ABOUT MELODY

The Magic of Pilates

Through the magic of Pilates I found my passion and mission in life.

When my husband had a serious and debilitating spinal injury it became my sole purpose to explore anything that could improve life for him. In doing so I learnt quickly to open my mind and heart to different perspectives and methods.

Pilates found me. I was sold after my first class and I knew that this would work for us but the journey with Craig wasn’t easy, nothing in life worth fighting for is.

With perseverance, patience and resilience he started to get results and Pilates worked its magic on him, he let it into his heart, he practiced diligently and overly a relatively short period of time Craig and Pilates connected.

The synergy with mind and body was so alive and fundamental to Pilates. The purpose in its application was transformational for us both. For Craig it was a miracle that he would forever maintain to keep his movement, and for me it took me on a different path…

I found my heart swell with every mini improvement and win for Craig. When it felt like we were stepping backwards I would find us ways to keep the focus. I was incredibly driven and motivated by helping him achieve healing and progress. But even here in the middle of our struggles I didn’t realise that it was encouraging other that lit me up. It was just who I was.

The Magic of Perspective

With Pilates revealing its full potential to me by 2011 we had been practicing daily for a number years and for my own further understanding of the method I decided to enroll on a diploma as a teacher. I still wasn’t sold on the idea of teaching but I wanted to just understand Pilates more.

When I qualified I was pestered to death by some very good friends to teach them Pilates. They could see the fire in me that I couldn’t feel myself and the basically forced me to set up a class on a Sunday morning in the dance school that they owned. My passion for teaching started to come alive.

It wasn’t until I climbed Kilimanjaro in 2014 that I realised what my super power was. It had always been there, I just needed one of those intense and difficult experiences to really click with who I was. I am one of lives encouragers.

You will find me instilling self belief in people who don’t think they can – but I know they can.

I knew I could climb that mountain and when I saw people crumble at the thought of it, I made sure those negative vibes didn’t squash them.

It was a powerful self assurance and I just knew I could do it. I had zero doubt demons in my head. I’d never felt that strength before. I observed that if we could feel like this about everything nothing would limit us again.