Pilates Recipe is a boutique Pilates studio at 7 Bushby Place in Bryndwr, Christchurch. The owner opened the studio in 2017 after a career change from landscape architecture. She trained in mat Pilates with Polestar in London, then completed the Polestar studio equipment course and specialist pre and postnatal training.
The studio has a reformer, a trapeze table, a Pilates chair, a spine corrector and a range of small props. It offers private sessions and very small group sessions, and the website says it welcomes people of all ages and abilities, including people starting exercise for the first time, people recovering from injury and people with a specific medical issue. The owner says she works with a range of health professionals. Mat classes are also taught. The website describes the work as low impact and aimed at posture, core strength and flexibility. For someone in Bryndwr or the eastern side of Christchurch who wants Pilates on equipment in a small studio, the boutique setting and the pre and postnatal training are the practical draw.