Pilates by Jacqui

Breathe first. Everything else follows.

We don't begin with effort. We begin with permission to exhale. To lower the shoulders. To arrive.

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📍 Strubensvalley, Roodepoort
Private & Small Group Pilates

This is Vicky's story. And it's one we are incredibly proud to share. 🌸

After a broken hip and the debilitating muscle loss that followed prolonged bed rest, Vicky returned to Pilates looking for more than recovery — she was looking to feel whole again.

Using a carefully designed Jacqui Pilates Method and a STOTT Pilates recovery strategy, we worked with her body to restore her entire relationship with movement. Restoring mobility, rebuilding tone and flexibility, and awakening a structure that had been still for far too long.

At Pilates by Jacqui, we believe recovery is just the beginning.

"I am now fitter and have better core strength than before my accident."

This is what happens when movement is taught with a purposeful, and heart-focused intention.

🛠️ Are you ready to rewrite your body's story?
Whatever your body has been through — surgery, injury, illness, or time — let’s build your foundation together.

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📍 Strubensvalley, Roodepoort
Private & Small Group Pilates

Has your lower back been quietly talking to you?
Long hours at a desk. Long commutes. A sport played on one side for years. A habit of holding tension in the hips when life gets heavy. The pelvis quietly absorbs all of it — shifting, tilting, finding new positions to manage the load — until those positions become the new normal.

When we sit — at a desk, in a car, on a sofa — the hip flexors slowly shorten. And as they shorten, they pull the front of the pelvis downward, tipping it into what we call anterior tilt. The lumbar spine follows, arching slightly more than it should, and the load that was designed to be distributed across a healthy curve begins to concentrate in places it was never meant to hold.
This happens over months. Over years. Long before there is any pain, the pattern is already forming.

In STOTT Pilates, we work with something called pelvic placement. Before we ask the body to move, we ask it to simply find where the pelvis belongs — a position we call neutral, where the natural curve of the lumbar spine is preserved and the bones of the pelvis rest in their natural balance. Not tucked, not tilted. Just home.

If your lower back has been speaking to you lately — through tightness, through aching, through that persistent sense that something is slightly off — this is often where the conversation begins.

📍 Strubensvalley, Roodepoort
Private & Small Group Pilates

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They said stiffness is the price of ageing. Judy proved them wrong. 🌿

At 73, Judy was diagnosed with scoliosis. She could have accepted the stiffness, the weakness, the limitations — the way so many of us are told we must.

Instead, she chose differently.

Five years later, at 78, Judy is stronger and more flexible than when she first walked through our door. Not in spite of her age — but because she refused to let it define her.

"I plan to keep going."

And so do we — right alongside her. 🤍

Strength isn't about a season. It's about a lifelong sanctuary.

Your story is still being written. Take our 60-second Movement Quiz to find your path to resilience — Message “START” and let’s chat 💬.

📍 Strubensvalley, Roodepoort
Private & Small Group Pilates

Before we ask the body to work harder, we ask it to breathe.
Because stress quietly steals the breath — moving it upward, tightening what should be soft, asking the neck and shoulders to carry something they were never meant to hold for long.
Stress, work, long seasons of effort — they all leave a mark on the breath first. And the body absorbs it quietly, faithfully, until the tightness becomes impossible to ignore.
STOTT Pilates begins here. With the simple, quiet work of breathing laterally — ribcage widening, softening, remembering.
It isn't complicated. But it has a way of changing everything that follows.
Share this with someone who needs a moment to breathe today. 🤩

📍 Strubensvalley, Roodepoort
Private & Small Group Pilates

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Sometimes we drift so far from ourselves, we forget what it feels like to simply feel good. 🤍

This is where your body begins to feel like home again.

Our private and small group wellness Pilates sessions are a gentle return to you. Through mindful movement, personalised guidance, and a space that holds no judgement, you'll rediscover strength, ease, and a deep sense of belonging in your own body.

✨ One session at a time. One breath at a time.

📍 Strubensvalley, Roodepoort
Private & Small Group Pilates

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If you’ve found yourself wondering what actually happens in a first Pilates session — this one’s for you. 🤍

It starts far more gently than you might expect.

Before anything else, we begin with a conversation — your goals, how your body has been, anything it’s carrying. That conversation shapes the entire session.

Then you are guided you through a few simple movements to understand how your body moves.

From there, you are introduced to the principles that sit at the heart of Pilates — how to breathe with intention, how to find your core. Quietly transformative, even on day one.

Your routine will be low-intensity and personal — enough to feel the work, gentle enough to feel safe and purposeful enough to feel meaningful.

If something doesn’t feel right at any point, you simply say so. This is your time, and your comfort is what guides us

No fitness level required. No flexibility needed. You don’t need to master a thing on your first day.

The only thing that matters is that you’ve chosen to begin. That’s enough. 🤍

📍 Strubensvalley, Roodepoort
Private & Small Group Pilates

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