We often receive requests for our recommendations on local services; such as fitness, pilates and yoga classes. You can find our recommendations below. We update this list regularly, so be sure to check back again for more recommendations!
Pregnancy & Post-natal fitness:
The Little Green Gym - Jess Oliver
Jess Oliver is a personal trainer specialising in pre and postnatal and women’s health. Based in East Sheen, SW14, Jess offers personalised fitness solutions tailored to your unique needs and is a great advocate for helping you create healthy habits to continue your fitness journey.
With her custom-made personal training studio on the edge of Palewell Common and the flexibility to visit clients at their homes, Jess provides a range of training options designed to fit your lifestyle. As a mum of four herself, Jess understands the challenges and joys of motherhood and brings a fun, down-to-earth approach to her sessions.
Jess focuses on creating a supportive, friendly environment where you can work on your fitness while addressing specific needs related to pre and postnatal health. Her approach combines the key elements of fitness: Strength, cardio, core, balance, and flexibility—with a deep understanding of women’s health to help you achieve your goals safely and effectively.
Darnell Fitness and Wellbeing
Catherine Darnell is an experienced fitness professional who has run a fitness and wellbeing business since 2009. She has extensive experience working with people with all ages and needs, both one to one and in small groups. She holds several qualifications including pre- and post-natal fitness, core and back strengthening, many types of aerobic and strength training and works as a peri-menopause and menopause fitness coach. She is also a pelvic floor coach through the ‘Adore Your Pelvic Floor’ programme. Working from her studio in South West London, she is highly passionate about working with men and women in these areas. As well as Catherine’s professional and thorough approach to her work she is well respected by her clients for her personable and highly empathetic methods and for working with clients to get amazing results.
www.darnellfitnessandwellbeing.com
Mamaste Fitness
Caroline from Mamaste Fitness is passionate about getting all mums exercising safely to build strength for life and to feel great about themselves. She has been into outdoor fitness her entire life and couldn't live without it. She is a pre and postnatal personal trainer and menopause movement coach. Having experienced lots of postnatal issues herself (diastasis, stress incontinence, hernias and postnatal depression) as well as managing chronic pain (hip dysplasia), she knows first-hand that a holistic approach works best for women of all ages. She is keen to introduce more women to strength and mobility training in order to navigate the perimenopause and menopause better. She is a supportive and empathetic trainer and runs outdoor group classes as well as 1-1 sessions in west London.
Kate Smart Fitness
Kate has been providing fitness training for hundreds of women at all stages of motherhood since 2005 and is passionate about helping women regain and restore their fitness both inside and out. Whether you are newly post-natal, not so post-natal or way beyond the baby stage, Kate's sessions and classes will restore your core, build your strength and drive you on to full fitness.
Lucie Bowden and Judith Brenner
Lucie and Judith are qualified breastfeeding counsellor supporting new parents in Barnes, Wimbledon and Wandsworth at NCT and NHS run drop ins. Assisting with all aspects of new parenting as well as helping them to explore their feeding challenges - offering both practical and emotional support as well as information to help Mums to choose how to feed their baby.
Mamawell - Rosie
Rosie founded Mamawell to provide women with the education and insight into their bodies in the pre and postpartum period, and the benefits that exercise can bring, both for strength and energy. After a global career in dance, choreography and teaching, Rosie moved into fitness whilst living in New York and trained at the prestigious Equinox Gym. When Rosie became a mother, she observed the lack of quality information regarding the changes to the body through pregnancy and labour and what this meant for exercise post-baby, and was inspired to help and educate women in this mentally and physically demanding time.
Join the Mamawell bootcamp in Wandsworth Park Mondays & Fridays. Find all the info for the class, plus the online postnatal fitness programme online or on instagram: @mamawelluk
Tots, Squats & Coffee Pots
Kelly is a personal trainer specialising in pre and postnatal and women’s health and visits clients at their homes or local areas. She also runs Mums fitness classes where children of any age are welcome. She ensures her sessions and classes are fun whilst providing suitable and safe exercises for all abilities to regain strength, fitness and confidence.
Kelly has a particular interest and passion for helping mothers who have suffered urinary incontinence post pregnancy to help them return to fitness and running, she offers a bespoke service with training tailored to the individual needs of clients. She works closely with specialist Women's Health Physiotherapists to deliver a fully integrated service.
Pilates & Yoga:
Ticho Wellness
Ticho Wellness provides a wide range of classes to support you and your family at every stage of life - there is class for everyone; from pregnancy to parent and baby yoga, somatics, breathwork and meditation. There are classes for children and teens as well. Located at the river end of White Hart Lane, Ticho is a safe space where you can recover, relax, gain strength, and improve mobility.
The Garage Studio
The Garage Studio, run by Murielle Carrasco, one of the first Body Control Pilates teachers to introduce Pilates in SW London back in 1999, is running daily classes, Beginners, Intermediate and Postnatal Pilates as well as Yoga classes.
Pilates Sheen
Pilates Sheen is a centrally located equipment Pilates Studio on Sheen Lane, SW14. It is owned by Ellen Ernstzen, Chartered Physiotherapist and Pilates Instructor, who is certified with the Pilates Method Alliance. We offer Private one hour sessions or Semi private (2 people) classes six days a week. The Pilates programme is always tailored to the individual to optimise movement patterns and prevent bad posture and poor alignment. Pilates is a total body strengthening and flexibility programme suitable for everyone. Pilates Sheen has now also expanded to a Richmond location
pure space Clinical Pilates Rehabilitation Studio
pure space Pilates Reformer & equipment studio in Barnes is run by rehabilitation and fitness specialist Caroline Brennan. Caroline works on a 1-2-1 basis with clients of all ages and fitness levels to help restore and maintain the body's muscular balance after injury. She addresses any issues to help improve joint stability and anatomical function as a whole.
Caroline creates a safe and bespoke environment which offers clients a unique collaboration with their medical professional (physiotherapist/osteopath/chiropractor) to ensure safe, progressive, healing and effective workouts. This collaboration also includes practitioners at the White Hart Clinic. Sessions are at a private STOTT Pilates reformer studio in Barnes Village.
Our Barnes Clinic
Our clinic is located in Barnes, South-West London and is easily accessible by public transport.
For more information including parking and other practicalities see our Barnes clinic page
Book an Appointment
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