Our Team of Pilates Teachers

ANNITA COLE

The Pilates Studio Totnes, was founded by Balanced Body Master teacher, Annita Cole. Annita has been teaching movement for almost 25 years. Her career and passion for teaching, really took off when she completed her Pilates teacher training with Body Control Pilates London, in 2011, and began teaching Pilates in Totnes. She opened her first studio in Totnes in 2016. The Pilates Reformer had been little heard of in the South West back in those days! Annita says that she loved being the first on the scene, and revelling in the enthusiastic response from clients for whom  Pilates began to make a huge and positive impact on their bodies, minds and lives. 

"Throughout my career, working as a yoga teacher, a massage therapist and a Pilates teacher, I have come to understand that really being able to feel what is happening in our own bodies, helps us to develop better relationships with and a better understanding of ourselves, our physical challenges and limitations. With a greater ability to feel and understand, we are empowered to help ourselves in a more informed way.
My personal challenges with pain, disability, and subsequent rehabilitation have only served to inform my teaching style and fuel my compassion to be able to support and encourage you to be the best you and your body possibly can be. I have been fortunate enough to be able to learn and study with the foremost Pilates teacher training providers in the world; Body Control Pilates, Polestar Pilates and Balanced Body. I am now working with, a unique method of retraining the body to restore natural, normal movement. This is the perfect way for me to be able to help you, and ultimately (and most importantly!) for you to be able to help yourself.

A Pilates studio environment offers a totally different Pilates experience, and whether you are looking to facilitate recovery from injury, are an athlete looking to improve your performance, or somewhere inbetween (that's most of us!), our teaching experience, attention to detail and highly specialised equipment, will ensure you get the very best Pilates experience. 'Teaching the body in front of me', is where I feel my teaching strengths are, and with our individual and small group classes in the studio, I feel here that I can be my very best for you."

Annita continues to teach clients in both our Totnes and Ipplepen studios, along with her team of well qualified and experinced teachers. As a Master teacher now, working with Balanced Body, she also invests a good deal of her teaching week, to teaching new teachers, running teacher training courses and supporting up and coming teachers to be their very best.

She encourages you to contact her, if you would like to explore your own Pilates journey. Wherever you may be at today, there is a Pilates way for anybody who wants it, and it's our job to find the way that is right for you!

JILL HOLDING
Jill comes from a background in theatre and education. She has worked in the fitness Industry for over thirty years, teaching in many of the top London health clubs. She went on to study mat Pilates with Stott Pilates, then became a qualified Pilates equipment practitioner with Polestar Pilates and managed the Pilates Studio at a health club in Fulham. She then ran her own studio where she specialised in teaching Reformer classes and one to one Pilates Personal Training. Jill has qualified in ante/postnatal Pilates through The Pilates Foundation and also trained in Barre Pilates with both Stott and Balanced Body Pilates. Jill believes that Pilates is an intelligent form of fitness which can be applied to and enhance any sporting/fitness activity and lifestyle.