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Movement educator • Embodiment practitioner Consider your body as your vehicle just like the vehicle you drive on the road.
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Over 10 years in the health and fitness industry I've come to use Pilates as a tool for my clients to keep their bodies in tune and looking exceptional! How well would your car drive if it was never serviced? Pilates With Alex gives you Pilates and functional exercises to strengthen your deep core, mobilize your joints and align your body so your vehicle is running the best it possibly can. My specialties include:
- Improving posture
- Easing back pain
- Toning and sculpting
- Pilates for runners
- Pilates for swimmers
- Pilates for cyclists

Follow http://www.pilateswithalex.com/blog/ for updates on the latest workouts, trip and tricks on how to keep your body in tune! Email alex@pilateswithalex.com for online advice and feedback.

12/01/2026

sometimes the shift isn’t in the movement itself, it’s in the quality of attention.
a client’s gaze softens but looks further into the distance and their jaw releases. their breath finds its own rhythm again (after a little natural holding while they concentrate) and
the body starts listening differently and change occurs.

08/01/2026

learning happens when the body is calm enough to download and process

in my very first motor control class at university, we were given a simple task.

we had to hold seven washers in one hand and throw them into the air.
with the same hand, we had to catch them — one by one — without letting any drop to the floor.

to begin with, it felt almost impossible.
after an hour of repetition, most of us were catching four or five.

that was the entire session.

a week later, we returned and were asked to try the exercise again.
almost everyone caught all seven on the first attempt.

it was my first real lesson in how learning works.

the change didn’t happen during practice.
it happened in the quiet time afterwards —
when the body had space to download, process, and pattern the new skill.

06/01/2026

thinking about improvements people want in their bodies and what it takes for those improvements to happen — most of the shifts I see in the body happen in a liminal space — the quiet place between settling and change, when everything softens just enough for the nervous system to reorganise. Then the brain catches up and the client gets an ‘aha’ moment.

31/12/2025

a New Year’s Eve thought letter

28/12/2025

this past year has asked for a different rhythm.
i’ve been letting things move at the pace they actually want. less doing. more listening.

22/12/2025

Last sessions of the year. Thank you for the care and attention you bring.

17/12/2025

I’ve been thinking about environments — the ones around us and the ones inside us.
How the nervous system softens when the world feels steady. How posture shifts when the ground beneath us does. How the body mirrors the spaces it moves through.

The more I work, the more I see that external and internal environments aren’t separate — they shape each other, constantly.

Lately I’ve been paying attention to that relationship.
Letting it guide how I teach, how I work, and how I look at the body.

10/12/2025

I’ve been really appreciating the recent conversations about integrity within the Pilates industry. Like yoga, Pilates is in a moment of recalibration, and that’s a natural part of growth. Over the past couple of years the reformer has surged in popularity again, and I’ve had clients reach out after reformer classes feeling a little disappointed. Rapid expansion can sometimes dilute quality, and in a field that works so closely with the body, maintaining depth and care really matters.

03/12/2025

I’ve been realising recently that the way I show up online hasn’t fully reflected the way I’ve always worked in person.

My practice has long been grounded in embodiment, sports science, the nervous system, and the quieter emotional layers that live in the body. It’s slow, honest work — shaped as much by experience and sensitivity as by training.

What’s shifting now isn’t my direction, but the way this space represents it.

I’m letting this page become more aligned with what actually happens in my studio and in the forest landscape I work within. More clarity, more depth, and less of the noise that never felt like me.

You’ll see more of:
• pain & posture improvement through a biomechanics and nervous-system lens
• embodiment as a lived, daily experience
• how place — including the temperate rainforest I live in — shapes the body
• reflections from real work, not performance
• reflections on Matrescence impact on mind-body from lived experience and client work

I’m just allowing this page to catch up with the practice I’ve held for years.

Thank you for being here as things come into clearer focus ✨ friends who want to follow more of my moments outside of my work head to

26/11/2025

a moment of appreciation for our rainforests 🌱 Ansel and I moved here for the Atlantic coast and discovered the temperate rainforests. much like Guy Shrubsole who has written The Lost Rainforests of Britain, i had no idea this landscape existed in this country and it’s been a magical experience. this forest is exuberant with life and that’s how i feel after walking through it. it brings inherent health. Britain used to be 20-30% rainforest and we’re down to just 1%. in a country where we are becoming more aware of our wellbeing, so much so and industry has formed — the wellness industry — it is sad to realise that we’ve cleared almost all of this healthful landscape. studies show spending just 10 minutes in the temperate rainforest down regulates our sympathetic nervous system and switches on parasympathetic and the affects last days after leaving the forest. what an incredibly powerful and repairing environment. our place influences our health and it is important for me to include the rainforest into my practice so you can expect more posts and pictures of this evergreen, abundant and soothing landscape

20/11/2025

Often new clients say ‘the movement is so small but I have to concentrate so much!’ Here’s why — small movements assist healing more than big ones. To heal physically (and emotionally) our system needs to feel held, safe and calm. From there we build with small but sound movements where the client connects with their body, befriends their body and begins to work with their body. It seems small but changing the way you work with your body is profound ✨

14/11/2025

Capturing holiday moments on 35 mm film, some with my kids around and some on a day out just with Ansel. Remembering to soak up all of the emotions and moments of motherhood including both the light and dark. Understanding that the darker moments come from love and it’s because I love, I experience feelings anger, disappointment, frustration, loneliness and despair. Maternal ambivalence exists and is a healthy life force. Although our culture doesn’t see it like that. Admitting to the darker feelings in motherhood is taboo and leads to isolation as it discounts part of the maternal experience. Normalising the full experience of motherhood would help to decrease the strength of these darker feelings and help us connect more fully with who we are, with our children and mothers in general. I’m all for it x

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