About us

I'm Lily, the founder of Core Blossom Pilates.

I discovered my love for Pilates and, over time, realised I wanted to create a space where movement could become so much more than exercise. I wanted to build a community, a place where people feel welcomed, supported and proud of their progress.

There is something incredibly rewarding about seeing you each week, watching your confidence grow, your strength develop and the small improvements that, together, become something much bigger.

Pilates has become an important part of my own life, and Core Blossom was created from that same belief, that movement can give us space to breathe, reset and reconnect with ourselves.

I'm often asked where the name came from. Core Blossom has many layers.

My sisters and I are all named after flowers, Jasmine, Lily and Poppy, while my mum, Jennie, is a qualified therapist whose practice is called Start Blooming.

But the name carries a deeper, more personal meaning too.

We often say that Pilates gives you the chance to free your mind, and I truly believe that. Time on the mat or reformer is precious. It can become a safe space to pause, breathe and simply be.

My mum and I began Pilates together during a particularly difficult chapter of our lives.

One day, my mum and I spontaneously went to the cinema to watch It Ends With Us. Turns out, the story of Lily Bloom & her mum Jenny Bloom mirrored our own in ways we couldn't ignore. Watching the journey of resilience and support only reinforced that healing is possible, especially when you don't do it alone.

Around that time, my mum and I began Pilates together.

A emotionally abusive household, throughout my childhood I witnessed. In our experience strength is built through survival and it sadly comes with scars. I learned how to build walls early on. And sometimes those walls crack, and the smallest things bring tears.

There were times when my mum and I were on the way to Pilates, weighed down by negativity and so close to turning around to go home.

But we didn't. And that choice mattered.

Pilates became a sanctuary. A place where the mind could quiet and the body could lead. A place where we chose ourselves, again and again.

Core Blossom is my version of that dream, a space rooted in strength and growth.

Strength at your centre. Grow through challenge.

This isn't shared for sympathy, it's shared to honour my growth and the direction it's taken me.

And so our name is powerful to me, it holds my past, my growth, and the woman I'm becoming.

If I can help someone who may be in a similar position to where I once was, then I've already won.