Sarah Pritchard Pilates & Somatic Movement: Franklin Method

Excited for Sunday! 😊✨
Movement in Midlife at Newton Meadows is a three-hour morning retreat of ease, presence, and somatics taught by a regulated professional in Pilates and Somatic Movement.
Two places remaining if you want to join us!
For women who want to move with clarity and feel reconnected in their bodies. 💗
Sunday 7th June, 9am. Fresh air. Genuine somatic movement. What your body really needs.

See this link to make your reservation, I’d love to see you,

Sarah Xx

I am excited for Sunday! 😊
Movement in Midlife at Newton Meadows — a three-hour morning of ease, presence, and real teaching by a regulated specialist in Pilates and Somatics.
Two places remaining.
For women who want to move with clarity and feel reconnected in their bodies.
Sunday 7th June, 9am. Fresh air. Genuine somatic movement. What your body really needs.

See this link to make your reservation, I’d love to see you,

Sarah xx 🌸✨

https://goteamup.com/p/13009501-sarah-pritchard-pilates-s/c/schedule?e=103930689&startdate=2026-06-01&enddate=2026-06-07

A sunny bank holiday afternoon got me thinking about June. Movement in Midlife is coming to Newton Meadows, Shrewsbury on June 7th. A morning exploring what it feels like to move with ease, clarity, and presence in your own body. Three hours. Fresh air. Real teaching and regulated expertise.

Half of the places are already taken so if you are interested please see the link in my bio to reserve your place.

Have a sunny weekend everyone, ☀️

Sarah xx

https://goteamup.com/p/13009501-sarah-pritchard-pilates-s/e/103930689-movement-for-midlife-pop-up-at-newton-me/

Movement for Midlife 💝
Hi everyone,

If you’ve been waking up feeling stiff, a bit disconnected from your body, or overwhelmed by the mental and physical shifts of midlife, I want you to take a deep breath.

Your body isn't failing you. It’s just changing. And it’s asking for a new toolkit.

On Sunday, 7th June, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, I am hosting a special Movement for Midlife Pop-Up at the tranquil Newton Meadows, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. This morning is specifically curated to help you truly understand what your body needs at this stage of life.

We are moving away from the no pain, no gain mentality and moving toward true body intelligence.

Here is what I am bringing to you for this 3-hour immersion:

🧠 The Franklin Method® & Myofascial Release: We’ll use specialised tools to release tight fascia, unstick restricted joints, and ease the chronic tension that holds you back.
Deeper Breath, Calmer Mind: I will teach you practical self-regulation tools to soothe your nervous system, quiet the midlife mental chatter, and unlock a deeper breath.
🦴 Pilates for Bone & Joint Health: We will move through a dedicated Pilates session designed specifically to promote bone and joint health, to leave you feeling stronger, calmer and more like you! Its suitable for those of your with bone density issues and osteoporosis too!

Come and work with a regulated specialist in mind body and movement work. I am also a Comprehensive and Remedial Pilates Teacher and Faculty for Buff Bones® the global system for bone and joint health. So you can be sure you are in good hands with an expert verified by third parties globally.

Come by yourself or with a friend, and leave Newton Meadows not just feeling physically lighter and mentally calmer, but empowered with the knowledge of how to care for your body during this transition.

Space is limited so that everyone gets personalized attention and access to the specialised Franklin Method tools.

Light refreshments are provided.

Click below to view all details and secure your place.

In wellness,

Sarah

https://goteamup.com/p/13009501-sarah-pritchard-pilates-s/c/schedule?e=103930689&startdate=2026-06-01&enddate=2026-07-05&venues=&category=&instructors=&offering_types=&age_restrictions=&date=2026-06-18

All images are c. Sarah Pritchard 2026.

