Jane Heath Pilates

I have been attending Jane's mathwork class for over 2.5 years and enjoyed the benefits of pilates under her expert instruction. Jane has a great teaching style that is combined with a detailed knowledge of pilates and physiology. My advice to any men thinking of improving their core strength, mobility and muscular toning is just join up and do it!

Excellent tuition, enjoyable sessions which challenge and offer progression. Have no hesitation in recommending Jane,

All the people who work their are really canny

Initially I went to Alex for help with my posture and strength whilst rowing competitively. However, after I was run-over by a bus she became central to my rehabilitation, helping me to make a recovery that continues to be described by my doctors as miraculous.

She is encouraging whist not demanding more than you are capable of, intelligent and thoughtful in devising a personalised program for fitness or rehabilitation, and a great friend and joy to work with.

I went to Alex for instruction in Pilates for some help with a persistent muscle strain and exercises to maintain a competitive edge within armature rowing. After a couple of weeks of working with her I had recovered from the injury which had troubled me for months, and noticed improvement in my strength. One of her great characteristics as an instructor is that she is so interested in tailoring the exercises you do to your body and aims. She asked detailed questions about rowing as a sport and did her own reading to work out what would work best for me.

I had meant to only go to her until the strain was fixed, but I found the workouts so good for my physical and mental health whilst writing my PhD that I kept going to her for two years. At that point whist out cycling I was literally run over by a double decker bus. I broke my pubic bone in two places, 17 ribs, a collar bone, the supraspinatus shoulder tendon, and suffered some mild neve damage to one arm. After a month in hospital I had lost a quarter of my body weight though loss of muscle mass.

Over the next two and a half years she tailored the Pilates exercises to gradually restore my strength and flexibility to a point where I am now stronger than I was prior to the accident. The NHS did miraculous work in keeping me alive, but Alex (who worked alongside the advice from the NHS physiotherapists) is entirely responsible for my amazing rehabilitation. I had been advised that I would likely walk with a limp, but this has been avoided due to the exercises she recommended (I only limp if I am lazy and don’t do my mat exercises for a few days!).

I could write more about Alex’s gifted ability as a Pilates instructor. She brings such a wide range of personal experience (as a dancer, surfer, runner, with taekwondo…) and study (with Joe Pilate’s own Student Romana, in sports science, in osteopathy…) to her desire to make people happy in their bodies. For fitness or rehabilitation, you could not ask for a better or more supportive guide.