Hello ,
This won’t come as a surprise to you all, but I am passionate about Pilates and what it can do for you, particularly if you set your mind and make the choice to commit to practising a
Pilates programme daily.
I speak from experience because I know that Pilates has enabled me to keep living an active life. I am writing this on a lovely Sunday morning following a run through the local woods, enjoying the sunshine, the fresh air, and our beautiful countryside.
I really want to encourage and motivate everyone to try and do some Pilates daily — and I know that some of you do and have told me how beneficial you are finding
this. I also know that some of you feel you don’t know what to do at home as you find it difficult to remember everything we do in our classes. So we are going to introduce a new service to our clients which many of you have been talking to me about, which will provide you with a weekly Pilates routine to do in your own home as often as you wish throughout the week. Until this service is up and running, make a choice to do the Exercise of the Week every day — and Commit to
your Core.
Above all, enjoy! Have a great week, look, move and feel good.
Jane, Keith and the team
xxxxx
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There are several Exercises of the Week this week —they are all about mobility and stretch for the mid-section of the spine, which gets tight and can cause back problems particularly if you spend a lot of time stuck at a desk working on a computer.
They are
specifically about mobility and stretch, not strength — we can look at strength another time. Here are the links to the four Exercises of the Week: - Exercise of the Week 1
- Exercise of the Week 2
- Exercise of the Week 3
- Exercise of the Week 4
Work at the appropriate level for your body: feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced. |
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I am currently reading a book called The Mindbody Prescription by John E Sarno.
It could be classed as a little controversial as it discusses the possibility that a great deal of pain that we complain about can often be related to psychological issues
— in that there is no physical reason for the pain, but when further analysis is carried out it can be related to emotional issues.
I like books that make me ask questions, and it is true I often hear the question “Why did the pain start now … I haven’t done anything differently?” So why does the pain sometimes appear to come out of nowhere? John E Sarno states that sometimes pain is brought on by our basic needs being put under pressure and a level of rage
building up inside us causing us to become angry and frustrated. He says that when this happens eventually if we cannot soothe our rage levels then physical symptoms will erupt.
According to Sarno our 6 basic needs are:
- To be perfect — excel, achieve, succeed
- To be liked — approved of, loved, respected
- To be taken care of — an unconscious desire that never goes away, no matter how old or independent we are
- To be soothed —
gratification from food, drink, entertainment
- To be physically invincible — strong, sexy
- To be immortal — unconsciously enraged by the inevitability of death.
He believes that our rage/soothe ratio needs to be addressed to keep physical symptoms away. I suffer with migraines, and I feel they come on when I am feeling stressed, usually because I feel I am not achieving what I want to achieve with my job, if I am worrying about non-physical issues such as meeting
a group of people for the first time and wanting them to like me, feeling weak emotionally like I cannot cope, and also feeling like I want to be looked after.
Certainly, I have looked at diet and all the things that I was told by my GP to cut out because they were causes of migraines, I have now cut them all out — and it has made no difference to them — so I am now looking at my rage/soothe ratio and getting rid of stress.
If I find
out how to do this, I will let you know, but the first thing is to stop worrying about being perfect: I will just do my best.
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All matwork and Reformer classes are running as planned this week, all in their correct venues.
Please note that this is the last full week of classes for all courses before the Easter break. However, due to a
bank holiday in next course's classes, all of Monday's classes (in Quorn village Hall, Rosebery Street Medical Centre and Hathern Community School) will run on Monday 21 March. Also, as a replacement for a cancelled class recently, there is a 9.30am class on Tuesday 22 March in Rosebery Street Medical Centre. After that, classes take a break until 11 April.
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Please also let us know if you will miss your class but don't want a Catchup — the whole Catchup system relies on knowing when spaces will occur.
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