The studio
Why classes are capped at eight
The number is not a marketing decision; it is how many apparatus one teacher can correct properly in fifty minutes.
We are asked this most often by people who have come from a room with twenty machines in it and want to know what the difference buys.
The arithmetic
A fifty-minute class contains about forty-two minutes of working time. A correction — walk over, look, cue, change a spring, watch the next four repetitions — takes between forty and seventy seconds. Eight clients gets everybody four corrections. Twelve gets them two. Twenty gets them one, and only if the teacher never stops moving.
A ninth reformer pays for itself inside a month and costs every other person in the room a correction.
What we do instead of adding apparatus
We add classes. The timetable runs from six in the morning until eight at night on weekdays, which is how the room stays at eight without the waiting list becoming permanent. If a time you want is consistently full, tell the desk — that is the signal we use to open another.
Reading is the slow way round. $75 covers your first three classes.
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