Our Instructors

Our instructors are hand picked for their outstanding knowledge of the body and excellent teaching skills. We have a range of teachers with specialties ranging from remedial work to classical repertoire. Our teachers are registered with The Pilates Foundation, Body Control Pilates Association or Fitness Professionals. 

  Pilates, Yoga and GYROTONIC®

Melissa has been involved in health and fitness for 19 years and has accumulated a wealth of experience in many aspects of the industry. Initially trained as a Remedial Therapist, Personal Trainer and Piiates teacher in her native Australia, she arrived in the UK in 1994. Since then, Melissa has managed her own private practice in Notting Hill as a Massage Therapist and Pilates teacher, adding Yoga to her repertoire after studying with Pattabhi Jois in India and John Scott in the U.K.. and subsequently spent a lot of time in the USA studying and teaching GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®.

Melissa is also a qualified Body-Centred Psychotherapist and brings this understanding to working with bodies in movement and the fundamental ways in which the mind affects the body and vice versa.

Melissa now teaches a blend of all these techniques to ensure that the best exercise or practice is given to her clients at any specific time.

After working in the photography industry, pulling long, hectic days, Lucy recognized how exercise and physical movement was fundamental to her sense of well-being. Pilates became a key part of this so it was a natural progression for her to train as an instructor, with Alan Herdman.

Lucy loves how Pilates is so effective on many different levels and for such a wide range of people, from a remedial aspect through to a highly physical workout.

"Movement leads to a balance between mind and body. I believe that exercise should not only be effective but also fun, creative and individual."

Kate has recently relocated back to the UK from Paris having been teaching at the beautiful Keana studio there since 2004. Kate trained classically with Peak Pilates on the full complement of apparatus and has since been blending the classical repertoire with additions and adaptations developed to enable her to best work with clients as diverse as dancers from the opera ballet company in Paris, pre and post natal women and elderly clients.

For Kate, Pilates is all about taking some time out of a busy day, calming her breath and giving her body the attention it needs. Let her do the same for you!

Hilary is a qualified ballet teacher with more than 12 years teaching experience in the UK and abroad. As well as her work at Kinesis Studios, she is currently teaching Ballet and Pilates on the BA (Hons) Dance Theatre Programme at Laban Contemporary School.

Working with Pilates as a multidimensional conditioning programme has been of endless fascination for Hilary.

“This ideology of establishing efficacy in movement ties in with my ethos of Pilates as a tool to enhance health and vitality through the refinement of movement patterns. The challenge to cultivate an efficient and functional body kinaesthetic that enhances harmony between body and mind stimulate my practice and studies.”

Monique is a Level 3 Pilates Instructor who began teaching in 2001. Having taught in Australia for 5 years, Monique has come to the UK to continue her professional development. Her teaching encompasses a wide variety of clientele, including adolescents, dancers, pre and post pregnancy and the elderly.

Being experienced in working with injury rehabilitation, pre and post surgery, Monique’s clients have included Professional sportspeople such as Australian Rugby League players, team members from the London Wasps and junior tennis players.

Manuela’s background is as a modern dancer and as a gymnast. She initially trained as a Gym instructor specializing in Core Stability. In 2004 after a second injury and surgery to her knee she discovered the Pilates Technique.

Since then a new world has opened to her and Manuela began her study to become a Pilates Instructor in 2006 with Polestar Education in Italy.

Manuela's willingness to deepen her knowledge has seen her participate in many workshops and conferences around Europe and finally brought her to London to study with Alan Herdmann.