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Most independent Pilates instructors start out teaching in clients’ homes. There is no room fee and the client feels pampered. Then the drive time piles up, the portable reformer starts to wear, and you realize you can only fit four clients into a day that should hold seven. Renting a private studio fixes most of […]

Pilates studio rental means paying for time in a room that already has reformers in it, instead of signing a lease and buying equipment yourself. For an independent instructor it is the cheapest way to teach private clients on real apparatus. The catch is that “studio rental” covers four very different setups, and the one […]

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