Lark Pilates & the Shala

Reformer & Mat Pilates Classes with Lark Pilates @ the Shala

“Change happens through movement and movement heals” Joseph Pilates

The Shala is hosting Lark Pilates, a brand new, boutique Reformer Pilates studio, offering just 6 beds and small group mat classes, with highly personalised, tailored tuition in the hands of extremely experienced instructors.

Freedom of movement is a gift that we want to share with everybody. The strength, flexibility, posture and core stability developed through regular Pilates practice, will transform your body, paving the way to pain free, ease of movement.

The Lark Pilates team are now offering a full daily schedule with 30+ classes a week including pre and post-natal reformer Pilates.

Lark Pilates

Lark Pilates grew organically out of a collaboration between highly experienced, well known South London Pilates teachers. Rooted in the local community, they take pride in fostering genuine connections and investing in students to enable them to experience freedom and strength in their bodies.

Blending the foundations of classical Pilates with innovative, dynamic teaching, the Lark Pilates team seek to embed the fundamental aspects of Pilates into both mind and body, enabling control, strength, balance and stability into your everyday.

Small class sizes means the Lark team are able to give personalised tuition where every student is known and nurtured. This will allow you to experience the full and the benefits of your Pilates practice as intended by Joseph Pilates.

Cat Lane - Founder & Lead Teacher at Lark Pilates

Cat trained under master teacher Nicole Sinoff at the Pilates Centre, South Africa, Initially introduced to Pilates as a way of maintaining her body during her career for in the West End and Internationally, Cat developed a passion for how regular practice had the ability to free, reshape and deeply strengthen the body. Having taught freelance in many studios across London including the Shala, and privately for over 10 years she then went on to set up her own practice formerly Precise Pilates in 2020 and now reborn as Lark Pilates as it moves back in to the Shala premises under it’s own independent banner.

Cat has a loyal following in South London and her classes blend a creative, holistic approach whilst incorporating proper Pilates technique. Her many years spent as a dancer have given her a deep understanding and personal experience of injury prevention and rehabilitation which has been further deepened by working alongside many Physiotherapists as a Pilates lead. She specialises in full equipment Pilates, Pre and Postnatal certified by Mama’s Pilates and has recently found joy in working with stroke rehabilitation.

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