Class Timetable

After graduating as a professional dancer from Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 2021, Charlie established herself as both a freelance dance artist and personal trainer. During her degree, she started training in Reformer Pilates, laying the foundation for her integrated approach to movement and conditioning.
In 2024, Charlie spent six months performing with Jasmin Vardimon Company 2, where daily Mat Pilates training formed a core part of her professional practice. This experience further deepened her understanding of precision, control, and functional strength.

 

Her performance career spans television, film, theatre, music videos, and immersive productions. Alongside this, Charlie brings over ten years of teaching experience across piano and dance and has worked for SEND schools and universities. She is a Level 2 & 3 qualified Personal Trainer with additional certifications in nutrition and motivational coaching.

 

Charlie specialises in strength and resistance training, flexibility, and mobility development. Her approach prioritises technical accuracy to optimise performance and minimise injury risk, while also cultivating mindset, discipline, and long-term confidence. She works with athletes pursuing performance-specific outcomes, as well as clients aiming for weight loss, muscle gain, strength development, or rehabilitation following injury or surgery.

 

In Reformer Pilates, her favourite exercise is Climb a Tree for its comprehensive demand on abdominal strength, hip flexor activation, and spinal mobility. In personal training, she particularly values single-leg deadlifts combined with a calf raise on a BOSU ball, an exercise that challenges unilateral strength, balance, coordination and muscular engagement.

 

Outside of teaching, Charlie continues to dance professionally across London in contemporary, hip hop, partnering and heels. She also composes music, building on her foundation as a classical pianist. In her downtime, she enjoys good food, documentaries, catching up with family and the occasional sauna to reset and recover.

Cara began her Pilates journey as a client at Ten Health and Fitness in 2018. What began as a way to stay active soon became a central part of her wellbeing. Living with Myasthenia Gravis, she has seen how Pilates can help stabilise the body through change, build resilience, and support recovery.

 

Having also experienced major surgery, physiotherapy, and years of sport, she understands the realities of fluctuating strength and brings empathy and patience to every client she teaches. Her belief that growth is rarely linear and that progress is personal shapes the way she teaches.

 

Cara focuses on mindful movement and control, encouraging clients to listen to their bodies, build strength gradually, and move with purpose. Her classes are structured yet fluid, helping clients feel grounded, strong, and supported wherever they are in their journey.

 

Trained in ballet from the age of three to twenty-two under the Royal Academy of Dance, Cara has a deep understanding of good form, posture, and body alignment.

 

Before becoming an instructor, she worked in law and holds an LLB, an LLM in Law and Business, and an LLM in Banking and Debt Finance. Her legal background developed her analytical mindset and attention to detail, qualities that now inform her teaching style and the care she brings to every class.

 

For Cara, Pilates is more than exercise. It is a practice of balance, awareness, and self-connection. It reminds her that strength comes in many forms and that every journey, no matter how uneven, is worth celebrating.