Sarah Pritchard Pilates & Somatic Movement: Franklin Method

Sarah Pritchard Pilates & Somatic Movement: Franklin Method Master Somatic Movement Therapist /Educator MSME MSMT (ISMETA Reg) & Buff Bones® Faculty. Somatic Therapist & Franklin Method Expert Level 4.

Comprehensive Remedial Pilates for Women’s Health & Dance in Birmingham, Shrewsbury, across the UK & Virtual Helping you reconnect with and future-proof your body. Hello, I am Sarah Pritchard, an internationally regulated Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, and a specialist Pilates teacher. My mission is to bridge the gap between clinical science and the joy of movement, helping you feel whole, resilient, and more like "you." With over a decade of experience, I specialize in female health and dancer wellness. I am proud to be:

Expert Level 4 Franklin Method® Educator (one of the few in the world). ISMETA Registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist & Educator. SomaSoul® Somatic Therapist, working deeply with the mind-body connection to produce profound emotional and physical change. Comprehensive & Remedial Pilates Specialist (Alan Herdman trained). Whether you are looking to resolve chronic pain, improve athletic performance, or navigate the intersection of physical sensation and emotional landscape, I offer a dedicated space for your personal and professional growth. Services: 1:1 Coaching, Small Groups, and Workshops. Locations: In-person (Shrewsbury, Shropshire & Birmingham) or Virtually via my online studio.

A photo from the first day of a summer - I couldn’t have predicted…A season of deepening embodiment and a return home!Gr...
21/09/2026

A photo from the first day of a summer - I couldn’t have predicted…

A season of deepening embodiment and a return home!

Gratitude for what held me.
Growth from what stretched me.
Connection through it all.

Summer’s been a collection of really special moments - some stretching, some settling, some surprising.

As a somatic therapist you learn that you can hold so many experiences and emotions and for them all to be true! And that is a pretty incredible side effect of becoming and inhabiting this somatic work and ultimately our own body!

On World Gratitude day I’m grateful for the whole salad of experience!

Grateful for the connections that held me and I also held that’s a very special place to be.
For my mentors that challenge me to keep discovering my growth edge.
For the quiet moments and connections that reminded me what really matters.
For the moments I could never have imagined happening, happening and just landing out of nowhere!
And for moments where I have been able to use my voice in the roles I have to take things forwards behind the scenes to bring about bigger change in the future.
And inhabiting my own body at newer depths.
It’s taken me by surprise!
And it’s pretty special. ❤️

Being grateful doesn’t mean that life isn’t messy or challenging. But there are also lots of little things too, the moments that can really resource and hold us. Things our body feels and becomes over time…

Calmer, integrated, clear, resourced and expansive as a few things that come to mind! Things you are not having to talk yourself into but things you feel.

Your own internal compass and guide.

Your sense of you.

As we move into Autumn and our season of contraction, I’m carrying Summer 2026 forward with all of its gifts.

Summer’s growth. Alignment. It’s challenges. The kindness. And the connections.

All of it.

Sun down on the summer and thank you,

Sarah xx ☀️

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Back to School: Why Embodiment Matters for Dancers 💃🕺✨New term is here and I’m excited about returning to work with all ...
11/09/2026

Back to School: Why Embodiment Matters for Dancers 💃🕺✨
New term is here and I’m excited about returning to work with all my dancing bodies and have been busy over the summer developing my professional expertise developing more understanding of my work with child and adolescent bodies and their unique needs and mixing it all into my soup of Pilates for Dancers from an embodied and somatic perspective.

As dancers, we learn technique, but fewer learn embodiment as something distinct and valuable in itself - it’s usually something reserved for professional programming as an option at university usually in contemporary programmes. But the benefits are here for us at any age and stage and for any form of dance. I know how this study helped me and helps my own dancers inhabit movement from the inside out.

