Silencito Pilates and Meditation Studio and Online

I can’t recommend Liz & Silencito Pilates highly enough. Liz is very knowledgeable, experienced & gives quality personal attention on each visit. Tailor made exercises to help your heal from an injury, gain strength & confidence again. Liz amazingly knows just how much to push you to get the best results. Lovely clean, positive & friendly atmosphere.

Silencito is a beautiful space and each session is guided by the talented and highly trained Liz. Every week is a lesson in focus, peace and strength.

Going to pilates with Liz is like a little holiday for your brain/body. Under her instruction, I have used movement to effectively heal injuries, aches and pains by tuning into my body and breath. No matter how I come in, I somehow always leave feeling better. I feel very grateful to have found such a skilled and thoughtful practitioner

Liz is the ultimate Pilates teacher (and the nicest person) anyone could wish for. Her knowledge and skills are amazing. I can not believe she has got me to this point and fixed “my garment” with such patience and wisdom. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I feel sorry for so many friends who live too far away to benefit from Liz.

I do not know how Liz could be a better teacher. Everything she does is done to perfection so there's not any room for improvement.
When I was looking for a place to start doing Pilates and read Liz's reviews I was like "wow, I have to meet this teacher" and after the very first session I understood what people meant when they wrote marvels about her.
It's been "wow after wow" each class.
Even when a movement seems to be impossible to me, I do my best to insist and to do it right - when you have a teacher like that, you want to make them proud!
Liz's knowledge, experience and passion are as deep and impressive as her kindness and patience. As foreigners, my husband and I not always get the instructions straightaway but it was never a problem. Liz repeats and shows again what we are supposed to do as many times as necessary and never ever makes us feel like the clock is ticking when we have a question, no matter how silly the question is.
Practicing Pilates with Liz is much more than the weekly physical activity I was looking for in the beginning: it is an incredibly enriching experience that nurtures not only the body but also my spirit and soul.

When we first arrived at Silencito I only had two concerns to address. My lower back and my neck which had been a daily and constant pain in my life for some years. After starting the pilates program with Liz, in few months of weekly classes + a day or two of "homework" we managed to get rid of the pains. Liz vast knowledge about the body, close supervision and attention to every single detail during the sessions, fixed what was a burden for years in less time that I could ever imagine. That's about the benefits side.

About Pilates, I was never the gym person type and always found it very boring doing the same repetitive exercises and getting injured. For that reason Pilates was my greatest discovery for exercising. Every time we get into Liz studio there's new exercises. There's always a surprise, never gets boring. I think this is a valuable information for people like me, that don't have that athlete spirit. I'm always impressed with the versatility and intelligence behind the development of each single exercise, how it works amazingly not only for your body but for your balance, mental strength and also how it works it all at the same time, quite intensely but gently at the same time. Pilates in my opinion is the finest and sophisticated that looks simple.

On the top of it all, as if I needed anymore than fixing a daily pain in my life, Liz is a fantastic human being that you just want to be friends with. She is very kind, passionate, attentive, sensitive and she is always happy to welcome you to every single class. You just can feel how much she loves what she does and how she transfers all that passion and energy into your own wellbeing. And I need to mention this, she has a little choir of real pot plants that sing their energy out through a little sound device for you while you are in the session and that is very, very lovely and relaxing!

Liz, I can't thank you enough for doing what you do.
And I can't thank enough my health's manager and wife Leticia for inviting me into that.

Sincerely and always looking forward to the next class,
Caio

Liz has a beautiful way of both supporting and pushing you. She has a deep understanding of healthy movement and structural function, combined with a patient and grounded manner. The studio is calm and professional. After having two kids, I feel grateful to have her help in starting to get my body back and rebuilding my strength. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her.

An expert in the field and an extraordinary teacher, I had complete trust with my prenatal preparation and postnatal healing. She has extraordinary ability to adapt and combine excercises, heal and stregnthen wholistically, and still keep it interesting!

