Our Studio
We offer a full range of classical apparatus, allowing you to practise the Method as it was originally created by Joseph Pilates.
As you develop, you are continually challenged with new exercises, new apparatus and new experiences… You will develop both mind and body. This is why the benefits of Pilates are so far-reaching: it builds not only strength, stamina, and flexibility but also concentration and a sense of well-being.
Vision & History
Pi Studios is a movement and education-led space where clients, teachers and trainees practise daily, creating an ongoing community presence rather than a single-use fitness environment.
Our aim is simple: to uphold the highest standards of teaching and teacher training, and to carry the Pilates Method forward with integrity, clarity, and care.
Pi was founded in 2003 by Holly Murray, who has practised and taught the Method of Joseph Pilates for over 25 years. What began as a small studio has grown into a dedicated home for classical practice — a place for skilled teachers, serious students, and a community committed to strength, coherence, and a true return to life.
“Still, after so many years of teaching I remain as passionate as ever. My training began in NYC under the supervision of Romana Kryzanowska in 2003, the highly spirited keeper of the original teaching of Joseph Pilates. She taught me that the Pilates method is a discipline for the mind and the body and it should always be challenging but done with a smile. I see every day the benefits Pilates makes to everybody that comes through our door. This method has moulded me as it has moulded my clients. I am grateful every day to the genius of Mr Pilates.”
Our Vision
To reconnect mind, body, and spirit through the Pilates Method. We combine classical, disciplined movement with experiential learning — guiding teachers and clients toward healing, strength, and a true return to life.
Our Mission
To steward Classical Pilates with clarity, care, and responsibility. We honour the lineage by teaching the Method to hold the work, not just perform it. Through disciplined practice, skilled observation, and embodied learning.
Our Values
Integrity
Belonging
Connection
History of Pilates
At its core Pilates is a discipline, created by a strong man, a gymnast and a boxer, Joseph Pilates. Created as a dynamic movement experience to be practiced over time and carried through life.
Joseph spent years questioning and challenging the status quo as the link between happiness, health and fitness, becoming his passion - truly a visionary and ahead of his time. The fitness industry is only now catching up as we choose more and more to work out intelligently.
Elements of all the disciplines Joseph practised such as boxing, gymnastics, martial arts, yoga, skiing, self-defence, dance, weightlifting, circus training can be found in his work. He studied, trained and selected the most effective aspects from each to develop the Pilates Method - Contrology.
His exercises take you through all ranges of movement and, as you develop, you are continually challenged with new exercises, new apparatus and new experiences. You will develop both in mind and body making the Pilates benefits far reaching and available to everybody.