Tall Trees Clinic & Studio

25/04/2026

Hands up who's questioned their abilities and self worth? 🙋‍♀️ I certainly have.

Imposter Syndrome affects up to 70-80% of the population and is most common in high achievers. It involves feelings of self-doubt, perfectionism and fear of failure. It can lead to anxiety, overworking and burnout.

We're offering you a free in-person 90 minute workshop in Killearn for you start to understand and tackle your self-doubt, in a safe and relaxed environment.

I'll post more 'about us' soon!

Contact me to book your place on here, email or text
email@talltreesaberfoyle.co.uk
07758 496 820

Friday 5th June
1pm-2.30pm
The Garden Room, Killearn Village Hall

19/04/2026

Edited

I've a lot of equipment I want to get rid of.

No fixed fee for any of it, but a request to make a small donation of your choice to a charity (I'll send a link if you wish)

Dumbells:
2 pairs 0.5kg
1 pair 2 kg (gone)
Also:
2 pairs of wrist/ankle weights 0.5kg
2 pairs of wrist/ankle weights 0.75kg (gone)

Mats - all used, some marked more than others, all have been consistently cleaned with use
Pilates (5mm thick) by Meglio x1
Yoga mats from Decathlon (gone)

66fit:
Yoga/Pilates blocks x3 (gone)
2 circular wobble cushions (gone)
1 wedge cushion (gone)

Abs roller gadget to strengthen abdominal muscles (gone)

Decathlon bolsters (gone)

Massage balls
Blue 10cm hard x6
Red 5cm hard x4
Soft spikey x1

Lemme know if you want any of it. To be collected from Cobleland

Linda

05/04/2026

Often people take the time to email or text me after an appointment with me to say how much better they are feeling, which I love.

I received this one on Friday. I read it out to my husband and he said "its why you do it, isn't it"

He is right.

I've always known I love helping people, but what he said plus this email struck me differently.

I love that this patient felt heard, supported, gained symptomatic relief and understood through our movement explorations what they could do to help maintain a more pain free lower back.

I feel grateful that people put their trust in me in every session.

Its more than helping people, it's helping people who want to help themselves. This is one of the many reasons I have become a coach. It works so well with what I already do, but it opens up my scope of practice to help people who aren't in physical pain too.

To facilitate change wherever discomfort or disconnection is felt.

If you're in pain physically or a bit mentally stuck, contact me to have a chat about how I could help you. There's never any pressure.

Happy Easter, Everyone 💛

29/03/2026

This inspiring story just shows you what is possible, even after hip replacements. Huge congratulations to this Scottish Gran!

BBC News - Scottish gran breaks Hyrox fitness record after three hip replacements

Carole Munro, 72, from Turriff, Aberdeenshire, said fitness has kept her mobile and strong.

23/03/2026

As an MSK Practitioner (Osteopath, JEMS° Practitioner, Pilates Teacher, Personal Life Coach) with 20 year experience, I have a very broad scope of practice when it comes to the complexity of pain.

In the clinic, depending on what you present with, this is what I do in collaboration with you:

🔸️Orthopaedic Tests
🔸️Clinical Reasoning and MSK Diagnosis
🔸️Global Movement Assessment including gait
🔸️Sports Specific Movement Assessment
🔸️Rehabilitation Advice including
🔸️Neuromuscular Re- Patterning
🔸️Teach You Self Massage Tools and Mobility
🔸️Strength Gains Advice
🔸️Optional: Pain Relief from targeted manual therapy

All with a coaching style of support, so when you leave you have a firm idea of why you're in pain and what you can do about it, because in the session the aim is to find relief and immediate change.

*MSK = musculoskeletal. Any pain from top to toe in the body, however complex and chronic.

21/03/2026

Organically Unfold with Linda | Your Personal Life Coach

Imagine your internal world being completely free of all the baggage of life, what would you do? How would or could you feel? What would you want to achieve?

Learning how you became stuck in the first place is the key to unlock some forward momentum, to move in the direction you give yourself permission to finally go in.

This is what Coaching can do for you. The Coaching Space is a Thinking Space, without any judgement, without any expectations. You’re free to explore your mind, your thoughts, your feelings to realise what you truly want in life, and how you can get it.

