Sarah Pritchard Pilates & Somatic Movement: Franklin Method

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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.

25/10/2026

A beautiful day into the body using the power of somatic movement of two incredible systems. Today, restoring the body, regulating our nervous systems by being with ourselves and feeling our own emotional process deeply, and being with others who felt the same way. Witnessing and being with another. And working directly with our nervous system, toning and nurturing it and noticing how beautifully our body responds. It’s powerful work and something I would not be without and such a gift to share with others who are curious and on their own way too.
I’m always so grateful for this work and what it can do so thank you and - a beautiful times doing honest work, that is so very special 💗💗

My next full day retreat will be in the spring back in Shropshire so if you want to come along please join my mailing list as this one sold out very quickly!
If you want to catch Franklin Method as an immersive meet me in York and you can work with me virtually for SomaSoul Somatic Therapy and Franklin Method 🥰.
So much is possible when we listen. Thank to everyone fo coming I have loved being with you today, in good energy 🙏✨
Until another day, Sarah xx



Somatic movement | somatic practice | Franklin method | somatic movement therapy | somatic therapy | embodiment practices | polyvagal theory in practice | nervous system regulation | midlife movement | Shropshire somatics | Birmingham Somatics | York Somatics

Only 5 places left ✨This time of year is a time of slowing down, looking inward, and melting away the tension we’ve been...
23/10/2026

Only 5 places left ✨

This time of year is a time of slowing down, looking inward, and melting away the tension we’ve been carrying.
If your mind and body is needing a reset and deep rest, join me in York for my Franklin Method immersive right before the busy festive season arrives. 🌲✨

Franklin Method® in York: The Embodied Vagus Nerve
🗓 Sunday 15th November | 10:00am – 12:30pm
📍 The Stables Yoga Centre, York

We will :

Learn how to positively influence your nervous system for profound states of ease, calm, and deep rest focusing upon our nerve of health and wellbeing - the vagus (or wandering nerve).
We use imagery, movement, precise self-touch, breath patterns, and vocal sound resonance to directly influence vagal tone and produce measurable states of physiological calm.
And we end with a session of deep rest using those wonderful Franklin Method® Balls for the pulling even more tension out of your body!

Franklin Method® is a somatic movement system that works with the body and mind together. It is an excellent introduction to somatic movement for anyone looking to release tension, and it is especially suited to women in midlife navigating changing hormones and stress. I am a Level 4 Franklin Method® Educator, an ISMETA Master Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, and I will guide you through gentle, but extremely powerful exercises. No prior somatic experience is needed.

⚠️ Only 5 spots remain, and this workshop has been booking steadily without advertising.
🔗 https://goteamup.com/p/13009501-sarah-pritchard-pilates-s/c/schedule?e=108276720&startdate=2026-10-19&enddate=2026-10-25

Sarah xx

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Dancing through life with support!Build, Protect, Strengthen. Our bones are living places in us that always have the ab...
20/10/2026

Dancing through life with support!
Build, Protect, Strengthen. Our bones are living places in us that always have the ability to change, so supporting them is a choice we can make at any stage of life. That’s fantastic news. Moving with joy and confidence is a massive part of it, and finding people who care and are educated in bone health means no more guessing or fear, just moving with intention and intelligence. Happy World Osteoporosis Day, and here a very lively assistant at Polestar from our Buff Bones UK training last month! So many of us out there waiting to support you, come and join us!

Sarah
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World Osteoporosis Day | Bone health | Movement for healthy bones | Buff Bones trained | movement for midlife women | pilates Birmingham | Pilates Shropshire

Buff Bones I The osteoporosis exercise method 💪 Rebekah Rotstein PolestarPilatesUK

My Autumn Somatic Day Retreat in Shropshire is now sold out.If you’re interested in future retreats and Shropshire sessi...
17/10/2026

My Autumn Somatic Day Retreat in Shropshire is now sold out.
If you’re interested in future retreats and Shropshire sessions, join my mailing list for early access.
Looking forward to sharing this one next weekend 🥰

My next in person somatic session is my Franklin Method Immersive: The Embodied Vagus Nerve taking place in the City of York in November. You can discover more through the link in my bio ☺️

A beautiful autumn of embodiment 🍁🍂🍁

Sarah xx

Somatic retreat Shropshire | Regulate Restore Rest | Newton Meadows | Autumn somatic day retreat | Somatic movement therapy | Nervous system regulation | Franklin Method retreat | Embodied wellness | Midlife women’s retreat | Somatic Pilates retreat | Day immersive Shropshire | SomaSoulSomatic therapy

Teaching the whole person, moving the emotional body.The movements we make can be both deeply revealing and deeply expre...
09/10/2026

Teaching the whole person, moving the emotional body.

