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Hello , I hope you have had a good week. Pilates
Classes Week Beginning 30 January All Face-to-Face Classes are now back up and running, in full swing, and every class is pretty much fully
booked. If anyone is interested in starting Pilates with us then it is still worth getting in touch with us, as we can add you to our waiting list. If you are a beginner we do have a couple of spaces in our Beginners Class, however these spaces are going quickly, so contact us to check. Online Classes will continue this week, and remember if you can’t make a live class you can easily catchup as all classes are recorded and available 24/7, housed in the members' jtp.zone website. I also want to remind everyone who attends face-to-face classes — you have full access to all online classes … if you have
misplaced your username and password for the jtp.zone, let us know so we can remind you. You never have to miss out on your Pilates fix with us, you have unrestricted access to all online classes. As well as regular Pilates
classes, my online programme includes classes with props, specific conditions, plus special events and one-off programmes such as KNIPS challenge which was 10 workouts, each lasting just 10 minutes, but focusing and targeting mobility and strength for the knees and hips. As a JTP member you have full access to all of this, so don’t miss out … just check out your username and password with us. Some of you may not know that as well as teaching Pilates, I am a Biomechanics Coach — which has helped me to have a better,
more informed understanding of how the body moves. My teaching of Pilates has definitely been enhanced by the knowledge I gained through Biomechanics Coaching, giving me more tools to work with and a more scientific approach to improving mobility when I am
teaching individuals and classes. So I thought I would share a muscle release exercise in this week’s Newsletter. This release is aimed at releasing the mid-spine area. We have muscles each side of the spine called the Quadratus Lumborum (QL) which pass from the
top of the pelvis, into the lumbar spine, and up to the lower part of the twelfth rib. The QL are deep muscles and if they get tight — which can be quite common — they can create pain in the lower back and above in the shoulder girdle. They can also affect the function of the diaphragm and our breathing, so it is a key area of the body to help us move more freely, breathe more easily and improve our posture. Try the release, but always listen to your body, move appropriately for your body, and don’t continue if you experience pain. Any questions about this or any of the Exercises Of The Week highlighted in my Newsletters, please message me. I often find myself returning to Gratitude, when I sit down to write this section of the Newsletter. I know lots of you, as I do, keep a Gratitude Journal, to help us be more present in life, be more conscious with life and to help us recall the many things we have in life that we can be grateful for. It can definitely help to bring perspective if we start to worry, or we feel things aren’t going as well as they could, or if we have been involved in discussions and things have been said that may feel
negative and make us question ourselves. However, this week, I was listening to a thought by Jay Shetty on gratitude, in which he talked about making gratitude broader. For example we might feel grateful for a specific gift or something that someone has done for us, but we can broaden this out to be thankful for much more than a single
action. When we start to broaden our gratitude, this then has the effect of changing our view, changing our perspective on a bigger scale. The results when we start to look out beyond one single moment, are
the feelings it creates, the behaviours it can lead to, and the energy it can provide.
Have a great week folks, with love from
Jane xx
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