Reflections on 2025 and thoughts for the year ahead

A little reflection on 2025 – on movement, learning and long-term health.

As another year drew to a close, I found myself, like many, in reflection mode. I am not one for resolutions, but the start of January feels like the right place to pause, reflect on the year passed and consider my path for the year ahead.

2025 was a year of deepening my learning and bringing ideas into practice. A year of integration of modalities and experiences slowly settling into something more coherent, more embodied, and more aligned with how I understand health and movement now.

2026 also marks the year I will have been a movement teacher for 25 years, half of my life. As someone who is self-employed I have no boss to give me a review on years of service, but it feels significant to reflect on the service I have provided and the ways in which I have grown as a practitioner.

Practice, not performance

My movement library continued to grow steadily through 2025 and now includes over 50 classes, spanning Pilates, DNS and blended approaches that draw from the different modalities I teach. There are classes for beginners through to advanced movers, with particular areas of focus including functional movement exploration, as well as my Prenatal and Postnatal libraries.

So the resources I envisioned creating are becoming a reality. There is more to develop and refine, but a long-held dream has taken form. I wanted to expand my capacity to support both members of the public seeking guidance with their movement ambitions and student Pilates teachers needing structured, guided practice as they develop their understanding of the method and their teaching skills.

What matters most to me, though, is not the number of classes, but how they are used. Teaching movement, for me, is about supporting adaptability, challenging capacity and building confidence in the body across different life stages and changing circumstances. It is about being present and helping people find integration and have successful movement experiences that positively influence the quality of their lives.

I remain deeply grateful to those who practise within the library. Clients, colleagues, long standing students and people completely new to my work, from the UK to Europe, the Middle East and beyond. I launched the platform in 2024, and the trust people place in me to guide their movement practice is something I remain deeply mindful of as I do this work.

Continuing education and embodied learning

In October 2023, I began training in embodied fascial anatomy. The work was immediately compelling and reframed my understanding of biomechanics, integration and whole-body communication.

That curiosity led me into a yearlong intensive teacher training, and I am pleased to share that I have now completed my Moving Fascia® Teaching Certification, passing with distinction. It was an intense and absorbing period of study, involving case work, examination and a great deal of self reflection.

As with all meaningful movement practices, certification is not an endpoint. It is simply a marker along the way. I am now integrating elements of the Moving Fascia® Method into my teaching where appropriate, alongside Pilates and DNS, allowing the work to inform how I think about adaptability, presence, relational awareness and whole-body coherence.

Whole body health in a trend driven world

As 2026 gets underway, I will be sharing more through this blog about how I approach whole body and preventative health, something Joseph Pilates championed from the very beginning.

In a time when Pilates has become a buzzword, and new reformer studios seem to appear in every neighbourhood, it feels increasingly important to return to the idea of health as a practice. Not a quick workout or a short term fix, but a lifelong commitment to caring for the body as a whole system.

For me, what I practice, is about investing in my future self, supporting long term capability, independence and a fulfilling life. I am interested in how we care for ourselves and our families in a modern world that often pulls us away from what we are, at heart, as humans. I believe we do better when we have more movement, more connection and live in greater alignment with our environment and how our bodies are designed to function.

Looking ahead to community and shared practice and wholistic health

As I look towards the year ahead, my focus is less on doing more and more on consolidating what I have created and making it as supportive and effective as possible. Alongside developing my online resource, I am putting more energy into growing the community of practitioners within the clinic and studio here in central Cambridge. Together with my husband, an osteopath, I co run Dynamic Osteopathy Cambridge, and over the past year we have created a second treatment room with space for exercise rehabilitation and movement-based work.

I am increasingly aware that this next phase is not about me seeing every client, but about bringing skilled, thoughtful practitioners together to collectively support the health and wellbeing of the community we live in. This feels like an extension of the same work I do online, making movement support more accessible, while recognising that, as humans, we also need in person connection. It is a shift towards shared responsibility, sustainability and a pace that allows the work to be done well.

Seasonality, nature and allowing a pause

On a personal note, I spent a hiking and navigation skills weekend in the Mendip Hills towards the end of the year, a gift to myself. As much as I love Pilates, DNS and fascia focused work, I continue to crave time outdoors in nature. That pull seems to grow stronger with age, and I have begun contemplating where to go to adventure in nature to mark my 50th birthday in 2026.

As winter keeps us indoors, with its shorter days and colder weather, nature itself offers less outward energy. Yet in modern life we often continue at full pace regardless. After several very full years of teaching, educating, studying and building my platform, I have chosen to take a small sabbatical during the remaining winter months, a pause to recoup, regroup and allow space for what comes next.

Sometimes, stepping back is not a step away from practice, but an essential part of it.

You can read more reflections on movement and health in the blog archive.