Pilates By Ashiya is a dedicated private Pilates studio in Manchester city centre offering 1:1 sessions shaped entirely around your unique body, goals, and lifestyle.

I (Ashiya) am comprehensively certified through BASI Pilates, a contemporary school founded by Rael Isacowitz in 1989. The school has strong roots in the traditional work, and is known and respected across the world for producing teachers who work with depth and precision.

Comprehensive training involves studying all of the Pilates apparatus together over a longer timeframe (typically one year or more, with an average of 500 training hours and multiple exams), rather than certifying on individual pieces of equipment.

A Fully Integrated Approach

Pilates is a system: a specific method of principles and exercises (several hundred across the mat and apparatus) that relate to one another and function as a unified whole.

Teachers who follow the system work across various pieces of apparatus in precise ways to deepen understanding of the work, improve connections, and to challenge, support and balance the body.

Traditional equipment includes (but is not limited to!) and the Reformer, Cadillac, Tower, Wunda Chair, Ladder Barrel, Spine Corrector and Pedi Pole. As a teacher, I respond to my clients in real-time, selecting exercises and apparatus based on what I feel will provide the most benefit or learning at that precise moment.

Working this way deepens the mind-body connection, which in turns improves control and precision.

BENEFITS:

• Targeted Tools: We can refine or challenge specific movement patterns or skills using the exact right piece of apparatus for your body on the day.

• The Whole Method: You experience Pilates as a connected, intelligent system. Never a collection of random, isolated exercises.

• Deeper Understanding: You learn how your body moves so you can build true precision and control, not just simple strength.

• Transferable Learning: Insights gained on one apparatus build movement skills that transfer across your entire practice.

Who Private Training Is For

1:1 sessions offer a level of detail, observation, and real-time adaptation that group classes simply cannot provide.

My studio is a space for:

• Rehabilitation & Comfort: Anyone managing pain, injury, or post-rehab needs.

• Performance & Resilience: Athletes wanting to fine-tune efficiency and strength.

• Personal Practice: Movement professionals and teachers seeking dedicated 1:1 guidance.

• Everyday Well-being: Anyone ready to move through daily life with greater balance, strength, and ease.

As your body changes, your practice evolves with you, giving you the tools to move with confidence for the long term.