June is busting out all over … 🎶, 

All over the meadow and the hill, 

Buds’re bustin’ outa bushes 

And the rompin’ river pushes, 

Ev’ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill …” 

Will June bust out all over? Someone was saying that the forecast had given rain for the next 50 days!!!!! I hope that ISN’T true and why would anyone say that, please let it not be true and let’s hope June lives up to the Rodgers and Hammerstein song. 

Anyway, welcome to this week’s Newsletter. 

All Face-to-Face Classes are back after the half-term break, and as the Prime Minister has sprung the General Election on us, just check out the summer timetable dates for July if you attend Rempstone Village Hall with Jenny — we have had to take the election into account as the venue is used as a polling station.

Online Classes continue, and we are at Week 4 of the 6 week Pilates Plus Weights Programme. 

There are many advantages for our health to use resistance and weights with our exercises. Firstly we think of strength, and this is for bones as well as muscles. It also improves posture, due to the increased strength throughout the body. It improves the quality of movement and range of movement, so flexibility improves too. Finally, as the core strengthens then balance improves due to increased stability through additional weight bearing. 

However, it’s not just physical health benefits that come from weight bearing exercise — our mental health improves, self-worth increases, and movement is medicine.

If you aren’t currently a JTP class participant you can purchase this 6 session course as a stand alone programme, which gives you life access to the 6 class videos — simply reply to this Newsletter for details.

Week 4 of the Side Bend, increases the strength in this exercise, and you will see from the video that I haven’t done this level for a while (note a little wobble). I do show a way of putting this exercise into a strengthening combination of movement which some of you will enjoy. However, remember to work appropriately for your body and keep away from pain - revisit the previous weeks to develop and progress at your own pace.

We’re busy doing nothing, working the whole day through … trying to find lots of things not to do … we’re busy going nowhere isn’t it just a crime … we’d like to be unhappy, but … we never do have the time …  

Burke-van-heusen Inc 

Lots of songs from musicals have been my inspiration for this week’s Newsletter.

I often sing this one around the house, particularly if I am in procrastination mode .. avoiding those jobs that I don’t really want to do 😉 

However, that’s not my reason for quoting it today. 

I was watching Springwatch on TV last night, a programme I love, and as the presenters were chatting, one of them said that what we should all do is get outside with nature and do nothing! They were talking about the healing of being in nature, just being outside and doing nothing, but listening to the sounds around you. 

It felt like a bit of a follow on from last week’s Your Whole Self, when I was talking about meditation, and doing ‘nothing’ in nature, just listening, sounded like the perfect form of meditation. 

But then something I was also looking into this week and what I know a lot of the JTP family suffer with, is worrying! 

Worrying thoughts start in the head and relate to past experiences, and they can become all consuming, and when this happens we spend a lot of time getting cross with ourselves and almost giving ourselves a good ‘telling off’ for worrying, but doing this doesn’t really help, it certainly doesn’t stop us and can often make it worse. 

Recognising that worrying isn’t ‘danger’ — it's discomfort, it makes us feel uncomfortable, and what is good for discomfort is to do nothing! In other words don’t keep trying to find things to do to combat the worries, but make no effort, allow wherever you are to support you, and go on with your life. 

If it was a danger, our instincts would be to fight, run or freeze, but — for discomfort — relax and give it time to pass. Don’t be tricked into thinking that worrying is a danger, because this makes it worse. Worrying comes from our thoughts, that are based on the past, and aren’t real because nothing has happened yet and may not happen. 

SO don’t let the trickery of worry fool you into feeling like you HAVE to do something. Instead, go about your day and let the environment support you.

Have a good week folks — keep looking, moving and feeling good.

With love

Jane xx