Move With Tanya

22/10/2025

The addition of the rechargeable candles at Channel View Leisure Centre for yoga classes is 🧘‍♀️💗 thank you

19/10/2025

Yesterday, small human and I popped into the Movie & Comic Con at The Utilita Arena, we spent ages with the South Wales Ghostbusters who were amazing in sharing their love of all things Ghost Busting with R and I, he's now an honoury member, and we're now building several Ghost catching devices from some of our recyclables! We loved the whole experience. Thank you to everyone there!

06/10/2025

Some of my lovely Pilates humans on the mat at this morning, who tackled a little side teaser variation, with control, grace, and elegance.

They also tackled the full teaser, leg pull down, leg pull up, rolling back (like a ball), seated spine stretch and a range of other movements from the classical 34 Pilates movements, and lots of classical and contemporary variations!

Well done to you all. Today was a beast of a class!

I'm at JD Gym in Cardiff City Centre 5 days a week for Pilates, and Sunday evenings for a restorative Yoga session.

14/09/2025

When a Pilates client and their wife become your friends...

Then you discover you went to school together, one year apart.

A great evening at the Tiny Rebel Brewery, filled with a delicious, carnivorous meal, good drinks, and great company

Thank you, Alex, Kate, Jon, and Martin, for a great evening.

12/09/2025

JD GYMS CARDIFF CENTRAL weekly schedule

Mixed classes. Reconnect, find your balance, and challenge yourself!

24/08/2025

Sunday evening in Cardiff

A post yoga at JDGym stroll through the beautiful city I now call home

💓

12/08/2025

12/08/2025

I started my Pilates journey over 20 years ago...!

I have hip and back problems that I started having physiotherapy on when I was about 12, and into my teens and 20s.

I've had pretty serious ankle and shoulder injuries, and seem to have a weakness down my entire left arm because of that shoulder injury.

My physiotherapist, in my early 20s, mentioned Pilates and told me to look into . I found a VHS and her book and went from there.

There were no classes, that I could find, in Bristol where I was living at the time, and I didn't find one anywhere else in the UK that I lived over the next few years.

Once I moved back to Malawi, I met a lovely yoga teacher, Seema, and at her studio was a Pilates instructor called Donato, who led classes there 3 times a week, and at a nearby school. I signed up immediately, fell completely in love with Pilates and never looked back.

Donato was due to leave Malawi and encouraged me to find a way to become a Pilates instructor, luckily a friend of mine has married the lovely and I talked to her about running a training course in Malawi, which she did.

I redid my training with her during covid lockdown, and have also completed other specialist trainings, including (but not only) pre and postnatal Pilates (and yoga), and women's health.

This is where I find my own power, through my passion for Pilates, where I've used it to help my own body to heal after injuries, after pregnancy and birth, and I believe I have helped prevent my injuries from being worse by harnessing movement and building strength and stability around joints.

I am continually learning, from physiotherapists, from other Pilates teachers, deepening my own understanding and knowledge so that I can do my best for ALL bodies.

09/07/2025

This evening, Pilates at Channel View Leisure Centre we will focus on footwork and balance with a lovely long stretch session.

Tomorrow for Pilates at JD Gym Cardiff Central and PureGym Western Avenue we will be working on backs, shoulders, obliques and of course core. We'll finish with a lovely 15minute Pilates stretch.

If you're not a member, you can buy day passes, but all locations have great offers on at the moment, so why not sign up!

PUREGYM CARDIFF WESTERN AVE
JD Gyms - Cardiff City Centre
Channel View Leisure Centre

21/06/2025

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