Services
Move Freely Pilates
Join our group and one-on-one Pilates classes designed to ease back pain, improve mobility, and enhance flexibility. Pilates promotes core strength, which supports proper posture and alignment, reducing strain on the back. It also increases flexibility and range of motion, helping you move more freely and comfortably.
Grounded and Present
Meditation provides essential benefits for mental and physical well-being. It reduces stress, concentration, and promotes emotional health. Regular practice fosters self-awareness and boosts mood, helping you navigate daily challenges more effectively and with less reactivity.
Deep Tissue and Gentle Energy Healing
Deep tissue massage relieves chronic pain, improves flexibility, and enhances circulation by targeting deeper muscle layers to reduce tension and stress. In contrast, gentle energy massage promotes relaxation and balance through light pressure to enhance energy flow.
About me
My name is Mercede
I have been teaching for over 18 years and I am passionate about helping people enhance their lives through movement and mindfulness.
My first love was movement and thanks to Move Freely Pilates, I remain pain-free, allowing me to enjoy activities like running, cycling, climbing, and trampolining. After overcoming years of my own back and hip pain, I now feel confident in my body knowing there are no quick fixes, just the gentle dedication to regular movement. I enjoy understanding movement patterns identifying issues, and offering exercise solutions. Most of my work is helping people stay active, mobile and able to live well into mid life and beyond, moving through injuries with grace and flexibility.
My journey into mindfulness and coaching began ten years ago during a challenging period in my life. Grief, death, trauma, injustice and just being a human with work, bills, kids etc. The overwhelm led me down a path of meditation, wisdom teachings and awakening that has truly changed my life. I use these teachings to help others manage the stresses of life, heal past wounds, cope with difficult circumstances, be less reactive and create more harmonious relationships. When we can be grounded in the present, settled and peaceful we can make better choices, find more joy and hold our suffering with kindness.
Please click here to reach out if you'd like to discuss how I can you with movement, mindfulness or coaching.
Why people choose me?
✨ I offer a flexible approach to join online or in person and the ability to move classes and skip mid term.
✨I offer expert guidance and a flexible attitude, if an exercise is not working you can adapt, change or skip it. Everything is optional and I am always on hand to support you.
✨We have a bit of fun too sometimes, some classes have a bit of chat and a lovely group vibe.
✨I do my best to create a non judgmental, friendly and supportive environment where you can feel welcomed, not pushed into discomfort but able to work at your own level to be strong safely.
I run a small and personal business, most of my clients have been coming for many years and we become a community. In order to help you get the most out of my services I encourage you to book an initial consultation either a video or phone call, or you are welcome to come in to see me. This helps me to get to know you, understand your body and any medical issues. It also helps me to adapt around your needs, my classes and 121's are all designed around the participants that come. I can also then offer alternatives and adaptations if needed. I feel I serve my clients best when I know them better and we have opened a channel for communication. This is why I prefer to meet you ahead of time or have at least an email chat.
Pilates Testimonials:
"Mercede’s classes have been essential for keeping my back under control over many years!" Anne O
"I've enjoyed your IMF/ Choose Movement pilates class for years now and I think it helped me so much to (almost) fully recover from my back op, but I've realised that it's also made me more aware of how I'm moving, sitting or standing so I'm more aligned and aware in general as I go about my day. I suspect further issues have been avoided thanks to this class.
I love the fact that once a week I get a full body stretch, a chance to reconnect with my body, and actually just slow down for an hour. The benefits are quite profound, but the movements and exercises seem simple and quite easy. I love that you personalise the movements for individual attendees so it's accessible even after injury. My body reminds me if I miss too many classes in a row now." Claire Z
"I love Mercede's small classes and have benefitted from them, especially for my balance and strengthening the muscles around my knees." Mary
"Due to hours in front of the computer I have moved from being stiff and chair shaped, to being flexible, aligned and feeling much more comfortable! The variety of amazing Pilates and movement sessions for both 1:1 and group sessions, and in person and by zoom help me to attend sessions. Supportive and professional classes that adapt to my personal limitations by recommendations and options that improve my muscle development and movement.
Thank you Mercede!" Caroline
"Highly recommended if you suffer from this condition (Back Pain). In fact, I would say that it has been life changing for me. She's an absolute gem and has helped me immensely." DJP
"I've been doing pilates classes with Mercedes for many years now and it is part of my normal routine to keep me supply active strong and able to live my life.
She is very accommodating to your needs and
I would be happy to recommend her classes to anyone looking for Pilates." Anthea
Mindfulness Testimonials:
"I loved the first mindfulness session, thank you! I've had several false starts with mindfulness, so I'm familiar with the basics but I've never heard the concepts explained so clearly and simply before. Was a great mix of practice and learning, with relatable examples. Really looking forward to next week now and have recommended to busy friends as a great investment." Claire Z
"I can certainly see you’ve done your homework Mercedes as you sound very passionate and knowledgeable of the subject. I’m looking forward to trying more mindfulness to help in my day to day life Thankyou so much for opening up my eyes." Anon
"Thank you for stressing self forgiveness/gentleness for self, also manifesting negative feelings as someone sitting apart alongside, this approach created safety and distance that enabled greater self clarity, I’ve ‘always’ obtained a zen serenity through being silent in nature, planning on interlacing your mindfulness guidance into my nature zen experiences, thanks again." Jo
"Really appreciated the love and care which had obviously been put into preparing this course." CD