I have been teaching Pilates for 20 years having trained initially in matwork with Polestar Pilates.

I progressed to train with Suzanne Scott at The Scott Studio becoming an accredited Pilates Foundation teacher of comprehensive matwork and studio sessions.  The studio equipment provides various amounts of resistance which helps increase strength, stability and balance. This is the ideal setting for rehabilitating injury and pain, and also for improving and challenging existing performance.

My background is in dance and movement, from dance training to teaching dance, including adult evening classes, people with learning difficulties and teaching in secondary school up to Year 10 Dance GCSE .

I qualified as a Movement Therapist through the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2000. However, it was my training as a Zen Shiatsu practitioner with Sonia Moriceau in 1990 that most supported my Pilates training.

Sonia’s teaching helped in developing my understanding and teaching of Pilates. Looking for the lines of energy and flow and seeing where the energy is stuck or lacking, finding stability and spring in the body, and experiencing how the breath and movement can improve both energy and mood.

Pain reduction and ease of movement are primary aims in Pilates.

“I aim to encourage others to move with ease, confidence and pleasure; to improve in strength and flexibility and to gain poise and confidence; and, where there is pain, to reduce dependence on treatments.”