Here’s my observation: embodiment accelerates technique. It prevents injury. It builds a kind of real confidence that comes from knowing your body intimately, not from perfectionism or the critical voice in the mirror.

Embodiment is a skill and somatics is a profession in its own right that involves professional training. Learning to feel what you’re actually doing, not just the shape you’re making, takes practice and the right tools. When you can sense into your body with real felt awareness, your movement becomes integrated. It has depth. It’s no longer just gestures.

This is what I see separates dancers who thrive and enjoy longevity in their bodies, from those who carry tension, struggle with injury, or eventually leave because they have just fallen out of love with dance and are fed up with fighting.

If you’re ready to move differently this year, or if you need support with injury prevention, rebuilding confidence, or reconnecting to your body, you know where I am.

Looking forward to this term with my dancers- happy, healthy and confident in dance becoming the best they can be ☺️

Sarah xx

Embodiment for dancers | Pilates for dancers | Dance injury prevention | Felt sense movement | Franklin Method for dancers | Somatic technique | Movement quality | Dancer wellbeing | Contemporary dance education | Pilates and dance | Dance teaching Birmingham

🍂🍁🍂 Back in Shropshire this Autumn for a day that actually slows you down. 🍂🍁🍂Newton Meadows, Sunday 25th October. Small...
30/08/2026

🍂🍁🍂 Back in Shropshire this Autumn for a day that actually slows you down. 🍂🍁🍂
Newton Meadows, Sunday 25th October. Small group. Log fire. Lunch. And Chocolate cake! 🥰
The practices that help midlife bodies feel at home again.
To discover more

https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/autumn-somatic-day-retreat-shropshire

I’d love to welcome you to this space.

Sarah xx

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Midlife somatic retreat Shropshire | nervous system regulation | Franklin Method | Buff Bones | vagal tone | embodied wellness | midlife women’s health | somatic movement therapy | autumn retreat Shropshire | small group day programme

21/08/2026

Embodiment is a wonderful place to be.

At the York Pelvic Floor Immersive, we explored what it means to move as an integrated whole - not as a collection of parts, but as a living connected system - one body and one person integrated and whole. A collective and gathering of curious movers and movement professionals all knowing there is something more to movement. And observing how when we embody our movement and become integrated our nervous systems respond. So much fun and joy to go exploring! And one language: somatic movement.

The Franklin Method teaches us to be curious, non judgemental and try out different things. We imagine and sense before we move. And we listen back to our body for feedback and it’s yes - that instinctively felt good and now the rest of my body, mind and mood feels better too! A happy place to be!

Thank you to my hosts for bringing Franklin Method here into your space in the middle of York. I cannot wait to return in November for the Embodied Vagus Nerve & Deep Rest Immersive - that’s very special work and booking is now open. 🧘‍♀️🕯✨

See you soon York and thank you 🙏

Sarah xx

Somatic movement educator | Franklin Method® L4 | Embodiment through somatics

✨ Link in bio for November

13/08/2026

In my upcoming Pelvic Floor Immersive, these Franklin Method tools become our anchors. We don’t use them for something like a standard workout, we use them to awaken the nervous system, feel the natural design of your pelvic floor, use dynamic imagery to bring this part of us to life!

Go beyond generic pelvic floor cues and myth, outdated exercises into precise anatomical imagery your body can actually use.

If you’re ready to change the map in your mind so your body can finally release and support you, this is where that starts.

If you are curious about embodiment or somatics see what Franklin Method can do for you - less tension, ease, comfort and take that deeper breath! Pelvic floor health connects into lower back health, a calmer nervous system and more self confidence. And a way to be mindful without even trying.

Join me on Saturday in York at the beautiful Stables Yoga studio, I’d love to see you,

Sarah xx



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My Somatic Movement, Somatic Movement Therapy and Somatic Pilates edition. 💛 Somatic Pilates, somatic movement ...
12/08/2026

My Somatic Movement, Somatic Movement Therapy and Somatic Pilates edition. 💛



Somatic Pilates, somatic movement education, and regulated somatic therapy in Birmingham. Virtual and in-person. ISMETA Master certified, Franklin Method trained, SomaSoul Somatic Therapist

06/08/2026

Embodiment Thursday is here again! This week embodiment / disembodiment and moving away from self.

