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Sarah Pritchard Pilates & Somatic Movement: Franklin Method

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Sarah Pritchard Pilates & Somatic Movement: Franklin Method

Master Somatic Movement Therapist /Educator MSME MSMT (ISMETA Reg) & Buff Bones® Faculty. Somatic Therapist & Franklin Method Expert Level 4.

Comprehensive Remedial Pilates for Women’s Health & Dance in Shrewsbury, Birmingham, across the UK & Virtual Helping you reconnect with and future-proof your body. Hello, I am Sarah Pritchard, an internationally regulated Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, and a specialist Pilates teacher. My mission is to bridge the gap between clinical science and the joy of movement, helping you feel whole, resilient, and more like "you." With over a decade of experience, I specialize in female health and dancer wellness. I am proud to be:

Expert Level 4 Franklin Method® Educator (one of the few in the world). ISMETA Registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator. SomaSoul® Somatic Therapist, working deeply with the mind-body connection to produce profound emotional and physical change. Comprehensive & Remedial Pilates Specialist (Alan Herdman trained). Whether you are looking to resolve chronic pain, improve athletic performance, or navigate the intersection of physical sensation and emotional landscape, I offer a dedicated space for your personal and professional growth. Services: 1:1 Coaching, Small Groups, and Workshops. Locations: In-person (Shrewsbury, Shropshire & Birmingham) or Virtually via my online studio.

24/03/2026

Your body remembers the good.
Every moment of ease, every shift, every time something just worked - this can be felt and is a crucial resource that is banked in our reserves of feeling good. If we learn to notice those moments rather than move past them, we build something really important.
Movement is a journey toward connection, wellbeing, and ease. The body is responsive. It recognises the good when we give it space. Pausing to take stock is part of your work. Small wins become big wins over time. It’s how we build resilience and confidence that lasts.
This is what I’m interested in. For my clients, and for the teachers I work with.

My Tuesday thoughts, trust your process ☺️

Sarah x

22/03/2026

More than a piece of paper 🎓

Something to celebrate! My certificate has finally arrived from America and marks the completion of years of study and clinical supervision in SomaSoul® Somatic Therapy 🥰
SomaSoul® was created by Dan Leven, whose lineage runs through Body-Mind Centering® (Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen via Martha Eddy), Life Arts Process (Anna Halprin via Alice Rutkowsi) and is based in Gestalt body based therapy and polyvagal theory (Porges via Deb Dana). It is a somatic therapy internationally regulated by ISMETA - working with the body and its wisdom to resolve issues in life and blocks that keep us stuck. We work with the direct, lived experience of what’s here now in the emotional body and the results it can produce are profound.
Clinical supervision in somatic therapy is challenging and exposing. It asks: how is the therapist’s own nervous system showing up? Where are the edges and blind spots? What does the body of the therapist carry into the room? It’s been and continues to be a rigorous, relational process and for me it has been a time and place of huge growth, support and connection entering my life at exactly the right time!
This lineage now sits alongside my Franklin Method® work as two distinct yet complementary professional somatic branches combining with my Alan Herdman Pilates training to produce what I can only describe as a living body of the work - my body! and an extraordinary toolkit and one that will weave through my Pilates and movement work, as well as be offered in its own right.

More to movement than you think, and more than you think you feel,

I hope you can celebrate with me!

Sarah xx

LIFE Movement Visit Shifnal The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association

18/03/2026

Start your day on wellness and health. Take that moment and space to get outside and hear and sense what’s around you. Did you know that hearing birdsong has a direct impact on your vagus nerve? This is our nerve of health and wellbeing. In the most primitive of ways when our body hears these sounds it makes a calculation that our environment is safe. These frequencies (between 1000-8000 htz) promote alpha wave activity in our brains which regulates our nervous system. Did you know that researchers at Kings College London have found this can boost our wellbeing for 8 hours! So if you did this now you can go through your whole working day with a boost! Something worth doing! We get good at what we practice and tuning in to our senses and feeling body helps us become calmer, clearer on our mind and feel more like us!

When we work with us so much is possible, we can be given as much knowledge as we can find but actually it’s that felt experience that is richer and so much more worthwhile. Let me know how that changes your experience!

If you are curious to learn more about wellbeing from a somatic viewpoint come and join me on my second retreat Opening Your Window to Wellbeing - a day of somatic practices to open up our sense of feeling connected and feeling good - the link is in my bio!

In wellness,

Sarah xx

➡️Send this to a friend who needs some calm today! ☀️🌷

02/03/2026

A Monday morning check-in... 🌿

Before the "To-Do" list for the week fully takes over, I invite you to take a brief, conscious pause with me.

Notice your breath. Notice your shoulders. How are you actually feeling in your body right now?

Often, by Monday morning, we are already armouring ourselves - holding tension to meet the demands of a busy life. If you’re feeling the weight of over-thinking or over-doing, I have created a sanctuary for you to come home to yourself.

Opening Our Window to Wellbeing: A SomaSoul® Wellbeing Immersion

On Sunday, 8th March, I am hosting the UK’s first SomaSoul® Somatic Therapy retreat at the beautiful Newton Meadows in Shrewsbury.

