Noor Bakker

Noor leads our restorative classes and mobility workshops.

She spent eight years as a physiotherapy assistant before training as a Pilates teacher, and the two sit closely together in how she works. She is interested in the parts of movement that most training skips: how long you can stay in a position, how quickly you come down from effort, and how much of what feels like tightness is really just a body that has not been asked to relax in a while.

Her classes run slow and quiet. The room is dimmed, the holds are long, and nobody is counting repetitions. Members who train hard elsewhere tend to book her Friday evening slot weeks ahead.

Noor teaches Stretch and Restore on Wednesday and Friday evenings, and runs a mobility workshop on the first Sunday of every month.