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@lia.moves

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Pilates Instructor👩🏻‍🎓
Movement addict 🤸🏻‍♂️
Fitness nutter 🥊 🏃🏻‍♀️ 💪🏼
Good food maker👩🏻‍🍳
Lover of 🎶 💃🏽

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3 days ago

Hey, I’m Lia 👋

I love movement + people + music—here’s a little more about me:

✔️ Pilates has genuinely changed my life + how I move. 20+ years practicing, qualified in physio-based Pilates with @appihealthgroup (2024). It’s also changed how I experience chronic pain 🖤 and ALL MY MOVEMENT
Studied physio based Pilates for myself… now in 2026 I get to help others too. Currently upskilling in reformer
✔️ Practiced physio-based Pilates since 2019 with @rhiset_health @stephlockpilates + @sarahteachespilates
- always recommend @physio_space 🙌+ now a student at @corecardiff (reformer training practice hours)
✔️ Not a physio—trained by physios in level 3 Pilates teaching. My 6-month real student case study was assessed by physios to qualify. Here to support + collaborate, not replace
✔️ Lifelong mover: ballet from 4, 🏀 basketball, table tennis in Greece, contemporary + flamenco
✔️ Started weight training at 17 for back issues (as a musician!)—movement over medicine stuck 👏 thanks to an amazing Greek orthopaedic doctor
✔️ Ex Capoeirista @capoeiracardiff, circus @nofit_state_circus, LOTS of yoga 🤣
✔️ First (and only!) boxing fight in 2023 🥊 @nsnboxing’s community and coaching 🖤 made a difference
✔️ Back to running with @conproveclub—shorter, slower, better (for now). This community welcomes my pace + way. Good eggs
✔️ Love HIIT and when I can, I sweat a bucket at @ufit_fitness + @gerraintwebb_gwpt’s HYROX sessions
✔️ Walk/cycle whenever possible instead of drive… just not to Ogmore Beach 😂
✔️ Got interested in bodyweight exercise through @art_of.calisthenics in #SKG + exploring crossfit/style gymnastics in Wales with @gymnasty_athlete and his Tracks programme

See @movescardiff #pilates
More coming soon 🔜✨ by @lia.moves

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2 years ago

📍 WHERE TO FIND LIA MOVES THIS WEEK 💛

✨ Find your favourite classes, discover something new and stay tuned for more exciting updates. Watch this space!

🎁 Join our WhatsApp group this week and get a discount code to try Skateboard Pilates! 🛹 LINK IN BIO!

✨ THIS WEEK’S CLASSES

Launching!
🛹 Thursday 6pm — Skateboard Pilates with @movescardiff at @spitandsawdustskatepark ! Book and get a discount code for @hot2coldsaunaco 20% off! Launching 15/10 and almost every week 🖤

Continuing!
🧘‍♀️ Wednesday 6pm — Foundations Pilates @selflovesuperstore , Canton

Starting!
🔥 Thursday 9:30am — Reformer Pilates @glowpilateswellness , Whitchurch Road
💪 Friday 1:30pm — Strength & Sculpt @glowpilateswellness , Cathays
🔥 Saturday 7:30am & 9:30am — Hot Mat Pilates @ Studio Glow, Cardiff Bay
✨ Saturday 10:30am — Beginner-Friendly Reformer @glowpilateswellness , Cardiff Bay

Loving ❤️
💫 Monday & Friday 6:30pm — Pilates @lagunahealthspa - members only
🖤 Monday, Wednesday + Thursday @fitzandknoxcdf if you live there ! Move in and I’ll move you with @movescardiff

END OF OCTOBER - relaunching Mat Pilates at @physio_space ! With @movescardiff

🔗 Booking links in bio
💛 @lia.moves @glowpilateswellness @selflovesuperstore

Thanks to @craighaynesphotography and @glowpilateswellness for the amazing new photos two of which are in my carousel this week🖤 by @lia.moves

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4 days ago

🛹 Skateboard Pilates is launching in Cardiff! Two weeks to GO!!!

