The Instructors
Lauren Bryden
Lauren is passionate about changing bodies. Her classes focus on deep strengthening and healthy alignment through functional exercises based in anatomical knowledge.
The 60 minute class experience is deceptively delicious with a burn that comes the next day! After teaching around the globe for nearly a decade she opened Rock-a-Barre Baby to bring her expertise and progressive style to the Edinburgh fitness scene. Pilates became her passion and lead to her career as one of Edinburghs top Pilates instructors. Lauren originally trained and performed professionally as a classical ballet dancer with The Royal Ballet, in London.
Since hanging up her pointe shoes, Lauren has followed a new movement journey. She now teaches Barre, Pilates and Yoga, and enjoys working with her students to improve strength, flexibility and enhance self-confidence. She has a creative, caring, playful and dynamic approach and her classes focus on finding a balanced and aligned body, that feels energised and moves with ease.
Laurens true passion lies with working with new mums to safely strengthen their bodies post-natally. She supports mums on their journey back to fitness and helps to re-build confidence in their beautiful bodies!
Lauren is the Founder of Rock-a-Barre Baby, a boutique, contemporary Pilates, Barre and Yoga studio focused on small group fitness and private training. Click here to find out more about Rock-a-Barre Baby!
Lauren is passionate about changing bodies. Her classes focus on deep strengthening and healthy alignment through functional exercises based in anatomical knowledge.
The 60 minute class experience is deceptively delicious with a burn that comes the next day! After teaching around the globe for nearly a decade she opened Rock-a-Barre Baby to bring her expertise and progressive style to the Edinburgh fitness scene. Pilates became her passion and lead to her career as one of Edinburghs top Pilates instructors. Lauren originally trained and performed professionally as a classical ballet dancer with The Royal Ballet, in London.
Since hanging up her pointe shoes, Lauren has followed a new movement journey. She now teaches Barre, Pilates and Yoga, and enjoys working with her students to improve strength, flexibility and enhance self-confidence. She has a creative, caring, playful and dynamic approach and her classes focus on finding a balanced and aligned body, that feels energised and moves with ease.
Laurens true passion lies with working with new mums to safely strengthen their bodies post-natally. She supports mums on their journey back to fitness and helps to re-build confidence in their beautiful bodies!
Lauren is the Founder of Rock-a-Barre Baby, a boutique, contemporary Pilates, Barre and Yoga studio focused on small group fitness and private training. Click here to find out more about Rock-a-Barre Baby!
Sabrina Simpson
Sabrina Simpson is a Second Generation Master Teacher and Educator trained by Internationally Acclaimed first generation teacher Lolita San Miguel. Sabrina's Pilates qualifications also include: Body Control Pilates Matwork, with recognition as a Master Mat Teacher. She also has the Body Control Reformer Certificate, Cadillac Certificate, Chair Certificate, Pregnancy 1 & 2, Pilates for Children Foundation, Pilates for Children Ages 12-16, Pilates for Bone Health (Osteoporosis), Pilates for Golf.
She lives in East Scotland close to St. Andrews - the home of golf. Sabrina has spent many years helping golf clients improve their game and has written a “Pilates for the Golfer Manual”. She also works with competitive skiers, skaters and canoeists from the GB team.
As well as her Pilates qualifications Sabrina recently attained her Yoga Teacher Certificate while living in Rishikesh India.
Sabrina travels the world to attend Pilates events and conferences and has taught a retreat in Panama. She grew up in Canada, where she was involved in many sports from a very young age. She is an outdoor enthusiast, so if she is not in the Pilates Studio helping clients achieve their goals, you will find her on the hills: walking, running, mountain biking, or skiing. Recently she mushed a team of huskies across the Arctic from Norway to Sweden.
Sabrina's outlook towards life is always be learning, overcoming fears and look for new challenges.
Sabrina Simpson is a Second Generation Master Teacher and Educator trained by Internationally Acclaimed first generation teacher Lolita San Miguel. Sabrina's Pilates qualifications also include: Body Control Pilates Matwork, with recognition as a Master Mat Teacher. She also has the Body Control Reformer Certificate, Cadillac Certificate, Chair Certificate, Pregnancy 1 & 2, Pilates for Children Foundation, Pilates for Children Ages 12-16, Pilates for Bone Health (Osteoporosis), Pilates for Golf.
She lives in East Scotland close to St. Andrews - the home of golf. Sabrina has spent many years helping golf clients improve their game and has written a “Pilates for the Golfer Manual”. She also works with competitive skiers, skaters and canoeists from the GB team.
As well as her Pilates qualifications Sabrina recently attained her Yoga Teacher Certificate while living in Rishikesh India.
Sabrina travels the world to attend Pilates events and conferences and has taught a retreat in Panama. She grew up in Canada, where she was involved in many sports from a very young age. She is an outdoor enthusiast, so if she is not in the Pilates Studio helping clients achieve their goals, you will find her on the hills: walking, running, mountain biking, or skiing. Recently she mushed a team of huskies across the Arctic from Norway to Sweden.
