The Urdang Academy

This should be, and was for years, a 5 star review. It has been withdrawn. I can no longer recommend this business to anyone. Business ethics?.....I no longer find their policies palitable as maximising income seems to have swamped all sence of a balanced decency and fairness towards others. Does business really have to be so hard and brutal? Can we not find a better way, hold dear the ideals of correct, fair and equal treatment of others and yet be successful? All businesses have a right to their 'Terms and Conditions of Trade' and the right to move on and discard the no longer useful but when people's livelihoods are involved standards of decency and acknowledgement of the gravity of such action used to be generally expected. Recently they failed utterly in this duty of care to other human beings...to me and to my 9 classes and130 students and to other independent teachers and their students ...3 term -time weeks notice, just before Xmas, to quit for January and, in the case of my school, this after 11 years of what I believed to be a business association. Being told Urdang is expanding and yet finding the U2 studios empty on Saturdays...being told all bookings are subject to cancellation (?!)...being pushed into smaller and smaller studios...does not constitute a proper period of notice...just makes one contact the legal help line for advice. Also ...foolish me...whatever happened to the ruling that Urdang was to supply classes of interest to the local community? Formal written notice should have been given 6 months ago to enable us to find new premises in time. I can see the risk in that but this inhumanity and this throwing away of human skill and endeavour brings a great sadness into my heart. My school endures as does my spirit...but I'm tough and resourceful. Not everyone is in the midst of such a set-back. Is this the kind of brutal society we are willing to settle for? Pilates Body Awareness has miraculously found and transferred to another venue for a start on Monday 8 Jan 2018. See Google Maps.

Urdang is Terrible, the owner doesn't give a damn about what's going on in her facilities! Urdang 2 studio staff are careless, full lack of care and the owner doesn't care that there are classes- sometimes school remains shut even though everyone turned up for the class! And this happened twice in a row! Worst ever!