This is an exclusive, intimate circle for just six women. No "fitness" goals, no large crowds—just a safe, expertly held space to move out of "fight or flight" and back into a state of calm, resilient aliveness.

What we will explore: 🌱 Gentle Somatic Movement (with Franklin Method® balls) 🎨 Emotional Processing through Expressive Arts 🧠 Nervous System Education (The Window of Tolerance) ☕ Nourishing refreshments at our shared table 💧 Reflection by the lily pond

The Details: 📅 Sunday 8 March | 10:00 – 16:00 📍 The Garden Room, Newton Meadows, Shrewsbury 🎟️ Only 6 spaces available for this deep-dive immersion.

Ready to soften and reset?

Discover more and secure your space here:

https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/somasoul-somatic-therapy-wellbeing-retreat-newton-meadows-shrewsbury

With warmth, and may your Monday be beautiful Sarah xx

26/02/2026

Come and join me in the heart space in the Franklin Method virtual studio this evening! 🫀

23/02/2026

When words aren’t enough, the body remembers. 🌿

I am so pleased to officially introduce SomaSoul® Somatic Therapy to my practice - a dedicated, body-centered space created specifically for women.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, Somatic Therapy invites you to listen to the "felt sense" of your body. Our bodies store stress, tension, and emotional blockages - often from experiences unique to the female journey, including midlife transitions, menopause, and hormonal health as well as everything else life can throw at us!

As an ISMETA Internationally registered and regulated Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Soma Soul® Somatic Therapist, I help women:

* Resolve deep-held stress and physical tension in a safe, female-only environment.
* Develop tools for nervous system regulation to move from "survival" to "thriving."
* Reconnect with their innate wisdom, intuition, and sense of self.
Whatever is making you feel "stuck," or getting in the way you feeling truly alive, this work provides the missing piece for holistic healing.

Where to find me:

📍 Shrewsbury Sanctuary: Every Monday at my clinic (located at Jenna Blair Yoga).
💻 Virtual Sanctuary: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays via Zoom.

Ready to open your window to wellbeing? I offer a free 15-minute Discovery Call for women interested in exploring this body-centered approach.

Discover more about SomaSoul® and book a call with me

https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/somatic-therapy

In wellness, Sarah xx

22/02/2026

Your window to wellbeing is waiting to be opened in March! 🌿
Join me for the SomaSoul® Somatic Therapy Immersion - a UK first right here in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and designed for the needs of women in the midlife. A day of connection in a small group of 6, exploring some of the tools of somatic therapeutic processes to help us feel more ground, integration and connection, calm and at ease that we can take into our worlds beyond the day. A day of finding our own ease and joy and aliveness!
So, if you’re feeling the weight of stress or the hum of anxiety, this 1-day retreat is designed to move towards a state of calm, resilient alertness. By learning skills and practices to open our own window to wellbeing we can develop greater resilience and ability to deal with changes in the midlife and beyond.

My Experience: small group work in an exclusive group of 6, not a large filled room that can feel overwhelming or you can get lost.
Gentle somatic movement and fascial work using those very special Franklin Method® balls to ease aches and strains
Motional processing & expressive arts in the lineage of Anna Halprin
Breathwork in an embodied gentle and natural way where nothing is forced or pushed.
Embodied somatic journalling and reflection
An exploration of the use of somatic sounding
Education around the window to wellbeing also known in Somatic Therapy as the window of tolerance to understand using our left brain how it can help us and using our right brain to really feel this in an embodied way.
Nourishing refreshments (including gluten free), & community and connection.
Only 6 spots available to ensure a supportive space for every woman.
If you are curious about somatic, somatic movement therapy and somatic therapy and how it can really support you, come and join me, a regulated Master Somatic Movement Therapist, Somatic Therapist of the Leven Institute and Expert Level4 Franklin Method Educator.

I’d love to see you and help you discover you,

Sarah xx

🔗 https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/somasoul-somatic-therapy-wellbeing-retreat-newton-meadows-shrewsbury

20/02/2026

A beautiful day! 💝Always something special about sharing the heart with others - it really is a return back home and in finding ourselves, our hearts and connection once more, how we all change during the day, tension melts away and we return to peace and wellbeing. Back home!
and work is always special so it was glorious to be out for the day - and I feel my most special retreat to date 💝
Powerful work, always deeply felt and in connection with beautiful people too. Just lovely! Thank you everyone for coming and being in this special place.
Hope to see you soon,
In wellness, Sarah xx

14/02/2026

My Dance of the Heart for 2026! From my practice this week a segment of a long piece. Having another instagram throwback to 2016 and I see the distance travelled over a decade. Working with our bodies and sensing into them is special work and I’ll never be without it - it takes so many forms and is part of everything that makes me, me! I’m happy to be here and happy to be part of special communities and working with two incredible teachers and mentors- who are always there supporting and waving me on - always learning, always humbled and so pleased to be here in this space and this moment! So my dance of the heart is in this place in 2026! Looking forward to sharing this tomorrow on my retreat and later in the month too! Our hearts are so wise and incredible - let’s look after them, take care of ourselves and others. In wellness, Sarah xx

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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