After a long career in education and the arts, I trained to teach yoga with Vanda Scaravelli-inspired teachers in the nineties and taught yoga at Greenwich Dance Agency for many years.
When I first discovered Pilates it seemed to combine all my past movement experiences into a gentle but stimulating new challenge that dovetailed beautifully with my yoga training. Through my movement experience, I have seen the benefits that a connection between the body, mind, and breath can bring. I love the feeling of well-being, strength, flexibility, and balance that Pilates gives to me, and I am enthusiastic to share this with others.
In 2002, I trained as a Pilates teacher at Trinity Laban in matwork and studio practice. I taught the adult Pilates matwork classes at Trinity Laban and taught in the studio until it closed in 2013. I have also been a guest lecturer on the true benefits of ‘pilates and the older client’ on a number of training courses.
For enquiries and to book please email annballard@hotmail.com or my mobile 075 1574 0107
Ann Ballard is a truly exceptional Pilates teacher. She has profound knowledge and great depth of experience. She has a remarkable insight into the needs of the individual body, and what will help it. She is also charming, thoughtful and encouraging. Both my husband and I go to her classes, and we both benefit enormously from her teaching.
Ann Ballard is a committed and sensitive Pilates instructor of many year experience, who works with great attention to detail, keeping a holistic view always in mind. I have worked with her for many years, she seems to get better and better and I always feel renewed after a class with her at Sunflower Centre.
We’ve been taught Pilates by Ann for a few years now - and it’s been life-changing! Given we both work in an office, gaining awareness of our bodies through Ann’s gentle and knowledgeable teaching has been invaluable, and we couldn’t recommend it enough. We’ve made so much improvement over the years and our weekly Pilates session is a complete non-negotiable.
I really love my sessions with Ann, either one to one or shared. Her attention to detail is excellent, she is a great teacher and really good at explaining and demonstrating Pilates exercises that are tailored to my needs. I always finish the session feeling so much better than when I started.
CLASSES
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Pilates Equipment Studio
The Pilates Studio at The Sunflower Centre has fully qualified instructors available teaching 1-1 or small group classes weekly.
TIMES
Tuesdays
Wednesday afternoons