Rachel Lawrence Pilates

24/12/2025

'WHEREVER YOU GO, GO WITH ALL YOUR HEART'
-Confucius

Dear friends and Pilates Family,
Whatever your year has been and whatever your Christmas is, remember take care of yourselves. By which I mean, find what feels right for you, what makes you feel loved, peaceful and happy and whether that is on your own, within a relationship or family- focus on what you can do to treat yourself to love and self-care at this time. You deserve it. We will be back with a Live session on 2nd January at 10am UK time and with 7 days of Pilates from 5th January. But for now…..
May we wish you a wonderful time of peace, self-reflection and joy.

Sending all our Love,
Rachel, Kerwin and Boo
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22/12/2025

Daily Pilates to Unlock a Stiff Body | 30 minute Pilates Stength and Mobility Session Feeling stiff, tight, or sore? This 30-minute Daily Pilates Strength & Mobility Session is designed to help you unlock your body, improve flexibility, and build full-body strength—all in one low-impact, feel-good workout. Perfect for beginner to intermediate levels, this class focuses on controlled movement, deep core activation, and joint mobility so you can move with ease all day long. Whether you’re waking up your body in the morning, loosening up after a long day, or supporting your recovery, this session will leave you feeling strong, mobile, and refreshed. Please show your appreciation by pressing the LIKE button and do SUBSCRIBE to the channel to help me make more films just for you. Have a wonderful day, Much love, Rachel ❤️

19/12/2025

Today's Live ❤️

Daily Pilates to Unlock a Stiff Body | 30 minute Pilates Stength and Mobility Session

Feeling stiff, tight, or sore? This 30-minute Daily Pilates Strength & Mobility Session is designed to help you unlock your body, improve flexibility, and build full-body strength—all in one low-impact, feel-good workout. Perfect for beginner to intermediate levels, this class focuses on controlled movement, deep core activation, and joint mobility so you can move with ease all day long.
Whether you’re waking up your body in the morning, loosening up after a long day, or supporting your recovery, this session will leave you feeling strong, mobile, and refreshed.

Please show your appreciation by pressing the LIKE button and do SUBSCRIBE to the channel to help me make more films just for you.

Have a wonderful day,
Much love, Rachel ❤️

Daily Pilates to Unlock a Stiff Body | 30 minute Pilates Stength and Mobility SessionFeeling stiff, tight, or sore? This 30-minute Daily Pilates Strength & M...

18/12/2025

YouTube Pilates with a bonus benefit 🐾Here’s a little slice from my livestream Pilates class on which I teach every Friday 10am UK 🇬🇧 time 🐕🧘‍♀️A quiet space that’s so calm, so peaceful that even my rescue doggie slips into a complete state of bliss 🐶 That’s Pilates. Quiet, focused, and mindful because movement feels better when the nervous system is calm. Having a dog in class isn’t just cute though, it creates a more relaxed, natural space to move, breathe and reconnect with yourself. So I can honestly say my workouts are always dog-approved! 🐕 Press Play, roll out your mat and don’t be surprised if my four legged assistant joins us 🐕❤️

17/12/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️ VOTE FOR YOUR first 2026 PILATES ADVENTURE ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Hello and Happy wednesday!

As I look ahead to 2026 I want to help everyone get a great start to the Year with some feelgood, no pressure movement so I need your input!!!

I am running a vote on my Ko-fi Supporter Page - Would you like to do 7 days of LIVE pilates for January? Do pop over and vote today ❤️ Link below ⬇️

https://ko-fi.com/polls/Would-you-like-to-do-another-7-days-of-Pilates-for-D1D81QE9YE

Thank you! Much love, Rachel ❤️

The Girl With The Pilates Mat added a poll on Ko-fi

15/12/2025

⭐️⭐️ARE YOU OVER 70? LIVING IN THE UK AND A FAN OF my YOUTUBE CHANNEL? ⭐️⭐️

I have a journalist who would love to interview you for a new fitness column aimed at women over 70 who love my channel. It would involve a phone interview talking to them about your fitness journey, your routine and lifestyle and how you stay motivated - my pilates classes being a key part of that! ❤️

If you are interested and happy to be put forward, please email rachellawrencepilates@gmail.com with the heading "INTERVIEW"

Deadline for applications: 2pm UK time on Tuesday 16th December.

