Sarah Pritchard Pilates & Somatic Movement: Franklin Method

Sarah Pritchard Pilates & Somatic Movement: Franklin Method Master Somatic Movement Therapist /Educator MSME MSMT (ISMETA Reg) & Buff Bones® Faculty. Somatic Therapist & Franklin Method Expert Level 4.

Comprehensive Remedial Pilates for Women’s Health & Dance in Birmingham, Shrewsbury, across the UK & Virtual Helping you reconnect with and future-proof your body. Hello, I am Sarah Pritchard, an internationally regulated Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, and a specialist Pilates teacher. My mission is to bridge the gap between clinical science and the joy of movement, helping you feel whol

e, resilient, and more like "you." With over a decade of experience, I specialize in female health and dancer wellness. I am proud to be:

Expert Level 4 Franklin Method® Educator (one of the few in the world). ISMETA Registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator. SomaSoul® Somatic Therapist, working deeply with the mind-body connection to produce profound emotional and physical change. Comprehensive & Remedial Pilates Specialist (Alan Herdman trained). Whether you are looking to resolve chronic pain, improve athletic performance, or navigate the intersection of physical sensation and emotional landscape, I offer a dedicated space for your personal and professional growth. Services: 1:1 Coaching, Small Groups, and Workshops. Locations: In-person (Shrewsbury, Shropshire & Birmingham) or Virtually via my online studio.

Relational.This image - a metaphor for presence. As a somatic therapist I read so much on social media about doing exer...
11/05/2026

Relational.
This image - a metaphor for presence.
As a somatic therapist I read so much on social media about doing exercises to regulate your nervous system. And this is an important part of my work too - but its not the only part. And I have years of professional training and felt embodied experience to understand how and when to use these tools safely. We keep reinforcing the idea that being calm all of the time is how we should live. We need to ‘fix’ ourselves. Our full range of humanness is not welcome. But for humans we live in the whole range of experience and emotions - they all have value as they point to things that have great meaning.
For some of us there is not enough felt safety, and that’s where therapists can step in and be that safe other with you to help you develop more capacity. But for so many of us what we need more than anything is connection.
Look at what’s happening here - my friend sitting with me in my messiness of grief a few years years ago not trying to change me but being deeply present - if you work with birds you know how present and wise they are! And in that moment I was held and it was felt. ❤️
Animals get this so right because belonging and connecting is how they survive and thrive. In community. In places of safety. They sense it and they feel it at such speed. And as mammals we also have the same needs, to be held in community. To be held in relationship. In safety. We feel and at such speed too!
My thoughts for mental health week is not only to give yourself the grace and space to be a messy imperfect human, reach for connection if you need support, but also to be there for others too. Relational health is built slowly over time, through small repeated moments of connection, attunement, accountability, softness, truth. Healing happens in connection. Not the big gestures, but the unimpressive repeated moments of connection where healing can happen.

From one messy imperfect human to another, and not an AI!

Be gentle,

Sarah 💜

08/05/2026

Join me for my semi private Summer Somatic Day retreat - the integrated psoas and the nervous system. Beautiful work from Franklin Method to help your hips, spine, core, breathing and sense of peace and calm.
A day just for you, with lunch and Franklin Method balls provided.
Exhale, and then take a deeper breath.

Link in my bio and more details if this is calling to you

https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/franklin-method-psoas-nervous-system-shrewsbury

Sarah xx

Summer days….A small day in Shrewsbury on June 7th - for 4 people, a quiet garden room, and a full day exploring the pso...
04/05/2026

Summer days….

A small day in Shrewsbury on June 7th - for 4 people, a quiet garden room, and a full day exploring the psoas and nervous system through Franklin Method® imagery and movement. It’s a deep dive into the world of regulated somatic movement and breath and is wonderful to experience in yourself as well as being an area that is very misunderstood in movement practices.
One place taken. Three remaining.
Lunch included. Franklin balls included. £150.
Link below if it’s calling you then I’d love to see you,

Sarah xx

https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/franklin-method-psoas-nervous-system-shrewsbury

all images are c. Sarah Pritchard 2026.

Happy International Dance Day 🌍🌎🌏💃🕺✨Dance is my joy, and movement that is expressive and full of feeling is my passion t...
29/04/2026

Happy International Dance Day 🌍🌎🌏💃🕺✨

Dance is my joy, and movement that is expressive and full of feeling is my passion to do and to watch - it’s been there since I was very little and shaped who I am today, its been my voice in a world of noise and my harbour when seas were stormy. It’s brought me both challenges and a skills set that are unique to this art form. And many, many, lessons. And it’s something that will never leave me because it is me.

