I've spent the last 12 years teaching Pilates and 7 years mentoring instructors. I co-founded Off Duty Pilates with the belief that Pilates didn't need to feel heavy or intimidating — it should be something people actually look forward to.
I couldn't stop asking myself: Am I actually good at this?
I'm not the kind of person who settles easily, and that made it harder to trust my own teaching. Every session left me wondering if I was doing enough, if I was saying the right things, if my clients were really getting better — or just getting through.
Ten years ago, I had a serious fall. A year ago, I fractured my ankle. Both injuries forced me to confront something that most Pilates education doesn't prepare you for — what happens when the body loses function, when alignment breaks down, and when textbook exercises don't fit.
I spent a lot of time studying how the body compensates, how alignment shifts affect movement, and how to rebuild function — not just strength. And I applied all of it to my own recovery first, then to my clients.
I used to teach Pilates by the book. Same exercise, same focus, same cues — for every client. It seemed okay for the first few years, because most of my clients didn't have significant issues.
The moment I hit a wall was when a client would tell me one side felt completely different from the other. I didn't know where to start. I couldn't explain what had gone wrong, or how to fix it.
That pushed me to go deeper — to understand how the body actually works, how to condition it, and how to create changes that clients could genuinely feel.
And somewhere along the way, I realised something: being a good instructor isn't just about knowing the exercises and sequences. You need to train your eyes to read the imbalances and compensation patterns in the body in front of you. Then you condition the body to function well — and use Pilates movement to reinforce the right pattern. Sometimes Pilates itself becomes the tool that teaches the body how to move better.
That's when real change happens. The kind that stays. The kind that shifts how someone moves through their life.
That's why I created PX3.
Watching clients change — finding confidence through movement, discovering what their body can do — that's what keeps me here.
Many of my clients have been with me through different chapters of their lives. They came to solve problems through Pilates, recovered, got married, had children, and came back again. I want to be the kind of instructor who can stay with them through all of it. That means the way I teach can't stay still either. It shifts with their conditions, their emotions, their circumstances.
And that's what led me here — wanting to share what I've learned with the people who show up for their clients every day.
Am I doing all three perfectly? Probably not. But I think that's exactly why I keep going — there's always something more to learn, something to refine, someone to grow for. I try to appreciate every part of the journey, and to show up for it with a genuine heart.
Above all, I want to be a happy practitioner — someone who keeps learning, keeps questioning, and keeps showing up — for my clients, for the instructors I mentor, and for myself.