Hello, I'm Melissa! 
 

I spent years working in live music events. Across marketing, logisitcs & operations. Organising & building experiences to bring people together, it involved late nights and unlawfully long days and I loved it, until I didn't.

 

Covid brought everything to a hault and for the first time in a long time, without all the noise and the pace, I had to sit with myself and actually ask what I wanted from life rather than just running through it.

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The answer (unexpectedly) was Pilates.

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I'll be honest, I started my instructor training for selfish reasons. I wanted to understand the method better so I could improve my own practice. I'm not an ex-dancer, I didn't found it through injury, I just genuinely loved it. It was the only form of movement where I'd found complete focus. The mindfulness aspect was ever present, there wasn't space to think about the email I forgot to send or what I wanted for dinner, just my breath and how my body was moving. Alongside the strength I was building, I wanted to deepen my understanding. What I didn't see coming was how much I'd love teaching it to others.

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Seeing people progress, physically, mentally and in confidence is why I do this. I'll never forget the time during my first few months of teaching when an older client expressed how empowered the class made her feel, being able to take part in a group reformer class was something she didn't feel like she could do... someone was definitely cutting onions in the studio that day. 

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