About the Ostomy Studio

The Ostomy Studio is a place where you can come and learn how to exercise safely after stoma surgery or reversal. Using clinical Pilates, I will teach you how to retrain your abdominal muscles and rebuild strength in your body. Restoring your confidence and helping you get back to doing the things you love.

Classes are online over video. Delivered via Zoom. So you can join in from the comfort, safety and privacy of your own home. Just join the class on video and follow along. I can see you from my studio so can check you’re doing things correctly.

Classes are aimed at different abilities, so be sure to select the right level for you. Check out ‘Online LIVE classes’.

Or if you can’t make any of the class times, there are ‘ON DEMAND’ videos to follow when it suits you.

There are also online workshops and events and you can even book a 1:1 if you want a bit more TLC or have something more specific to work on.

Why did I set up The Ostomy Studio?

The Ostomy Studio is the first online specialist clinical Pilates studio for people who have an ostomy, providing safe and appropriate exercise classes that you can trust.

After my own ostomy surgery in 2010, I realised there was little information about abdominal exercise and rehabilitation for people with a stoma.

Worse still, common advice to ‘avoid lifting’ or not to do abdominal exercises after ostomy surgery is inaccurate and damaging. Many people with stomas are fearful of exercise and worried about parastomal hernias. And this is stopping people from living their lives.

This desperately needs to change. We deserve better.

With my professional qualifications and personal experience of having a stoma, I’m in a unique position and it’s my privilege to share this insight.

I’ve now spent a decade training patients, educating nurses, doing research, training health care professionals and speaking at conferences around the world about exercise, rehabilitation, Pilates, stomas and hernias.

Exercise with a stoma is a neglected topic but I have started to shine a much-needed light on it.

I want to change the conversation. To show the world that having an ostomy doesn’t have to stop you doing absolutely anything you want. And Clinical Pilates is at the very foundation of your recovery and movement rehabilitation.

And so finally, The Ostomy Studio is here, pulling together all the strands of my work, experience and expertise. I hope you’ll love it and I can’t wait to see you in a class soon.