false starts, self doubt, but thankfully I didn’t give up on creating the subscription.. read on to be inspired!

Dubai, 2013 I created masses of exercise programs for my classes and thought “ what a shame a class is done and all the planing and fabulous class is lost’.. a few years later in in the UK it was the same with my Pilates classes, and when I moved to Marlborough 3 years ago, I was aware once again I left behind clients that may still want to access “me” and maybe just maybe there were new people out there who may enjoy my classes and style too?

After a few false starts.. new website built, sacking the “professional video” men..finding other people to help me.. this techno phobic person (me) created a subscription service that I was happy of- it took approx 10 years from first thinking about it..

But the proof of how effective the videos are HIT ME this week in the form of Leonie.

I had never met Leonie.

Leonie joined the subscription, then this week she joined my live Pilates zoom class.

These Pilates zoom class have been running for over 5 years (the guys are pretty awesome in this class and it isn’t easy!) I was expecting to modify moves and make it easier for Leonie, but instead I was astounded at how good she was!

I messaged her afterwards asking if she had been doing Pilates before the videos, as I had honestly been so impressed with her form, endurance and Pilates ability in the class.

Her answer, which she agreed to me sharing with you was:

..” I’m so happy you think I was a competent Pilates person! I did do a local class about 3 years ago but only for a few weeks as I just couldn’t manage to get the time to go.  Then I happened to chat about Pilates with my lovely friend Kate who recommended you…so I started doing the videos as much as I could.  I began with your easy gentle classes at first including the sitting ones, then moved onto to do harder ones and then more frequently…it’s YOUR videos that make the difference! You’re the best so thank you Olivia for keeping me strong and well…particularly as I have a very active life and do struggle with occasional lower back pain and I hold a lot of tension in my shoulders (like a lot of people I think!).

I’ll keep enjoying your recorded classes with more confidence now that I’m doing it correctly 😊 and will come to your live classes as much as I can from the end of August.

To have seen her form with my own eyes and then to find out she has systematically worked her way through the vidoes made my heart swell with pride. It felt worth it.