What is Mat Pilates?
Mat pilates works the entire body through a series of repetitive mat-based exercises, helping to improve strength, postural alignment and muscle balance. The teacher adapts the class, and gives a variety of options, for students of different levels.
Classes are suitable for all abilities, from beginners to more experienced practitioners.
Reformer Pilates at our Peckham Studio – NOW OPEN!
We are in our Reformer era. If you want to join us, find out more and see the timetable and learrn about our teachers. If you’d like a personal recommendation or have any questions, just get in touch.
Meet your Teachers!
At Yogarise London, we are lucky to have some of the best Mat Pilates teachers in London. Read on to find out more about them!
Caitlin Scott
Caitlin has trained with Polestar Pilates and is passionate about helping individuals reach fitness goals and find motivation, whatever their experience. Having recently graduated from drama school, she is enthusiastic about dynamic movement and is keen to combine her classical Pilates training with finding a sense of mindfulness during her classes. Caitlin is committed to expanding her knowledge and understanding of pilates, and is currently training at Polestar in their Reformer course. In addition to her classes at Yogarise she runs queer and trans-inclusive classes and is DEI trained. Caitlin can’t wait to meet you on the mat!
Caitlin teaches in Peckham
Eve Ponsonby
Eve Ponsonby is a Mat Pilates Instructor based in South East London. She loves working with different people, helping them feel good within their bodies and move with freedom. She trained with Body Control Pilates in 2015 and holds a Level 3 Matwork certificate. She later trained with APPI(The Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Institute) and holds a certificate in Ante and Post Natal Pilates. Whether you are recovering from an injury, want to feel like yourself again after childbirth, or just don’t want to be so stiff and achy in the morning – Eve would love to help you!
Eve teaches in Peckham
Annie Nicoll
Annie Nicoll is a full time yoga and Mat Pilates instructor born in Scotland, and now based in South East London. Having trained all her life as a professional dancer she moves in a very fluid way and loves sequencing her classes to be seamless and fun. Dance was always her passion in life, but the hustle and bustle of London life and constant auditioning got the better of her and she turned to yoga for some solace and safety.
Having planned to move to the USA to spend three months training as a contemporary dancer, Annie’s dreams were crushed when she was denied access due to some visa issues. Sitting in border control, inconsolable Annie started doing yoga. It was at this moment she realised how important this practice was to her and hasn’t looked back since.
She trained in Vinyasa and Hatha in Bali, before coming home and training in Mat Pilates – which she believed was boring at the time. It has since transformed her practice and outlook massively. Now a staunch lover of Pilates, Yoga, and the incredible benefits they both have on the body and the mind, Annie loves challenging her students and allowing them to find their inner strength as well as control and fluidity in the studio. She absolutely loves being able to share her passion for both of these practices and hopes you can leave her class feeling strong, energised and unstoppable.
Annie teaches in Peckham
