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FIND YOUR FIT
If you are new to Manna, welcome! We know choosing your first class can sometimes feel a little overwhelming, especially if you are completely new to Pilates or returning after some time away.
While all of our instructors are highly skilled in working with all levels, this guide is here to help you find a class and instructor that best suits your experience, goals and comfort in the studio. Think of it as a starting point rather than a rule, and we are always here to support you along the way.
If you have any questions, just give us a call or send us an email and our friendly team will be happy to help you get started.
INSTRUCTOR QUICK GUIDE
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BARBI VIRAGH
Studio Manager & Senior Pilates Instructor
🌿 Suitable For All Levels | Strength Focus
📍 Guildford
Barbi is our Studio Manager and one of the most welcoming faces at Manna. Her classes are a beautiful place to begin if you are new, returning to movement or building confidence on the reformer. Her signature Reformer classes are supportive, grounding, and ideal for learning the foundations at your own pace.
Barbi also teaches Sculpt & Sweat and Advanced Reformer, which are more energising and dynamic class styles. These sessions are best enjoyed once you’ve had a little time to feel confident in your Reformer practice and are ready for a more challenging flow.
✔ Great for nervous first-timers
✔ Ideal for returning to movement
✔ Thoughtful strength programming
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CLAIRE HILL
Pilates Instructor
🌿Suitable for All Levels | Supportive Technique Focus
📍 Guildford
Claire is a former professional ballet dancer with a strong focus on technique, alignment and control, delivered with so much care and nurturing support.
Her classes are beautifully structured and highly supportive, making her one of our top recommendations for beginners, especially those feeling nervous or unsure where to start.
She creates a calm, encouraging environment where you’ll feel guided from the moment you walk in, while still building strength, confidence and body awareness throughout class.
✔ Highly supportive teaching style
✔ Strong focus on technique and control
✔ Ideal for beginners and returning movement
✔ Builds confidence and consistency
✔ Plenty of options provided throughout for all levels
✔ A beautiful option if you’re feeling a little nervous, including during pregnancy or returning postpartum -
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LAURA LOK
Senior Pilates Instructor & Physiotherapist
🔥 Stronger Flow | Suitable for All Levels
📍 Guildford
Laura offers a strength-focused, physiotherapy-informed Pilates style with a creative approach to programming and movement.
As a Physiotherapist, she brings a deep understanding of the body and biomechanics into her teaching, helping you build strength safely while improving control, confidence and body awareness. Her sessions are structured yet creative, with options provided throughout so you can work at a level that suits you and continue to progress over time.
✔ Strength-focused programming
✔ Physiotherapy-informed approach
✔ Creative class style
✔ Builds control and stability
✔ Options provided throughout for all levels
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SOPHIE WELLS
Pilates Instructor
🌿 Suitable for All Levels | Technique Focus
📍Guildford | Darlington
As a former full-time ballet dancer, Sophie brings exceptional technical precision, body awareness and control to her teaching, underpinned by a calm, grounding presence in the studio.
Her classes are creative, thoughtfully sequenced and uplifting, blending strong technical focus with a flowing, enjoyable style that keeps you engaged from start to finish. Clients love her for her supportive energy and the way she helps you feel both challenged and at ease.
She creates an uplifting, welcoming space where you can build confidence, consistency and strength at your own pace.
✔ Beginner friendly
✔ Great for building consistency
✔ Supports progression as you grow
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SAMMY GEORGEFF
Senior Pilates Instructor
🌿 Suitable for All Levels | Supportive Strength Flow
📍 Guildford
Sammy brings a beautiful balance of warmth, care and strength to her teaching, underpinned by her background in exercise, sports and rehabilitation science, informing her intelligent, evidence-based approach to movement.
Her classes are welcoming and accessible for all levels, while still offering opportunities to build strength, control and confidence as your practice develops.
You’ll be guided through a supportive, uplifting class where you can move at your own pace and feel encouraged throughout.
✔ Warm, supportive teaching style
✔ Great for building confidence and consistency
✔ Suitable for all experience levels
✔ Strength-building with options throughout -
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KEELY REINKE
🌿 Suitable for All Levels | Supportive Flow
📍 Guildford | Darlington
Keely offers a gentle, nurturing and slower-paced class style that is ideal if you’re new to Pilates or returning to movement after time away.
Her sessions are calm, highly supportive and very clear in cueing, helping you feel comfortable, confident and guided throughout.
You may even be treated to her signature touch of essential oils at the end of class, adding a beautiful moment of relaxation to finish your session.
✔ Gentle, nurturing teaching style
✔ Very clear cueing and guidance
✔ Great for beginners and returning movement
✔ Slower-paced, calming class environment
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LEAH WOJTALA
Pilates Instructor
🌿 Suitable for All Levels | Dynamic Flow
📍 Guildford | Darlington
Leah delivers a dynamic, strength and endurance-based Pilates class with a slightly faster pace, designed to build fitness, stamina and full-body strength in a fun and energising way.
Her super welcoming, friendly and supportive teaching style supports a fun atmosphere where everyone feels included, with plenty of options provided to help you move in a way that feels right for you.
You’ll be guided through an uplifting, strength-focused session that helps you build confidence, improve fitness and leave feeling accomplished.
✔ Builds strength, fitness and stamina
✔ Slightly faster-paced dynamic style
✔ Suitable for all experience levels
✔ Options provided throughout for support and progression
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KATERINA SOLOMONOV
Senior Pilates Instructor
🔥 Stronger Flow | Suitable for All Levels (best enjoyed after you’ve completed a few reformer classes)
📍 Guildford
Katerina offers an energising, dynamic class style designed to build strength, endurance and control, with a strong flowing structure and slightly faster pace.
