Facilities

An emotionally restful, permanent, very comfortable, light, airy, calming, well equipped studio space which backs onto a large garden and this, combined with the Pilates, fitness and medical knowledge you'll find here gives you the perfect environment and opportunity to achieve your health goals.

• Tea and coffee facilities and fresh water.
• Easy and free parking.
• Through years of experience, the Pure Pilates Centre here at 30 Hales Road, Cheltenham, offers you:
• All-levels of matwork, (Joseph Pilates called matwork 'The Method').
• Pilates machine work.
• And more recently it has opened itself to teaching the benefits of Pilates-in-Fitness, based on a thorough knowledge of the body.
• Private lessons.
• Muscular Skeletal Analysis is frankly, THE BEST here, with the best exercises available in the world to cure problems that are the result of bad posture or kinetics. Posture analysis is part of every class for every client.
• Really lovely, wonderful clients, an extremely genuine, friendly and welcoming atmosphere.
• See Classes for a better description of each of the above mentioned classes.

Rosemary's Pilates Credentials

• A member of The Body Control Pilates Association - the Pilates training chosen by Olympic sports teams and Olympic medical teams;
• Ten years of training with a wide variety of Pilates schools including all Polestar’s courses including Rehabilitative for the Medically Qualified, Stott, Michael King from the Pilates Institute, Michael Miller, U.S.A., The Pilates Centre in Boulder, U.S.A.;
• 18,000 hours plus of teaching experience;
• Pages of testimonials, business run mostly on personal referrals.

Rosemary’s Fitness Credentials:

A qualified Rowing Instructor by Concept2;

A Registered Exercise Professional at the highest level and on REPS Register;

Rosemary's own yearly outdoor activities continue to support the fact that Pilates is invaluable to aerobic work:

2007, running weekly cross-country including along the Cotswold Way in 12-14 mile stretches (2-2.5 hour runs) with a running club;

Competing in competitions which required wading waist high in river water in cold November, mountain-bike riding, general horse riding and polo, abseiling, snow-skiing, and canoeing.

The above activities were achievable faster and more efficiently because of Rosemary's Pilates training which gives her body the required stamina, lung capacity, core stabilisation, above average balance, and protection from stiffness, aches and pains.

Rosemary's Medical Background

Before Rosemary did a diploma at post graduate level in International Public Relations and Marketing, Rosemary did a 4-year nursing training in obstetrics, pediatrics and adult nursing, based at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal Free, Hampstead. She also did a G.P. referral course in 2005. She is very sensitive to referring folk on if necessary.

These years of experience have enabled Rosemary to give outstanding care to many including those with diabetes, cancer, young people, and to be able to train in Rehabilitative Pilates. Clients have chosen to come from many miles away with a wide variety of problems, including, back, polio and severe upper body respiratory restrictions.

Many clients who may have begun with private Pilates lessons at this studio, due to their severe chronic pain and restricted movement, have then gone on to the wonderful achievement of joining a class as most of the classes are for the generally physically fit.

Our classes are gentle, hard, flowing, peaceful, fun, lively, mind releasing, always achieving, never, ever boring.

Have a look at the Classes List to find a match for your health goals. Do ring if you are not sure. Rosemary will immediately direct you to an expert if she can't help you.

Rosemary's medical training, teamed with her many years spent learning the Pilates discipline with several world-renowned Pilates schools in England and America has enabled Rosemary to meet her clients' many needs: pure fitness and strength building for healthy folk, the before, during, and after needs of pregnancy, back pain, sciatica, unstable pelvis, shoulder problems, conditions such as curvature of the spine (scoliosis), traumatic neck injuries, problems arising from repetitive strain, and Parkinson's, cancer side effects, asthma and other breathing problems.