Sabrina's outlook towards life is always be learning, overcoming fears and look for new challenges.
Ellie Carr
You'll most likely find Ellie lacing up for a long run or draped over the ladder barrel in the studio stretching out her quads of steel. She is a mover, a teacher, a runner, a writer. She is a passionate advocate of getting people up and moving and enjoying the health that is their birthright. She is on a mission to reverse fear-mongering and negative talk around movement and pain (don’t bend, your spine is fragile, your core is weak) and provide the tools to help people unlock their potential. She believes the best exercise for you is the one you enjoy the most and for her, the full Pilates method ticks that box and so many others: from moving well to managing stress and providing a mental reset button that does not rely on treatment or tablets.
As teacher and practitioner Ellie loves the full system for its simplicity and power to change the way people move and relate to their bodies. Since her training and ongoing work with 360º Pilates’ founder and Benjamin Degenhardt, she has grown fascinated with the history and longevity of Joe Pilates’ original system of exercise and the way it meets the individual where they are.
Ellie now teaches from the blueprint of the traditional work, albeit through a modern lens with her own variations and tweaks, geared to the student who comes through the door. She is constantly tickled by the way all from competitive athletes to Pilates students/teachers and her evergreen over-seventies tackle the work with equal gusto and joy (and just a little moaning).
Ellie’s classes are fun, sweaty and invigorating (though she is aware her students describe her idea of ‘fun’ as different to everyone else’s). She has a vast knowledge and experience and plots workouts meticulously to get the most from every individual. Be prepared to be nudged outside your comfort zone and to exercise your laughter muscles as much as your body.
She is proud to lead a brilliant team at The Pilates Hub in Edinburgh. A beautiful studio with innovative moves.
You'll most likely find Ellie lacing up for a long run or draped over the ladder barrel in the studio stretching out her quads of steel. She is a mover, a teacher, a runner, a writer. She is a passionate advocate of getting people up and moving and enjoying the health that is their birthright. She is on a mission to reverse fear-mongering and negative talk around movement and pain (don’t bend, your spine is fragile, your core is weak) and provide the tools to help people unlock their potential. She believes the best exercise for you is the one you enjoy the most and for her, the full Pilates method ticks that box and so many others: from moving well to managing stress and providing a mental reset button that does not rely on treatment or tablets.
As teacher and practitioner Ellie loves the full system for its simplicity and power to change the way people move and relate to their bodies. Since her training and ongoing work with 360º Pilates’ founder and Benjamin Degenhardt, she has grown fascinated with the history and longevity of Joe Pilates’ original system of exercise and the way it meets the individual where they are.
Ellie now teaches from the blueprint of the traditional work, albeit through a modern lens with her own variations and tweaks, geared to the student who comes through the door. She is constantly tickled by the way all from competitive athletes to Pilates students/teachers and her evergreen over-seventies tackle the work with equal gusto and joy (and just a little moaning).
Ellie’s classes are fun, sweaty and invigorating (though she is aware her students describe her idea of ‘fun’ as different to everyone else’s). She has a vast knowledge and experience and plots workouts meticulously to get the most from every individual. Be prepared to be nudged outside your comfort zone and to exercise your laughter muscles as much as your body.
She is proud to lead a brilliant team at The Pilates Hub in Edinburgh. A beautiful studio with innovative moves.
Becky Spellmen
Becky lives and works in Amsterdam although is British by birth and proudly a Scouser.
Becky originally trained and worked from 19 as a ballet dancer until retiring at 30 when she had her daughter. As a dancer she had always done Pilates, it was part of the dance teaching World. Becky was trained in Pilates on the 2 year Lolita San Miguel course in New York.
After working closely with physiotherapists in recent years doing more in the rehabilitation world along with mainstream Pilates and also after attending Cameron Angus Pilates for Amputee programme, she realised that she want to deepen her knowledge and opportunities working with movement and the human body. Bringing more to the Pilates world. To achieve this she is now part way through her Bachelor degree in Physiotherapy.
Becky is an inspirational teacher and sharer of knowledge. She is always learning from others to widen her own vast experience. Her enthusiasm, skill and knowledge make her a wonderful person to learn with. Her classes are informative, fun and up lifting.
Becky lives and works in Amsterdam although is British by birth and proudly a Scouser.
Becky originally trained and worked from 19 as a ballet dancer until retiring at 30 when she had her daughter. As a dancer she had always done Pilates, it was part of the dance teaching World. Becky was trained in Pilates on the 2 year Lolita San Miguel course in New York.
After working closely with physiotherapists in recent years doing more in the rehabilitation world along with mainstream Pilates and also after attending Cameron Angus Pilates for Amputee programme, she realised that she want to deepen her knowledge and opportunities working with movement and the human body. Bringing more to the Pilates world. To achieve this she is now part way through her Bachelor degree in Physiotherapy.
Becky is an inspirational teacher and sharer of knowledge. She is always learning from others to widen her own vast experience. Her enthusiasm, skill and knowledge make her a wonderful person to learn with. Her classes are informative, fun and up lifting.