Her sessions are clearly guided with options and modifications throughout, making them accessible while still offering plenty of room to challenge yourself and take your practice to the next level.
If you are newer to Pilates, you are always welcome and encouraged to move at a pace that feels right for you. If you are more experienced, her classes offer a powerful, progressive workout with depth, intensity and challenge.
✔ Strong, energising flow
✔ Builds strength and endurance
✔ Options provided for all levels
✔ Great for progressing your practice
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GRACE BURNFIELD
Senior Pilates Instructor
🌿 Suitable for All Levels | Supportive Flow
📍 Guildford
Grace offers a calm, supportive and well-rounded class experience that works beautifully for all levels.
Her teaching is clear and encouraging, with a focus on helping you build confidence, strength and consistency in your Pilates practice.
You’ll be guided through a steady, feel-good class where you can move at your own pace and feel supported throughout.
✔ Calm, supportive teaching style
✔ Great for building confidence and consistency
✔ Suitable for all experience levels
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SANDRA GOH
Senior Pilates Instructor
🌿 Suitable for All Levels | Dynamic Creative Flow
📍 Darlington
Sandra offers a creative, faster-paced class style that blends strength, flow and variety.
With a background in podiatry, she brings a strong understanding of the human body and movement mechanics into her teaching, helping you move with greater awareness, control and efficiency.
Her sessions are engaging and dynamic, with plenty of options provided so you can challenge yourself while still moving at a pace that feels right for your body.
✔ Creative, dynamic class style
✔ Strong focus on movement mechanics and alignment
✔ Suitable for all experience levels
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GEORGIA HISCHAR
Senior Pilates Instructor & Physiotherapist
🔥 Stronger Flow | Suitable for All Levels (best enjoyed after you’ve completed a few reformer classes)
📍 Darlington
Georgia offers a dynamic, strength-focused class style with a strong emphasis on building control, stability and overall strength.
As a Physiotherapist, she brings a deep understanding of movement and biomechanics into her teaching, helping you build strength safely and effectively while improving overall body awareness.
Her sessions are structured and energising, with options provided throughout so you can challenge yourself while still feeling supported in your practice.
✔ Strong, dynamic flow
✔ Physiotherapy-informed movement approach
✔ Builds strength and control
✔ Options provided throughout for all levels
✔ Great for progressing your practice
CLASSES QUICK GUIDE
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SIGNATURE REFORMER
🌿Suitable for all levels, including beginners.
Experience the grace and strength of Reformer Pilates in our intimate, small group setting. Our classes gently guide you to improved alignment, posture and flexibility, while focusing on building strength and nurturing a deep mind-body connection. Each session is a journey towards balance, leaving you feeling centered, strong and renewed.
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STRETCH & FLEX
🌿Suitable for all levels, including beginners
Our Stretch & Flex classes are a gentle Reformer Pilates session designed to stretch, restore and rebalance your body. These classes focus on mindful movement to lengthen muscles, improve flexibility and release built-up tension. Your instructor will guide you through mobility-focused sequences that support joint health and encourage deep muscle release. Supportive tools, such as trigger balls, may be incorporated to target tight areas - leaving you feeling open, relaxed and restored.
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SCULPT & SWEAT
🔥Not suitable for beginners or during pregnancy/postpartum.
Sculpt and Sweat is a low-impact, high-energy Reformer Pilates class that blends dynamic cardio movements with controlled strength training. This workout is designed to elevate your heart rate while being easy on the joints, focusing on toning and sculpting muscles. You’ll leave feeling strong and energised, knowing you’ve worked every muscle.
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REFORM & RELEASE
🌿Suitable for all levels, including beginners
Our Reform & Release class is the perfect combination of our signature Reformer Pilates class together with tension release and restorative stretches. Start with a dynamic, high-energy Reformer Pilates session focusing on strength, balance and flexibility. Transition into a slower-paced trigger point release using massage balls, followed by deep, restorative stretches.
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JUMPBOARD PILATES
🔥Not suitable during pregnancy/postpartum
Discover a new energy with our Jumpboard Pilates class. While still rooted in the principles of Reformer Pilates - strength, alignment and flexibility - this class brings a dynamic twist. The Jumpboard adds an extra boost to your workout, offering a slightly more invigorating experience that leaves you feeling energised, uplifted and strong.
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ADVANCED REFORMER
🔥Not suitable for beginners or during pregnancy/postpartum.
Our Advanced Pilates class follows the structure of our Signature Reformer sessions, with faster-paced transitions, more complex layering and increased intensity throughout. Expect dynamic sequencing, coordinated flow and a more challenging spring resistance to deepen muscular engagement and elevate the workout - all while maintaining precise technique and control.
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MUMS & BUBS
🌿Suitable for all levels, including beginners
Looking for gentle movement pre- or post-partum but don’t have care for your little one? Bring bub along to our Manna Mums & Bub Pilates classes every Wednesday and Friday morning. Little ones can enjoy tummy time on the mats or join in beside you -whatever suits.
Stay after Friday’s class for coffee or tea at Padbury’s, our treat. A lovely chance to unwind and connect with other mums.
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FIZZ & FLOW
🌿Suitable for all levels, including beginners
Join us for our Fizz & Flow series, happening once a month on a Friday! Experience a lively 45-minute Reformer Pilates class that gets your heart pumping, followed by a chance to relax with drinks and socialising. Each session features a unique theme and drink - like ‘Pilates and Prosecco’ - promoting a sense of community and connection. It’s the perfect way to celebrate your hard work and enjoy a fun evening with like-minded people!
For the most convenient way to book classes and manage your bookings, download the Manna app. The app allows you to easily view the timetable, book and reschedule classes, join waitlists and manage your account all in one place.
Alternatively you can book your class online here.