How much space
How much space a session actually needs
About the footprint of one mat, plus space for me to sit. In practice that means the sofa shifted back a hand's width, and the coffee table that has been squatting in the middle of the room for years finally moves. I have taught in the gap between a bed and a radiator, at the end of a kitchen while something simmered, in a bay window with a buggy parked at one end. If you can lie down with your arms out wide and nothing valuable is in danger, you have enough room.
All of it normal
Babies, dogs and other interruptions
The dog will want to inspect the mat. From the dog's point of view this is non negotiable, so let him. He establishes that the newcomer is boring within about two minutes and goes back to sleep.
Babies are not an interruption to work around. They are part of the booking. Sessions pause for feeds and pick up exactly where they left off. A nap in the next room is ideal, and a baby on the mat doing their own version of the exercise has a certain charm. It's a home, not a clinic. That is rather the point.
The routine
Arriving, setting up, leaving no trace
I arrive with one bag and take my shoes off at the door. Mats, blocks, the small pieces a session needs, they can all be slid under the sofa. At the end the furniture goes back where it lives, the mat gets wiped down, and the only visible change is you, standing a little differently.
The patch
Where I travel
Home visits across De Beauvoir Town, Hackney, London Fields, Clapton, Dalston, Islington, Stoke Newington and Highbury. If you are just outside that patch, it is worth asking.
Busy weeks
When the week won't cooperate, there's Zoom
Some weeks refuse to be easy. A work trip, a child home from nursery, weather with ideas of its own. Zoom exists for exactly those weeks. Same teaching, same eyes on how you are moving, zero travel in either direction. Most people end up doing a mix, home visits when the week allows and Zoom when it doesn't.
Starting
How we'd start
The way I work is that everyone starts with an intro package of three sessions. The first one is assessment and teaching, not a workout. We look at how your spine and hips handle load, how you breathe under effort, and what your days actually ask of you. Then we build gradually, at your pace.
Questions
Two honest questions
How much space do I need for home-visit Pilates?
About one mat. If I can sit beside it, we're set. Most living rooms manage that once the coffee table shifts. If you are genuinely unsure, we work it out before I arrive rather than after.
Do you bring the equipment?
In the first 3 sessions it is unlikely we need anything more than a mat. I am teaching you how to maintain your basic fundamentals and the choreography comes later. If you want to continue sessions after the intro package there are the options of small hand weights, a kettlebell, a theraband and foam rollers as ideas to play around with.
When you're ready
The homepage explains how we'd work together.