Yoga and Pilates Studios Editing and Proofreading Services

A new student ticks "lower back pain" on the form at the desk, hands it in, and goes into a class. The teacher never sees it. Ninety minutes later she has done twelve forward folds and a twist she should not have done, and the studio's careful health questionnaire has functioned entirely as a liability document and not at all as a piece of information.

We edit what yoga and Pilates studios produce — health and injury disclosure forms and what happens to them, class descriptions and level information, teacher briefing and handover notes, membership and package terms, workshop and teacher training material, studio etiquette and first-visit information, pregnancy and post-natal class information, and the communications that follow an injury in a class. Our editors work on the paperwork between a student and a teacher.

The health disclosure and its use is where a studio either protects its students or its file, and the failure is a form collected at the desk and never read. A questionnaire nobody acts on is worse than no questionnaire, because both parties now believe something was handled. We work through these so the form asks about function rather than diagnosis — what movements hurt, what the student has been told to avoid, what happened last time they tried — since most students cannot name their condition and all of them can say that twisting to the left is the problem; so the route from the form to the teacher is described as a process with who reads it, when, and what they do with it before class begins; so the student is told what will happen with the information, given that people under-report when they fear being turned away and over-report when they fear being blamed; so the modification is agreed with the student before class rather than offered in front of the room, because being singled out is what stops people returning; so the teacher's instruction to the whole class is written to make opting out invisible — a stated alternative offered to everyone rather than a concession to one; so pregnancy, recent surgery and hypermobility are handled with specific rather than general caution, as these are the three most commonly mishandled; so anything outside the studio's competence is referred with a named route; and so the form is revisited rather than filled in once in 2019. Systems written this way keep students safe and returning.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including student records, forms and incident material. We are editors rather than teachers, physiotherapists or clinicians, and we offer no view on practice, modification, injury or any student's health. What we can do is connect the form to the person teaching the class.