WELCOME....

Thank you for visiting.  My mission is to help you feel better in the body you live in, whatever your lifestyle demands. To guide you to feeling good about movement and that means enjoyment and challenge! 

I believe we can all benefit from the Pilates method, whatever your lifestyle, age or ability.  I love to teach and share the work of Joseph Pilates, getting creative and curious about how each and everyone one of us can access it. I dedicate time and commitment to all the people I teach, always with a constant passion for learning and sharing.

The people I teach are often my best teachers.  It's one thing having a teacher who can demonstrate a great Teaser, but a totally different skill to develop confidence in others to try for themselves and feel good whatever the outcome.   If we laugh along the way, even better!

I have been a teacher for 18 years and will never stop learning.  My high school biology teacher first inspired me to learn about the human body.  Twenty years later I was that Biology teacher!

In 2003 I woke from a hospital bed to discover I'd been cut free from a car wreckage with no memory of surviving a head-on collision, then, like many Pilates teachers, I went on to discover both the physical and mental benefits of movement, first Yoga, then Pilates.  

 
Alongside teaching Biology, I qualified to teach Mat Pilates in 2016.  Later that year I switched off the Bunsen burner for the last time and committed fully to my true passion, Pilates.  In 2018 I met Lolita San Miguel at a Pilates conference in the hometown of Joseph Pilates, Monchengladbach.  We shared a beer and interesting conversation which led to my continued training with her and her educators in the UK and USA.  Lolita granted me my fully comprehensive certification in 2021.  It was amazing to finally understand how the concept of Pilates has grown and where it all started.

I believe the teachings of Joseph Pilates remain a valuable prompt for all of us to think about how we were designed to move, rather than how modern life forces us to move (or not!).  How being closer to nature and getting outdoors is essential for our body, mind and spirit.  This belief is one of my strongest and the inspiration for our annual outdoor retreat each year in beautiful Wales!

My love of the outdoors and nature was forged during my 12 years of living in the Isle of Man where I discovered a real and surprising connection with Mr Pilates himself. During the First World War Joseph Pilates was interned as an 'enemy alien' at Knockaloe Farm, Isle of Man.  It's fascinating to think of all of the corners of the world he may have been, he had originally worked on his method right where I lived!

One of my favourite sayings.

"Everything is connected!"

Who do I teach and what do they say?

Everyone!

What I love the most is when I see people enjoy moving.  Moving with more joy, freedom and confidence, hearing how their mobility, posture, mood or flexibility has improved. And that’s the ultimate goal - to live better through movement and in the words of Joseph Pilates, "Return to life".

Many of my students tell me they feel different in just a couple of sessions.  Some find they only fully realise how much they've improved when they take a break or go on holiday, and I hear... "I've missed it!"  

* * *

Qualifications

I hold Pilates qualifications in both contemporary Mat and traditional and contemporary apparatus Pilates, the latter with Pilates elder Lolita San Miguel & Joakim Valsinger of Balans, Scotland.  I can confirm Lolita is one tough cookie and made me earn my stripes on those final exams! 

I have continued additional training with many of the best Pilates teachers in the world.  Learning from a diverse range of internationally recognised teachers; from Anula Maiberg & Blossom Crawford to Julie Driver & Alan Herdman.  I continue to keep up to date by travelling when possible around the world; Body Control Pilates London, Pilates Esher in Surrey, Sixth Street Pilates, New York, Monchengladbach in Germany and with Balanced Body Tour teachers including Tracey Mallet & Joy Puleo on Tour in 2024.

Pilates Teacher training Legacy Programme

2019 - 2021 (3 year fully comprehensive)

HFE Pilates Teacher Certification Level 3 - Matwork

2016

Post Graduate Certificate In Education 2007 : Nottingham University

Lecturer in Health & Psychology 2004/5

Liverpool Hope University

First Class Honours degree in Human Biology and Psychology 2004 :

University of Liverpool. 

Top Bioscience student award 2004:

Institute of Biology