About Pilates

Pilates is the perfect exercise solution to our current lifestyle.

Many of us spend hours on computers, driving cars or rushing from one job to the next with our mind full of yet more jobs to fit in before the end of the day.

Taught correcly, Pilates enhances physical fitness and mental relaxation and reduces incidences of back pain and injury.

It will help:

• increase fitness and improve body awareness. Suitable for all ages - 12 to 80!
• injury prevention
• rehabilitation
• improve mental agility and technique for athletes,dancers and professional sports people
• improve coordination
• reduce stress
• improve posture
• re-train the body to move safely and efficiently

Karen Grinter

Pilates Face & Body is owned and run by Karen Grinter.  After training in London with Lynne Robinson and Gordon Thomson of Body Control Pilates® , she started teaching in Northamptonshire in 1997. 

In 1998 Karen was asked by Kirk Russell the Northants County physio, now Physiotherapist to the England Cricket Team, to work with the county players.  The result is the Pilates Studio based at the County Ground on Abington Avenue. 

Karen is now part of the teacher training program for Body Control Pilates®, the UK’s most well known training provider for Pilates teachers, and also runs workshops for Health Professionals and teachers to further knowledge in Pilates techniques.