Lighting change in studio (venting/ mini rant)
Just want to hear you guys opinion on this. Recently, our new gm ( who hasn't taught Pilates and doesn't take that many classes) has started complaining about how the instructors have the lights. We got one comment after an intro that "it felt like yoga" and they feel like having the lights down it the reason why....They started pushing us to have the lights turned all the way up. Once they started to get alittle push back they started giving the excuse that "corporate" wanted us to. They were giving the impression that it was a Club Pilates corporate rule. I found out that that's not true. It's the owner pushing it ( after the new gm pushed for it I bet). Well that might be true but I never heard them refer to themselves as corporate. When they say that they usually mean Clup Pilates corporate not the owner. Anyways. Fast forward, they have now taken off the covers we had on the overhead lights to dim them a bit, installed fans with lights on them anddd changed the blue lights on top of the mirrors to white lights. They then sent a email saying things along the lines that "it's for safety and to see proper alignment". Our studio never gets THAT dark. You can definitely still see the members without having 3 sets of white lights shining down on you. It's not a big deal it's just kind of annoying. I don’t like how they are trying to give the excuse that “it’s for safety”. It’s a good move to stop complaints though. They are trying to bring more members in but in an effort to do that they are going against what the members like. They don't like the lights and ask for it to be dimmed almost every class. Before they added the new lights, when the gm asked some instructors about the lights the instructors mentioned how they and the students get migraines sometimes and how the bright lights can be a bit much in the morning but they didn't care apparently lol. I checked Reddit and saw that a lot of people seem to prefer dim lights too. Yes we want to be safe but I don’t think that’s why they want this. Will probably have to delete this soon bc anyone from my studio will know where and who made this lol.