A reformer-style Pilates class on a skateboard — gently challenging, a little different and suitable for all levels. ✨

📍 Spit + Sawdust Skate Park @spitandsawdustskatepark
📅 Launches Thursday 15 October, then most Thursdays
⏰ 6pm
👯 Maximum 6 participants
🔞 Ages 16+

Move, balance, strengthen and have fun on the board! 🛹💪

🎟️ Your booking fee includes the class, skateboard and equipment hire.
🧘‍♀️ Please bring your own mat and water.

Arrive at least 10 minutes early for the skateboard safety introduction.
📝 A waiver and screening form must be completed before taking part.

🔥❄️ After booking, you’ll receive a 20% off code for Hot2Cold Sauna. Book your sauna session directly with them using the code and pay just £8.

🎟️ Spaces are very limited — book your spot now via the link in bio! Follow the Gymcatch link.
,set up an account and follow Moves Cardiff!

Join the Moves Cardiff WhatsApp group for future offers and discounts.

#SkateboardPilates #Pilates #Cardiff #reformerstylepilates taken in Spit and Sawdust by @lia.moves

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15 days ago

🌿 Wednesday Mat Pilates — now at 6pm!

You asked, we listened 💛 Our Wednesday class at Self Love Superstore, Canton is now at 6pm to make getting to class a little easier. Booking link in BIO ☝🏽

✨ Foundations Pilates is accessible to all levels, focusing on form, control and perfecting one key movement each week.

📍 Self Love Superstore, Canton
⏰ 6pm — arrive 5–10 minutes early

🚲 Cycling? Bike parking is available in front of Tesco on Cowbridge Road East.

🚗 Driving? pay & display parking nearby at@Grey Road 🅿️ just across the street. Limited on street parking available.

🚌 By bus? The 13, 17, 18 and C1 stop right by Chapter Arts Centre.

Come move with us 🧘‍♀️✨ by @lia.moves

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17 days ago

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23 days ago

Join us Saturday 26th September under the Harvest Full Moon 🌕 this will be our final movement session of the season as we head into the darker evenings of autumn 🍂

🧘‍♂️ 17:00 Pilates with @‌lia.moves
📍 Windsor Gardens, up behind CoffiCo
Just show up with your own mat. No need to book 🥰

🔥 18:00 Fire Ceremony
🌊 18:15 Sea Dip
📍 @‌rnlipenarth Slipway
🖊 Write down what you want to release on paper for the fire.

☕️ BYO drinks

All Mer-folk welcome 🧜🏻‍♀️
Please dip responsibly. You are responsible for yourself ✌🏼💜🧜🏻‍♀️

Sea you there 😘
Moon Mermaids
💜🧜‍♀️✌️

📸 @‌halfwit0.5

🌕 18:39 Moonrise
🌅 19:01 Sunset
🌊 19:32 High Tide, 12.2m
🌑 19:35 Last Light taken in RNLI Penarth Lifeboat Station by @lia.moves

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a month ago

A Little Gratitude 🤍

I haven’t posted much here recently but I couldn’t let another week pass without thanking all my lovely students at my own private sessions, and at Laguna Health Spa & Fitz + Knox, Spit + Sawdust and Self Love Superstore. Your energy, encouragement and commitment make every class special. 🥰 and big up to all people running the spaces I teach at. Including my cat Pacha who runs our own private space 😂.

A special thank you to Gina for the gorgeous pre-loved sports bra—I’ve already worn it a lot! 😂

I’m away now for a bit but will be back soon with weekly updates from the end of September. Take care, keep moving and enjoy your week. See you in class! 🤍

#FeelActive #Gratitude #Cardiff #pilates by @lia.moves

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a month ago

I DID IT. 🤍 REFORMER QUALIFIED

Back in February, I set myself the goal of becoming a Reformer instructor within 6 months max— but I didn’t just want to qualify. I wanted to build a strong foundation of knowledge, high standards and confidence in my teaching.

