Svetla Sun Pilates

Fantastic experience: Yesterday I attended a Pilates session at the Svetla Sun Studio in Cowbridge and it was an amazing experience! I’ve been in Reformer Pilates classes locally but the Sun Studio was a wake up call for all those underused muscles! After 60 minutes I felt tired but great. Hopefully looking forward to future 121 sessions with Svetla, a very thorough taskmaster! Thank you very much.

Fantastic experience: Svetla has been my personal trainer for two and a half years, providing a combination of pilates and weight training. I suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and as a consequence have problems with stiffness, fatigue and joint pain. I can honestly say Svetla's instructions have changed my life. When I started in September 2021 I was struggling to put my socks on, now I have flexibility and feel so much stronger. I know I am protecting my bones as well as my general health and wellbeing. So grateful to her! Professor Jean White CBE

Fantastic experience: Highly recommend - I did the Pilates in the Nuffield gym with Svetla, and week after week I have felt stronger, found new ways of moving my body and enjoyed the slower pace of Pilates. Can’t reccomend Svetla’s classes enough!

Fantastic experience: I first started going to Svetla’s class at Oxford house Risca because I had had a bad back and was told that I would need a discectomy !Luckily have any pain by the time I was due to have the operation so I decided not to have it . but I was always frightened that the pain would come back . Then I needed an operation to remove a large ovarian cyst . This was quite a big operation and afterwards between the two things I decided to put my trust in Svetla as I had to do something to get my strength back .That was six years ago . I’ve continued with Svetla’s lessons online since Covid as she moved to Cowbridge and it’s too far for me to travel . Svetla is a wonderful teacher . I haven’t had a bad back since I’ve been doing the lessons ! And feel much stronger overall . Svetla has an in depth knowledge of the body and exercises that can help specific problems. I can’t recommend her enough . Thank you Svetla x

Fantastic experience: I have been doing pilates for 7 years since joining the gym at Nuffield and just under 4 years ago Svetla joined us as an instructor and what can I say….. I have never been to a class where the instructor is so knowledgeable and passionate and extremely caring and always starts and finishes her class with a smile on her face.Since Svetla joined us I have stopped using the other instructor’s as no one else comes close to her expertise. I have heard today that Svetla is leaving Nuffield you will be greatly missed you are such a wonderful person and no one will be able to replace you. Thank you for all your help and encouragement ( even if sometimes it is painful) June

Fantastic experience: I thoroughly recommend having Pilates sessions with Svetla. She is very knowledgeable and passionate about her subject, and I have greatly benefitted from taking part in her 1-1 sessions. The sessions are varied and challenging, and have helped towards reaching my target to improve my mobility and flexibility. Thank you Svetla.

Fantastic experience: Svetla has been my Pilates instructor for nearly three years and has been very patient and supportive. Thank you Svetla

Fantastic experience: Doing Pilates with Svetla has helped me reclaim my life. I previously had repeated episodes of debilitating back pain, confining me to bed for several days. Now that I have greater core strength and understand how to move my body more safely, this level of back pain never happens anymore. If I do have back strain, it is much milder and I can recover within a day or two with strengthening Pilates exercises Svetla has taught me, and the use of doTERRA deep blue to speed healing. My fibromyalgia has also improved and I am able to do gardening, walking and other activities. Thanks to Pilates with Svetla, I am stronger now at 81 than I was 15 or 20 years ago.

Fantastic experience: After having major surgery and not having been able to move much for 18months prior to surgery I was concerned about having any strength in my core muscles when I first returned to the gym earlier this year. I attended Aqua and Zumba classes which I love, and I still enjoy, but was afraid to do any abdominal exercises as I had no strength in my core, and was afraid of doing any damage. I started attending Svetla’s Pilates classes and having one to one personal training sessions once a week with Svetla. This has transformed my fitness and my confidence. Each week Svetla monitors how I am doing, and what I can do next to keep improving. She gives me things to practice through the week, some exercises that I can practice at home, others at the gym. Everything is tailored to how well I’m doing, and what I need next. She amazes me with such creative exercises that I love, many of which I have never seen before. I would not have been able to make the progress I have without these sessions. Svetla has given me back my confidence to do all sorts of movements and exercises, and I plan to continue to work with her to get to my body back in shape. I would strongly recommend Svetla’s personal training sessions and classes if you want improve your health and fitness.

