Happy New Year

Published: Sun, 01/02/22

The Jane Thomas Pilates Newsletter

Hello ,

Happy New Year everyone …. 2022 here we come!

First up is my January challenge …

KNIPS — 10-Day Challenge

10 days to improve mobility and strength for the Knees and Hips through the power of Pilates.

This is FREE and I invite you to join my Facebook group JTP Zone to participate in the 10 day challenge.

Starting 10 January — 20 January, LIVE in the JTP Zone Facebook group, every evening at 6.30pm for 10 minutes — with exercises for knees and hips to help you get more movement and strengthen those important muscles.

All you have to do is join the group, it is a private group for JTP Zone members, but if you're not yet a JTP Zone member you can join for 10 days — no charge — to participate in the KNIPS 10-Day Challenge — everyone is welcome! After the 10 days has finished you can leave the group or, of course, you may decide to continue … your choice.

If you feel you haven’t moved enough over Christmas, your mind and body are struggling, you are lacking motivation to get back to exercise, and you want to become more active — then join in my KNIPS 10-Day Challenge.

The link to join the challenge is here, then answer the 3 questions to request to join and I will see you in there from 10 January.

Note: If you are NOT on Facebook, and you have no intention of joining Facebook, you still don’t have to miss out — just let me know (by replying to this Newsletter) and I will send you the link to join the KNIPS 10-day Challenge LIVE in Zoom.

Pilates Classes

Week Beginning 3 January

Online Classes

Tuesday 9.30am — Morning Movement — 45mins in Zoom
Wednesday 8am — Kickstart Your Day — 15mins in Zoom
Friday 8am — Kickstart Your Day Xtra — 30mins in Zoom
Saturday 9.30am — Morning Movement — 45mins in Zoom

To view the Calendar for Live Online classes, click or tap here.

As usual, links to join individual Live classes are available for members on the jtp.zone website. Also, all classes are recorded as they are broadcast, and made available soon after for members, on demand — 24/7 — as often as you want — too. So you never need to miss a class!

Face-to-Face Classes

Face-to-cace classes generally restart next week (ie, week beginning 10 January). Look out for emails landing in your inbox over the next week regarding this. As spaces tend to get booked quickly, please don’t miss out.

Replacements for Old Woodhouse Hall classes (missed from 10 December) are on this Friday 7 January.

The face-to-face class Calendar is available to view if you click or tap here. Remember the online Catchups system (link below) if you will miss your class, so you can book a Catchup space in another class.

Reformers At Home

There's a new routine available now on the members jtp.zone website this week.

4-Week Free Membership — NEW YEAR DEAL

If you haven’t experienced online Pilates classes yet, and you are new to Jane Thomas Pilates, you can enjoy our brand-new offer and and have a Free 4-Week Membership.

Enrolling on my Free 4-Week Membership will give you unrestricted access to:

The full Live broadcast online class timetable
On demand Recordings of classes available 24/7
Beginners classes
Popup Props Classes
Pilates Surgeries
Pilates Tutorials — including runners knee, hip flexors, the shoulder girdle, foot cramp
Reformers at Home — if you are lucky enough to have a Home Reformer

For four whole weeks! Just click or tap the link here for details and to enrol. At the end of your Free 4-Week Membership you can continue with unrestricted access for just £15 a month. It really is fantastic value for money.

Start at the ABC

If you have never done Pilates before, or maybe you have done a few sessions in the past but feel ready to start again … then why not try my Absolute Beginners Course?

The Absolute Beginners Course introduces you to the correct techniques and gives you the foundation exercises needed to enable you to take up regular Pilates classes when you feel ready.

At just £30 here’s what’s included:

6 Class Videos progressing you through the exercises
52-page full colour training manual
Free online 30 minutes consultation with Jane once completed the 6 sessions

This course allows you to work at your own pace, in the comfort of your own home, and with access to the training videos on demand means you can practice and repeat as often as you want.

Click or tap here for more information about my Absolute Beginners Course.

Exercise of the Week

Sharing a roll-down this week, which is classic Joseph Pilates, but carries a certain amount of contra-indication in that it isn’t recommended for certain spine conditions such as osteoporosis or prolapsed discs. So this move is not recommended for anyone with these conditions. For those who do not have these conditions a roll-down is a firm favourite.

Things to remember when performing the roll-down — always have soft knees, and don’t push through pain, and work at the appropriate level for you. I demonstrate different positions of the feet and the roll down from a different start position.

Here is the video.

YOUR WHOLE SELF

It’s that time of year when we start to think about new beginnings, creating new habits, starting a new health regime, thinking about things we would like to change perhaps. If you are feeling a little lost and not sure how you want your 2022 to look here’s an exercise for you to do … you’ve probably heard of a Life Pie.

Find an A4 piece of paper and draw a big circle, then divide the circle into 6 sections and label each section as follows:

Work/Money
Spirituality
Play/Creativity
Health/Exercise
Friends
Romance/Adventure

Now have a think about each section and mark yourself out of 10 in terms of your life right now: 1/10 being very, very low and lacking in your life; 10/10 being maximum and full up in your life. Then you can start to look and think about each section, and address the balance.

For example if Health/Exercise score is 3/10 then it may be you need to look at this and ask why it is so low and how important it might be to change it particularly if you are feeling under par with your health and wellbeing.

This exercise isn’t about trying to get 10/10 for each part of your pie, it is about finding where you feel things are lacking and where you want to put more of your efforts because you know that will make your life easier, happier, more content. It will allow you to recognise the things that are within your control that will enable you to make the necessary changes.

You can get creative and if you have crayons you could colour in your pie and have a different colour for each piece of pie.

Be curious, enjoy the exercise and see where it takes you.

Have a great week, and keep moving...

Jane xx

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