maria dean

Maria is an experienced Pilates Instructor with a Women’s Health and Rehab Specialism. Trained to teach both matwork and large equipment pilates, Maria loves to enable clients to have an enjoyable movement experience whilst gaining awareness, strength, mobility and confidence in their bodies.

Maria trained professionally as a dancer and choreographer at LIPA (Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts) where the course included some pilates. After suffering with severe Pelvic Girdle Pain through three pregnancies, Maria went back into Pilates Classes. It made such a difference that she decided, with the encouragement of Amanda Savage, to train with APPI as an instructor herself. 

In April 2019 she founded Contento Pilates and in May 2023 the business grew to incorporate the reformer studio in Great Shelford. 

• BA(hons) Performing Arts - Dance LIPA

• APPI Certified Matwork Pilates Instructor

• APPI Large Equipment (reformer, cadillac, split pedal chair, arc barrel)

• APPI Antenatal and Postnatal Matwork Pilates, Antenatal and Postnatal Pilates on the Reformer

• APPI Kids and Teens, All The Small Balls, Scoliosis, Pilates for Runners, 

• Burrell Education Pelvic Floor and Core Foundations, Optimal Nutrition and Lifestyle for Postnatal Recovery

• Gait Happens, Functional Gait Analysis level 1 and Gait Guru

Maria Dean teaches Reformer and Matwork Pilates, as well as Pregnancy and Postnatal Pilates, and is one of our Holistic Core Restore® instructors.