As a wellness coordinator, I run Atelier, Mouv — a Pilates studio built to sustain a relationship with movement. I bring everything I know and everything I have practised to looking after each person's wellness.
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After years in different kinds of work, I began again — later than most — as a Pilates and yoga instructor. It wasn't an easy thing to do.
I came to Pilates because of insomnia — pain that returned every winter. As a young woman, I assumed everyone hurt like this, and that I simply lacked patience. But as the sleepless nights stretched on, I went to hospitals, tried treatments. The results fell short. So I decided: I'll move instead.
Pilates leaves me with a feeling of getting healthier. Yoga leaves me with a feeling of something inside me expanding. It's work that puts meaning into a single motion.
Rather than fixing on Pilates alone and making the body conform to it, I draw on yoga, functional training, and body therapy together, as each person needs.
For a member sitting with pain right now, what I can offer is everything I know about movement, release, strengthening, and how to balance the two — folded into that one hour. So their condition steadies, decline is held off, and strength builds. I'm the one who marks the breath.
Rather than repeating a fixed script, I keep watching how someone moves, and I keep changing what I say and what we do. Some days we start over from the breath. Some days we build movement in the hips and pelvis first. Some days easing tension in the body matters more than building strength. The same body isn't the same, week to week.
A lack of motivation means you've run out of energy — it doesn't mean you're a bad person. Not wanting to do anything means you've already spent what you had, and you don't know how to find the will — it doesn't mean you're lazy.
In the end, every workout is your own choice, and you yourself are the reason for it.
