Hi, I’m Aurelia.
Hi, I'm Aurelia. I'm a personal trainer and sports massage therapist in Hackney, self-employed since 2016, and I still train my clients myself: in the park, at your home, at mine, in the gym or online.
Many of the people I work with have been told to be careful. After a heart event. After a stroke. With [MS or Parkinson's]. During or after pregnancy. I hold Level 4 specialist qualifications in cardiac rehabilitation and in exercise for long-term neurological conditions, and I'm one of the instructors on Hackney Council's Fit 4 Health Exercise after Stroke scheme, which won the 2025 London Sport Health & Wellbeing Award with NHS England London.
I also teach Les Mills BodyPump at Virgin Active, give nutrition advice, and raise money for the British Heart Foundation on long bike rides.
Believe you can.
Qualifications
The two Level 4 specialist qualifications are what let me work safely with people most trainers would turn away.
Specialist
Level 4
Cardiac Rehabilitation (Phase IV)
WRIGHT Foundation CIC
Level 4
Exercise for Long Term Neurological Conditions
WRIGHT Foundation CIC
Level 4
GP / Exercise Referral
[awarding body]
Level 4
Biomechanics Method of Corrective Exercise
[awarding body]
Core
- Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor (Level 3)
- Pre- and postnatal exercise
- Group exercise and exercise to music
- Les Mills BodyPump instructor
Also
- Nutritional Advisor
- Sports Massage
- [First aid, current certificate]
Fit 4 Health, Hackney
I’m one of the instructors on Hackney Council’s Fit 4 Health Exercise after Stroke scheme at Clissold Leisure Centre. In 2025 the scheme won the London Sport Awards 2025: Health & Wellbeing Award, in association with NHS England London.
Stroke survivors arrive frightened of their own bodies. Watching someone get their balance back, and then their confidence, is the best part of my week.
Along the way
2025
Fit 4 Health Exercise after Stroke scheme wins the London Sport Health & Wellbeing Award
October 2024
Palace to Palace charity ride, Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle [45 or 90 miles, for The Prince's Trust]
[Year]
England to Paris charity ride [c. 80 miles, charity]
2018
Starts teaching Les Mills BodyPump at Virgin Active
2016
Goes self-employed as a personal trainer in Hackney
Plus a long run of fundraising rides for the British Heart Foundation. [List to follow.]