Instructors

I was introduced to Pilates at the age of 13 while undergoing my ballet training at London Junior Ballet, and understood that Pilates was beneficial to peoples’ physical needs. I recommended it to my Mum who then went on to become a qualified Body Control Pilates Teacher.

After many years of intense ballet training my dancing journey changed route and, when I was 18, I decided to continue my training in Contemporary dance. I trained at the Laban Conservatoire in London where I gained a BA (Hon) in Dance Theatre. A couple of years after graduating I moved to NYC to further my training at the Martha Graham Dance School where I completed the Teachers’ Training Program in Graham Technique.  Here, in NYC as well as in England, I also danced professionally as a freelancer for various different companies and independent choreographers.

On returning home from NYC in 2015 I trained and subsequently qualified with Body Control Pilates. I found that this specific method of movement was the perfect remedy for various injuries that I had acquired through my dance training!  I began teaching my own classes shortly after but then had a brief break from teaching whilst completing an MA in Dance Performance. During my Masters I combined my knowledge and interests in teaching both Graham technique and Pilates to research the connections between these two movement techniques. Although I have now completed my studies, my research continues through my interests on both a personal level and during teaching.

When I’m not teaching Pilates or dance, I instruct Indoor Cycling classes and enjoy aerial hoop in my free time.

I first discovered Pilates in 1997 as a fitness activity in a local village hall. I didn’t appreciate the benefits until I went to university and stopped attending the classes! I returned to practicing regularly in 2003 with a Body Control Pilates Teacher, and since then it has helped me control my hypermobility, aided my recovery from hip surgery, given me the mental strength to deal with restructures in my previous local government jobs and protected me against lower back pain.

I decided to share these benefits, and my love of Pilates by training with Body Control Pilates in 2010. Four years later, I made the leap to teaching full time and haven’t looked back.

I love helping people understand their body and assisting them in getting out of pain due to chronic or acute issues. I regularly work with clients with Fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Arthritis, Osteoporosis and many other general life-related niggles.

I’m fully qualified through Body Control Pilates to teach Pre- and Post-natal students, Older People, those with Bone Health issues and am a Back4Good Practitioner.

Having become a Reformer teacher in 2015, I went on to take the Comprehensive Studio Certificate examination in 2022, demonstrating I am competent teaching on all the Studio equipment – the Reformer, Cadillac, Chairs and Barrels.

I love learning and spend more time than I ought to on CPD courses with BCP, and other Pilates schools and professionals. I also love sharing this learning with trainee teachers through mentoring in my role as a Supervising Teacher for Body Control Pilates.

When not teaching, doing or learning more about Pilates, I can be found either swimming, reading, or playing my flute with Winchester Flute Choir and Flautissimo: The Southampton Flute Orchestra.

I was introduced to Pilates after a serious sports injury, this experience helped me to recognise the consequence of asymmetrical and faulty movement patterns first hand. It also guided me to discover the benefit of body awareness and deepened my understanding of the human body mechanics.

After years of personal practice, I decided to pursue my passion in addition to my career in finance. Since then, I have gained more than 10 years of experience training with a wide range of clients including dancers, professional athletes, pre and post-natal women and people recuperating from injuries.

I have earned my comprehensive apparatus training in the classical Pilates repertoire but personalise each session for the needs of my students. In my classes, expect precise and simple instruction that helps in improving proprioperception and body awareness through guided movements. Overall, I emphasise on the advantage of whole-body movement in addition to strength and flexibility development.

As a gymnast from an early age, I have always been interested in health and fitness and turned to Pilates as a way of maintaining a toned body later in life, which I have been doing for over 25 years. This helped me achieve a greater awareness of my body and following a total hip replacement in 2014, I realised something wasn’t right and was in constant chronic back and hip pain.

I discovered The MELT Method © in 2016 and felt immediate relief from the pain that no other modality could address (I tried everything!). By doing MELT 3 times a week for just 10 minutes I could again begin to live a normal active life and get back to doing the things I love. Naturally curious, I wanted to understand how doing these movements could help me where everything else failed. I therefore booked myself into the MELT instructor training with the founder of the MELT method, Sue Hitzmann MS, CST, NMT. I am now fully qualified to teach advanced MELT Level 3 and Neuro-Strength and have been teaching MELT for over 5 years. Through extensive training courses and working with Sue Hitzmann to deliver training to other instructors, I now have more understanding how the body is dependent upon the fascial system to remain supported, protected and stabilised. Most of all I love seeing clients walk out of a class with a lighter step and benefitting from a more pain free life.