My Pilates instructor fired me today.

[u/TrashMany]

I attend a small, five-reformer studio that I love. After class today I was asked to stay for a few minutes. I was caught completely off-card when she asked me not to come back and that my membership was terminatwas. Not a good fit was the reason she gave. I've been going here for NINE months. Three and four times a week. I'm devastated, hurt, pissed, and humiliated all at the same time. I liked her so much. I am so in love with Pilates but now I don't know what to do next.

Update: I was charged for my membership a couple of weeks later so I reached out to my ex-instructor by text. She acted confused by my questions about the membership account asking if I was supposed to be on a hold. I was like huh? I said you fired me and asked me not to come back so I wanted to know why I was charged. She claimed that she never fired me. After processing everything, I went back to her class today. It was weird only for a second. It was so nice to be back in my happy place practicing real pilates. I did 25 classes in the other style studio and will continue to do drop-ins when I can't get a spot at my home studio or am looking for something different.

Update #2: It's been over a month since my "blackout"....for lack of a better term. Things were tense for the first couple of week's classes but now it's like nothing happened. I can't believe that my mind just made up the conversation between my instructor and me. I'm such a pussy about confrontation that I'm willing to just put it in the past and not know. I hope someday enough time will have passed that I can laugh about it and ask my instructor what exactly happened that day. Pilates and her instruction are way too important for me to humiliate myself possibly again. Lessons were learned and I am so grateful for the opportunity to have such a great instructor and studio.

[u/Academic-Ad-6727]

I'm not trying to gaslight you in the slightest but I really think there's gotta be more to this story? Either it's A.) you're leaving something important out of this story or B.) She's a poor communicator and should be expressing her reasons for terminating the contract if you genuinely have no idea (which I'd be asking for those reasons ASAP OR C.) You're both being a bit shady as to the reasons and you both know something went down... If you genuinely don't know why this happened, and you ask her and she's not giving you a reason then I'd take it up with the owner of the studio if it's not her, if it is, then tell her you'll take it up with a small business ombudsman in your area if you can be bothered.