When we opened the doors to ANASA, it wasn’t because we wanted to follow a trend, fill a space with reformers or copy another studio model.
ANASA exists because movement changed our lives — first as individuals, then as coaches, and now as teachers of teachers.
Between us, we carry more than 20 years working across fitness, Pilates and movement science. Those decades took us through rehabilitation clinics, strength and conditioning environments, elite sports and thousands of everyday bodies — from teenagers navigating scoliosis to professional athletes returning from injury, to parents rebuilding strength after burnout.
Very early in our journeys, we realised that Pilates — when taught intelligently — wasn’t just exercise.
It was a system for rebuilding humans from the inside out.
And that’s where ANASA began.
Why Our Training Matters
Both of us trained through STOTT Pilates, one of the world’s most respected and scientifically rooted Pilates systems. STOTT gave us the technical foundation, biomechanics, and correctional strategies that form the backbone of our teaching.
But we didn’t stop there.
Two decades later — thousands of hours of hands-on teaching, rehab collaboration, continued certifications, and endless curiosity — led us to develop what is now known as The ANASA Method.
A method grounded in:
✨ Rehabilitation principles
✨ Lower-back conditioning
✨ Core intelligence
✨ Safe progressions & regressions
✨ Strength, length and mobility
✨ Real-life biomechanics
✨ And always — results
We learned that when Pilates is delivered with precision and intention, the body responds:
• Posture changes
• Pain reduces
• Muscles switch on
• People stand taller
• Confidence returns
And that’s why ANASA is different.
Setting Standards — Not Following Trends
From day one, we made a decision that most studios don’t:
No instructor teaches at ANASA unless they are personally trained and mentored by us.
This is not a box-ticking exercise, and it never will be.
Every ANASA instructor:
• Studies the ANASA philosophy
• Trains extensively under our supervision
• Learns intelligent programming
• Understands why a movement works — not just how
• Adapts to real bodies, not generic routines
• Speaks the same language, cues the same method and delivers the same standard
Because of this, every class in Newark and Fernwood feels aligned.
Different personalities — same quality, same depth, same results.
That level of consistency doesn’t happen by accident.
It is built through standards, discipline, education, and a belief that clients deserve more than a workout — they deserve transformation.
A Global Point of Learning
One of the greatest joys in ANASA’s evolution is watching our approach ripple far beyond our studios.
In just a few years, instructors from across the UK and around the world — Europe, Asia, Australia — have reached out to us to learn The ANASA Method.
Today, through:
• Instructor development workshops
• In-studio training
• Immersive learning during ANASA Retreats abroad
we are teaching what we once taught only inside our own four walls.
Our retreats are no longer only for clients — they have become education hubs, where instructors join us to learn, refine, be mentored and return home with a skillset they cannot find anywhere else.
And that is the proudest achievement of all:
ANASA is now not just a studio.
It is a movement, a methodology, a community and a standard.
Why We Do It
At the heart of everything is a simple belief:
Movement should give you more life.
Our mission has never changed:
• Help people move better
• Build strength and length
• Restore posture
• Undo the stress and slouching of modern life
• Reduce pain
• And make every person feel powerful in their body — not limited by it
From youth athletes to clients in their seventies, from chronic back pain sufferers to runners chasing PBs — we have seen transformation again and again.
It’s why we show up every day.
It’s why we teach the way we do.
And it’s why ANASA will always stay true to its philosophy.
Because when you combine knowledge, intention and care, bodies change.
Lives change…Communities are built…and movement becomes magic.
From Us to You
Whether you’ve been with us from day one, joined this week, or are considering stepping onto a reformer for the first time — thank you for trusting us with your body and your journey.
We will continue to invest, learn, teach, refine and grow — so ANASA remains the place where:
• movement is intelligent
• instructors are world-class
• community feels like family
• and results are non-negotiable
George & Margarita
Founders of ANASA 💛