We move away from our bodies when we’re injured, when voices of authority override our own sense, when we break ourselves into parts to be fixed. We criticise what doesn’t work. We dissociate. But if we can shift from criticism to care - if we can see that piece as deserving support - everything changes. Sometimes we need help as we can’t do this alone as we may have fear, overwhelm or be at a loss where to start. But with care, we can move back toward ourselves: integrated, whole, imperfections and all. Moving from pieces of us into an embodied whole. That’s part 1 complete this week.

More next week and some longer writing on this topic coming soon. I hope you found it helpful, Sarah xx

Nervous system work may be a bit of a fashion this year but it’s everyday practice for Somatic Therapists who have train...
05/08/2026

Nervous system work may be a bit of a fashion this year but it’s everyday practice for Somatic Therapists who have trained in it for years and are attuned in their bodies to recognise places in others that need support. In movement your nervous system has to be settled and available before your body can successfully learn new patterns. Without it, you’re effectively having a dialogue of discord with yourself - you want something but your nervous system is saying no - because it may not feel safe and then we have an argument happening which can add more stress and tension on an overloaded body. This is what I work with in both Somatic Pilates and SomaSoul Somatic Therapy and sometimes both in combination. Same nervous system principle, different entry points. I know this from my own felt experience, and from over a decade in the Pilates studio working with what actually shifts things for my clients.

There is a depth to this work that requires depth in training and experience. There are no quick fixes or single exercises that bypass the nervous system. And no cathartic releases either. And this is relational too, you can’t just do this by copying or have a single session. But, this is what sustainable change looks like. And the end result is beautiful. ☺️✨

If this means something to you in a felt way, you are welcome here.

Sarah xx

Words and images c. Sarah Pritchard 2026.
LIFE Movement Franklin Method

30/07/2026

Embodying your pelvic floor through felt sense. Discover Ground. More motion and comfort in the hip joints. Lower back release. Elastic rebound and elastic pliés for dancers! A deeper breath. This is what happens when you stop watching yourself in mirrors, correcting from outer appearance and start feeling what you do instead!
When you access the felt sense of your pelvic floor your living, sensing body everything shifts. Ground. Ease. Elasticity. Breath. Somatic movement, grounded in science.
Feel the difference. We do that by doing. No fixing. Not copying. Just working with ourselves!
Welcome home!

My Thursday thoughts!!

Sarah xx

24/07/2026

So at the end of the week reflecting on this book - it’s taken me on a journey I didn’t think I’d travel to and at the end of the week I sit back here in my studio and have a moment taking stock.

Reading through the excerpts that always held meaning for me so many many years back - there’s one over those years I always returned back to: “don’t forget that your greatest challenge is your biggest ally. Difficult problems require creative solutions that can make you grow faster than anything else”.

When people say I’m lucky, I say yes - but I also know the work it took. The years of change to arrive in this space. The study, the attention, the energy it continues to require. Luck is a tiny part of the story.

Embodiment is a journey we can all travel, and every step is a step going home. Through somatic practice, I’ve learned that change requires deliberate attention, and the willingness to move through difficulty and try some things out. For my little dancers especially and those of you at the start of your own journey your body is not a problem to solve. It’s your ally, and it is so responsive and listening to all that you think and do. That’s pretty amazing!

I think the old dancing Sarah would look at this week and not really believe me! Helping dancers become more healthy, happy and confident is my passion project. So for my CAT dancers I am both championing you on and wishing you the greatest excitement and passion in your work! I’m excited to see what you have created next week too!

I hope you find these words have as much meaning for you as they did and do for me.

Sarah xx

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