The story behind Free Your Spine
Move your spine. Shift your energy.
Dance Was My First Language
Long before I taught Pilates, I danced. Growing up in London in the '90s, I fell in love with hip hop culture, music and movement, travelling internationally as a professional B-girl and later living in New York, immersed in one of the world's great creative communities.
Movement was never exercise. It was how I connected to myself, to other people, to music, to freedom. Those years shaped everything that came after.
When My Body Changed the Conversation
While movement gave me freedom, my body started asking harder questions. Through my twenties I lived with recurring back pain, injuries and surgeries. My spine never behaved like everyone else's, and I couldn't simply train harder.
At 22 I found Pilates, and movement became less about performance and more about understanding: why my body moved the way it did, how posture shaped everything, how movement could be both medicine and prevention. In 2006 I trained with The Pilates Foundation, later with Balanced Body, alongside years studying fascia, somatics, breathwork and the nervous system.
The Body Holds Our Story
Movement wasn't only healing my back. It was helping me navigate life. Like many people, I moved through periods of anxiety and depression from my teens onwards, and later the unexpected terrain of perimenopause.
Those experiences changed how I teach. Our bodies don't separate physical health from emotional health. Our posture reflects how we move through life; our nervous system shapes how we breathe, recover and connect. That's why I don't believe movement is only exercise. It's one of the most powerful ways we come back to ourselves.
The City Became My Playground
Before Free Your Spine, another idea arrived. What if movement didn't only belong in studios? What if the city itself became the playground?
That became City Is My Playground, one of my first pioneering movement concepts, blending Pilates, urban exploration, creativity and play, inviting people to see familiar places through new eyes. Looking back, it was the first real expression of what would become Free Your Spine: less about movement itself, more about changing how people experience themselves and their world.
Free Your Spine
Over the years, it all came together: dance, music, Pilates, pain, recovery, creativity, somatics, nervous system regulation, community, joy. Free Your Spine became the bridge between them.
Today I call it Creative Preventative Spine Care: a method blending Pilates, spinal somatics, music and self-expression to help people move beyond exercise and reconnect with their bodies. It's about better posture, less pain, real strength, a calmer nervous system, renewed confidence, and remembering what it feels like to move with freedom.
Taking It To The World
What began as one person's curiosity now reaches communities, organisations and global brands. I've led Free Your Spine experiences for Nike, Soho House, Diageo, ELLE and Creative Mornings, and brought it to the SXSW stage in Austin after being selected from over 3,000 proposals.
Whether it's one-to-one in my London studio or hundreds of people at a festival, the mission never changes: to help people reconnect with themselves through movement.
My movement philosophy
Move little. Move often. Move your spine. Shift your energy.
I believe movement should feel like coming home to yourself. Not something to conquer. Not something to fear. Something to enjoy.
Our emotions are energy in motion. Our feelings live in our bodies. When we move our spine, we don't just change our posture, we change how we experience ourselves.
Movement isn't only exercise. It's creativity. It's confidence. It's connection. It's prevention. It's play. It's movement magic for the people.
Whether you're here because of back pain, posture, stress, perimenopause, or simply the pull to move differently, I'm so glad you're here.