Cardiff
Pilates
Improve Your Posture
About
​Cardiff Pilates offers classes and private lessons with Pilates Teacher Emma Carlson. Emma is a highly experienced teacher of dance and certified Pilates Teacher.
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Emma is delighted to share her enthusiasm, extensive knowledge and experience of working with the body to clients in the Cardiff area.
Emma’s Pilates Sessions are conducted in a relaxed, welcoming environment and participants are encouraged to work at their own level. There is a focus on breath, core strength and correct body alignment.
Pilates will help to improve your Postural alignment, Muscle Tone, Balance and Flexibility. It is also a great way of alleviating stress, improving circulation and body awareness.
A Pilates session with Emma will leave you feeling more stretched, toned, focused and relaxed, creating an enhanced feeling of wellbeing
Classes
Group Sessions
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Monday
9.15am; 10.30am; 11.45am General Level Mat Classes Cyncoed Methodist Church CF23 6SE
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6.30pm; 7.35pm General Level Mat Class The Memorial Hall Llandaff CF5 2SA
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Thursday
10am General Level Mat Class
Cyncoed Methodist Church
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11.15am Standing/Seated Pilates for Older Adults
Cyncoed Methodist Church
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2pm General Level Mat Class Roath Church House CF23 5AD
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ZOOM CLASSES:
Friday
9.45am - Standing/Seated Pilates for Older Adults (45 min)
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Please bring your own mat & props to class.
Live Classes £8 per class. Zoom class £6 per class.
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Private Sessions
Emma is available for 1:1 sessions in a bespoke Pilates Studio in North Cardiff.
The Pilates Studio is equipped with a Reformer; Tower; Pilates Chair; Spine Corrector & Mats.
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In 1:1 sessions Emma will ensure you work safely and have the correct body alignment, therefore maximising the benefit you can obtain from your Pilates training. You will have a tailored individual session to suit your needs. Homecare (exercises you continue with between sessions) will be provided.
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Initial session £45
Subsequent Sessions £40
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Please enquire.
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Your Pilates Teacher
Emma Carlson
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Emma is a certified Pilates Teacher with extensive training and experience in working with the body in Movement and Dance. With 30 years experience working professionally in dance, as a performer, choreographer, teacher, artistic director and creative producer, she combines her breadth of knowledge and understanding of working with the body when she teaches Pilates.
Emma was Artistic Director of her own professional dance company Carlson Dance Company, creating original dance theatre productions that toured nationally and internationally. She Co-Founded Dance Blast, the Dance Development Organization for Monmouthshire and set up Monmouthshire Youth Dance Company, for young dancers in the Monmouthshire area, and Monmouthshire Connected Dance Company, a performance group for people with a range of disabilities. Emma set up and delivered the innovative Dance Shorts project, a commissioning initiative for dance artists in partnership with professional venues across Wales. Recently, Emma set up and run Spark Youth Dance, for young talented dancers in the Cardiff and Newport area, the group represented Wales at the prestigious U-Dance Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London 2019
Joseph Pilates developed Pilates for professional dancers in New York in the 1920’s, dance and Pilates have been intertwined ever since. Emma’s sessions focus on precision of movement, postural improvement, moving more effectively, more efficiently, with less risk of injury – and just like dancers – more gracefully.
Emma regularly attends Pilates training workshops & courses to ensure continued best practice. Initially trained with FITTCO in 2017, in 2020 completing Matwork conversion course becoming a Fully Certified Teacher with Body Control Pilates, one of the leading Pilates organisations in Europe. October 2022 qualified to teach Reformer. A condition of membership of Body Control Pilates is continuous professional development to retain prestigious membership. Emma is registered on the REPs (Register for Exercise Professionals) and is fully insured.
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Emma is Cardiff based and teaches group Pilates classes & 1:1 Sessions in her Pilates Studio. She is a mum, dog owner and walker.
