V Pilates Studio

09/04/2026

A little photobomb from the more-than-human world itself 🐝🌿

Take it as a sign from the busy bee… if Wild Kin is calling, don’t wait too long to book 🐝🌿

I invite you to trust that feeling and book your place 🌿

Spaces are limited and held intentionally in intimacy and care.

A guided ecotherapy gathering in nature;

🐝 embodied movement
🐝 reflective practice
🐝 creative exploration
🐝 mindful relationship with the land
🐝 honouring the natural world as companion and guide.

An invitation to find your true nature in nature.

Upcoming Gatherings:

Choose the day that calls to you. 🌿

Friday 24th April | 9.30am–1.30pm
Saturday 25th April | 9.30am–1.30pm
Saturday 6th June | 10.00am–5.00pm

www.vikki-harris.co.uk/about-1-2

Email to book:
[email protected]

06/04/2026

🌿 WILD KIN- A FULL DAY GATHERING

I listened......... and felt the call to offer this day.

Are you being called into the becoming field?

Full Day Gathering
Saturday 6th June | 10:00–5:00pm
Ditchling, Sussex (accessible via London–Brighton trainline or by car)

🌾 The day unfolds as a living, guided experience:

🌿 Arrival & Grounding
Gentle, unshaped movement to release tension and arrive

🌿 Body & Earth Connection
Mindful sensing, yielding your weight to the earth, breath as anchor

🌿 Orientation & Noticing
Turning to the directions, following what calls, simple creative expression

🌿 Wandering & Deep Listening
Slow movement through the landscape - an environmental movement practice, where the body listens and responds to the land

🌿 Integration & Return
Gathering, reflecting, or quietly witnessing - grounding back into the body

We do not work on the land.
We move with it - in reciprocity, in reverence.

A sliding scale contribution supports accessibility and shared responsibility.

🌿 Held in Ditchling & surrounding countryside
🌿 Small, intimate group — held with care and presence
🌿 You should feel comfortable walking up to 5 miles across uneven ground and gradients of the South Downs.

If this speaks to something within you… you are welcome.

👉 To book your place and find out more:

📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.vikki-harris.co.uk/about-1-2

03/04/2026

“I’m noticing more and more the joy that comes from slowing down and really listening-to the body, to the land, to ourselves.

This is part of what I love bringing to my work as a psychotherapist and movement practitioner, creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves and the world around them.

A new offering is emerging and I am holding small eco-therapy gatherings in the More-than-Human world.

If this resonates, you’re very welcome to take a look:
https://www.vikki-harris.co.uk/about-1-2

It feels wonderful to share this part of my journey, and I hope it sparks a little curiosity in you too.”

You are being called… as an offering emerges.

What if you did not need to become anything more.........only to return?

Where becoming asks for surrender, not certainty, where the soul grows in the spaces where control softens.

Step into a circle.
A space held with ethical care, presence, and respect.

Where talking is only part of the journey.
We move, we notice, we listen.
We attune to the body, the earth, the life around us.

Together, we slow down.
We witness.
We remember how it feels to belong-
to ourselves, to each other, to the world.

Through gentle invitations, movement, stillness, wandering, sensing , you are invited into relationship: with the ground beneath you, the air that holds you, the unseen threads that connect all things.

We work with the land, not just upon it, in reciprocity, in reverence.

If this whispers to you, you are welcome here.

Discover more and explore dates:
https://www.vikki-harris.co.uk/about-1-2

09/03/2026

Some Spring Joy welcomes you outside V Pilates Studio.

03/07/2025

The perfect setting into the fields and woods a short few steps from my studio front door. Thank you Ditchling for your beauty.

30/06/2025

Welcome to V Pilates Studio.

We have relocated to beautiful Ditchling and The Turner Dumbrell Workshops. A holistic community in the heart of the countryside underneath the South Downs.

This is a beautiful calm and peaceful place nurturing our souls .

26/04/2025

What is your motivation? Have you put something in place to support yourself? If not, what gets in your way?

Perhaps these questions may help you decide…

SENSATION: Are you in pain or looking to maintain the efficiency in your body?

Your body will speak, and if you ignore it generally shouts louder until you take notice or have to stop because it forces you to. It’s actually trying to keep you safe but deflecting away from listening won’t help. Listening and taking action is preventative and restoring.

AWARENESS: Perhaps you are now aware that you need to take some action to support your body and health? Now what? Time to mobilise yourself…

MOBILISATION: We offer private classes or group equipment or Mat classes.

TIME FOR ACTION: Trial a class before committing to a block. Email [email protected].

My fees reflect my qualifications experience and skill level, this is not a large superficial class. Invest in the quality of our classes and in yourself- you are worth it.

We work in blocks to support your commitment and therefore allowing time for the effectiveness of the exercises, this is not a quick fix. You will need to take accountability to show up each week and with support we will be by your side.

Stepping out of our comfort zone and taking a leap of faith, this is often the hardest part and where many of us don’t follow our needs through- so what’s getting in your way?

Do you make yourself the last priority or perhaps your inner critic is having a strong objection? The hardest part is getting past this inner voice and with compassion, kindness and respect taking yourself by the hand and doing it anyway, even if it frightens or you really don’t want to- once you are on the mat we can support you.