Good Luck! and thank you! I think it willbe great fun to be interviewed! 🤗⭐️❤️

Much love,
Rachel ❤️

05/12/2025

My YouTube channel began with a simple wish—to help people feel better in both mind and body, wherever they are in the world. What started as one small live class during lockdown has grown into a beautiful, supportive community of over 325K people worldwide which means more to me than I can say. I’m no tech expert, but I show up each week with my mat, my heart, and so much gratitude. All of my classes are kept completely free thanks to the kindness and generosity of the support I receive on Those who are able to afford it are gently encouraged to support a class through a one-off donation or a small monthly subscription. This is what allows all my content to remain free for everyone—no matter their age, stage, or circumstances in life. Why not join our community too ?❤️Link in bio ❤️

11/11/2025

I’ve been very quiet on here lately as I’ve taken some time out to rehab my shoulder injury and ( can you believe the timing!) focus on finishing my second book 📗on Pilates. It’s been interesting going from one handed laptop writing back to two 🥴Anyhoo, I thought it would be good to show what I’ve been doing to rehabilitate my shoulder and how, by paying attention to the details, being consistent and being kind to yourself you can return from injury. I see Pilates as the perfect bridge between medical care and fitness. In my case, I’ve moved from medical diagnosis from the NHS, through to following their initial physical therapy exercises and then within a few days, integrating Pilates therapeutic exercises and then modifying my Pilates routines to strengthen not only the shoulder but all the muscles groups connected to it. This includes mobility of the thoracic spine. I’ve certainly noticed how this area has become less mobile post menopause so it’s getting extra love in all my classes now ❤️ That said, there is just under 4 weeks from me in a sling to me back weight bearing on the shoulder. The power of Pilates! No small thanks to who’s excellent book Pilates for Rehabilitation is a regularly read in my Pilates home library! Can’t wait to see the next one! ❤️

20/10/2025

Hello my fabulous friends,

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a pilates teacher in possession of good health, must at some point in life get an injury!’

And that is my tale this week. There is no doubt I love to move, I move daily and I have always had the need to move, as much as for my mind as body. But something happened 2 weeks ago and I woke up in so much pain I had to go to hospital. For those of you not in the UK, we have free healthcare here called the NHS which is wonderful but overburdened. I spent sunday morning in A & E and was sent home with a sling, a diagnosis and told I would get a call in 48 hours from an orthopaedic centre. Which I did. After seeing a physio, it turns out I have injured my rotator cuff muscles so I will be doing my own rehab, and hope to be back live on as soon as the pain has reduced. I may even make a video about it as I know it’s a common injury! 🤗

Rest assured I am ok and seeing minor improvements already. ❤️ Hope everyone is keeping well and do check out my latest playlist which started today. Links above in the bio ⬆️

11/09/2025

I wanted to share my latest blog post with you today as a gentle reminder that it doesn't matter where you are in your Pilates Journey, what matters is you enjoy it, you do it at your pace and you revisit the beginners sessions to remind yoursleves of the fundamentals. I've now created a whole new Beginners page on my website with starter sessions, 7 and 30 day challenges- all with downloadable wallcharts so you can tick off the sessions as you do them.

That said, maybe you know someone who wants to get started but can't find the right class locally, or prefers to exercise at home. Then do read and share the love!
Have a wonderful day,
Much love,
Rachel ❤️

This was a question that I got asked in my livestream chat on YouTube, 'I’m 60, have never exercised, how do I start?’ I think there’s an assumption that everyone knows how to exercise but there may be many reasons why people haven’t exercised before, and ( quite rightly ) are worried about ...

05/09/2025

📣 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

Someone has been impersonating me on this page, we are on to them now and investigating them. In the meantime, I have changed all my security and passwords.

If you have received any strange messages from me requesting private chats or photos- these ar not me and please do not respond. I have reported them and will be continuing to follow up and investigate them.

Thank you for understanding and thank you for the messages alerting me to this infringement of my page.

With best wishes,
Rachel ❤️

06/08/2025

New Blog out today! Enjoy the read ❤️

Slow living is about pressing the pause button and embracing a more relaxed pace of life, particularly as the summer transitions into autumn. No matter where you are in the world, you can take this approach for a happier, healthier lifestyle. It's about appreciating the changing seasons, savoring th...