A bit of how I got here
I grew up doing sports aerobics. It's cheerleading without the pom poms, in a sparkly leotard, and my mum loved that I did it. I loved performing it. From six to seventeen, that was the thing. (It's also where the lycra obsession started, in case you were wondering.)
Around seventeen, I realised I couldn't make a living from sports aerobics, and I switched to dancing. I danced professionally for the better part of a decade.
Two years into my dance career, I found out my mum had brain cancer. She passed not long after.
The thing that held me through that period was movement. Not the performing kind, I'd always had that. The quiet, daily, “for-me” kind. I'd been doing my mum's old Pilates DVDs at home (the kind on actual discs, for those of us old enough to remember!) My good friend Gem had been nudging me to try a studio Pilates class for ages. I finally went. And I was hooked.
It calmed me. It centred me. It gave me something to do with my body that wasn't about performing or being seen. And it was exactly what I needed.
Then I became a mum
I had my daughter, Eleni, five years ago. That was when Pilates became something else again. It was how I rebuilt my core. How I found my pelvic floor. And, how I found fifteen minutes for myself when there wasn't fifteen minutes available.
I'm still in that season now. Bush Kindy drop-offs, 5am starts, a body and soul that's a little different from the one that used to dance. Pilates is the thing that keeps me here. Not the perfecting kind, the showing-up kind.
Somewhere in this stretch of life, actually, during the first COVID lockdown in Australia, I started teaching an online stretch class that quickly became the most popular class on a national schedule. Thousands of women, mostly mums, were showing up from their loungerooms.Â
That was the first time I really understood: women didn't want studio access; they wanted practice access. They wanted someone to show up for them three times a week, in fifteen-minute increments, in their own home. That insight became the seed of what eventually turned into Good Movement Club.
Why I built Good Movement Club
When I went looking for at-home Pilates as a new mum, I couldn't find what I wanted. Everywhere I looked was selling more — more workouts, more variety, more intensity, more transformation. Apps with a thousand workouts and a new one every day. The marketing was loud, and the promise was always change.
I didn't need more. I needed less, only better. One workout I could do in the corner of the loungeroom while Eleni napped. Fifteen minutes. Same workout repeated, so I didn't have to think about what to do next. A practice I could actually keep.
So I created the Good Movement Club.
The Good Movement Club is the place where the practice happens. One workout a week, daily meditations, a weekly live class, the slow build that adds up.Â
The Flow Reformer Band is the kit that makes the practice work. Small enough to live in a drawer, real enough to give you proper resistance.Â
Pilates for Beginners is the doorway for women who want to try without committing to anything ongoing.
That's it. That's the whole thing.
A bit of real talk
I’ve been a professional dancer for twenty-plus years. It started with sports aerobics at six and didn't really stop until I had Eleni. Professional movement isn't the goal here. It isn't what I'm teaching. My job is to guide you through. Your job is to find fifteen minutes for yourself.
I get asked all the time: do I need to be fit? do I need to have done Pilates before? what if I've just had a baby? what if I haven't worked out in years? The answer to all of them is the same: come anyway.
The Pilates Mat workouts walk you through every part of it: breath, core, how the Flow Reformer Band works, and we go slow. You don't have to know anything to start.Â
You're postnatal forever, not just for the twelve months after the birth, and the practice meets you wherever you actually are.
Where to go from here
If you're ready to start the practice, the Good Movement Club is the place. Your first month is on me. Just pay for your Flow Reformer Band ($49), press play, and see how it feels.
I'm just glad you're here.
Tiff xx
P.S. If you've never done Pilates and you'd rather try without committing to a subscription, Pilates for Beginners is the doorway in. $99 once, six weeks of structured workouts, your own Flow Reformer Band to keep.
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DISCLAIMER: Good Movement Cards are not appropriate for pregnant women. The information and instruction provided by Good Movement Company is not intended to be a substitute for medical advice. Good Movement Company accepts no responsibility for any injury caused by the information or instruction presented here. Please consult a physician before starting any exercise program. This guide does not provide medical advice, and only provides suggested stretches and exercises aimed to make you feel good. Listen to your body at all times.