I know many of you reading this feel the same way 🫶

Dance belongs to the whole body and the whole person. Not just the parts that show on stage - your nervous system, your breath, all parts of your physical body as well as your felt sense of being in motion and the emotional charge behind and within that expression. Dance is the totality of the whole person, and having been both a learner and a teacher in dance, before moving to Pilates and Somatics I know the experience on both sides. Dance is effort, discipline, repetition, and the particular kind of courage it takes to keep showing up in a body that is always changing, as we grow, age, or change. And even more courage to look at how to take pressure off ourselves and stop fighting with our physical body and mind.

I care deeply about what it actually feels like to be in a dancing body - not just how it looks or performs, but how it lives and breathes and recovers and finds pleasure in moving. The total dancer. The healthy dancer. The embodied dancer.

Dancers who feel as good as they look.

That is what I am here for. Today and every day, happier, healthier and more confident dancers.

To every dancer in my community - thank you for trusting me with your body and your practice. Here’s to many more years of joyful, healthy, embodied movement. 💛

Sarah xx

Take a moment to notice, imagine and feel…Your fascia is a mycelial network, your skeleton a geological formation. Your ...
22/04/2026

Take a moment to notice, imagine and feel…
Your fascia is a mycelial network, your skeleton a geological formation. Your blood is a water cycle. Your lungs are the earth breathing through you.
These look like metaphors but there is a truth here which points to something important…
Your fascia, a continuous web wrapping every muscle and organ - mirrors mycelium. Both distribute information and generate tensional strength through interconnection.
Your skeleton redistributes forces through bone rhythms, and a system of dynamic balance and our mountains also distribute force through dynamic loading - which tells us how important movement is!
Your circulatory system moves fluid in cycles of pressure, flow, return, and filtration. The earth does this through water cycles and mineral cycling.
Your lungs are chambers of gas exchange. So are forests. So is soil. Every breath participates in the planet’s respiration. You inhale oxygen released by photosynthesis. You exhale carbon dioxide that feeds plant life.
What you breathe shapes what the earth can grow. What the earth grows shapes what you can breathe. The connection is two-way.
The Franklin Method teaches us to sense these structural realities and recognise that the patterns you embody are the patterns the earth embodies.
You are not separate from the earth. Your architecture is its architecture. Through breath and circulation, you are continuously shaping and being shaped by the living systems you’re part of.

My thoughts on Earth day - let’s move beyond the picture of just ourselves into the total picture. We cannot separate ourselves from this connection as we too are nature.

In wellness,

Sarah xx 🌍🌳🌱✨

🌟 A Special Pop-Up: The Franklin Method® in BirminghamExperience the world-renowned method that is transforming how we m...
17/04/2026

🌟 A Special Pop-Up: The Franklin Method® in Birmingham
Experience the world-renowned method that is transforming how we move and feel. 🧠✨
Relaxed Mind, Relaxed Body 2.0 is a specialized 60-minute reset designed for the movers, the thinkers, and the high-achievers of Birmingham.
What makes this unique? We don’t just stretch; we use neuro-cognitive imagery and fascial release to “re-program” your tension from the brain down.
* For Movement Pros & Dancers: Optimize fascial glide, sharpen proprioception, and master the art of down-regulation for faster recovery.

* For Women in Midlife: Melt away “hormonal stiffness,” soothe cortisol spikes, and clear brain fog using science-backed breathwork.

One Hour. One Global Method. A Total System Reset. Leave with a portable toolkit for self-regulation you can use anywhere.
🔗 Message me directly to secure your spot—spaces are limited!

In wellness, Sarah xx

12/04/2026

Connection… with the body, with your community, with a greater mission. Pilates on Tour 2026 in London.
What a joy to connect and move alongside others who understand what it means to work with embodied movement and precision, with presence, with feeling and with joy! There are many things in the Pilates world that can feel very concerning at the moment, news of injuries, poor training, divisions, posturing, but equally there are so many connections within this world that are supportive, nourishing, illuminating, that have integrity, real depth and insight, and make me smile! Move beyond those that shout loudly and you will find so much support and good energy!
I’ve been so happy to be in a room of movement and conversations and deepening connections and understanding. Catching up with my incredible teachers, those I have been in a room with virtually for many years and finally to meet with in person, those I haven’t seen for a while and connecting with new friends as well. Catching up Buff Bones instructors I have taught with from both the UK, Greece and Norway and, meeting newer teachers and colleagues who are genuinely invested in moving an embodied practice forward.
It’s been wonderful to be in a gathering where learning and movement is the starting point for everything else.
So this teacher is returning to her studios and movement spaces feeling energised from the movement I have experienced and real conversations about what embodiment means within this form. So grateful for my teachers , colleagues, and this community.

Thank you as ever for bringing the community together, for bringing collective belonging and positivity and for my new reformer and cadillac springs 🥰. And a Happy 50th! 🎂

In wellness, Sarah xx

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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