Hello ,
Bit of a long Newsletter this week — but stick with it and make sure you read it all, as there's some very important news for you. Let's get to
it...
Firstly HAPPY HALLOWEEN! To those of you who will celebrating today — have fun, and stay safe! The best way to celebrate Halloween in our house is with some spicy pumpkin soup — so that is how we will be rocking today.
Secondly, I always love to share our success, particularly if we have helped to reduce discomfort and pain, and build confidence with movement. I received this lovely email from one of our happy family
members:
Hi Jane,
Thank you so much for the assessment — it is really appreciated and I recovered really well. I think knowing that there was nothing too serious made me relax more and I was much better by Saturday. We all had a fabulous time in Turkey and the weather, sun, water and company were very therapeutic.
All the best and once again a huge thanks.
This was all as a result of one of our free Biomechanics Rapid-Screens.
Our Biomechanics Coaching programmes are designed to address imbalances in our bodies. For example many of us will experience at some point in our lives a Leg Length Discrepancy — and this is usually as a result of muscle tightness, shortening or spasm around the
pelvis, lower/ middle spine and hip joints and poor posture. In fact research has shown that as much as 91% of leg length discrepancies are as a result of a muscular imbalance, with only the remaining 9% being due to a skeletal issue.
Our Biomechanics Screens will show us exactly where this problem originates, then through a structured exercise programme we can help to resolve the leg length discrepancy by finding and addressing the source of the
problem.
Lots of people will have been prescribed orthotics to address a leg length discrepancy, and indeed I am licensed to prescribe them. However, I don't — preferring as a qualified Biomechanics Coach — to correct the cause of the issue. While orthotics do address the problem immediately so potentially have a place to help with body imbalances, it is vital that a structured exercise programme is also followed in order to correct and manage
the original cause of the problem. Or the issue will likely keep returning.
This is where our team can help, as Biomechanics Coaches we look at long-term solutions, empowering individuals to actively maintain a more balanced, healthier body, by taking personal control of the management of an issue, rather than relying on third-party health professional when things take another turn for the worse. Our Biomechanics Coaching programmes are just one part of our
investment in keeping your body moving freely, so you are free to live an active and healthy life.
Have a good week everyone — remember to look, move and feel great.
Jane, Keith and the team
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Keith here. A bit of news. You'll all know that we have the greatest of difficulties keeping up with the demand for our Pilates matwork and Reformer classes, one-to-one sessions, and Biomechanics Packages. For this reason we are always looking to take on new Pilates Coaches to work with us, but we
are simply never able to keep up with the new requests from people who are trying to join us for our style of Pilates.
It doesn't seem to matter how many new classes we are able to put on the classes quickly fill up, and even more people want to join. Whenever we have found a Pilates Coach able to teach to the high standards we want, we have given them an 'offer they can't refuse' and got them on board with us. As a result, we now have an absolutely brilliant team of
Pilates Coaches. But the demand is still there for more.
So we are taking a new approach to fill our need for great Pilates Coaches to join our team. And this is:
We are becoming a Government-approved, fully licenced, Pilates training centre.
Very shortly we will be offering training for suitable candidates to become a fully qualified Pilates Coach. At the base of the qualification is the Level 3
Diploma in Pilates Teaching, which absolutely anyone who wants to teach Pilates should have. But over and above this, what we will offer is a much more comprehensive training course than just the minimum requirement of a Level 3 qualification — giving our students the experience of training to our higher Pilates standards, and having the knowledge, experience and ability to teach all the various Pilates styles we offer — including Matwork, Reformers and other Pilates machines,
One-to-One coaching and so on — not just the basic matwork the Level 3 qualification is intended for.
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The course will be available for all suitable candidates to join at some point in the near future, but — for the initial course at least — we are looking to train a small and select group of people with the aim of them becoming
Pilates Coaches working directly in the team along with the rest of us. This is with the direct purpose of expanding our team so that we can help more people in our constantly growing Pilates family.
So, if you think you might want to train as a Pilates Coach and think you could be a team player with us — or know someone else who might — and want more information: then please get in touch with me in the first instance for more
information.
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Posture, posture, posture!
This week, having spent my holiday observing people while sitting by the pool, I felt a drive to improve the nation's posture. So not only am I including lots of this work in my classes, I thought I would begin with this short routine
to get us all thinking about what we can do on a daily basis to help ourselves.
We spend lots of time hunched over laptops, tablets, phones, and so on, but generally our lifestyles involve quite a lot of slumping. So let's start to lift our chest, open out the muscles in the front of the body, and strengthen the posterior muscles to keep us upright.
Not only does this work help to reduce pressure in our lower backs, it is also helpful to our
energy levels as we start to take in more oxygen when we are more upright and more oxygen leads to more energy… It's a win/win set of exercises.
Generally if you are spending your day working on a computer, you should stand regularly throughout the working day, as well as stretching and moving. This Exercise of the Week is a brilliant way to stretch and move — you can even do it at your work-station — to help prevent shortening/tightening in the front of the body,
lengthening and weakening the muscles across the upper back.
It only takes a couple of minutes, so you can do it several times throughout the day. Make the conscious decision and choose to do it and commit to maintaining great posture!
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
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I want you to be mindful of your posture this week, consciously work hard to stay upright, invest some time in your self and be mindful of how you stand, sit, and move.
Walk tall my friends, walk tall.
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This week is the first full week of the new course of matwork and Reformer classes, and they are all running this week, all in their correct venues.
Welcome back,
everyone!
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