The movements we make can be both deeply revealing and deeply expressive, as well as deeply healing. When you work in movement, you work with the total person. I hear everyone using my Pilates teacher, Alan Herdman’s words - ‘teach the body in front of you’ - that is what he taught us to do so beautifully, and those words have led me also down into a deeper path of working with the whole person and whole journey in movement both with Franklin Method and the Leven Institute - which forms the core pillar of my work. Somatic movement therapists do this work differently and train for many years sharpening our felt sense to read and feel into our bodies an the bodies of our clients in different ways. So for me, back into my second year of postgraduate study! Last year we had a deep dive within the bioenergetic field and with developmental trauma, and this year, well I’m excited to see what we are diving into first! It’s always a deep process, in a community where you are deeply held be everyone. I’m always excited to be back there.
My passion, and work is guiding women and dancers who feel disconnected from their bodies, helping them move past limitations and rediscover deep, integrated joy in movement and life. That can take many forms - either a journey of movement back into connecting with your body, or a deeper journey resolving through the body what is holding you back or getting you stuck in life. Movement speaks loudly over the words and the body has its own voice too and wisdom to share, if we listen. A promise I made at the ISMETA Conference last year where the professional somatic community from all over the world declared who they ran for. Well, I run for you.
There is more to movement than you think you feel,
Have a joyous weekend, and with that back to school!
Sarah xx

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🍂 The Paradox of Going Slow 🍂This past month, I made a conscious decision to slow down, step back from social media, and...
05/10/2026

🍂 The Paradox of Going Slow 🍂
This past month, I made a conscious decision to slow down, step back from social media, and give myself space…
I found myself more energised, clear, and productive as a result.
In our modern world, rushing and feeling overwhelmed has become the default. Our thinking brains literally cannot compute the sheer volume of data coming past our eyes and ears every day - so if you ever catch yourself saying, “I just have no mental space,” know that there is a real neurobiological truth in that statement!
For women, this constant fast pace often leaves our nervous systems totally depleted. We move so fast that we leave ourselves behind.
But when we take time to slow right down, our bodies finally feel heard we get to rest with energy instead of exhaustion.
💌 In today’s newsletter coming your way this evening:
I’ve just sent out a reflection on this exact paradox, and practical ways we can begin tending to our nervous systems this Autumn. Check your inbox to read the full issue (“Leaning into Softening”).
And if that resonates consider joining me on retreat!
✨ Final 2 Spaces | Autumn Somatic Day Retreat
If your body is longing for a moment to slow down, I have the final 2 spaces left for our intimate retreat at Newton Meadows, Shropshire.
🗓️ Date: Sunday, 25th October (10:00 AM – 4:00 PM)
🔥 Setting: Cosy log fire, pine trees, wholesome lunch & afternoon tea
🌿 Practice: Vagus nerve regulation, somatic movement & midlife joint health
👉 Visit my website to discover more or join my mailing list! https://sarahpritchardpilatessomaticmovement.com/retreatsmasterclasses/autumn-somatic-day-retreat-shropshire

Warmly,

Sarah xx

Somatic Movement | Nervous System Regulation | Vagus Nerve | Shropshire Day Retreats | Newton Meadows Shrewsbury | Women’s Midlife Wellness | SomaSoul Somatic Therapy | Franklin Method Educator | Rest and Re-regulation | Embodied Breathwork | Mindful Movement Practice

Friday Throwback to so many years of training with Buff Bones 😱☀️✨I’m looking at this image from years ago that I found ...
25/09/2026

Friday Throwback to so many years of training with Buff Bones 😱☀️✨

I’m looking at this image from years ago that I found last night whilst trying to do a mental count of how many times I’ve supported teachers in this special work. Now moving towards a decade of trainings, of feeling into the special flavour of this work, and sitting in the evolution of this work as we move with the science. And knowing how many of my clients love this work and improve - only yesterday admiring the journey and confidence of my own class and considering how far they have travelled and how much confidence and strength has been regained.

From my own training through my own journey to understanding the depth and nuance in this part of the field is enriching it only for me as a teacher but for my clients who have real solutions to their issues on multiple levels. We embody and move the whole person. And along the way picking up new friends and colleagues sharing their expertise too - that’s true teamwork where everyone’s expertise is brought to the table to make something wholesome and enriching.

This weekend feels full circle. I’m currently on my way into London excited to work with our new instructors, and work in the presence of wonderful energy and leadership from Rebekah! So many years, so many trainings, so many photos of different places, movement spaces and points in time. We grow and develop the movement to work with the whole person. 🥰

There’s something very special about that. Very happy to be here. 🤍

Rebekah Rotstein Buff Bones I The osteoporosis exercise method 💪

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Back in Shropshire this Autumn for a day that actually slows you down.Newton Meadows, Sunday 25th October. Small group. ...
24/09/2026

Back in Shropshire this Autumn for a day that actually slows you down.
Newton Meadows, Sunday 25th October. Small group. Log fire. Lunch. The practices that help midlife bodies feel at home again. Restoring our bodies with Buff Bones, Learning skills from the wellbeing side of SomaSoul Somatic Therapy to help us regulate our nervous systems and using the power of Franklin Method embodying the vagus nerve. Regulated somatic movement and somatic movement therapy wellbeing work all in one day. And the beautiful space here in Shropshire to experience it in.
A few spots are left so if you would like to join please do - there is a sit payment option too until end of September.
See my link in my bio to discover more - I’d love to welcome you to this space and your body 🥰

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 | SomaSoul somatic therapy

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 ☀️

Somatic movement therapy | SomaSoul somatic therapy | Leven Institute | Franklin Method | Somatic Movement Therapist | embodiment | world gratitude day | somatics | ISMETA ISMETA LIFE Movement Franklin Method® Buff Bones I The osteoporosis exercise method 💪

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

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