Hi everybody,

 

First of all, a very huge thank you to each and every one of you for your ongoing support.  It’s really hard to believe that we are in August!  What a strange year it has been thus far.  Maybe a little light at the end of the tunnel.. some normality beginning to seep in?

 

I trust and hope that you are finding it a little easier re classes online.  Doesn’t quite seem so foreign anymore?

 

So I mentioned in a previous email a shift in billing structure……….. so here is my idea going forward.. till the picture changes in front of us.. and I can invite you back into a ‘real’ studio.

 

I would like to change my billing structure to a straight membership fee for mat classes.

What that means is .. I will invoice R500 per person per month until we are back in a studio.  You can attend as many classes as you like or do as many recordings as you like.  I will invoice R500 irrespective of the day your ‘chosen’ class falls on.  (Some months have more than four days).

You can do more classes, and/or more recordings!!   So whilst some of you may be paying this already, the amount will not change on a monthly basis and also I would like to encourage everyone to try and do more than one class a week.  The ability to choose a recording allows you to fit it in at any time.  I regularly get  positive feedback from jumping from one class to two.   The benefit is really felt.

I really would appreciate your thoughts on this.

A reminder that you can join a ‘live’ class at any time, as well as click on a link to do a class at any time… the only thing I would pay attention to is the level in respect of your experience.  So easier is good sometimes, difficult is also good, but not so difficult that it leaves you disheartened (or injured!!).  It is also critical to get into a ‘live’ class so an instructor can monitor you.

Choose chunks of class or whole classes.  It’s fine to click a recording and do 20 min if that works for you.. move in smaller if that’s better for your diary.

Make it work for you.

 

Let me know.. look forward to hearing from you.

I will be invoicing this week (by Wed), so a brief yay or nay would be great & I let every know re the response.  You are also welcome to What’s App a quick response too.

 

Wishing you an awesome week ahead.

 

Best regards

Charmaine

Moving Arts Pilates

Hi all,

I’ll try to keep this quick.. I know everyone is flooded with emails & messages from different platforms all the time.

First of all, hoping everyone had a fab long weekend.  I know many of us are home anyway, but hopefully we were able to shift our workloads aside and managed to enjoy some different time…. So belated Happy Woman’s Day to all!!

Then going forward…..

I trust and hope that you are managing to make the online platform work for you.  Whilst it is my business, I really am passionate about us keeping moving and breathing in this strange world we find ourselves.  So a reminder, if you are struggling with it all, please let me know if I can help.  If you do have a tv, it’s easy to plug a cable from your lap top into your tv which gives you a fab screen to watch perhaps.  Take the time to set yourself up well and then it pays off with your enjoyment & experience of a class.

I am still sad about the studio having to close, but do believe it was the right thing to do.  I’m unsure if we will get the studio to re-open this year… we will just take it day by day and see how it all pans out.

So therefore, If I may ask… if your picture (your membership with Moving Art ) is not working for you (although I sincerely hope it is), it would be very much appreciated if you could give warning about discontinuing (30 days would be so appreciated).  I am doing my best to keep everything running until such time as we can open again.   Although my picture should be vastly improved having no studio rental.. it was a shared space and with about 40 % drop off of clients already… the picture is not great.  Hence, the possibility that I only re-open again in the new year.  We only have 19 weeks of year left.. and my sincere hope that it improves vastly for everyone as we go forward.  So I would love to try to keep everyone moving, motivated and set our sights on 2021!!!  Goodness.. that sounds weird.

I do know that it is easier to not ‘press the button’ to come to class in a ‘virtual class’, but I do believe your class is possibly even more valuable in this strange time…so put it in your diary!!!  Please let me know how I can help,  I can only help if you give me feedback.

Many are finding that it really is working for them… & I’d love to help you feel & find that too.  So let me know what you are needing.  (Pretty fab to be able to come to class in slippers when the weather is really bad J).

I am thinking of changing the “membership” structure .. to make it more achievable for all.. but more to come on that.

Take care, keep well, keep safe,..

Best regards

Charmaine

Moving Arts Pilates

Hi all,

 

Just a quick short one to give you some idea of the response I received from the survey and which in part assisted and guided us with our decisions.

 

• Does the Zoom experience work for you.

YES         77.5%                    NO         22.5%

• If we were allowed to open our doors in the near future, would you be happy to resume classes (obviously with all the correct safety measures in place).

YES         75%                        NO         25%

• As we are still unsure as to when we are legally allowed to re-open the studio (& a possibility of a harsher lockdown looming…), if we were unable to open the studio in the near future, would you continue to support MA and stay online with us on Zoom until we are able to re-open?

YES         92.5%                    NO         7.5%

• If we took the huge decision to close the studio and continued on Zoom until we were over the mountain that is Covid, could you see your way forward to stay with us online and resume at a new venue as soon as we are allowed to re-open?

YES         92.11%                  NO         7.89%

 

Best regards

Charmaine & the Moving Arts Team