Knebworth Pilates Studio

09/01/2026

Barre

🩰 Barre class is here on a Sunday as a pay as you go option through the year.

💪🏻 A workout inspired by elements of pilates, yoga and ballet it focusses on low impact, high intensity movements designed to strengthen your body.

🎶 Our Sunday morning sessions are led by Ellena with tunes to make you feel great. The workout will tone your body and leave you with a feeling of accomplishment on a Sunday morning

08/01/2026

Our core business is matwork pilates

🧍 One to one classes

👬 Duet sessions

👨‍🎓 Group sessions from beginners to advanced with an average of 6 - 8 clients in a class

😊 We can bespoke to a group of friends if you would like us to get in touch for details

🏡 We are a small studio in the heart of the community. Our instructors are body control and APPI trained so have a deep understanding of how the body moves and how to adapt a class to suit you. We take pride in knowing our clients and adapting to suit their needs.

🤔 Our client group is varied however we commonly see people with juggling back pain, those wanting to avoid injury so balancing their cardio and cross training with the benefits of core and flexibility work and many clients who wish to improve their balance and strength to enable them to maintain their mobility. Not to mention those who come for the love of some mindful strengthening movement.

06/01/2026

🧐Reboot for New Year!

👀 This week we will be giving you an insight into the services we offer here at the studio and how you can get involved. So a taster to start the week……

💪🏻 Our core business is delivering matwork pilates and we run sessions for beginner to advanced. We have daytime and evening classes. We are small with generally 6 clients in a class for individual attention. We get to know you well and have a close community vibe!

🩰 On a Sunday morning we deliver a barre class to compliment our sessions for a higher energy option

More information will be provided in this weeks posts, take a look at our website www.knebworthpilatesstudio.co.uk or DM us

A welcoming fully equipped Pilates studio in the heart of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. We run daytime and evening Matwork Classes catering to all levels, needs and ages. All our teachers are expertly qualified to give you the best Pilates can offer ... a healthy outlook on life and a supple but strong....

05/01/2026

🥳Happy New Year!! An introduction to us🎈

🥅 The New Year often brings a new focus and sense of beginning a new chapter.

👋🏻 It feels the perfect time to say hello from Knebworth Pilates Studio!

🧘‍♂️ We are a small and welcoming matwork studio running daytime and evening matwork classes, 1:1 and 2:1 sessions catering to all levels, needs and ages. Our instructors are expertly qualified through body control and APPI to give you the best matwork can offer.

👣 What can you expect? A low impact, full body workout with a focus to build strength and confidence through movement.

🗓️ If you are planning to get started or recommence your pilates practice please get in contact to see how we can help!

Follow us this week to get to know us better or take a look at our website

A welcoming fully equipped Pilates studio in the heart of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. We run daytime and evening Matwork Classes catering to all levels, needs and ages. All our teachers are expertly qualified to give you the best Pilates can offer ... a healthy outlook on life and a supple but strong....

19/12/2025

Have you been rushing around trying to finish all those last-minute tasks? If so, don’t forget to take some time out to pause and reset.

- Notice any areas of tension. Relax your jaw and facial muscles. Lift your shoulders and drop them back down with a big sigh.

- Become aware of your breath. The more breath aware we become, the greater our connection with our body and the more able we are to respond rather than react to situations. So take a moment to notice your breath and the way you are breathing.

- Breath can be used as a focus point or we can actually practice various techniques by which we alter the pattern of our breathing, to create a certain effect. Can you at this moment make your breath slightly longer, deeper and slower. Try this even for a minute or two and notice how you feel.

18/12/2025

👶🏼Today lets channel our inner child and feel the excitement of getting a scooter under the tree! Oh yes love a scooter move to work the lower body and bring a smile

🦵Start in a slight lunge position with your left leg forward
🦶Keep your left knee tracking over the middle of your foot, just behind the toes. Don’t let your knee buckle inward or outward.
🗼Engage your core to keep all your midsection muscles activated and help you avoid arching your low back.
💪🏻Hinge at your hips and root all your weight through your front (left) foot to engage your glutes and quads.
🛴Slowly extend your right leg behind you and reach your foot backward, then bring it forward, lightly tapping it next to your front leg, still maintaining all your weight on the left foot.
Once you have done a few that side repeat on the other side ….. imagine whizzing through the park!

17/12/2025

🍑Half way through the week so lets fire up the glutes so we can run up and down the stairs chasing the children round the house with their excitement! So one of my favourites …..Clam but today in standing so you can do it waiting for the kettle to boil!

🧍Start in a natural standing position.
📐Bend your right hip 45 and the knee to 90 degrees, keeping your legs a hip distance apart.
🤚 Put your hands on your waist. Inhale and engage the core.
↪️Exhale, rotate your right hip outwards, keeping your pelvis stable.
↩️Inhale, rotate your right hip back to the middle, keeping the pelvis stable.
5️⃣ Repeat up to ten times on the right leg and then repeat on the opposite side.

16/12/2025

🤗On day 12 lets master some scapular isolation as this will help us to gain the movement to hug a family member and remember what really matters!

🖐️Lie down on your back with your knees bent and reach your fingertips towards the ceiling
➗Inhale, release your shoulder blades from the mat to create more space between them.
↔️Your fingertips will reach towards the ceiling and you will feel your shoulderblades glide round your chest wall
😶Exhale and return your shoulder blades to a neutral position
🧘🏻Repeat a few times and feel your shoulders relax

15/12/2025

🥊Starting a new week and day 11 we will focus on an ab curl with punches to release tension!!

🛏️Start in lying with your knees bent and feet on the floor.
✋Hands interconnected and placed behind the head. Elbows slightly lifted away from the floor, shoulders drawn down and in.
😮‍💨Inhale and lengthen the back of your neck.
👤Exhale and draw your core in , slide your ribcage downwards towards your waist to lift your head, neck and shoulders off the mat as you imagine your breast bone reaching forward and upwards
🥊 Inhale to hold and if you like take one arm from behind your head and punch forward
⬇️Exhale and lower to the mat.
🔂Repeat!!

12/12/2025

🐛Getting close to the weekend on day 10! Articulating shoulder bridge for when you need to multi task - Great for central stability, lower back, opening the hips, recharging the glutes and hamstrings. Also frees up the spine so you can do the worm?!

👠Inhale to prepare and as you exhale flatten your spine pressing evenly into your heels and curling the tailbone off the mat, then continue to peel the spine up one vertebra at a time until the weight is evenly between your shoulder blades.
🐍Take a breath in at the top and then exhale again as you roll or peel the spine from the top to the bottom releasing the tailbone last so you come back to neutral position.

11/12/2025

🧜‍♀️On day 9 we are increasing our side stretch and reach so we can get to the top shelf in the shops…. mermaid stretch in standing
👣Stand with your feet slightly wider than hip distance apart.
🎈 Imagine your head is a helium balloon to lengthen your spine.
🤷‍♀️Glide your shoulder blades downwards towards your waist.
⬆️INHALE and lift the left arm to the side and overhead.
⤵️EXHALE and lengthen the curve of the spine to the right while maintaining the neutral position.
😮‍💨INHALE and return back to upright starting position.

09/12/2025

✂️Day seven scissors level one today lets target those deep abdominal muscles that assist with posture when you are standing catching up with friends
😮‍💨Inhale and engage your core as you exhale lift one leg into tabletop position.
🪑Inhale holding this position then as you exhale, maintaining the knee at 90 degrees, lower the leg to the floor.
🦵Repeat alternating legs.
Ensure your pelvis is stable on the floor not wobbling left and right