Esther Fox

28/08/2025

Studio and online timetable
Tavistock Studio
https://www.estherfox.co.uk/time-table/

Starting 1st September: 7-week block £70 per person

Monday
9.15 am Online Pilates�6.30 pm Studio Pilates: Bonnie Tavistock (spaces)

Tuesday
9.15 am Studio Pilates: Esther, Tavistock (spaces) �6.30 pm Studio Pilates: Julie, Tavistock (full)

Wednesday
9.15 am Studio Pilates: Julie, Tavistock (full)�6.30 pm: Studio Pilates: Esther, Tavistock (full)

Thursday
9.15 am Online Pilates�6.30 pm Studio Pilates: Julie, Tavistock (full)
�Caroline Clarke ‘s Postural Alignment classes�9am, 10am, 11am�Booking via Caroline https://www.carolinejclarke.com

Friday
8.00am Studio Pilates Esther Tavistock (spaces)
9.15 am Studio Pilates: Esther, Tavistock (full)

28/08/2025

For those of you that are interested in studio and online Pilates we offer small group classes, which are really great for people with aches, pains and injuries. All of the teachers are also qualified therapists and very accommodating. If you can’t get in to the studio I can do plenty online with ...

28/08/2025

Introducing ‘Bonnie’

Bonnie will be teaching studio Pilates in Tavistock. I’m confident that you are going to love her! ♥️ She is not only a Pilates teacher but a paramedic too!

‘Hi, I’m Bonnie! I’ve been teaching Pilates and practicing sports massage for the past 14 years, working in all kinds of settings—from supporting sailing racing crews, cyclists, and runners to helping pre- and postnatal clients, and everyone in between. I love working with people of all levels and abilities, helping them move better, feel stronger, and recover well.

Alongside this, I’ve spent the last nine years working as a paramedic—first on the frontline and more recently in primary care. That experience has given me a deep understanding of the body and how to care for it, both in times of challenge and in everyday life.

Outside of teaching, I’m a keen adventure runner and have completed many ultra-marathons, so I know firsthand the balance between pushing your limits and taking time to recover. Most importantly, I’m a mum to two energetic boys, and I have a particular passion for helping postnatal women rebuild their strength, confidence, and fitness through Pilates’

20/08/2025

It’s my opinion that clinicians needs to keep consulting and working with real patients.

Over my working career I have worked in the NHS, private practice, veterinary practice and academia, doing both research and lecturing and project management.

It is my firm view that clinicians should not stop working with patients even if only for two hours a week (for as long as they keep their registration).

I am always learning new things about health and well-being updates in medical practice and technology and I think chatting to people on a daily basis helps keep me informed about what’s going on in the world.

What’s your opinion?

20/08/2025

Copper Vallance… sent to the Headmasters office

09/08/2025

It wasn’t the horse’s fault! And other matters relating to pain science………

I was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time obviously. ‘It’s never the horse’s fault’ are the words that by any doting husband or boyfriend who has come to horses later in life soon comes to realise.

This photo was taken in Paris in 2002 after three rather painful operations to put my arm back together, after I was kicked by a very lovely horse who was rather free with the backend. Incidentally, he wasn’t aiming at me, but at an ill trained dog nipping his heels. I would have bucked too.

I felt the crack of the bone break instantly, however got up and ran home chasing the very precious horse across the heath, over an A road. Thankfully the horse arrived home safely and I went straight to A&E.

With a wash of endorphins in my system, I had convinced myself that it was just a bruise and I would be back riding the next day. This was pre-digital X-rays and the radiographer handed me the x-ray films in an envelope to wait for the consultant. I thought I’d take a sneak peek to see what was going on.

When I looked at the x-ray the realisation of what had happened hit me, the pain washed over me and waves, and I was instantly sick and passed out. I was grateful that the horse had broken my arm. Six inches above and it would have been my rib cage, six inches below and it would have been my pelvis.

This taught me a very valuable lesson about pain perception. I was completely fine until my brain perceived the extent of the injury. Later in my career, I went on to give some lectures about pain science and always use this story as an example of how the brain works.

After three operations, including a bone grafting from my hip, I made a full recovery and eternally grateful to the surgeons that put my arm back together.

I have much so talk about on the subject of accidents, trauma, pain and recovery.

23/07/2025

It was a pleasure to be interviewed for this article in iNews yesterday

Research has shown that small calves may be linked to poorer cognitive function and muscle loss in later life. Physiotherapists reveal how to strengthen them

23/07/2025

Nostalgia for the past? The day that changed my life

The Cheltenham Festival March 2005 20 years ago.

I stumbled across these photos when I was looking for a photo of the late John Dyer for Rita recently. The memory of the day flashed through me. I was working at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill in the Physio Department, and had given up working with horses to pursue a career in Physiotherapy.

As per usual we went to the Gold Cup and stayed at the Deer Park with the Babbage family (who I adored). In the morning they let me take a beautiful horse out schooling on the newly built cross county course to test it out. The horse had been round Burghley and I think it was the best day of my life. Norm gave me his trainers badge and off the races we went with full access everywhere.

That evening we met my ‘Auntie Rita and John at Montpellier wine bar, two of my most favourite people in the world on a crisp March evening. Rita has been my best advocate in every situation and John was always delighted to hear about every horse and race we came across.

I had huge wobble that week, had I made the right decision to give up the life I loved to be a Physiotherapist? When I left racing I used to walk around with what I could only describe as grief in the pit of my stomach I missed it so much.

20 years on do I think I made the right decision? Probably, I still miss Cheltenham and The Cotswolds dreadfully. I miss the adrenaline and camaraderie. I miss ‘The Hunt Balls’ and wearing nice clothes. However, I don’t miss riding out young horses in driving rain, I don’t miss the A&E trips with broken bones, working in healthcare for 20 years changes you and levels you like nothing else.

I am often left wondering with a sense of nostalgia what would have happened if I had stayed in racing but no doubt becoming a Physiotherapist was one of the best decisions of my life. And I think my lovely Auntie Rita and John would have agreed.