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.


Sara Dixter trained as a gymnast as a child before, in her early adulthood, discovering Ashtanga Yoga and becoming a dedicated practitioner.  Sara’s hypermobility resulted in several related injuries and she discovered Pilates to be the ideal way to increase her strength and awareness, reign in the mobility, and protect herself from further injury. This path has informed her teaching, which focuses on healthy biomechanics to create a safe and insightful, yet challenging movement experience for her students. Sara wholeheartedly believes that Pilates is accessible to everyone and can benefit everyone irrespective of age, gender and fitness background.

Sara resigned from life in financial services in 2007 and, without looking back, has been happily teaching Pilates and Yoga ever since.  She holds her Pilates mat work qualification from the Pilates Foundation in the UK and her Pilates mat and equipment qualification from the Kane School of Core Integration in New York City.  Additionally, Sara qualified as a Yoga instructor through The Life Centre.


Monika Zarebska has been practicing Pilates since 2004, 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 as both a Matworkand  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 one of her classes to senior citizens of the Pitshanger Lane area.


Julie Powell has done dance classes from childhood into adulthood, but opted out of turning professional. Julie first dabbled in Pilates as early as 1995, 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 teaching 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.

 

Originally from Sweden, Olivia Axelsson danced from a young age and started to practice Pilates with her early dance training because she wanted a stronger core and better balance. Pilates helped her to improve as a dancer and in 2009, she was accepted into the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York. Not long after she started she sustained an injury and it was then that Olivia started using Pilates for rehabilitation. It helped her to overcome the injury and  to realise that Pilates is more than just an exercise form to recover from injury and look better, but that it is a way of life; and she fell in love with it. She decided that she wanted to share this with others and moved to London to take a year long course to become a qualified Pilates Foundation teacher. Since then, following an eagerness to learn about the body and wellbeing, she has studied nutrition, physiology and anatomy while qualifying to become a personal trainer. 
Olivia's classes focus on the foundation of good fitness; muscle balance, core strength and the relationship between the mind and body. 
"My belief is that through exercise, whether Pilates or gym, you can enable yourself to overcome the greatest of adversities and look upon life with the outlook that can make you believe you can achieve what you want to.
My philosophy for training, working out, and fitness is not just about looking great. Its about feeling great. It’s about happiness and using fitness as a way of helping you find it."

Dalia Schestatzky discovered Pilates in 2002, and fell in love. After finishing a BA in Psychology and General Studies at Tel Aviv University she went on to complete her Pilates teacher training at The Physical Mind Institute in New York. Since then she has taught in a variety of situations, from gyms and private clients to hospital remedial departments.

Dalia finds that Pilates teaches her something new every day. In her classes, through the application of concentration and control, she aims to share the same sense of physical and mental vitality that she has found with Pilates.

 

Angelica Robinson, originally from Colombia, came to London in 2005. Her background is Journalism and, although Angelica used to love it before coming to the UK, living here has given her a new perspective.  Angelica found in Pilates the passion that she needed to change her career and now she is fully qualified by the PILATES Foundation UK as a Matwork Pilates Teacher.

In her teaching she offers a space for relaxation and focus, finding body, mind and spirit. Through use of small equipment throughout the sessions, Angelica imparts a dynamic, creative, flowing and relaxing class, always applying the Pilates principles and fundamentals.

"My aim as a Pilates Teacher is to help my clients to experience the joy of movement and build up a strong relationship with their own body".

Angelica is very certain that Pilates is her present and her future.




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