Marianne has lived in the Burghfield and Mortimer area since 1988 and has spent most of those years walking and running through the surrounding fields and woods.

She has a background in marketing and ran her own gift company for 10 years. However she has always really enjoyed fitness training, including circuits and skiing, walking, hiking and running, and completed three marathons in 2006-2008. More recently she trained as a Pilates instructor, qualifying in 2021.

She offers a series of mat based beginner and intermediate Pilates classes in the area.
She believes that the benefits of greater core strength, mobility, flexibility, balance and co-ordination that Pilates brings are partnered by a sense of greater well being and a reduction in anxiety, largely created by the deep breathing and flow of the exercises as well as the time given over to investing in the mind and body.

During each class participants will warm up all the joints, exercise the entire body from head to toe, and finish with ‘cool down’ stretches.

Her Pilates classes are suitable for men and women of all ages and fitness levels and, whilst many participants use the classes to compliment other sports and exercise classes, they can also be used as the one bit of ‘me time’ during the week.

When not teaching Pilates, Marianne works at a nursery school in Reading, is very involved with her church and delights hugely in one day a week with her 2 year old grandson