Truly Aligned Pilates and Massage

09/09/2026

✨ “What the hell is this? Is this normal?”

✨ If that’s the question that’s been running through your head lately, tired to the bone, achy, foggy, anxious for no reason you can put your finger on, maybe leaking when you didn’t used to, you’re not imagining it, and you’re not alone.

✨ Menopause is talked about more than ever, and somehow you still feel invisible and left to get on with it.

✨ You want to feel more like yourself again, at home in your own body, with a strength you had forgotten was possible. You want to protect your future health and build a midlife you’re proud of.

✨Movement for Menopause is an 8-week, 1:1 Pilates-based programme built around exactly this. Gentle, tailored exercise, built around what’s actually going on in your body right now, one to one, not a gym class and not a studio full of mirrors. So you can feel at home in it again.

What’s included:

✨ 8 weeks of one-to-one sessions tailored to you, beginning with an initial in-depth assessment: your symptoms, your current mobility, what’s holding you back and your goals.

✨ Gentle Pilates based movement that focuses on developing strength, easing aches and pains, tackling any pelvic floor issues you’ve been quietly worried about and learning how to calm your nervous system. All whilst building a toolkit of exercises you can use at home long after we finish.

✨ At-home practice videos you can dip in and out of, no pressure to do it perfectly

✨ Evidence-based information on the stuff nobody explains properly: HRT, nutrition, managing symptoms, where to go for the bits Pilates can’t help with

✨ One to one, in a space that isn’t a gym and isn’t a fitness studio full of mirrors.

Registration opens in October, and spaces are limited. DM to join the waitlist!

Kate
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07/09/2026

✨Some Pilates teachers are all about you feeling the burn. Not me.

✨Well, don’t get me wrong, you absolutely WILL get stronger by working with me but one of the key things I focus on first is helping you calm a nervous system that’s in overdrive.

Why?

✨One of the main problems women in midlife come to me with is anxiety unlike anything they have ever experienced before. It’s come out of nowhere and hit like a steam train, knocking them off their feet.

- As women in midlife and beyond we’re juggling kids, aging parents, careers, all whilst navigating huge hormonal shifts and it’s STRESSFUL!

- learning how to calm our nervous system helps us to maintain a healthy weight, sleep better, FEEL better.

- it helps our pelvic floor function (stress leads to a grippy pelvic floor and that can be just as problematic as a weak one!)

- it can also help us to manage the troublesome vasomotor symptoms of menopause - hot flushes and night sweats - and help clear foggy minds.

So if you want to FEEL THE BURN 🔥 every session, I’m probably not the Pilates teacher for you.

If you want to feel calmer, more connected and more at home in your own body again then I’m absolutely the right instructor for you to be working with!

Pop me a message to arrange a free consultation!

02/09/2026

✨My lovely new client came and tried the class out PAYG yesterday evening, loved it (of course she did!) and signed up for her subscription first thing today 🥰

✨My only other small group Every Woman Pilates class on a Monday evening at Alderwasley Village Hall is also filling up fast, with only a very limited number of spaces remaining.

✨These are my ONLY group classes - there will be no extras added into my diary!

✨So if you are looking for a welcoming, completely beginner friendly class that focuses on restoring pelvic floor function, gently building strength and easing those aches and pains that show up in midlife and beyond, get in there quick!

✨So many clients tell me how relieved they are to find a class where they feel comfortable, that isn’t too challenging like the fancy reformer studios popping up all over the place, and that is taught by a normal woman (not a super skinny 20 something instructor who doesn’t get it!)

✨Really like the idea of joining us but feel a bit nervous? I’m always more than happy to give you a call for a chat beforehand to help ease nerves!

✨Pop me a message to arrange a call or visit www.trulyaligned.co.uk to book!

I can’t wait to welcome you!

Kate
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01/09/2026

For parents of little people - my lovely friend is starting up a Zumbini class at Belper Health Hub this month. Looks like great fun to get everyone up and moving (and we know I’m a firm believer in ‘movement is medicine’ at any age!)

Give her page a follow for booking details.

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So what exactly is Zumbini?

This is a great mixed age class from 6 months to 5 years. There's music, dancing, instruments, bubbles and more dancing.

Everyone joins in, the little ones enjoy the rhythm of the music, shaking their shakers, waving the sensory scarves and watching the older ones dance and play along to the songs.

Older ones recognise the songs and love doing the actions, banging along with a drum or sleigh bells, claves and and chasing the bubbles.

