About Me
My Story
Hi, I'm Ali, founder of Moxie Pilates.
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I'm a comprehensively trained Pilates teacher, hypermobility practitioner and somatic coach in training.
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I'm also hypermobile myself, with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS).
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I first came to Pilates looking for a smarter way to manage recurring back pain. Over the years, it's helped me recover from injuries, including a disc bulge and fractured coccyx, and navigate the realities of living in a body that doesn't always follow the textbook!
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Like many of my clients, I've spent plenty of time trying to figure out what my body needs, what helps, and what doesn't.
That experience continues to shape the way I teach today.
What Fascinates Me
What helps one person feel stronger and more capable can leave someone else sore, exhausted, frustrated, or wondering what they're doing wrong.
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Over the years, I've worked with many people who have been told to strengthen their core, stretch more, improve their posture, or do a certain number of reps. Yet despite their best efforts, things still don't quite feel right.
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That difference has always fascinated me. What changes when we pay closer attention? What happens when we become more aware of how our own body moves, adapts and responds?
People often come looking for strength or flexibility. What they often leave with is a better understanding of their own body.
Training & Experience
I hold a comprehensive Polestar Pilates qualification and have completed multiple additional specialist trainings.
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Over the years, I've become particularly interested in supporting people with hypermobility, recurring injuries, persistent aches and pains, and those who feel that generic exercise advice hasn't quite worked for them.
Awareness
Learning to notice what feels supportive and what doesn't.
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Connection
Understanding what's happening in your body rather than trying to override it.
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Strength
Building confidence and resilience from a place of connection.
How I Teach
I'm less interested in telling people how they should move and more interested in helping them understand what's happening in their own body.
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Over time, people start to recognise what feels supportive and what doesn't. They stop trying to hold everything together, brace everything, or remember a long list of cues.
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Movement starts to feel more natural. Less trying to move.
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For me, that's where lasting change tends to happen.
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My goal is to help people build awareness, connection and strength in a way that feels supportive, sustainable and realistic for their body.
What You'll Find At Moxie
At Moxie Pilates, you'll find small classes, individual attention and a calm, welcoming environment where questions are encouraged and progress is individual.
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Whether you're navigating hypermobility, recovering from injury, managing persistent aches and pains, or simply looking for a more thoughtful approach to exercise, my aim is to help you feel stronger, move with greater confidence and better understand your body along the way.
A Few Things About Me
• I'm hypermobile and have hEDS.
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• I live in Caterham with my husband, daughter and our Tibetan Terrier, Ziggy.
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• I'm fascinated by why bodies do what they do.
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• When I'm not teaching, you'll often find me walking Ziggy, in the garden, or studying yet another movement course.
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• I still spend plenty of time experimenting, learning and figuring things out in my own body too.
Less about thinking how to move. More about feeling it.