Have a read, which contains my testimonials too.

Imagine your internal world being completely free of all the baggage of life, what would you do differently? The Coaching Space is Your Thinking Space, to unfold and unravel.

16/03/2026

The timing, patterns and sequences of how we move including our alignment and muscualar effort for the task in hand, aims to be well co-ordinated, dynamic and efficient.

Inefficient patterns (neuromuscular patterns) can lead to pain.

Here at Tall Trees, I can help you recalibrate, repattern, to get you out of pain.

This blog goes into more detail about what this means.

Observing neuromuscular patterns is a big part of the clinial assessment of your movement at Tall Trees. Inefficient patterns could be causing your pain.

14/03/2026

This Tuesday I found out that I passed my level 2 ICF accredited course performance evaluation, officially becoming a Personal & Business Coach with .

I plan to progress with Barefoot and complete the PG Certificate in Coaching with the University of Chester. Bring on the essays!

Thank you to all the tutors and the absolute gems that formed group OL125 ❤️. I feel very lucky and grateful to have met this group of gorgeous people.

I've not received my certificate yet, so instead a photo of me with a rainbow seemed fitting.

More on coaching and how I can help soon.

25/02/2026

I have uploaded 45 Zoom Pilates videos on this on-demand platform https://movementforhealth.offeringtree.com/

I have another 15 hour long videos to upload and by the end of the year I plan to restart a monthly Zoom class to keep this space topped up.

I plan to add shorter classes, plus my workshop The Breath, The Core and The Pelvic Floor - a work in progress!

The first month is £10.99, and then it's £19.99 after that. You can cancel at any time.

Every session is a little different, with each class challenging low load endurance (where you feel the burn!), we stretch, mobilise, relax, connect and become mindful with your moves.

You are completely responsible for your own body and must listen to it if it doesn't feel right. If you're not sure if it's right for you, contact me and have a chat first.

For more information, including what equipment you'll need, check my link on my website:

https://talltreesaberfoyle.co.uk/move-with-linda/

15/02/2026

This is so good to see. So much of the pelvic floor stuff (PF) out there is all about contracting up, which can lead to bracing and an over tight, over active PF in some people.

I use 'balloon breathing' where I invite people to imagine a balloon to explore all parts of their inner space, but then placing this imaginery balloon in the pelvic floor and ask them to breath into it (with awareness of their bones), so balloon accepts the breath works a treat! It's such an important part of functional PF rehab.

13/02/2026

Someone who attends my Pilates classes sent me this. It's a great clip. Pilates is a great way to condition your body, which helps to prevent and get you out of injury. Being super strong is great, but it's not everything. It can't do everything. There's so much more to moving well than just being strong, but of course it's important.

Lifting really heavy weights creates a lot of 'noise' in the body which helps us to know where we are (proprioception). But we also need to learn how to listen to the 'whispers' of the body. To be fully in tune with our body orientation without the need for extra noise to feel it is important for lots of reasons (that's another post). Some people use strength to 'feel' - this can create a pattern of constant bracing of muscles, leading to pain.

If we want to target the deeper postural muscles, for example, the rotator cuff, or the deeper abdominals, we need to use a lower load of resistance so that the bigger muscles don't just take over.

Lifting heavy weights targets a different energy system to that of lower resistance weights. The more variety we have of accessing all the parts of us, the more options we have for movement.

We need to be able to dial up and dial down muscular effort for the task in hand. I often see people with pain because there muscles are 'on' so strongly; too much effort, too much contraction for the teeny task I ask them to do. This can lead to joint compression, 'co-contraction' leading to pain.

Awareness and neuromuscular patterning (sequence, timing and level of effort) is key. Not just the all 'on' big-effort stuff we do at the gym to get strong.

I like this clip a lot.

08/02/2026

Every 3 years we are required to refresh our Emergency First Aid at Work skills. I completed this yesterday with the Scottish Osteopathic Society, a lovely bunch, full of banter. It was great to catch up with some familiar faces.

It was a full on day, lots of new things learned, practising skills I'll hopefully never need!