Fantastic experience: Went to Svetla after walking with a crutch for some time. After a hip replacement I felt I needed help to walk better without waddling. Svelta has given me lots of exercises to improve everything. It has made me more conscious of how to walk properly and has helped tremendously.

Fantastic experience: I’ve been working with Svetla for about 2 years after struggling with mobility of painful impingement in both shoulders and partial fusion in my back and neck. Svetla has given me a better understanding of how the body moves and has provided me with a range of exercises specifically tailored for my limited range of movement. Svetla has helped me immensely in both Pilates and gym work by instructing me in a range of exercises that have had a huge benefit in actually increasing my range of movement and reducing the pain. If there is something I cannot do, she will always find a different way of working to achieve the same results. She’s amazing. Would highly recommend her.

Fantastic experience: Svetla has been my PT instructor for since 2021, she is brilliant. Really adapts every workout for me to push myself further and also to train safely. I've improved so much and look forward to our weekly workouts.

Fantastic experience: I started doing Pilates with Svetla 12 months ago to improve my flexibility and hoping to ease niggles and pains that were creeping in. It's has been transformative. My movement is better, my core stronger and I have much better awareness of my posture. I haven't felt even a twinge in my back for 9 months. I find Svetla's approach is very tailored and we focus on something that needs working on as and when. Twice weekly sessions is great for me. If I had the time, 3 sessions a week would be amazing.

Fantastic experience: I’ve been doing zoom sessions with Svetla for over three years and it has been a really positive experience. She puts a lot of thought into the sessions and takes time to explain all the different elements and what the benefits are. She genuinely cares about me making progress, not just going through the motions. And she’s very open to input from my side - it’s not just a “teaching” experience. Highly recommended!

Positive experience: Svetla pushes you just enough to keep you achieving slowly but surely as the lessons progress, letting you know that you will be able to do it!

Fantastic experience: What can I say about this amazing, talented lady? Her calling in life is to help people of all ages and abilities and it’s definitely worked for me. I have been with Svetla for 13 years and am now into my seventies. My mobility outshines most of my contemporaries even though I have health issues like most people my age. I urge anyone reading this to contact Svetla whatever your issues and whatever your age, young or old, I promise you’ll never regret it. June

Fantastic experience: I always enjoy Pilates with Svetla and feel that I am so much stronger as a result of regular classes.

Fantastic experience: We met than I come to the Jim after treatment for frozen shoulders. I lost about half both arms movements. Svetla was very supportive and helpful. She adjusted exercises for my that I could become stronger and flexible again. I am very happy and grateful to Svetla for her training. It was wonderful journey, thank you.

Fantastic experience: After suffering with back pain for 6+ years, stuck in a cycle of trying to exercise but then hurting my back again, Svetla's 1 to 1 Pilates sessions have taken me out of this pain cycle. She has tailored my sessions and week by week my core strength and confidence in movement has vastly improved. My back pain is significantly reduced and when it is present I am able to cope better with it, without it restricting my activities/life style! So glad I was able to find her!

Fantastic experience: Svetla was my instructor. But became a friend I have several problems, I was told when I was 19 I would be in a wheel chair by age forty. I was not going to let that happen so I did every thing I could to prevent this. When I was in my 50s I thought I was getting stiff and my flexibility was becoming worse. I found Svetla, by doing some research, I had done some yoga but that didn't work for me. I then was offered a pilates by my GP. I found something to help. But the Instructor s could only go so far and didn't have the know how to adapt the set programme for individuals. The classes ended. So I had to find another class. I found Svetla at the share centre Newport. Thanks to her patience, knowledge, being able to adapt Exercises for me. I am 69 and still not in a wheelchair. You will not find a better teacher, instructor anywhere. I follow Svetla on Facebook and YouTube. I recommend that if like me old and not as mobile as you used to be you contact Svetla ASAP YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.