Private training · Marylebone · By appointment

Private training for the people in front of the camera.

One-to-one training with Grace Palmer, a former model who knows exactly what the work demands. One client in the studio at a time. No classes, no crowds, no audience.

£225 per session · one-to-one · Marylebone

Grace Palmer, founder of The Model Method

Grace Palmer · Founder

Who it's for

Not a gym. Not a class. A private studio for working models.

The Model Method exists for one kind of client: people whose body is part of the job. Runway, editorial, campaign, fit, commercial. The work is shaped around castings, shoot days and fittings, and around what a camera actually sees.

Every session is private. The door is closed, the room is yours, and Grace's attention is entirely on how you move. That is the only way this work can be done properly.

It is intense. Slow, loaded, exacting work that finds weaknesses and doesn't let them hide. Sessions are short because they are hard. If you want a workout you can coast through, this is the wrong room.

We do take a small number of clients from outside the industry who want to train the way models do. Tell Grace about your goals when you book.

I.

Private, always

One client, one coach, a closed door. No group classes, no one watching, nothing shared.

II.

Intense by design

Three-second lowers, long holds, loaded range. Short sessions, because the work is hard enough not to need longer ones.

III.

Built around the job

Castings, fittings, shoot days, show season. Grace programmes for your next booking, and for the camera, not the mirror.

The method, in motion

Control is the most difficult thing to fake.

Slow is where the work is. Every lift held at the top, every lowering counted out, nowhere for momentum to hide. This is what Grace will ask of you, and what she does herself.

  • Grace in The Teaser
    I.The Teaser

    Balance on the reformer carriage. Legs long, arms parallel, nothing moving.

  • Grace in The Side Star
    II.The Side Star

    One hand, one foot edge, the whole body a single line.

  • Grace in Control Balance
    III.Control Balance

    Inverted, shoulders down, legs straight to the ceiling. Stillness as strength.

The sessions

One client. One coach. One hour or less.

55 minutes · private

Private Session

£225

per session · Intense

Fifty-five minutes, one client, a closed door. Mat, reformer and loaded strength work programmed around your body and your bookings: posture, length, deep core and the control that reads on camera. Your first session includes a full assessment.

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45 minutes · private

Pre-Shoot Intensive

£225

per session · Very intense · returning clients

Forty-five minutes at the highest intensity Grace teaches, for the days before a shoot, a show or a fitting. Tell her the date when you book and she plans backwards from it. Not for a first session.

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Every session is one-to-one with Grace. Paid in full when booked. Limited hours: Grace coaches every session herself.

Grace correcting a client's posture beside the reformer

Founder · your coach, every session

Grace Palmer

Grace spent ten years modelling in London, Paris and Milan, where the job was to hold a shape under hot lights for hours and still look effortless. What got her through it was rarely the gym: posture, breath, deep core work and a lot of slow, loaded lengthening.

She qualified in Pilates and in strength and conditioning and built The Model Method around what she wished she'd had: one coach who understands the industry, a private room, and a programme that answers to your calendar, not a timetable.

  • Ten years modelling: London, Paris, Milan
  • Comprehensive mat & reformer Pilates certification
  • Level 3 Personal Trainer

Availability

Next open sessions

  • Tue 6 Oct

    13:00

    Private Session

    55 min · The Studio · £225

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  • Tue 6 Oct

    17:00

    Private Session

    55 min · The Studio · £225

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  • Tue 6 Oct

    18:15

    Private Session

    55 min · The Studio · £225

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  • Wed 7 Oct

    07:00

    Pre-Shoot Intensive

    45 min · The Studio · £225

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  • Wed 7 Oct

    08:00

    Private Session

    55 min · The Studio · £225

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Before you book

Good to know

I.
Do I have to be a model?
The studio is built for working models, and most clients are. A few places go to people outside the industry who want to train this way; tell Grace your goals when you book.
II.
I have a shoot in ten days. Can you help?
Yes. Book the Pre-Shoot Intensive and say when the shoot is. Grace will plan the sessions backwards from that date.
III.
Is it discreet?
Completely. One client at a time, no photography in the studio, and your details are never shared.

Plans change? Read the cancellation policy.