Your Real Body with Catherine Sophia

Your Real Body with Catherine Sophia Using the most up to date science for group and 1:1 Pilates sessions, go live your best life.

Group Sessions held:

Mondays at Vestry Hall Cranbrook, 7:00pm
Wednesdays at Coxheath Village Hall, 4:45pm & 6:10pm
Wednesdays at East Farleigh WI Hall 9:30am
Thursdays at Coxheath Village Hall 9:30am
All classes are 75minutes
£70 for a 7 week block or £13 per class

Private sessions held at Coxheath Your Real Body Studio

Looking for a Pilates class? Here's where you can find me each weekMy classes are friendly, relaxed and designed to help...
14/09/2026

Looking for a Pilates class? Here's where you can find me each week

My classes are friendly, relaxed and designed to help you build strength, confidence and movement at your own pace.

Whether you're returning to exercise, have been doing Pilates for years, or are simply wondering whether it might be for you, you're very welcome.

📩 Message me if you'd like to know more about any of the classes or which might suit you best.

What actually is pain coaching?Often, people come to me after they've already tried a lot.They've seen different profess...
11/09/2026

What actually is pain coaching?

Often, people come to me after they've already tried a lot.

They've seen different professionals, been given exercises, had treatments, perhaps collected a few diagnoses along the way... but they're still left wondering:

Why am I still in pain, and what do I actually do next?

That's where pain coaching can help.

Rather than focusing only on the part that hurts, we look at the bigger picture. Your movement, health, stress, sleep, experiences, beliefs, nervous system, the things that make symptoms better or worse, and the patterns that may have developed over time.

Together, we start connecting those dots.

From there, we can explore practical ways forward, which might include movement and exercise, understanding pain differently, changing particular habits or gradually rebuilding confidence in things your body has learned to protect you from.

I can't promise to take your pain away.

But I can help us understand why this particular version of pain is showing up for you, and we'll work together to move things forward.

Because sometimes what you need isn't another treatment.

It's someone to help you make sense of the whole picture.

I Want to Get Stronger... But I Don't Know Where to StartGetting stronger doesn't have to mean lifting heavy weights or ...
09/09/2026

I Want to Get Stronger... But I Don't Know Where to Start

Getting stronger doesn't have to mean lifting heavy weights or throwing yourself into a workout that leaves you struggling to walk the next day.

It starts with where you are now.

That might mean learning a movement you've never tried before. Adding a little more resistance. Doing an extra repetition. Or simply becoming more confident with something that once felt difficult.

Strength builds gradually, and your starting point doesn't need to look like anyone else's.

Pilates gives us lots of ways to challenge the body and, importantly, plenty of ways to progress that challenge as you get stronger.

You don't need to know where to start.

You just need to start.

Pilates is your time.Time to move.To get stronger.To challenge yourself a little.To notice what your body can do.But als...
07/09/2026

Pilates is your time.

Time to move.
To get stronger.
To challenge yourself a little.
To notice what your body can do.

But also time away from everything else.

My group Pilates classes are friendly and relaxed. We work hard, we sometimes wobble, we don't always know which arm or leg we're supposed to be moving, and we definitely laugh.

You don't need to be experienced, flexible or particularly coordinated.

Just come along, move at your own pace and enjoy doing something good for yourself.

Find out more about joining a class: https://www.catherinesophia.co.uk/your-real-body

"I'm too old to start dancing… aren't I?"Absolutely not.There's no age by which you were supposed to have learnt to danc...
04/09/2026

"I'm too old to start dancing… aren't I?"

Absolutely not.

There's no age by which you were supposed to have learnt to dance.

You don't need to have started as a child.
You don't need years of experience.
And you certainly don't need to move like you did 20 years ago.

You just start from where you are now.

For some people, dancing is about learning a skill they've always wanted to try. For others, it's about moving more, meeting people, enjoying the music or simply doing something that's just for them.

Whatever brings you through the door, you're allowed to be a beginner at any age.

And you might just wonder why you didn't start sooner.

One of the biggest breakthroughs this week wasn't someone's pain reducing.It was a mother saying:"I thought we'd need to...
02/09/2026

One of the biggest breakthroughs this week wasn't someone's pain reducing.

It was a mother saying:

"I thought we'd need to find a class locally... but actually I can see that what we're doing here is enough."

That sentence might not sound particularly significant.

To me, it was.

This young woman lives with persistent pain following scoliosis surgery. When we first met, the conversation naturally centred around pain, treatments, appointments and trying to find the next answer.

Four weeks later, something had shifted.

Instead of talking about whether the exercises had "fixed" anything, she was telling me what she'd noticed.

She'd noticed the exercises were becoming easier.

She'd noticed they weren't creating the flare-up she'd feared.

She'd noticed the difference between muscles working and her familiar pain.

She'd noticed that walking felt different to structured exercises.

Those observations matter.

Because they tell me she's beginning to trust her own experience.

But something else happened that I wasn't expecting.

Her mum, who has understandably carried years of appointments, worry, research and responsibility, thanked me when I said:

"I don't want these exercises to become another responsibility on your shoulders."

That moment stayed with me.

Sometimes the most helpful thing we can offer isn't another exercise.

Or another explanation.

Sometimes it's acknowledging the weight someone has been carrying for years... and quietly giving them permission to put just a little of it down.

Pain rarely affects just one person.

It affects relationships.

Roles.

Responsibilities.

The nervous systems of everyone around it.

Sometimes healing begins not because we've found the perfect intervention, but because everyone in the room starts relating to the problem a little differently.

That's why I don't just coach pain.

I'm interested in helping people understand their story, connect the dots, and create enough safety that change becomes possible.

Because often the first thing that changes isn't the pain.

It's the person.

One part of my work that clients never see happens after they've gone home.I reflect.After every discovery call, assessm...
27/08/2026

One part of my work that clients never see happens after they've gone home.

I reflect.

After every discovery call, assessment and coaching session, I spend time thinking back through the conversation.

What did I notice?

What seemed important?

Was there something they said that deserved more attention?

Did I miss a connection that might help us move forward next time?

During a session, you're naturally drawing on knowledge, experience and pattern recognition. Sometimes that allows you to ask the right question at exactly the right moment.

But reflection gives me something different.

It gives me the opportunity to slow down.

To notice the things I couldn't notice whilst also listening, responding and thinking ahead.

It's also where I learn about me.

Did I rush a part that needed more space?

Did I explain something too much... or not enough?

Was I trying to be helpful when curiosity would have been more useful?

I don't reflect because I expect every session to be perfect.

I reflect because every person is different.

Every conversation teaches me something.

And if I want the people I work with to become more curious about themselves, it feels only right that I remain curious about myself too.

Growth isn't just something I hope for in my clients.

It's something I try to practise myself.

25/08/2026

Exercises don't have to be complicated to be effective.

Sometimes it's the simple movements, done with attention and control, that teach your body the most.

Move with purpose.
Notice what you feel.
Get curious.

Your body is always learning.

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75 Heath Road, Coxheath
Maidstone
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