After hundreds of hours of practice, teaching, studying, attending and observing between February and July, I’ve officially qualified through the @appihealthgroup with 95% and 97% in my assessments.

I’m incredibly proud — but this journey has been about so much more than the marks.

Thank you to @physio_mel, @claretilley1, @corecardiff, @orenwellness , @goodnessflowclub , all my students, all the APPI instructors whose classes and revision videos I watched + practiced 100 times 😂, my friends and everyone who supported me along the way. 🤍

And especially @valentinaduhnovskay — my case study, exam subject and a huge part of my assignments. Watching her get stronger throughout this journey has been the most rewarding part of all.

Even more than the 95% and 97%.

Because ultimately, that’s why I wanted to do this: to learn properly, teach well, and help people become stronger.

Qualified Reformer Instructor. ✔️

And this is just the beginning. ✨

Thank you 🙏🏽

#reformerinstructor #pilates #cardiff #movement #wellnesss by @lia.moves

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2 months ago

🌦️ RAIN? WHO CARES… THERE’S PIZZA! 🍕😂

Between the showers this week, we headed up to Mirko’s @pizzaup2026 van at the top of Roath Park Lake.

Pizza to take away, pizza to munch on the walk — and that sauce?! 🤌🔥 Absolutely banging. And he does a breakfast menu too.

Authentic. Affordable. Proper tasty. And loads of character thrown in for good measure.

🌦️🍕 Next time you’re caught between showers, head to Pizza Up! Don’t stay in!

#PizzaUp #PizzaTime #LocalPizza #roathparklake #authenticpizza by @lia.moves

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2 months ago

Skateboard Pilates 🛹 + Sauna & Cold Plunge Social 🧊🔥

Our second social, in collaboration with Spit & Sawdust and Hot 2 Cold Sauna, was such a great day!

Thank you to everyone who agreed to be filmed and photographed during our Skateboard Pilates session. 🧘‍♀️🛹

Three of us Southern hemisphere girls also braved the sauna as well as being refreshed in the cold plunge and bucket shock in over 25 degrees — amazing! 🔥🧊

It was brilliant to see people joining in however suited them — for Pilates, the plunge, or simply dropping in for food and a catch-up. ❤️

Huge thanks to the fantastic team at Hot 2 Cold Sauna for their support. We can’t wait for more collaborations!

Would you brave Pilates on a skateboard? 👀

#Pilates #Cardiff #SkateboardPilates #ReformerOnASkateboard #coldplunge taken in Spit and Sawdust by @lia.moves

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2 months ago

🔥 AUGUST PILATES x COLD PLUNGE x SAUNA 🧊

Feeling the heat? We’ve got you covered. 👀

We’re teaming up with Hot to Cold Sauna @hot2coldsaunaco and Spit+Sawdust @spitandsawdustskatepark 🛹 for a special Pilates session with a twist… we can’t reveal too much just yet. 🤫 Come and see for yourself!

Expect Pilates, with a little mystery, then your choice of sauna + cold plunge or both at one of Cardiff’s best-kept secret urban oases. 🌿🔥🧊

Stay afterwards for delicious food and drinks at Spit+Sawdust Café — local organic burgers, vegan options and beers on tap. 🍔🌱🍺

🔗 Booking link in BIO

✨ Pilates only? Use code PILATESONLY for £12. You can change your mind and pay £10 directly to @hot2coldsaunaco on the day.

🔥 Pilates + Sauna + Cold Plunge? Use LOYALMOVERS for 20% off — just £18 instead of £22.50!

Limited spots. Come curious, leave glowing. 🧊🔥✨

#cardiff #pilates #skatepark #movement #wellness taken in Spit and Sawdust by @lia.moves

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2 months ago