Sarah Pritchard Pilates & Somatic Movement: Franklin Method

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Sarah Pritchard Pilates & Somatic Movement: Franklin Method

ISMETA Registered Somatic Movement Therapist / Educator
Polyvagal Informed Comprehensive & Remedial Pilates. Buff Bones® Faculty.

Expert L4 Franklin Method
Somatic Movement Education / Somatic Movement Therapy
Holistic Women's & Dance Health. I am a Professionally Regulated Somatic Movement Educator / Therapist, Regulated Comprehensive & Remedial Pilates Specialist Teacher and a Dance UK Healthcare Practitioner. That means that I can help you restore and optimise your movement using my very specialist Pilates and Somatic mind body training which is different to what you may have experienced in a standard movement class. What I teach is restorative, in terms of regaining function, lessening or eliminating aches and pains, re-patterning and reprogramming faulty movement patterns as well as restoring your mind body connection, producing greater states of calm and ease in every sense. I have particular expertise working with women going through menopause and beyond, using one or a combination of the different programmes I teach. I advocate for healthy dance and am a Dance UK Healthcare practitioner. I work with dancers from many different genres of every ability within a safe and non judgemental environment. All of my work is regulated, giving you external verification of the depth of my training and professional development from my governing bodies. Within my professions, I value and adhere to strict Codes of Ethics and Conduct (find out more about my associations at the bottom of my page). Explore what I offer and get in touch so I can support you further,

In health and wellbeing,

Sarah

23/11/2025

Today in York we explored the art of embodying the pelvic floor through the Franklin Method: through its dynamic imagery and embodiment processes, working with our felt sense in breath and movement to support optimal pelvic floor health from the inside out.

We deepened into the truth that the pelvic floor is never an isolated structure; it is a whole body issue shaped by alignment, imagery, breath mechanics, and the harmony between all our floors: feet; diaphragm; pelvic floor. When we work with ourselves we become more embodied, tension melts away and movement and breath become more optimal. We become calmer, because we become more like us. ❤️

Grateful to guide this immersive and for the warmth of The Stables Yoga Studio in York. Thank you for being such a supportive and fantastic host 💓 and thank you York for your welcome - it felt so good to be back in my second home 💓🎄✨

Being at home in our bodies really is the best place to be ☺️

In wellness, Sarah xx

20/11/2025

✨Places of magic in us - how beautiful is your pelvic floor?✨

💓Let’s deepen our understanding of it from being the place we pull all 4 points in to a deepening embodiment and felt sense of it working in harmony! Feel grounded, feel comfort and confidence in movement and take that deeper breath! Sense it in movement and in breath and feel inspired, empowered and at home in your own body.

🔔Coming this Sunday- my Franklin Method® Immersive in York!

✨This is your chance to work closely with me in a small, supportive group which is my way of working so everyone is involved. Ask questions, explore at slower pace to aid your embodiment, and experience your pelvic floor in a whole new way that is deeply empowering.
✨Through movement, imagery, and breath, you’ll gain felt, embodied understanding and more comfort and ease in your movement, your body and your mind. This is a different kind of knowledge and the most valuable - the kind that stays with you long after the workshop ends.
✨With over a decade of experience working with Franklin Method® and integrating it into Pilates, dance, and somatic practice, I’ll guide you through tools you can truly use. It doesn’t matter if you are a teacher, dancer, or simply curious about your body. Let’s get you moving with joy and power!

“I’m so impressed by her own capacity for embodiment and her passion for sharing this with others, in which gentle attention and curiosity results in movement that’s joyful and pleasurable. By the end of her sessions I feel relaxed and delighted by the potential of my body as a place of rejuvenation and power.”

✨Come explore what ease, power, and connection can feel like in your own body.

✨Tag a teacher, mover or friend who might love this.
I am so excited to meet you all - thank you York - I am touched by your welcome ☺️

Sarah xx

Book from my bio or this link!

https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/franklin-method-in-york

19/11/2025

What makes you smile? ☺️

I’m catching up with my posts as I am slow this month - here at Polestar Pilates in London after our Buff Bones Instructor training and our last session for 2025 here in London 🇬🇧✨
We explored movement that supports your unique body, your lived experience, and how to support you on your journey to wellness. And a good helping of embodiment from every angle because embodiment is not just about movement, but about the whole person. We may help optimise and generate accurate and healthy movement but we are doing so, so much more. And our toolkit for supporting those with osteoporosis or bone and joint health issues is so much more than strength, but a detailed understanding of bone and joint health and looking at how to work with this condition from multiple angles to get the very best for those we teach. Watching and supporting teachers learn how to empower others while also becoming more empowered themselves is very special and brings us great joy!

And for me, it’s always very special to be working alongside my own teacher, Rebekah in person and seeing this wonderful work develop over the years as well as meeting some teachers I worked with some years back as well.

Teachers need nourishment too.
And we are proud of everyone’s journey.
We learn. We grow. We show up as teachers but also as humans together.

