Proudfoot Pilates

28/11/2025

I’ve been wanting to do this for over 10 years and when recommended this course by at Kings College I had to book it.

The whole experience is incredible. Thank you to those who donated their bodies to science so we can explore and understand the body in more detail.

As much as everything blew my mind, the key things that helped me understand the body further are:

🫁 Getting to feel the texture of the diaphragm & pelvic floor. How thin but fibrous they are

🦵🏽The psoas major and just how anteriorally that comes through the pelvis

🦴Thoracco-lumbar fascia - seeing the direction of the fibres of this almost bone like structure from the anterior side of the PSIS

🌍And just how everything is a whole

Gawd so many other things I could bore you with - everyone should go do this course!

29/09/2025

What a blimmin’ legend! Can we all just be more Jean.

My trainee teachers adopted the motto “Be More Jean” quite early on in their training, after being blown away by 87 year old Jeans capabilities in class.

During their observation hours it became apparent that she not only had mobility in her body, but strength too. Jean started Pilates around 10 years ago and started with me when we moved to Westgate (3 years ago).

Her favourite exercises are The Roll Over and Rolling Like A Ball. She’s a dab hand at a push up too!

We surprised her with her own slogan tshirt at the last training weekend - to which she was most overwhelmed, she finds it perfectly normal to be rolling around on the floor at 87 which I LOVE!

As Jean says, if you don’t lose it, you’ll lose it! 💪🏼

15/09/2025

07/07/2025

Like mother, like daughter 💞

On the sweatiest Tuesday on record in the studio 🥵

11/06/2025

This year marks my 10th year of teaching Pilates and about 18 years of practicing it.

It marks 8 years of , 3 years in our home in Westgate, 2 studio locations in Margate prior to that, and multiple studios, halls and kitchen floors I have taught on over the years (thank you too all I have worked with).

2025 also marks the first year of me running my own teacher training course with The Pilates Foundation…. and the first time I’ve grown my hair past my ears since about 2008.

Here’s a little round up of photos old and new, and there’ll be more to come on what to expect from our teacher training and apprenticeship course.

I BLOODY LOVE MY JOB 😻😻😻😻

23/01/2025

Knee-hab has mainly looked like this….

My husband has been a skateboarder longer than I’ve been alive. Luckily without major injury until a freak moment that fully ruptured his ACL. Ouch!!

The next year is dedicated to getting him back to strength and back on that board 🛹🎯 he’s doing all the physio exercises, ice-ing, legs up the wall… all without my even having to say a thing AND is a Pilates convert 😜 at long last!

21/11/2024

Recently around the studio and not…

01/10/2024

THE PELVIC BOWL 🩷🧡

Ever since Cat introduced Charlie to the concept of the pelvis as a ‘bowl’, the notion of making a ceramic ‘Pelvic Bowl’ as a powerful, beautiful object for honouring the body has been waiting to bloom. Having worked together for many years, we have combined our knowledge of the body, ceremonial objects and self reflection to hone an offering that we think you will love.

Through somatic movement, guided meditation sessions and journal prompts, you will embark on a journey to tap into the wisdom of your body.

You will then have the opportunity to channel your new found awareness and creative energy into hand building ceramics. You will craft a ceramic bowl that reflects your personal journey of self-discovery.

Join us on this empowering exploration of body, mind, and clay as we embark on a journey of self-connection and creative expression.

Follow the link in bio to find out more or DM for the link

Commitment dates: 18th Jan, 1st Feb & 15th Feb
More details on the website

02/09/2024

Never did I love a poster more

Last years Pride poster has been a permanent fixture but I’ve finally taken it down - it’s bodies and beings that plastered it replicate the bodies and beings that come to our studio

Absolutely anybody and everybody alike ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷🖤🤎🤍🩶

23/08/2024

The irony of the photo is not lost on me. And this gift from a client was spot on 👌🏽 she knows me well.

Have had a wonderful couple of weeks of travelling and seeing friends and family. I always find time out inspiring and am so excited for the next chapter for the studio. The next week is about working on that, getting in the studio myself and I cannot wait to see my clients on the other side. 💪🏽🤸🏼‍♀️

Hope you’re all having a slow summer somehow 🐢 and see you soon 👋🏼

16/07/2024

OYSTERMAN TRIATHLON 2024

Many mountains climbed, it was time for a change.

After a small tear in my calf and really not being a runner I wanted to retrain my body (well, actually train my body) to run. And I did it! Any kind of marathon has never interested me but I do love a challenge.

I wanted to complete it comfortably in 2 hours and I did it in 1.52 WITH LARYNGITIS (I know I know, rest is best - that’s all I’ve done before and an after). I now have an aim to doing it in well, less, next year and maybe not so comfortably.

The swim is gnarly, but loved every moment of it all the same. Cannot wait for next year.

And no, I’m not ready for an Ironman just yet thanks

2011 - Inca trail
2012 - Kilimanjaro
2019 - Everest
2024 - Sprint Triathlon
With a Snowdon and Scafell Pike in between somewhere.

02/06/2024

Moving into the final furlong of TRI-Training