As a primary school teacher for nearly twenty years, I was able to observe young children’s natural love of all kinds of movement. As busy adults we often lose this ability to focus in on our body and its amazing potential to move.
As a tall teacher working in classrooms with very small people, tables and chairs, I began to develop lower back pain which I found debilitating. I took up Pilates in 2001 and found it had a profound effect on my posture and lower back pain problems.
Feeling enthusiastic about the benefits of Pilates, I decided to undertake Pilates teacher training. I now work professionally as a Pilates teacher helping clients to discover their own body’s potential and the enjoyment of movement that Pilates promotes.
I initially trained with Body Control Pilates beginning my training as a matwork teacher in 2007. Whilst working as a pilates teacher I undertook a number of further professional development courses including on Pregnancy in Pilates, working with older clients and various equipment modules.
I then started working at the Santosha studio with Fiona Mcintosh where I discovered the qualitative difference of working from a fascial perspective . This led me to start the one to one apprenticeship training with Centre for Spatial Medicine (CPM) in 2015 enabling me to learn and teach the full studio equipment as well as matwork through a fascial perspective. My training has taken me across the world to Houston in the US and Zurich as well as across the UK.
As a fully qualified teacher with Centre for Spatial Medicine (CPM), I teach both matwork and in the Pilates Studio helping clients to find healthier and strain free ways of moving.
Contrology (Pilates) exercises build a sturdy body and sound mind fitted to perform every daily task with ease and perfection as well as to provide tremendous reserve energy for sports, recreation, emergencies.
– Joseph Pilates, ‘Return to Life’