Liz Stride has been instructing my husband and me in Pilates for more than 10 years. Each session she has the uncanny ability to know just how hard we needed to work. Sometimes we needed a softer stretching session. Sometimes a remedial session; there were plenty of those over 10 years with broken bones, operations and injuries being brought along to sessions and all being healed faster because of them. Sometimes she pushed us hard to make new and stronger muscle connections. Our bodies are better for Liz's instruction. Highly recommended.

I first met Liz when she was teaching a group class at Oxygen in Coogee in 2001 after having tried various venues to practise Pilates. What first struck me was the gentle but constant instruction – giving guidance to the whole class whilst making is personal enough to each one of us. Her melodious voice and precise instruction made each class both challenging but relaxing at the same time.
Having had scoliosis, I had to be careful in movement and Liz understood that from the start and catered to my needs whilst also catering to many others in the class.
Later we moved onto private classes both in the studio as well as mat classes at home. Liz’s great instruction saw me through back problems due to the scoliosis, constant travel and two bouts of bad neuralgia and sciatica after shingles. I always felt safe and supported in the movements and could revert to basics when necessary whilst at other times getting into more difficult routines. This has now been the pattern for nearly 15 years and one that has given me good back health (combined with osteopathic visits) ; great core strength; more supple joints than most people of my age, good posture and ongoing protection and nurturing of my general mobile health. It should also be emphasised that each class with Liz leaves me feeling rested but also totally energised mentally due to the great breathing practise that I have learnt with her. The classes can calm in difficult circumstances and energise when feeling down.
Knowing her professional qualifications are excellent, but more knowing her practice in class with me I would not hesitate to recommend Liz to anyone seeking a superior Pilates experience as well as instruction
Carole Parsons January 2019

Liz is the most exceptional Pilates instructor. We’re long-standing clients because we value Liz’s experience and outstanding knowledge of the body as it relates to movement.

Our sessions with Liz are as a ‘couple’ and we appreciate her flexibility and attentiveness to our individual needs.

Between us, we’ve had issues with back pain as well as pregnancy and it’s very hard to find any instructor more professional, trustworthy or skilled.

Liz is so passionate about Pilates and has encouraged us to apply the principles of breath and movement in our every day life; from the way we sit and walk to how we approach life’s challenges.

After years of doing Pilates with Liz, we not only look and feel better, our cores are stronger, our posture is taller and most importantly we lead more fulfilling, calmer and pain-free lives.

Liz continually develops her breadth of knowledge and expertise. If she’s attended a new course, she’ll share with us the latest techniques and teachings. Her classes are different each session and this keeps it fresh and challenging.

We always find ourselves walking out of a Pilates session with Liz stretched, energised, inspired — and looking forward to our next class.

Very happy clients, Chris & Cené

Liz Stride has been instructing my husband and me in Pilates for more than 10 years. Each session she has the uncanny ability to know just how hard we needed to work. Sometimes we needed a softer stretching session. Sometimes a remedial session; there were plenty of those over 10 years with broken bones, operations and injuries being brought along to sessions and all being healed faster because of them. Sometimes she pushed us hard to make new and stronger muscle connections. Our bodies are better for Liz's instruction. Highly recommended.

I have been on my Pilates journey with Liz for more than four years. When I first started I was recovering from a back injury, and had tried several different methods to get stronger, only to exacerbate the injury. Pilates with Liz changed that.

Liz is a very warm and welcoming person. She has great attention to detail, a refined instinct about knowing when to get a little more out of me and is very clear and descriptive in her instruction. The whole experience has been very motivating for me. What started as one session a week is now an integrated part of my life.

With Liz, it is really all about what is best for your body on the day. I always leave a session with Liz feeling better, happier and stronger than when I walked in.

As a pilates instructor myself I’m very fussy when it comes to choosing who I do my workouts with. I like my session to flow, be challenging and be specific to my body. Liz gives me all of this. Lizs’ way of teaching is what I believe Pilates truly is. She is incredibly knowledgeable, knows her clients bodies and I never feel as though she’s giving me an exercise that isn’t going to be right for me particularly if I’m battling injuries. She is hands on, keeps the session moving and I always walk away feeling as I should…taller, stronger, pain free and even throughout my body.