Hello ,
All classes are now fully up and running after the Easter break, and we had a great week working with tennis balls, soft balls, bands and isotoner rings … as well as our small group
Reformer classes.
What we love most is to bring you new challenges and show you how to develop your Pilates by using small pieces of equipment. It is an amazing feeling when an exercise we have been working on for a few weeks can be changed by adding a soft ball under the foot. It makes us more mindful of using our core and starts to switch on muscles we had forgotten about.
The tennis ball is also an amazing piece of equipment that we
can use for Trigger Point Pilates and if you have been lucky enough to be in Jenny’s classes, she has been using them for myofascial release to enable more freedom with movement.
As for the isotoner rings, a brilliant Joseph Pilates idea for making an exercise more intense, and I know Helen’s groups have been enjoying using them this week.
Remember to talk to your class instructor about how the exercises are affecting your body, and you
can work together to ensure that you are getting the most out of your class and therefore fully benefiting from your Pilates programme.
Above all, enjoy! Have a great week, look, move and feel good.
Jane, Keith and the team
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Our emails appear still not to be getting through to some of you. If you have an email account from the Microsoft family — Hotmail, Outlook, or Live (although others may be involved) — then this may well be affecting you.
What seems to be happening is that Microsoft
is putting some of our emails into your junk or spam mail folder. This does not affect the Newsletter (ie, what you are reading now) — only individual emails one of the Jane Thomas Pilates team may send you,
As you can imagine it is highly frustrating when we are trying to run our business — and particularly the Catchups system — the problem we have is that we simply don't know if anyone is receiving our emails unless we hear back from you to
confirm.
Unfortunately, we cannot do anything about this. It is in your hands.
The only answer to this problem is that you have to locate our emails in your junk mail folder and mark them as NOT junk. The problem is that if you do emails on a
smartphone or tablet, or use an email app on your computer, you cannot locate them in that junk mail folder.
The reason is that Microsoft holds a separate junk mail folder on their system which is where the emails are being placed.
To access them you have to log into your account from a computer using a web browser (it doesn't matter which web browser, but NOT an email app), to access
the webmail system. The emails will be in the junk mail folder there. Just locate them there and mark them as NOT JUNK. Once you've done that, they will start to get through to your inbox (fingers crossed).
Apologies if this involves you, but unfortunately it is totally out of our control. However, if you think you are due emails from us and you haven't received them, and all the above is gobbledygook to you, please contact Keith by emailing him here and he'll hopefully be able to give some further assistance. Put in your contact phone number in case he can't get through to you by email.
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This week the exercise is a classic Shoulder Bridge, but using a soft ball between the knees to focus on activating our gluteals during this exercise.
The benefit of using our glutes with this is that it stops our hamstrings from trying to do everything and going
into cramp. Also our gluteals are crucial to our lower back support, and they should be active in all our movement.
Unfortunately in the world we live, they get rather lazy because we spend more time sitting down than we should. So let's get them stronger and more functional — this exercise is a great starting point to achieve that. As with all our Exercise Of The Weeks, work at the appropriate level for your body.
If you haven’t got a ball, use
a cushion or a thick rolled up bath towel.
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
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Out on my walk this morning, taking in the blue skies and sunshine, I was very happy to see our local woods covered in bluebells. They sit like a blanket of blue, and I was amazed that they had survived the huge amounts of rain, sleet, hail stones and frosts that we have experienced over
the last couple of days.
It made me realise how strong and resilient this little flower is. It made me think about what it is that makes us strong and resilient enough to withstand our own rain storms, sleet, hail and frosts.
I have come to learn that it is our individual experience, and our perspective, powerful in both a negative or positive sense.
Ultimately, it is then down to choice — what we choose to
do as a result of our experience and the perspective we hold. Often we don’t believe we have a choice, but we do, and how we live our life is a result of the choices we make.
Our perceptions influence our beliefs, which in turn create our expectations. Our expectations drive our behaviour, and this in turn affects the choice we make next time. The choices we make will change because in life everything is temporary, just like our weather … our bluebells experience
temporary changes in our weather and they have developed to enable them to survive. Because it is only a temporary rain storm, the sun will eventually return.
In the same way, we learn by our experience that events are temporary, our perspective changes accordingly, and we choose to respond and behave in a particular way which enables us to deal with the rain and the hail, knowing just like the bluebell, that the sun will eventually
return.
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All matwork and Reformer classes are running as planned this week, all in their correct venues.
Book a Catchup
If you know you will have to miss a class in your course for any reason, and
would like to book a space in another class instead, just follow the link to book it.
Simply tell us the class you will miss and —most important — please give us as many alternatives as possible. If you only give us one alternative, we cannot guarantee you will get a Catchup.
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
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