Clare Roberts Pilates

01/01/2026

So grateful for the past few days - time to pause, reflect and move joyfully from the end of one year to the start of the next 🌿✨

Happy 2026 everyone! 🥳

08/10/2025

It’s Back Care Awareness Week 💛

Your spine is an absolute masterpiece of form and function, so let’s look after it ! 🌿

A study by Rodriguez et al. in 2022 found that Pilates had the highest likelihood of reducing both pain (93%) and disability (98%) in people with chronic lower back pain - outperforming every other exercise intervention studied.

The secret? Strengthening deep postural muscles, improving spinal mobility, and building lasting core stability. For best results - consistency is key, which is why I always suggest mat-based exercises for clients to practice at home in between lessons.

Visit www.backcare.org.uk for info or to find a movement specialist near you. And hope you enjoy these five fav artworks that celebrate the incredible spine 🎨

🖼️ Claudette Johnson - “Figure in Umber”
🖼️Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - “The Valpinçon Bather” (1808)
🖼️ Francis Bacon - “Study from the Human Body” (1949)
🖼️ Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - “Trapsprung “ (2013)
🖼️ Henri Matisse - “Blue N**e II” (1952)

07/10/2024

It’s Back Care Awareness Week 2024🧡

Supporting clients to manage and resolve back pain is my absolute passion!! So I am spreading the word of the importance of back health and the vital role that Pilates can play with five fav artworks that celebrate the incredible spinal column 🫶

Pilates is an evidence based approach for managing and recovering from lower back pain. Although the majority of exercise and movement regimes will have a positive impact, the most beneficial programmes are those that include 1-2 sessions of Pilates or strength exercises per week (Rodriguez et al, June 2022).

It is for this reason that I always set mat based homework for my private clients as well as my group reformer classes . I have also created a range of back care classes to release, mobilise and strengthen the spine for their amazing newly launched app 📲🥳

🖼️Lynette Yuadom-Boakye ‘Interstellar’ 2012
🖼️Jenny Saville ‘Juncture’ 1994
🖼️ Kerry James Marshall ‘Diver’ c. 1992
🖼️David Hockney ‘Man in Shower in Beverley Hills’ 1964
🖼️Gerard Richter ‘Betty’ 1988. Have a great week ahead x

29/01/2024

Thanks to ‘Women in Diplomacy’ HCA UK and Live Brave Pilates for inviting me to speak last week about the huge benefits of movement and exercise for our overall health as we head towards menopause and beyond 💪🦴.

It was such a privilege to share my knowledge and passion alongside some incredible expert speakers including Dr Laura Munoz, Shushma Srikrishna and Gabrielle Morse from London Bridge Hospital.

Additionally, the President of ‘Women in Diplomacy’ and High Commissioner for Bangladesh, as well as other High Commissioners and heads of missions from countries including Jamaica, the Seychelles, Slovenia and Tanzania, shared experiences of working and the menopause, using their power, influence and voice to

27/07/2022

Pilates in Paradise 😍

If you you look closely 👀 there is a teaser on the rocks in beautiful Bodrum 🏖

This was my last day on the beach in Turkey before heading home 🇹🇷 Such stunning scenery with the most warm and generous people - and rather fab kebabs!! 😋 Feeling rested and truly grateful 🙏

Sending happy hump day vibes 💛😎

06/09/2021

New Season, new kit! 🥳

Happy Monday, which today is back to school and a new term for many. I spent the weekend enjoying the surprise return of the sunshine and making way for a new addition to the studio, a Combo Chair from , a design evolved from Joseph Pilates’ original Wunda Chair 😍

As well as giving great feedback to and strengthening muscle groups of the core, upper and lower body, the Combo has the addition of a split pedal to facilitate rotational exercises and movement in all planes– an idea conceived by ‘ – which is brilliant for my golfers, tennis players, runners, and a myriad rehab applications💥

Cannot wait for my clients to meet the chair this week as it will bring a whole new dynamic to their bespoke Pilates programmes⭐️

I have a couple of slots available, including Tuesdays at 2.30pm, so DM for more details if interested😊

Have a great week, Clare ☀️

25/06/2021

Join me for the last HIIT x Fusion session with Sweaty Betty tomorrow Saturday 26th at 9.15 am with me, Clare Roberts Pilates, meeting in store just a few minutes before the class.
Book your space by calling the store on 0208 318 3918 or follow this link https://sweatybetty.instabook.io/
Please don't forget to bring your mat and see you tomorrow!

16/06/2021

HIIT x Pilates is back this weekend! Hope you can join me at 9.15am. Book your free space via link below. Looking forward to seeing you

Thank you for joining our Saturday HIIT class with Clare Roberts Pilates.
If you want to join our Free Saturday workouts on the Heath, please book online following this link https://sweatybetty.instabook.io or call Sweaty Betty Blackheath on 0208 318 3918 to book your space