And then we take that parcel of experience and greater wisdom away with us to continue to bring positive change for others in our own areas too. Connection. And a powerful community of movement.

Our new instructors are coming your way hopefully now - and they’re bringing so much heart with them. I’m always inspired and so very grateful to call this work becuase I love it so much! ❤️

Congratulations everyone, you have much to smile about and be proud of - go do your thing 💪of high heart, Sarah xx 💓

And thank you everyone at Polestar London for making us so welcome 🥰🙏✨

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13/11/2025

World Kindness Day - it is kindness and connection that binds us…

Taking a pause - a moment to breathe and to feel. A moment to check in with you as the teacher and a moment to breathe and feel into the information from your client.
Kindness and connection is a fundamental quality needed for all movement teachers. However, for most of us that is already inbuilt and why we have entered such a healing profession. From my experience personally working in Alan Herdman’s studio now so many years ago on myself I remember that kindness and listening and that ability to work with my unique body. And later on, as a teacher myself that Alan Herdman essence is ingrained into us - that we teach the body. My work goes a step further as a somatic practitioner and I work with the whole person. How can we do that with busy schedules and timetables that can run back to back?
For this I draw from another incredible teacher of mine, Daniel Leven. He works with the pause, the feeling into our experience and the experience of another. How do we really feel today? Can we be with that place and be kind to us as we bring others into our space and hear their story too? Pilates Studios are incredible places of healing, and they are places where movement is so powerful because we do more than move, teach a system or an exercise. We integrate the mind and the body and the whole person. We can only do that through genuine interest and connection. And of course kindness.
So take this evening in your period of rest to consider that listening to you, your inherent wisdom, and tomorrow see if you can hold space for you and your clients as well.

Movement that has meaning, special movement, deeply felt.

In wellness,

Sarah ###

05/11/2025

We talk about “making space” like it’s some poetic metaphor or unicorn that doesn't exist…
but it’s literal.
Failure to make space in our body means that it ends up holding everything.
Old stories. Never enough time timelines - I’m busy. Hurting in different ways because something is out of alignment in the body or the mind. Neglect, misuse in movement, no time sleep.
The pressure to do more, be more, prove more.

And somewhere along the line we get lost in our world of should or could…
And then we turn around and realise something has been left behind.

So today, maybe space isn’t something that exists only for others...

Space is also yours, is something you can just allow.
Sitting in the slow lane.
Being.

Your body can then take a longer exhale.
A gentler spine makes itself found because it was never lost.
A thought arises from our bodies as a knowing.
There is a wisdom without the striving.
And in that moment of pause there is information so rich.
And an energy that is sustainable and gentle.

That’s not really Instagram in my industry is it?

But there are truths here.

What if today you didn’t need to be anything more than yourself?

A question. And a practice.

In wellness

Sarah xx

03/11/2025

This month in these darker nights and days, I’m turning toward the quieter wisdom of my body. Our bodies have a wisdom that doesn’t rush, but speaks gently, and of course we then have a choice to listen or not.

So, some thinking from my practice today:

Regulation begins as a whisper from our bodies
An invitation to return back home
And breathing is one such practice, where we can travel to, moment to moment,
Deep in connection through the labyrinth of connection that is our vagus nerve
Becoming more present and in tune with it
Reminds me to keep returning back home
It’s good to rest
And then expand again.
Every exhale of connection and presence
Becomes golden light encircling the heart
Reminding it that it can rest too.

My thoughts this Monday evening. May you too have deep rest, connection and feel supported in your wellbeing.
Somatic work takes us back home, and is so very powerful ❤️

In wellness,

Sarah xx

02/11/2025

✨ Franklin Method® York Immersive ✨

After my sold-out Edinburgh event, I’m thrilled to bring this transformative Franklin Method® workshop to the historical city of York which is my second home! 🥰

Discover your dynamic, balanced pelvic floor through movement, imagery, and breath, explore how transforms the way you move, teach, and feel.

Join me for a deeply embodied, experiential morning of exploration through the Franklin Method® - a practical, science-led somatic approach to improving movement, posture, and wellbeing through imagery, anatomy, biomechanics, and somatic awareness in movement and breath.

In this immersive workshop, you will explore:
• The power of the mind–body connection - learn how dynamic imagery and embodiment produce ease, calm, and precision in movement.
• Discover and balance your dynamic pelvic floor in movement and breath - explore its vital role in supporting the spine, posture, emotional wellbeing, and how movement, breathing, thoughts and imagery influence pelvic health as well as understanding how parts of us - our body and our mind can disrupt this special place in us.

Perfect for movement professionals and curious movers:
Whether you’re a Pilates teacher, yoga instructor, dancer, or somatic educator, or simply curious about the intelligence of the moving body, you’ll leave with embodied understanding and practical tools to use immediately in your teaching, practice, or daily life.
This small-group format offers space for questions, exploration, and personalised guidance. My teaching draws on years of cross-disciplinary experience - from professional dancers to first-time movers - integrating Franklin Method®, Pilates, dance, and polyvagal-informed somatic practice.

