pp method
Rooted in Joseph Pilates’ original method and its contemporary evolution through biomechanics and movement science knowledge.
Each session combines the Classical traditional repertoire — its precise order, execution and technique — with Contemporary Pilates: introducing exercise layering and progressions, thoughtful modifications and creative variations.
The result is a deeper, more nuanced adaptation to each person’s level and needs, and a more purposeful, efficient progression.
At Phaedra Pilates you will work across the full Apparatus System for a comprehensive practice.
Rooted in the original method.
Classical and Contemporary Pilates.
pp classes
Sessions are offered in private and semi-private formats, with no more than three participants per group.
Whether you’re just beginning or refining your skills, pp classes are designed to meet you exactly where you are.
Each session helps your build strength, stability, mobility and flexibility while fine-tuning your Powerhouse; refine your alignment and deepen your body awareness, breath and control.
You’ll leave feeling centered, balanced, connected and revitalized.
Sessions are available in Italian, English, French and German.
Come as you are. Move with purpose.
Leave stronger from the inside out.
pp teaching
Phaedra brings clarity, positive energy and full presence to every session. She supports you and explains through a cue, a visualization, a demonstration, using the language your body understands best.
This creates the space needed to move, adjust and improve, building confidence and turning each correction into something you understand rather than simply follow.
“I teach the person, not the exercise”.
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Body assessment is the starting point for preparing the body to practice Pilates. Through observation of posture, alignment, breathing, mobility and movement patterns, Phaedra identifies limitations, compensations, asymmetries and areas of tension.
Every session offers a new reading of your body, allowing exercises to be selected with greater precision and purpose. This continuous observation turns the Pilates repertoire into a tool for lasting change, creating meaningful connections between new assessment findings and programming. -
Whether beginner or advanced, before you start moving, I guide you through breathing exercises to mobilize your thoracic cage.
Pilates is based on lateral posterior breathing and helps activate your Powerhouse, deepen your core connections, release and decompress areas of tension, move your diaphragm connecting it to the pelvic floor and regulate your nervous system. 360° breathing encourages the ribcage to remain mobile and organized over the pelvis, enabling the skull, ribcage, pelvis and feet to align along a vertical axis, creating greater range of movement in the joints, balancing your muscles and improving the quality of your practice by coordinating breath with movement. -
Where words can’t reach, hands do.
I guide you through precise verbal and tactile cueing, giving you “Hands-On” corrections and directions.
Discover how confident and well-placed hands can guide with purpose, create connection and transform every movement on a much deeper level. Hands-On guidance has a more powerful and direct impact on your body, improving movement quality, alignment, body organization, confidence and body awareness.
Knowing when and how to use it brings clarity, precision and presence into your practice, helping you understand your body, refine each position and move with greater confidence.
pp approach
Before movement begins, the person is seen as a whole.
From there, the practice takes shape.
a program built around you
You’ll be training in an environment built to support consistency and meaningful progress and lasting results.
Every session is planned before you arrive: previous notes, physical conditions and weekly feedback all inform what comes next. Your postural situation, limitations, compensations and progress are carefully documented, allowing your program to evolve accordingly.
Phaedra’s goal goes beyond what happens in the studio — she helps you recognize and change inefficient postural and movement habits in daily life, developing the awareness to internalize them.
Observed with care. Guided with intention.
Carried into everyday life.
a complete practice
Understanding the essence and principles of the Method means experiencing Pilates as a complete System.
At Phaedra Pilates, there are no predefined classes: the Apparatus are thoughtfully combined and selected within each session, each serving a specific purpose and offering a distinct form of feedback, support, guidance and challenge.
This variety opens up unique movement possibilities, adapting the practice to your body, level and needs, while progressively building deeper connections and movement skills.
Your body changes everyday. Your lesson should too.
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A versatile Apparatus with many possibilities for effective and dynamic practice. It helps build your Powerhouse maintaining shoulder girdle, spine and hips organized and aligned. Helps understand the foundations working against the resistance of the springs to create strength and length.
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The base is fixed and the bars give you support while challenging you to continually organize your body through the shoulder girdle, spine, hips and center learning to move as a fully integrated whole connected to your Powerhouse. It allows you to stabilize and move your spine in all directions and on all planes of movement and is a perfect apparatus to stretch and release muscular tension.
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Small surface, less support, deep work. To develop better control from the centre and more precision. To create lift, space, length and stretch. Every detail, from foot placement to arm engagement contributes to a balanced and intelligent movement. Great to improve shoulder and scapular stability, balance, and length in your spine. It gives you a correct proportional development of the body.
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Ideal to open the front of your body and articulate your spine with length giving you a clear pathway through your feedback against the support. It opens your chest, the front of your hips, your side body and waist. It helps you to connect your arms and your ribs to your back, stabilize and strengthen your hips. It allows you to improve spine mobility, supports thoracic extension.
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Just you and your body against gravity with the feedback of the mat. The foundation of the entire method. 34 exercises. A full-body practice that leaves you feeling centered, balanced, strong, tall and energized with a better posture.
Each exercise of the repertoire has a place and purpose preparing you for what comes next, reinforcing what you have learned and challenging you to take it further. The order creates the flow but, more importantly, repetition allows you to refine and measure progression.
All the apparatus help you find the deep connections, control, alignment and the strength you need to practice matpilates.
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Develops powerhouse strength and control while challenging your balance in standing. It develops scapular and shoulders’ stability, it connects you to the ground while lifting and elongating your spine. The movements of the arms and the legs challenge continuously the stability of the trunk developing core strength.
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Improves your spine extension and your back strength, creates space and stretch in your body opening the front and side lines. It challenges you with the inversions. It teaches you to move in opposition having the feet grounded on the ladder.
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It strengthens and elongates the neck muscles, stabilizes and lengthens the spine, stabilizes the shoulders and releases the upper body tension. It is useful for people sitting for hours at the desk with neck tensions and cervical compressions.
plans & pricing
Consistent. Intentional. Empowering.
Private sessions
60 min.
One-on-one sessions tailored to your specific goals and needs, providing personalized attention to enhance your practice.
Single Session
5-sessions Package
10-sessions Package
100 CHF
470 CHF
940 CHF
Duet sessions
60 min.
Designed for 2, these semi-private sessions let you practice with a partner while receiving individualized guidance.
Flexible pricing options designed to help you commit to your growth. Every new client begins with 1:1 sessions before joining a small group.
Single Session
5-sessions Package
Trio sessions
10-sessions Package
60 CHF (pp.)
275 CHF (pp.)
550 CHF (pp.)
60 min.
Designed for 3, these semi-private sessions offer the benefits of shared practice while receiving individualized guidance.
Single Session
5-sessions Package
10-sessions Package
40 CHF (pp.)
185 CHF (pp.)
370 CHF (pp.)
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pilates for everyone
all genders, ages, abilities, shapes and sizes
We work with individuals who value clarity, integrity, and lifelong wellness through movement.
From clients who are new to Pilates, with postural issues, back pain, recovering from an injury, post pregnancy, in menopause, performing athletes, seniors, or wanting to be seriously challenged. Those wanting a career change or to enhance their current Pilates knowledge with our courses and workshops.
And people who just want to feel amazing and have a lot of fun along the way.