Do something differently and you might see a different perspective. We only have one body, putting on your own oxygen mask first is imperative to be able to support others.

Send that email to reserve yourself a trial.

www.vpilatesstudioburgesshill.co.uk

18/04/2025

Have you heard of the Pilates Reformer?

I have some rare and much sort after spaces available for private sessions.

V Pilates Studio offers bespoke 1:1 sessions on the pilates reformer with a tailor made mindful experience building integrated stability from the inside out and increasing flexibility and postural balance through careful detailed alignment.

The reformer repertoire is designed to be done slowly with control and attention to detail in your movement patterns, utilising the resistance and assistance of the springs to support and challenge your form.

The reformer is a versatile piece of equipment and suitable for those with back or joint pain or looking for a full body dynamic experience and unique way to build inner strength and flexibility.

Vikki, is a highly experienced teacher, mentor and educator in training to Polestar Pilates students and graduates on the teacher training programmes.

V Pilates Studio is a fully equipped purpose built bespoke studio with all the apparatus including the Trapeze table, Reformer, Chair and Ladder barrel, in a calm welcoming environment. Our ethos is to acknowledge the individual and awareness of self, learn more about yourself and realise your greatest potential. explore possibilities and choices.

➡️ Book your bespoke 1:1 private Reformer session with Vikki at V Pilates today!
www.vpilatesstudioburgesshill.co.uk

21/08/2024

Why choose V Pilates Mat classes?

V Pilates group Mat classes offer a mindful movement embodied approach to Pilates, for whole body health. Exercises are performed mostly on the mat, using small pieces of equipment such as balls, rollers and bands. There are a maximum of 10 participants per class to allow for attention to detail.
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Purpose built dedicated bespoke Pilates studio, fully equipped, relaxing and warm.

Join us for one off trial class (£13.50) before committing to the full term's fees. We operate in term blocks versus drop in classes to support your commitment and to get the most out of your classes.

Last few spaces in the following classes commencing week beginning 16th Sept:

Tuesday 8.10pm Dynamic Pilates
(for more advanced movers)

Thursday 8.10pm Core Heath
(suitable for all)

Book your trial space now to avoid disappointment.

Studio director, Vikki has over 30 years experience as a movement teacher, and is continually developing her skills as a communicator and observer. As a fully accredited Polestar Pilates practitioner, including teaching using the specialist equipment, Vikki is also an Educator in training and mentor to Polestar Pilates students and graduates on the teacher training programmes. Vikki is currently in her third year of training to be a Psychotherapist with Homa London.
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Vikki's teaching offers resources for dynamic stability, resilience and adaptability to help navigate the ever changing challenges of life in today's world. She has a unique ability to enlighten clients to be more 'awake' to their current global climate, with more focus on presence and accountability.

www.vpilatesstudioburgesshill.co.uk

04/02/2024

This weeks theme in class is Follow, Follow, Follow…….pilates is a journey, process not a destination.

Meditation or Mindfulness?

These two words often used interchangeably with little understanding of the difference, however they are interrelated.

The mind is like an ocean. Deep beneath the surface is calm and clear no matter what the conditions at the surface. From this place you can look up at the surface and notice. Paying attention to your breath is like an anchor bringing you into this calm place where you can observe the mental chatter on the surface above. Meditation is not an inquiry or exploration into what you notice, a place of stillness to slide into the down regulation of the parasympathetic nervous system and rest and digest mode.

Being mindful or tuning in is deliberately focusing our attention and bringing awareness to our thoughts, feelings and physical sensations with curiosity, compassion and kindness. A portal to change and integrating the body mind map. Tuning in to acknowledge whatever arises, allowing without judgment, to investigate with curiosity and nurture with kindness our own internal state and traits. To pause, see, soften, breathe, welcome and smile into the process.

Mindfulness is an in depth manual of the mind to help grow awareness and a way of integrating all parts of the brain systems from the primal instincts of the brain stem and reptilian brain, often where fast thinking, reactivity and fight, flight or freeze reside. The mammalian Limbic area of the brain is where our emotions and feelings are coloured to literally move us or to state shift. To our more evolved Neocortex area of the brain where receptibility, slower thinking, flexibility and higher stages of psychological development are processed. Integrating all three domains opens the potential for choice to respond rather than spontaneously react. A window of tolerance opened where integrity and stability flows rather than chaos or rigidity.

28/01/2024

It’s important to remember tension is not strength. Stability is on a spectrum from instability to rigidity. The key balance is structural integrity with somatic trust and wellbeing.

Grounded like a tree swaying in the wind.

21/01/2024

The human structure house in which you live thrives in a nourishing environment. Growing from the grass roots an organism unfolds.

Finding the spine, a pathway within.

The spine forms the central axis of support throughout the body, around which the rest of the body spreads out. A moving pathway between head and pelvis that maintains essential length, width and depth of the body, and allows vital functioning of the heart, lungs and digestion. The legs and arms take root in the spine . The many bones of the spine protect the nervous system and spinal cord that flows downwards from the brain branching out into the periphery. If the spine shortens and the spinal nerves are fractionally compressed or irritated, numbness and pain will come.