There's a mix of calm and high energy that gets everyone involved and brings us all together.

Families and multiples are more than welcome and you can bring along those siblings for just £1 each.

01/09/2026

✨I’m Kate from Truly Aligned. Mum to one VERY active toddler, with three cats, a horse, and a borderline obsession with all things women’s health, menopause, and pelvic floor.

✨I’m not your average fitness professional. I’m not super toned, lean, or protein-shake obsessed. I’m a normal working mum juggling trying to be the best parent I can be, running a business, and trying to eat something other than convenience food a few times a week. I’ve got a wobbly tummy and hips that never did shrink back down to the size they were before kids.

✨For me, movement isn’t about how I look. It’s about how I feel. Getting an hour to yourself that helps you feel more human. Quietening a busy mind. Releasing the stress you’re carrying in your shoulders. Feeling at home in your own body again, whether that’s after having kids or the menopause journey has left you not recognising yourself.

✨I support women throughout their menopause journeys - in midlife, and beyond. I also help women rebuild after having a baby.

✨Want to know more about how I can help? DM to arrange a free consultation!

27/08/2026

🍁🍂🍁 Anyone else feeling distinctly autumnal today?! I’ve always been a candle person and love nothing more than getting cosy at home as the nights draw in!

I’ve stopped short of lighting the log burner (I admit I have been tempted today!) but tonight is definitely a comfy clothes, Autumn Leaves candle and fluffy socks kind of evening! 🍁🍂🍁

26/08/2026

✨Why do I use the term ‘menopause journey’?

✨ (It’s probably not why you might think…)

✨ It’s not to be fluffy. To dress menopause up as a wonderful time in our lives (although I DO believe menopause can be an opportunity with the right support… more on this at a later date!)

✨ It’s because I really don’t like the term ‘post menopause’. Which in medical, technical, doing-things-properly-speak refers to any time after the one day where it has been 12 months since a woman’s last period (this day and this day only is technically ‘the menopause’).

✨ So what’s my issue with ‘post menopause’? Well because it implies that it’s all done and dusted. Over. Finito. Nothing else to see here. When that just simply isn’t the case.

✨ For many women, troublesome symptoms don’t just miraculously resolve overnight. And the decline of hormones has significant implications for our long term health and wellbeing way into our ‘post menopause’ years, whether we have symptoms or not. So it isn’t done. Finished. Over.

✨ To suggest otherwise minimises women’s experiences and risks us not taking the action we need to in order to protect our future health, something I’m INCREDIBLY passionate about!

✨ So ‘menopause journey’ it is! Not to be all fluffy and zen about the situation. But to make sure all women are represented in conversations about menopause and have the support they need to get active again.

Kate
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24/08/2026

✨✨ Advance Notice - no small group classes or 1:1 Movement for Menopause sessions w/c 21st Sept as I’ll be on my honeymoon!! ✨✨

✨ Pic from my fabulous hen do last week - my wonderful friends took me to Aqua Sana Spa at Centre Parcs, complete with a miniature inflatable hubby-to-be in a tux! 🥰😂

✨ Classes will return the following week

✨ Also quick reminder - Monday evening’s class still goes ahead on the bank holiday next week - you’d miss me too much otherwise! 😉

22/08/2026

✨ An EXTREMELY rare space has opened up for our Every Woman Pilates class on a Tuesday evening at Coach House studios!

✨ I’m currently working my way through contacting everyone on the waiting list for this popular class, however in the unlikely event that it isn’t snapped up please do send me a message to express your interest!

✨ This is a class full of laughs and banter, with a wonderful sense of community which has been full for a very long time - I don’t anticipate this space being available for long.

✨ It is a small group session of 8 likeminded ladies, £10 per class via rolling 4 weekly subscription with the option to try it out on a PAYG basis for your first class.

✨ Message me for booking info!

Kate
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19/08/2026

✨ Strength training in menopause doesn’t have to involve hauling heavy weights off the floor!

✨ I use balance challenges like this one in pretty much all of my sessions with women in midlife and beyond, using our own body weight to gently build muscle and improve bone density. No heavy weights needed!

✨ To give it a go at home - take a deep breath in, as you breathe out put your weight into one leg, squeeze your tummy muscles and float the opposite leg out to the side. Hold for as long as you can and remember to breathe!

✨ Don’t worry if you wobble - that’s completely normal and gets your muscles firing up to stabilise you which is what we want!

✨ Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Kate

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