Relational.
This image - a metaphor for presence.
As a somatic therapist I read so much on social media about doing exercises to regulate your nervous system. And this is an important part of my work too - but its not the only part. And I have years of professional training and felt embodied experience to understand how and when to use these tools safely. We keep reinforcing the idea that being calm all of the time is how we should live. We need to ‘fix’ ourselves. Our full range of humanness is not welcome. But for humans we live in the whole range of experience and emotions - they all have value as they point to things that have great meaning.
For some of us there is not enough felt safety, and that’s where therapists can step in and be that safe other with you to help you develop more capacity. But for so many of us what we need more than anything is connection.
Look at what’s happening here - my friend sitting with me in my messiness of grief a few years years ago not trying to change me but being deeply present - if you work with birds you know how present and wise they are! And in that moment I was held and it was felt. ❤️
Animals get this so right because belonging and connecting is how they survive and thrive. In community. In places of safety. They sense it and they feel it at such speed. And as mammals we also have the same needs, to be held in community. To be held in relationship. In safety. We feel and at such speed too!
My thoughts for mental health week is not only to give yourself the grace and space to be a messy imperfect human, reach for connection if you need support, but also to be there for others too. Relational health is built slowly over time, through small repeated moments of connection, attunement, accountability, softness, truth. Healing happens in connection. Not the big gestures, but the unimpressive repeated moments of connection where healing can happen.

From one messy imperfect human to another, and not an AI!

Be gentle,

Sarah 💜

Summer days….

Join me for my Movement for Midlife Pop Up at Newton Meadows on Sunday 7th June!

Discover more here:

https://goteamup.com/p/13009501-sarah-pritchard-pilates-s/e/103930689-movement-for-midlife-pop-up-at-newton-me/

all images are c. Sarah Pritchard 2026.

Happy International Dance Day 🌍🌎🌏💃🕺✨

Dance is my joy, and movement that is expressive and full of feeling is my passion to do and to watch - it’s been there since I was very little and shaped who I am today, its been my voice in a world of noise and my harbour when seas were stormy. It’s brought me both challenges and a skills set that are unique to this art form. And many, many, lessons. And it’s something that will never leave me because it is me.

I know many of you reading this feel the same way 🫶

Dance belongs to the whole body and the whole person. Not just the parts that show on stage - your nervous system, your breath, all parts of your physical body as well as your felt sense of being in motion and the emotional charge behind and within that expression. Dance is the totality of the whole person, and having been both a learner and a teacher in dance, before moving to Pilates and Somatics I know the experience on both sides. Dance is effort, discipline, repetition, and the particular kind of courage it takes to keep showing up in a body that is always changing, as we grow, age, or change. And even more courage to look at how to take pressure off ourselves and stop fighting with our physical body and mind.

I care deeply about what it actually feels like to be in a dancing body - not just how it looks or performs, but how it lives and breathes and recovers and finds pleasure in moving. The total dancer. The healthy dancer. The embodied dancer.

Dancers who feel as good as they look.

That is what I am here for. Today and every day, happier, healthier and more confident dancers.

To every dancer in my community - thank you for trusting me with your body and your practice. Here’s to many more years of joyful, healthy, embodied movement. 💛

Sarah xx

Take a moment to notice, imagine and feel…
Your fascia is a mycelial network, your skeleton a geological formation. Your blood is a water cycle. Your lungs are the earth breathing through you.
These look like metaphors but there is a truth here which points to something important…
Your fascia, a continuous web wrapping every muscle and organ - mirrors mycelium. Both distribute information and generate tensional strength through interconnection.
Your skeleton redistributes forces through bone rhythms, and a system of dynamic balance and our mountains also distribute force through dynamic loading - which tells us how important movement is!
Your circulatory system moves fluid in cycles of pressure, flow, return, and filtration. The earth does this through water cycles and mineral cycling.
Your lungs are chambers of gas exchange. So are forests. So is soil. Every breath participates in the planet’s respiration. You inhale oxygen released by photosynthesis. You exhale carbon dioxide that feeds plant life.
What you breathe shapes what the earth can grow. What the earth grows shapes what you can breathe. The connection is two-way.
The Franklin Method teaches us to sense these structural realities and recognise that the patterns you embody are the patterns the earth embodies.
You are not separate from the earth. Your architecture is its architecture. Through breath and circulation, you are continuously shaping and being shaped by the living systems you’re part of.

My thoughts on Earth day - let’s move beyond the picture of just ourselves into the total picture. We cannot separate ourselves from this connection as we too are nature.

In wellness,

Sarah xx 🌍🌳🌱✨