Sakine Faulkner is a qualified Studio Pilates Instructor. She first learned about Joseph Pilates, and his amazing fitness regime, 25 years ago soon after the birth of her third child. Her spine, still soft from child birth, became twisted as the result of carrying her three month old baby in a car seat. Her physiotherapist sister-in-law, who had been given Pilates training at work,  gave her a book about Pilates exercises. For seven years after that she read it from cover to cover, and religiously took time to bring herself to a strong state.

 

In 2002, after moving from Berkshire to Oxfordshire, she joined Pilates exercise classes and has never looked back. In 2014, she yearned for a career change after years of accountancy and finance.  She was determined that she will do something to keep her body and mind in good shape for as long as she lives and it was quite clear to her that teaching Pilates was the answer. Before going into the finance world her passion had been to teach, and to be fit and healthy had been her desire from childhood. So she has combined the two!

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She considers obtaining her Stott Pilates qualification at Oxfordshire Pilates, Witney, the best thing she has ever achieved, and she feels privileged to have been able to teach Pilates at Oxfordshire Pilates, Witney, Cheltenham Pilates and Yoga, Dormy House Spa, Penhurst Gardens, Chipping Norton,  Pilates Place studios in Shipston-on-Stour and Stratford and her private studio at her home in Hook Norton.