illume pilates

25/12/2025

Wishing you all a joyful holiday season and a 2026 full of love, many happy days, good health & much peace 🩵

Thanks to the lovely illume pilates community - I appreciate you 🙏

I arrived to my home town a few of days ago and taught the Pop Up! Pilates class yesterday morning (with nine people at class - woo-hoo!!)This has been a challenging year for me, losing my lovely mum in the Spring and more recently losing my lovely mother-in-law. This has consequently meant I have t...

11/08/2025

I have been very Facebook remiss!

Here is a link to the Summer 2025 newsletter:
https://mailchi.mp/57957d58abec/summer-2024-illumepilates-newsletter-12866805

And here is a link to an August 2025 Update, which includes all info on classes for the autumn 🍂
https://mailchi.mp/18e3ff5d1549/illume-pilates-update-march-12867347

Happy Monday!! ☺️

04/01/2025

Happy New Year!

illume pilates classes start back up this coming week with:

Wonderful Wednesdays at Buchan Hall in Nunhead on 8 January
Super Saturdays online on 11 Janauary

For more information or to book please email angela@illumepilates.com

11/12/2024

The December 2024 illume pilates newsletter is HERE!

https://mailchi.mp/9328f3534233/december2024-illumepilates-newsletter-12854854

It includes:
- details on the holiday break for classes
- a special online Pop-Up Pilates! class that will happen over the holidays
- charity donation information
- a holiday film recommendation

Thanks to all of our lovely students - current & past - for making our little Pilates community so lovely! And thanks to Margo Howie, the most wonderful associate teacher!!

Angela 🩵

P.S. This is a photo of our little - yet mighty! - Christmas tree ☺️

28/09/2024

Autumn is in full-swing & illume pilates is back in full-swing of classes 🍂

For those new to illume pilates and somehow coming across this post, here is a little about us...

We are based in South London. "We" are made up of Angela Gasparetto, founder & teacher of illume pilates and Margo Howie, illume pilates associate teacher.

illume pilates started off in Nunhead in 2013, where Angela taught classes in the function room of the Old Nun's Head pub for a few years. The class then moved to Buchan Tenants' Hall around the corner from Nunhead Station where it still runs today on Wednesday eves.

Covid lock-downs brought illume pilates to Zoom where a Saturday morning class continues AND a monthly movement & relaxation class runs too.

Our classes are open-level, community-focused & fun 🥳 (well, we think they are fun!) We genuinely love Pilates and love to help people know their bodies more, help people be stronger, and therefore, help people live their daily lives better!

If you would like to know more about our classes/us, please drop us a line here or to angela@illumepilates.com.

www.illlumepilates.com

12/08/2024

The illume pilates summer 2024 newsletter is HERE!!

https://mailchi.mp/34dd8fbe8940/summer-2024-illumepilates-newsletter-12835901

I can’t believe it is almost the middle of August - the summer has flown by, and yet at the same time it also feels the most ‘spacious’ summer I have had in awhile - a strange experience of time.

04/08/2024

south london folks - if anyone can foster this lovely cat, please contact the poster ASAP - sweet Grey needs a lifeline right now 🩶



Protected Paws Animal Rescue Registered charity 1202369

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03/08/2024

Margo, associate illume pilates teacher, and I had a wonderful team meeting this afternoon - our mighty team of two! Part of our meeting was reflecting upon what we have achieved so far as illume pilates & Pilates teachers in 2024. At the top of the list was the fact we have welcomed a number of new students into our small but mighty community, along with having other students that have been coming to classes with illume pilates in Nunhead for over 10 years and all of the wonderful the folks in between - and that feels pretty awesome ☺️

At the heart of illume pilates is our desire to is to help people move & feel better in their bodies; connected to this is a strong belief in fostering a supportive & kind community to practice Pilates together in. We appreciate when people choose to spend their time & money to come to one of our classes and become part of our community, whether briefly or for longer hauls (Hannah & Naomi, I am thinking about you!).

All this to say, thank you to all who have been/are part of the illume pilates community 🙏

If you are reading this post and would like come and try a class with us, do get in touch. We have two more weeks of classes at Buchan Hall in Nunhead on Wednesday evenings, and two more Saturday morning online classes before our summer break.

Also, watch this Facebook space for the Summer Newsletter which will drop in the next week or so.

Here is a photo of a rather wonderful rainbow I saw recently while walking over the footbridge towards Embankment - so lovely I had to share! 🌈

19/05/2024

Patch practising relaxation while I prepared to teach Explore & Restore earlier today. he is a PRO!

02/04/2024

The Spring 2024 illume pilates has dropped!

Get those reading glasses on, sit in a comfy chair & enjoy!

🌷 illume pilates newsletter - spring 2024 🌷 - https://mailchi.mp/a18084e62868/spring-2024-illumepilates-newsletter



(photo from Pexels by Pet Foto)

11/02/2024

A huge THANK YOU to my fabulous associate teacher, Margo Howie 👏👏👏

I was on a teaching sabbatical for the first 5 weeks of 2024 and Margo covered all illume pilates classes with skill & flair!

You are amazing, Margo - I’m so lucky to have you as part of the illume pilates team (of two!) 😌