Jacqui trained in clinical Pilates at Pilates Training Solutions in 2012. She has since attended many Pilates courses including workshops with Pilates Elder Jay Grimes who studied with Joseph Pilates in New York to training with world renowned presenter Michael King, to teacher workshops with the highly skilled Amit Younger. She is always on the quest for Pilates knowledge and mixes Joseph Pilates' traditional classical exercises with some medical advances closely associated with the contemporary method.



Jacqui has well over 45 years of ballet and Pilates experience. Having trained initially with the Royal Ballet School and the Royal Academy of Dancing, she went on to read social sciences at the University of Glasgow. Her masters degree led her into a marketing career, where her passion for dance continued in the form of Cecchetti Ballet classes at London Studio School, followed in 2006 by a Dance Diploma at Sadler's Wells theatre in London, where she became acutely aware of the importance of Pilates to enhance performance in dance and sport.

 

Jacqui enjoys the variety of people who attend her classes in Farnham and online. They include complete beginners through to keen sportspeople wanting to improve their game, by increasing flexibility and strength, improving posture and learning the lateral breathing techniques that Joseph Pilates developed to help cleanse the lungs, and enhance postural control; to those referred to Pilates by a GP or physiotherapist as a means to rehabilitate after an injury, or work on their core to alleviate back and postural problems.