MOVEMENT FOR LIVING WELL · LAGOS, ALGARVE

Move well.
Feel well.
For life.

Intelligent, fascia-informed movement — Pilates, yoga, breath and restorative practices, taught in person in Lagos and live online.

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IN PERSON · LAGOS, ALGARVE

The MOVE Studio

Group classes & courses

Private sessions

Fully equipped

Ideal for those in the Algarve

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LIVE ONLINE · ANYWHERE

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Video recording available

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RETREATS PROFESSIONAL COURSES

WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT

Not fitness.
Embodied understanding.

You will be guided intelligently and safely by someone who truly understands the body.

This isn't exercise. It's a relationship with how your body moves, organises itself, and recovers, informed by fascia science, anatomy, and thirty years of lived practice.

Not generic fitness
Anatomically precise
Not performance-led
Intelligent & restorative
Not one size for all
Attuned to you

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Stephanie assisting a student attending a class.

THE METHOD

Three things that make it work.

An elderly woman with short reddish hair and glasses around her neck, dressed in a white tank top and mustard yellow pants, kneeling on a yoga mat with her right hand on the floor and her left hand reaching forward to a geometric wooden structure. She is in a room with organized shelves of fabric and tool rolls in the background, and various fabric pieces and ropes are scattered around her on the floor.

Fascia-informed

Science, anatomy and thirty years of craft. The body's connective tissue shapes everything about how you move, age, and recover.

A woman practicing yoga in a headstand pose in a room with vertical blinds and wooden flooring.

Precise & alive

Clarity and structure without rigidity. Stephanie's teaching has form, but movement that is truly intelligent is never mechanical.

An elderly woman practicing yoga, supported by another woman who is kneeling behind her, in a bright studio with yoga mats on the floor.

Attuned to you

You are seen, not processed. Each class is responsive to the people in the room. Private sessions shaped entirely around your body.

A woman with short red hair, wearing a brown sleeveless top and red pants, sitting cross-legged on a yoga mat in a yoga studio with a plain white wall, smiling at the camera.

MEET STEPHANIE ROSS-RUSSELL

30 years of teaching.
A lifetime of practice.

From professional dance to fascia-informed education, Stephanie teaches the teachers, and she will teach you.

Her authority comes from lived experience: a dance career, a serious injury, a long recovery, a triplet pregnancy and three decades of curious, committed teaching. What she brings to every class is not a method borrowed from a manual, but a practice shaped by everything her body has known.

Professional dance • Educator of educators • Fascia • Pilates • Yoga • Breath work

MEET STEPHANIE

"Stephanie Ross Russell's vocation is to teach movement for living well in your everyday life."

Katherine Carpenter
"Just a quickie to say how much I am enjoying the Friday morning class. It’s a nice ‘me’ time amidst all the other stuff going on. It’s pleasantly challenging."

Lucy
“I am keen to keep attending and am surprised at how challenging the classes are — but also delighted. Thank you. Andrew is right; you are a great teacher.”

Clare

RETREATS

A week of movement and rest in the Algarve.

Immersive retreats for a week of movement, rest and discovery on the south-western coast of Portugal.

EXPLORE RETREATS

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FOR MOVEMENT TEACHERS

Movement labs and professional training.

Fascia, anatomy and movement intelligence for working teachers, at the MOVE Studio.

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