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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.

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

03/02/2026

If the week has started rough, too fast, the weather has left you cold or you are feeling you need to take some space and find some ground, my reminder is to slow down and come back to the heart, breathe, find space, find softness.
Return home and have space to reset.

My practice of today after a busy week and weekend! My work is my practice because I can only teach in alignment from that place ☺️

My retreat is about self nurture and self care in their truest forms.
Listening inward.
Moving gently.
Working with your body.
Letting your nervous system settle and feel supported.
Developing practices to support yourself.

Across the day we will share somatic movement of the Franklin Method, breath, sounding, embodied journalling, rest, warmth, and simple human connection. No performance. No fixing.

This is a place to feel the power in softness, and if you are needing a rest or some self care practices, you are welcome to land in this space. You are welcome here. 💝

I’d love to see you,

Sarah xx

The link can be found in my bio ☺️

Spaces are limited on purpose to give you some space.

25/01/2026

Sunday morning is for coming home to yourself. ☕️

As I sit here after my practice this morning, I am thinking about the incredible benefits working intimately with our body has and about how rarely we give ourselves permission to drop completely into ourselves without all of the guarding and armour we carry in everyday life. We spend so much time in human doing mode - managing, planning and at times holding it all together, we have little space for ourselves.
My upcoming Day Retreat, 'Returning Home: The Felt Heart' (Feb 15th), is a biological and emotional invitation to find a different way of being.
Combining the biomechanical precision of the Franklin Method with the deep, trauma-informed safety of wellbeing work from the Leven Institute and movement for the midlife using Buff Bones. So, slightly different from a day of Pilates, something much richer - a nervous system reset and a reset back to feeling more like yourself working in the somatic way.

During our day together, you will:
* Learn how to soften the physical tension around your heart and lungs and melt tension globally away from your body
* Experience the internal space that can come when we use tools to develop self regulation, to give us a calmer, more clear approach to living and to impact female health, wellbeing and physiology in a hugely positive, science based way.
* Leave feeling grounded, resilient, and truly seen.
The Details:
📍 The Garden Rooms at Newton Meadows, Shropshire.
🗓️ Sunday, February 15th.
👥 An intimate group of 6.

There are only a couple of spots left in the circle.

Ready to claim one of the final spots? Go to

https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/returning-home-heart-retreat-franklin-method-somatic-women

Or comment 'HEART' below if you have any questions and I’ll reply to you personally.
I’d love to see you and help you discover you,

Sarah xx

24/01/2026

Today working with our dancers at Fabric CAT working on felt sense and embodiment of our ribs and dynamic movement as well as stability. This is such an important tool for dancers to have - their repetitive movements result in overuse of many areas of their bodies, as well as issues relating to technique. So what can embodiment do for them? A little bit of anatomical knowledge and understanding coupled with dynamic imagery goes a long way. Dancers stop copying and start to get a greater felt sense for their body in movement.
We had worked in a felt way and experienced our ribs as flexible mobile and free, and shifted in and out of that felt sense and into one where we need stability, but in a way that still allows us to move without bracing or tension strategies.
We also had a lot at how that translated from being on the mat to being upright and working through our dance specific movements where control and stability is needed for balances and turns. Lots to understand, feel in our bodies and develop felt understanding of. But I was so proud of our dancers today - their focus and dedication demonstrated incredible results. So many smiles all around.
Our bodies are places of joy to live in and experience what they can do, and for dancers understanding this is so important so they learn how to manage their body and translate communication from their dance teachers into an anatomical understanding and felt sense to allow them to keep moving with ease and joy. And the end result is more ocnfidence on what they do. It makes me smile to see them smile too, well done everyone ☺️✨

And always a thank you 🙏☺️

23/01/2026

2016 you say? My camera roll is eclectic!
A gangly odd time, shedding old identities and journeying towards something so very different. Three years on after two complex reconstructive surgeries I think it’s safe to say I came out of those surgeries as someone very different. Very quiet, reserved, just watching and observing, that confident dancer gone. Not the 7 month journey I was told - one that went on for years through different stages, until I came out the other end in 2016 having fought for something so hard, only to realise having got there that it wasn’t me anymore. There’s a life lesson there.
So 2016 became a time of pivot - finding purpose and a real home in the studio - my home for all those years away from the dance studio but now my new teaching home. I could help others experience that their body could work again and they were not broken. I heard their stories and really identified with their words, and, I observed week after week them develop more confidence in their bodies. I watched how presence and imagery whilst moving could make them change how they moved. All whilst continuing my own journey - how could I get my body to speak and sing in a different way? What I loved about dance was the feeling and expression, and I wanted that back. Well a camera roll full of bones is the answer. So many photos of bones from different angles, trying to understand and feel what was going on without being told, without reading it in a book. The days before a zoom replay - there was no replay! You had what you had embodied! The images were my tools to learning, much more than the words, and from looking in, my imagination and felt sense started to grow. I was learning so much and had no idea.
So 2016, a year of trusting the process but not knowing what it meant in a felt way and not fully trusting it either!!
2016 me is trying to work things out - messy, unformed, not quite knowing how to pull all the different threads together, but in the garden of movement. Seeds planted here, but needing some nurture and time! Cheers 2016 🎉

Good things take time, trust your process, Sarah xx

#2016

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