Hi, I’m Jess
I’m Jess, the founder of Function and Poise Training.
As a Pilates Teacher and Personal Trainer based in Cheshire. I specialise in private coaching, bespoke small-group sessions, wellness days, fitness retreats, and immersive training experiences.
My passion lies in helping individuals improve posture, build strength, enhance movement quality, and reduce the risk of injury, all while cultivating a mindset that supports a long, active, and fulfilling life.
With over a decade of experience working alongside physiotherapists, professional athletes, and young adults with disabilities, I launched Function and Poise Training in 2022 to bring a more considered, intelligent approach to movement and well-being.
After years of experimenting with every fitness trend, I reached a turning point and committed to deepening my own education. Through this journey, I discovered the transformative power of mindset and the precision of Pilates, an evolution that reshaped not only my training methods, but how I understand and care for my body.
My purpose now is to guide clients toward meaningful, life-changing results: improved strength, refined flexibility, enhanced confidence, and a resilient body they can rely on for years to come.
If you’re ready to invest in yourself and explore what’s possible for your body and well-being, I’d love to connect, support and educate you through your health challenges.
Function & Poise Ethos
Function & Poise is the balance of strength and softness. Power with intention. Movement with meaning.
This brand was born from personal experience. After navigating multiple operations, ongoing gut health challenges, and a complex relationship with my own body, movement became more than physical practice, it became the foundation for rebuilding my confidence, resilience, and sense of self. I understand what it feels like to feel disconnected from your body. I also understand the quiet, life-shifting power of learning to trust it again.
That understanding shapes everything at Function & Poise.
This is a space created for women who are evolving, through different seasons of life, identity, and strength. For women who choose to move forward with intention rather than chase who they once were. Not to “bounce back,” but to rise into what’s next with clarity, stability, and self-respect.
Function & Poise represents women who show up with quiet determination. Women who are becoming stronger, steadier, and more grounded in who they are becoming. This brand is an ode to that evolution.
My professional background in Sport Therapy, Pilates, functional strength training, and women’s wellness is woven seamlessly with lived experience. Every session is designed to honour the female body as it changes—rooted in precision, quality, and longevity rather than intensity for intensity’s sake.
There is no ego here. No urgency. No pressure to perform. Only intelligent movement, refined strength, and sustainable progress.
Aesthetic goals are never separated from function. Strength is built to feel good, to move well, to support real life, whether that means carrying confidence into the boardroom or lifting grandchildren with ease.
Function & Poise exists for real women in real seasons of life. It is a space for thoughtful conversation around movement, menopause, mindset, and long-term well-being. A brand grounded in compassion, discretion, excellence, and quiet confidence.