Find Your Own Pace
Find Your Own Pace at Ellie Brown Wellness, Fitness & Pilates studios in Greenwich Market.
Ellie’s Wellness Centre in Greenwich Market which has now been open for just over four years, features an original wall art by Rise Art Prize winner, Naomi Edmondson.
Ellie says: “I went to Naomi after seeing her life affirming quote on a wall when I was running along a canal in East London. I thought I would just go along and ask Naomi to paint my favourite quote, but it wasn’t so simple.
“Instead, Naomi and I chatted about what teaching, wellness, Pilates and fitness meant to me. I went away and spent a week jotting down phrases I used as I taught and from those notes, Naomi and I came up with Find Your Own Pace.
“Clients love this phrase as it reflects the relaxed atmosphere of the space and how we teach, and for me it’s what all fitness and health is about. Everyone can come and enjoy Pilates, or our running clubs, at their own pace. We look after clients needing rehabilitation, new mums, over sixties, new runners and marathoners – everyone is welcome, and they all go at their own pace.”
Naomi, 33, a former British Freestyle Skiing Champion, set up Survival Techniques after quitting the sport because of injury.
Naomi says: “A few years ago, when I was feeling very low after ending my skiing career, I wrote a list to remind me what to do when I was feeling bad. One was ‘Talk to someone, anyone, about anything’, after realising I felt better after a little chat with the man at the corner shop. I found out friends had similar ‘Survival Techniques’ and I began to collect them and paint them on streets around London.
“When I worked with Ellie, we wanted to create something that spoke directly to the people using the studio. We talked about what Ellie likes about her clients and the kinds of things she says to them.
“Find Your Own Pace felt like a perfect crossover between the pacing of the sessions at the studios and the Survival Techniques interpretation of finding your own pace and way of living life that suits you, not trying to squash yourself into a different, existing speed.”
Ellie who lives in West Greenwich, has been teaching Pilates for 18 years, has a weekly timetable of over 70 classes along with a beautiful wellness centre at Market Studios,
Come along and find your own pace.