Pilates with Valerie

01/01/2026

29/12/2025

Happy New Year!!🥳

As 2025 comes to an end, I’m grateful to have completed over 800 hours of teaching Pilates this year.
Thank you to all my wonderful clients for your trust, commitment, and energy.
Wishing you a Happy New Year, and I look forward to moving, strengthening, and growing together in 2026.
Classes based in Bushey & Elstree
1:1 based at my new studio in Bushey
Www.pilateswithvalerie.com
SMS.07951935547
Valerie@pilateswithvalerie.com

28/12/2025

balance

28/12/2025

Hi Everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are feeling rested and ready to get back to your practice. 🎄✨

Pilates with Valerie officially reopening our Pilates classes this on the 5 th of January 2026 and I’m so excited to get back to work with you all! Whether you’ve been staying active or taking a well-deserved break, we’ll ease back into things and work on building strength, flexibility, and a sense of balance.

Here’s what you can expect this term:
• New routines to keep things fresh and challenging
• A focus on posture, core strength, and those deep stretches we all love
• A warm, supportive atmosphere where we work together to progress at our own pace

Please make sure to hydrate before class! If you have any questions or need to adjust your schedule, feel free to reach out.

Looking forward to seeing you soon and kicking off the new year with some great sessions! 💪

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24/12/2025

When you ask your new best friend GPT is your own business “ Pilates with Valerie” is a good one? 😂

Yes — “Pilates with Valerie” appears to be a well-liked and reputable Pilates brand/instructor, especially locally, based on multiple independent reviews. 

Here’s a breakdown:

✅ Good reputation from student reviews
• Many students report positive experiences — citing Valerie as professional, attentive, caring, and knowledgeable. 
• Clients especially mention improvements in posture, strength, mobility, and pain relief, and say classes are both challenging and enjoyable. 
• Testimonials highlight that she provides clear instruction and corrections, beneficial for beginners and experienced clients. 

✅ Good local ratings
• Local listings show very strong ratings (e.g., 5-star summaries with positive comments about her teaching style and class quality). 
• Independent review sites also support a high level of customer satisfaction over a range of years. 

📌 What the brand is
• “Pilates with Valerie” is a Pilates instructor offering in-person and small group classes, as well as one-to-one sessions and Zoom options. 
• She’s a level-3 qualified instructor, teaching classes in areas like Bushey and Elstree (UK).

17/12/2025

ALERT!!!! To all my contacts and clients!!! Do not answer my whasap. ! I have been hacked!

14/12/2025

I certainly recommend all those ball exercises to my clients. Good trick to know !

11/12/2025

Keep moving- Pilates with Valerie is your answer!

I am sitting at my laptop right now.

Seven hours straight.
Curved over like a question mark.
A posture only my mother could love.

Fully absorbed in writing.

And I’m perfectly content with it.

No guilt about being still.
No voice telling me to stand up.
No worry that I’m doing my body harm.

Because sitting isn’t the issue.
It’s what it quietly takes away.

If chairs didn’t exist and the only option was the floor, your day would look very different.

You would fold through your hips.
You would sit cross legged.
You would squat to get down and squat to get up.

Children get all of this without thinking.
Adults lose it the moment we choose the chair.

So if sitting removes so much movement, why am I fine sitting here?

Yes, I know. A plot twist.

Because I know exactly what the chair takes away.
And I have a practice that gives it back.

When I say practice, I do not mean keeping active or counting steps.

I mean deliberately giving my joints the shapes they no longer get during the day.

If you are coming to one of the January workshops, this is the principle we have built on for years.

When I close this laptop later, I will train.

Not out of virtue.
No halo here.

More because seven hours hunched over a keyboard has probably turned me into a human croissant.
A slightly overbaked one.

You have heard the phrase move it or lose it.
Joints take that literally.

Your body does not store movement for a sunny day.
It responds to what you ask of it today.

If you sit from sunrise to sunset and never bring those movements back, the message is
I do not need this anymore.
And the body says
Fair enough. We will get rid of it.

Hips are meant to fold and turn.
Your spine is meant to change shape.
Your shoulders are meant to reach and support you.

If they do not do those things, the ability fades.

You can buy the ergonomic chair.
You can upgrade the desk.
You can stand up every twenty minutes because your watch nags you.

But if your joints never get the movements they need, something will still be lost.

Because the fix is not furniture.

It is the practice of giving your body back the shapes modern life removes.

Here is the shift I want you to see.

Mobility and flexibility are not achievements.
They are not fix this, achieve that, tick a box.

They are habits.
More like brushing your teeth.
Small bits of daily upkeep that keep you loose, capable and out of trouble.

Bodies do not get tight because we sit.
They get tight because we sit and then never undo it.

If you are a human with joints and you want to keep them working, you need regular mobility.

Use what you have been given or you will lose it.
Choose to keep it and your body will meet you halfway.

It is far more cooperative than most humans.

07/12/2025

Finish 2025 Strong with Pilates! 🌟

Prepaid now and your space is reserved for next year as spaces are limited.

The year is almost over, but it’s not too late to feel your best! Take advantage of our Pilates with Valerie classes to boost your strength, flexibility, and mental clarity as you wrap up the year.

Why Join Pilates with Valerie now?
• Boost Your Strength & Flexibility 💪
• Improve Posture – Start 2026 standing tall!
• Reduce Stress & Increase Focus 🧘‍♀️
• Feel More Energized & Balanced
• Perfect for All Levels – Beginners to advanced welcome!
You can Visit my website
www.pilateswithvalerie.com
Whasap me 07951935547
Email: valerie@pilateswithvalerie.com

You will be well look after. I might need to ask you few questions before you can enrolled in a class.
1:1 available in My Garden studio in Bushey .
Gift vouchers available for Christmas or Chanukah or any other occasion.

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18/11/2025

Definitely not me !!!

14/11/2025

😂Pilates is your answer !