Pilates in Motion Teachers

Kazuha Oe hails from Japan and she is the youngest member of our team. She is a classical ballet dancer, beginning her training as a little girl, and her lifelong interest in human movement is evident in her teaching. She has completed Pilates teacher training with both Pilates in Motion and Alan Herdman Pilates.

Kazuha loves to explore and develop a varied range of movement patterns in her teaching, emphasising the Pilates principle of flow.

Patricia Lajtai’s background is in dance, having trained in her native Hungary in ballet, contemporary dance and ballroom. She moved to London in order to become a professional ballroom dancer and it was here that she discovered pilates after a foot injury ended her dancing career. Patricia is an accredited member of the PILATESfoundation® as a matwork teacher, having trained with Pilates in Motion.

She is keen for her class participants to gain the key points of the Pilates method whilst enjoying the movement quality of the exercises.

Rosalie Pastrana suffered from numerous back aches while growing up. After struggling with different exercise regimes for years she decided to leave Spain and in 1997 she moved to the UK in search of a better quality of life. She came across the Pilates Method while practising Yoga in London. In no time her back pain receded, replaced by a sense of balance and wellbeing that made her want to study and develop this body movement discipline in depth.

Now a qualified PILATESfoundation® Teacher, having trained with Pilates in Motion, Rosalie believes that both physical and emotional pain play a significant role in the way we hold ourselves. She loves helping others to free their bodies, and to use Pilates to know themselves better and to have fun.

Monika Zarebska has been practicing Pilates at a West End Studio for the last six years following recovery from a back injury. Having tried a range of doctors, osteopaths and various pain management techniques, she has finally found relief through regular practice of Pilates in a studio environment, and as a result in the last two years she has been able to enjoy the fun of matwork classes.

Juggling life as a single mum she embarked on a journey to become a Pilates teacher and is now qualified by PILATESfoundation® UK and is currently continuing her studies with Anoushka to become a studio teacher. In her teaching she produces balanced programs that aim to encourage the body and mind connection in order to successfully attain and sustain optimal physical and emotional balance. She particularly enjoys working with older people and dedicates two of her classes to senior citizens of the Pitshanger Lane area.

Caroline Joy was recommended to Pilates in 2000, following several years of physiotherapy treatment for chronic back and neck injuries from a combination of congenital postural problems, gymnastics and athletics.

Through pilates, Caroline discovered a sense of wellbeing and physical fitness which far exceeded any other form of exercise previously undertaken.  She is passionate about Pilates and so encouraged by the pain relief and improved posture she now enjoys, she decided to study to become a teacher. A qualified PILATESfoundation® Teacher, Caroline trained with Pilates in Motion and lives in Ealing where she hopes to continue to share the benefits of pilates with others.

Julie Powell has done dance classes from childhood into adulthood, but opted out of turning professional. Julie first dabbled in pilates maybe 15years ago to enhance her dancing technique.
It was in 1998 that a chiropractor suggested that pilates would afford Julie longevity in her pastime of dance. This time, putting Pilates on her calender and seeing the results, she decided to train withTrevor Blount in South Kensington. It turned out to be a long training course with a couple of major stops to have 2 children. However, those interruptions gave her the invaluable first hand experience of Pilates during and post pregnancy.

Julie still works for Trevor Blount, and being local to Pitshanger Lane has also joined the studio equipment team at Pilates in Motion to share her experience.

Nicky Pallot is a former theatre producer who discovered the remedial power of Pilates some twenty years ago. At that time she regularly visited her osteopath to treat a chronic back condition.  Pilates gave her the sense of being in the driving seat of her own recovery and she has practiced ever since at Alan Herdman’s, Anne Marie Zulkahari’s, Dominique Jansen’s and, for the past six years, Anoushka Boone’s studios.

She has been teaching since gaining a first qualification in 2005. Last year she undertook further training with Pilates in Motion and is a qualified PILATESfoundation® teacher. Having benefitted from the remedial power of pilates she now enjoys empowering others to develop body awareness in their own lives. As a former theatre producer she is used to working with and motivating a wide range of people and across all abilities.

Julie Clifton first started having matwork classes fifteen years ago when a Pilates Foundation teacher started sessions at her local gym. She found that she gained a sense of strength, well being and relaxation from Pilates quite unlike anything she had experienced with other forms of exercise and became convinced of its value. At the time she was working in a busy job, which involved considerable travel around the country, and so soon began looking for a Pilates studio in every town she visited both to maintain her fitness and to relax.

A firm convert to Pilates, in 2007 she decided to train as a teacher with the Pilates Foundation and in 2010 gave up her previous job to start teaching full time. After experiencing such a wide range of Pilates teachers in many different settings Julie has been thrilled to discover such a well equipped studio with such skillful teachers and is pleased to be working here.