliesa George

Happy midweek everyone! ✨

Make today count! Do something today that makes you feel good! Chat to someone that makes you feel happy! ✨

Monday magic in studio 🌟

Here’s to a wonderful, positive, happy week ahead!

Remember that committing to exercise is making a commitment to yourself and an investment into you and your health ✨

We love our duet classes because working out with a friend helps you to stay accountable to this commitment you’ve made as well as add more fun into your sessions with your bestie!

Tag your besties or your workout buddy below! 🌸

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We also rent out our beautiful studio for you to use (with great care 😅).
DM us or pop us an email for more info!

New to Pilates and unsure where to begin?

If you’re new to Pilates and nervous about starting, you might want to try starting off with private sessions. These private Pilates sessions can help new Pilates students by allowing for dedicated time to go over the anatomy of the multiple pieces of Pilates equipment, slowly building up your confidence with choreography, and allow you some quality time to gain control over the tools before joining a more seasoned group class.

Private sessions also allow you to understand your own strengths and limitations as you deeper your body awareness. This is very important especially when going into group classes, as you will benefit highly from understanding what your body needs, preventing any injuries or pathologies.

✨ “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” -Dale Carnegie ✨

✨Equipment Fact Friday ✨

•The Reformer•

The reformer utilizes a system of resistance springs. The springs are located under the carriage, and all five springs hook in to a metal bar, depending on how high (or how low) the resistance needs to be. Contrary to many fitness methods, the Pilates reformer springs are not correlated with weight (in pounds). Instead, they are colored and correlate with resistance levels.

✨Happy Teaser Tuesday! ✨

✨“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” ✨
– Martha Graham

Join us for Mat classes! ✨

We still have some spots available in our small mat group classes. Keeping the classes small enables the instructors to focus on each person individually as well as keep everyone safe following covid protocols.

Pop us a message or email to find out more info! ✨