the approach
Start with the
body in front of me.
Most movement work begins with a programme and tries to fit you into it. I start with you — how you stand, how you breathe, what flared up at the school run today.
a typical session
What a session actually looks like.
55 minutes. Four layers. The first time you come, we don't start where you'd expect.
On the floor, with a pair of balls.
Before we get near the Reformer, I teach you fascia release — specific landmarks, specific techniques. Most people have never felt their own tissue properly.
Two minutes of looking.
How you stand. Where you hold tension. What your breath does when you're not thinking about it. Two minutes of looking saves an hour of guessing.
Classical Reformer work.
Footwork first, building through the order Joseph Pilates laid down. Each exercise prepares the next.
Breath, if it's part of your picture.
Hypopressives. Specific postures, a particular kind of exhale. Looks strange the first time. Changes things quickly.
three threads
A small, deliberate set of tools.
Each session is built from these three — chosen for what your body needs that day.
01 / fascia
Fascia Release
The connective tissue layer stretching can't reach. I'm a certified Roll Model® practitioner — I teach you to do this for yourself.
02 / pilates
The original method, in the original order, on legacy wood-and-leather equipment. Reformer, Tower, Wunda chair, mat.
Classical Pilates
03 / hypopressives
Breath-based work for pelvic floor, prolapse, postnatal change and POTS. Five to ten minutes a day at home
Hypopressives
how it compounds
"In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, in 30 you'll have a whole new body."
— joseph pilates
Most clients notice real change around session six to eight, and find the things they'd quietly given up on — running, sleeping flat, picking up a child without bracing — back in their lives by session twenty.
what it isn't
Not physio. Not a workout.
I'm not a physiotherapist. There's an excellent one on site at Botanica Health, and I work alongside physios, osteopaths and consultants often.
It isn't a workout, either. You'll work hard, but the goal is precision, not exhaustion. If you want to be wrecked, this isn't the studio. If you want to understand your body well enough to train hard without breaking it, you're in the right place.