Pilates is a system of movement training which focuses on the internal rather than the external. First you learn how to control your breathing, then your skeleton, and then your body as a whole. I want to help my students live in and with their bodies rather than at odds with them by applying Pilates techniques on the mat, in the studio, and in everyday movement.
Most of my movement training has been in ballet and dance, but I’ve branched out into acrobatics and parkour. All of these disciplines require an internalisation of technical movement so that you can move effortlessly and spontaneously. I am drawn to making art which requires painstaking repetitive movements to build up a whole, interspersed with wildly instinctual guesswork. My teaching is a lot like that too.
I love the complexity and inconsistency of the human body. I want to work with my students to decide how they are going to tackle each breath, exercise, or situation. Most of us are a walking collection of misplaced tensions and old movement patterns. I use fascial release work in my teaching to give space in the body so that new patterns can form. Once you understand your movements, we can improve your movement tools, and then I want to step back and watch you find new and better ways of moving forward.
- Studio Equipment Certification – 2014 APPI
- Advanced Matwork – 2012 APPI
- Pre and Post-natal Pilates – 2010 Modern Pilates
- Matwork Certification – 2009 Modern Pilates n the studio Studio Equipment Certification – 2014 APPI
- Advanced Matwork – 2012 APPI
- Pre and Post-natal Pilates – 2010 Modern Pilates
- Matwork Certification – 2009 Modern Pilates
I have been a Pilates student in the UK and United States since 2000.