SLIIK© began in 2019. I wanted to create a class where I could use some of the more chilled out style R'n'B music that I enjoyed listening to that would generally be considered too slow for traditional music based group exercise classes.  I began see a gap in the market for a class that offered fun dance fitness, but in an overall more downtempo fashion. A class that sat between the high energy, up tempo dance fitness genre and the slower paced Pilates/Yoga/mind-body genre.

I came up with the concept of a class combining dance fitness with bodyweight exercises and light dumbbells to offer the best of all worlds in a class that has an overall chilled out vibe.​After setting up classes in my local area, following just a few months of teaching the concept in its infancy, 2020 and the COVID pandemic put the brakes on the entire project and during that time, I upskilled as a Pilates instructor and back pain exercise specialist.

Fast forward to 2023 and the SLIIK© Fitness project was reborn with new skills and renewed vigour. This time it was serious and I refined the format to include more creative Pilates style exercises to diversify the movement, putting a stronger emphasis on incorporating mobility training into the bodyweight exercises.​This brought SLIIK© to new heights as we pulled away from bog standard crunches and squats into altogether more exciting body toning exercises. Combined with creative hip hop inspired dance fitness, this elevated the class to deliver exciting movement and packing a punch in the fitness stakes throughout whilst retaining the core principles of being 100% low impact with an overall chilled out vibe.