Are you curious to breathe, move, feel and embody your pelvic floor with curiosity to see how it can help you?

I’d love to see you!

Early booking is advised as the last event sold out quickly!

https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/franklin-method-in-york

In wellness,

Sarah xx

01/11/2025

Pilates for Dancers - Healthy, Embodied Conditioning and Cross training

Today I’m at FABRIC’s Centre for Advanced Training, working with some of the region’s most exceptional young dancers. It’s a joy to witness their focus, drive, and commitment to their craft.

As a One Dance UK Healthcare Practitioner for Pilates, Somatic Movement & Franklin Method, I bring a health-first, whole-person approach to dancer training.

Pilates is a vital form of cross-training for dancers. It builds:
Neuromuscular control and fine motor skills
Core strength and joint stability
Technical precision and fluidity
Awareness of alignment and movement habits
A felt sense of the body that supports artistry and presence
And let’s not forget about other skills such as confidence, and the ability to be mindful and use breath in an intelligent way.

In a world that often asks dancers to push through, we also need spaces that teach listening, and deep respect for the body. That’s what I aim to offer - supportive, intelligent conditioning that nurtures longevity, not just performance. And as I was explaining to our dancers today it’s not about performing the most advanced level but selecting what feels right for the body on any given day.

Here’s to dancing strong, dancing wise, and dancing well -for the long run - I’m always so proud of our dancers here 🥰🙏

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31/10/2025

Not just for Halloween 🎃
Always someone watching me… a medley of my Assistant’s better and more well behaved moments as those in the know are aware I have a tricky one…
However I would be lost without him! 😊
Nothing scary about bones - nothing scary about anatomy. Nothing frightening about the issue of empowering others to move more freely and in an embodied way by understanding themselves. Sometimes I have heard from others that people are not interested in anatomy but I find the reverse. It’s also about not drowning people in anatomy but giving them the right dose to aid their movement and sensation. What are you moving from? Intellect or your felt sense?
Healthy movement matters. Sensation in movement matters. Feel what you do, and move with ease and joy!
That’s all! Simple! In wellness, Sarah 💀💓✨

30/10/2025

How often do you let your body truly exhale?

Your vagus nerve is the body’s built-in pathway to wellness. Yet for so many of us, especially in midlife or as movement teachers, that pathway can get buried under layers of stress, caregiving, and constant giving.

My upcoming somatic day retreat -✨ Grounded & Glowing ✨ - on Saturday 16 November in the beautiful Shropshire countryside, is a space to come home to yourself.

Through gentle somatic movement, the embodied processes of Franklin Method®, polyvagal-informed practices, and embodied rest, you’ll learn to:
🌿 Reawaken your vagus nerve’s natural rhythm of ease
🌿 Reconnect to a grounded sense of safety and presence
🌿 Leave glowing from within - nourished, inspired, and reset

This day is for midlife women and movement teachers who hold space for others but rarely pause long enough to refill their own well.

We also have grounded movement from the fantastic movement system that is Buff Bones®, Franklin Method® ballwork, sound, touch practices and a healthy lunch provided. All within beautiful and tranquil surroundings in Shropshire, our beautiful landscape, pine trees and cosy fire!

Come and remember what it feels like to be grounded and glowing.

I’d love to see you, Sarah xx

🌲 Date: Saturday 16 November
🌲 Location: Newton Meadows in the beautiful Shropshire Countryside
🌲 Limited spaces as my retreats are semi private in number.
🌲Reserve your place here

https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/grounded-glowing-franklin-method-somatic-retreat

28/10/2025

✨ Grounded & Glowing: My Seasonal Somatic Day Retreat ✨

Sensing the rush taking place as this year reaches the busy season? Take a pause to restore your body, calm your nervous system, and reconnect with your inner support.

Led by me, Sarah Pritchard a Level 4 Franklin Method® Educator, Faculty Member of the Buff Bones® system, Comprehensive Pilates Teacher, and Somatic Therapist completing her supervision (Leven Institute) - this retreat blends:
💫 Buff Bones® to strengthen, ground and support your body
💫 Franklin Method® embodiments of the vagus nerve as well as ball work to sooth the body and release tension
💫 Embodied journalling, touch, and sounding practices to expand your window of wellbeing
💫 Polyvagal-informed practices for self-regulation and deep rest

Whether you’re a Pilates or yoga teacher looking to deepen your somatic experience, or simply seeking stress relief and embodiment, this retreat gives you tools to feel grounded, strong, and supported this coming holiday season. My retreats are always limited in number for a more intimate and personal experience. Our retreat is set in the Shropshire Countryside amongst my beloved pine trees, where we may also do some practice too. And we have a vegetarian lunch provided as well as refreshments and that cosy log fire 💓Come back home to you, feel integrated and supported, and more like you, in wellness, Sarah xx

📅 16 November 2025 | 🏡 Shrewsbury, Shropshire | ✨ All of my retreats have limited space to make your day one that supports you and have sold out this year!

Discover more and make your booking here

https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/grounded-glowing-franklin-method-somatic-retreat

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