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Published: Sun, 06/26/22

The Jane Thomas Pilates Newsletter

Hello ,

This Week

We are coming towards the end of our regular face-to-face class timetable, so you need to check out the timetable (link below) or simply check when your summer face-to-face classes are timetabled here. Remember you can book a Catchup class if the dates for your regular class don’t quite match your own summer timetable.

Online classes will continue throughout the summer though, so if you can’t attend your face-to-face class, you could jump into the online live or recorded sessions — see the online class timetable (link below).

Thank You

I just want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for the love and support shown over the last couple of weeks.

I had planned to run an online Jumping Into June challenge to take us into and through the Summer, however — with recent events you'll know about from last week's Newsletter — I haven’t been able to get this organised yet. The good news is that it will still be happening — it will be Jumping Into June/July instead … woohoo !!! It will be based around walking, so if you are into getting your daily step count in this will definitely be for you.

A big THANK YOU to everyone coming to class over the last week in the heat, whether it be online Live/Recorded, or face-to-face... you are all awesome, and we really appreciate you.

Pilates Classes

Week Beginning 27 June

As last week, all online classes are running as usual.

Face-to-face classes are running this week as usual in Quorn Village Hall and Rempstone Village Hall.

However, the Old Woodhouse Hall classes start their summer break next week, and Rosebery Street Medical Centre face-to-face classes are not running due to the venue having internal work done.

Rosebery Street classes will however run the following week on 6 July, before the venue closes for the summer to allow the remaining work to be carried out. We know this is an issue for all our Rosebery Street classmembers and we appreciate your patience, but the closure is out of our hands — and — at least when the venue reopens it will be warmer and more comfortable for us all. Looking forward to that!

Exercise of the Week

This week I share a classic Pilates exercise — The Roll Down. I want to stress here that this is NOT suitable if you have osteoporosis of the spine, or if you have prolapsed discs.

However, if you don’t have these conditions, then a roll down is great to get the spine moving and stretching out the back of the body. You can do it from sitting in a chair, and also from a high kneeling position — which is great if you suffer with any kind of dizziness when performing this movement in full.

Always work at the appropriate level for your body and keep away from pain.

Here is the video.

YOUR WHOLE SELF

Watching my granddaughter Adie look at herself in our full length mirror made me smile this week. I watched her examining herself, going closer to the mirror and placing her hands on it so she could get really close up. She seemed to be there for ages, sticking her tongue out, moving her head over to one side then the other. Then she started to swivel on her feet and legs, then she started to laugh, not just giggle but really laugh out loud, splitting your sides laughter. I started to ask her what was funny, what are you laughing at? She didn’t answer me, but suddenly she just went right up to the mirror and gave herself a kiss.

It made me think of all the times I have looked in the mirror and reflect on what I have seen and what I have told myself … not liking my hair, not liking the shape of my bottom, seeing the wrinkles, looking at my crooked face, not liking a particular outfit on me, not wanting to see my knees … Goodness the list could go on.

I’m guessing that at some earlier point though I did exactly what my 2 year old granddaughter did.

Everything about what she did is positive, it felt like she really looked at herself, loved what she saw and had a good laugh with herself.

When did we lose the ability to see ourselves reflected back and actually like what we see? We suddenly become judgemental of ourselves, as if we haven’t quite met up to our own expectations in how we look, some aspects of our appearance, our body shape, our face, what we are wearing.

I really hope, and I am going to encourage her to keep looking and keep giving her reflection a kiss, because I want her to truly love herself and never lose it. Try it this week, try looking in a full length mirror and instead of being critical of yourself, find the things you love … change the words you use around what you see. Instead of looking at my wrinkles and thinking about how they age me, those wrinkles are a reflection of lots of laughing, lots of enjoying life. I want you all to be more Adie over the next week.

PS I know when you see me next time you will all be looking for my ‘crooked face’ 🤣👏. And that’s fine …

Have a great week everyone, and keep moving!

Jane xx

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