Two things this week. First is news of my super brand-new seven day programme starting next weekend. Read on...
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On Saturday, I launch my great new seven day programme to Beat the Christmas Stuffing and make sure we are all in the best possible shape to be our own Christmas Stars over the festive period. The programme gives you everything you need — a daily workout — your own healthy recipes for the seven days
— tips and tricks to help you succeed — along with a daily email direct from me to help you Beat the Festive Bloat.
Think of it! A one week programme to give you confidence, fitness, health, and in the final week's countdown to Christmas. Starting this Saturday and running for just one full week, by Christmas Eve you will be ready to get the most out of your Christmas festivities and enjoy yourself without guilt.
Keeping you posted about
my fab new programme, I will be sending you an email on Thursday of this week, when I launch the programme. Look for this email when it hits your inbox, and sign up quickly to join. Places are strictly limited, so make sure you don't miss it!
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This week’s other news is about what our class participants achieve outside of their Pilates classes, and because our JTP family is all about support and care and cheer leading (see this week’s Your Whole Self too, below) I want to cheer the achievement
of Ann who won an award this week as part of the Charnwood Sports Awards celebrations. Ann was the runner up Volunteer of the Year for 2016, for her fabulous work with Walking for Health. Here's Ann's Facebook post about it. Well done Ann we celebrate you.
Plus continuing with the
#family theme, I particularly love how friendships are formed in our classes, where people meet who might not have met had they not joined our Pilates classes. They then go on to do other things, for example learning a foreign language, such as two of my Saturday morning group learning to speak Italian together. Or learning to tap dance like another couple who met through JTP classes! I absolutely love that this happens, and think the community we create in our groups is something to be
celebrated. Cheers!
Still on the #family front, I just want to remind everyone that we have the wonderful Gail, who is a Sport and Remedial Massage Therapist, (Poise Sport & Remedial Massage) and the marvellous Annie Rea, Physiotherapist, (The Natural Elements), who both run clinics from our Pilates in Loughborough studio. Should your body feel in need of some further help both are available. Gail attends our classes, and Annie is Pilates trained, so both know
exactly what we are doing in our sessions, therefore providing a completely holistic package of care for our JTP family. Have a fantastic week folks — keep looking, moving and feeling great.
Jane, Keith
and the team
xxxxx
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As a follow on to last week’s exercise, I am showing you another exercise designed to release any nerve pain that you may be experiencing which is coming from your lower back but referring into the leg.
Again this is not strictly a pure Pilates exercise, but it is a
modification of lots of the exercises we do plus it combines some of the movements in order to achieve a release of any impingement on the sciatic nerve.
It combines a pelvic tilt, with a leg extension from a seated position. Sometimes just doing the pelvic tilt on its own without the leg extension will work, because the leg extension may cause the back of the leg to stretch and this may be too much for the lower back — so listen to your body and work at the
appropriate level, keeping away from pain.
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See the video here |
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This week my focus has been on team work, and how crucial and great it feels when you feel you have a team of people around you who are supportive, caring and generally your cheer leaders to help you through those sticky times.
Our teams can be any number of people from
2 upwards, and as long as there is a common goal that everyone understands, the team can work together to achieve that goal. The goal could be anything, from doing some shopping so that you can cook dinner this evening, to motivating and supporting each other to run next year’s London Marathon.
Sometimes we just need that extra little bit of support, but sometimes it is difficult to ask for it and we try to push ahead on our own, ’soldiering on’. Therefore it is
important to remember that team work is reciprocal, sometimes we are the givers sometimes we are the receivers — and this is what makes a successful team, recognising when certain members of the team need a cheer.
Instead of team we can use the word family or even community. I feel we have just exactly this in our Jane Thomas Pilates family — we are your cheer leaders, your supporters, your fan club. We are here to support and to care, so
please, please, please let us :)
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All Reformer classes have ended for the Xmas break, and this week is the last week of general matwork classes. There is however, one Absolute Beginners Class on Thursday 22 December at 8pm in Rosebery Street Medical
Centre.
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. Our Glamourous Assistant Karen runs the Catchups system, and this link is the quickest, most direct means (it's even faster than emailing her!) of letting Karen know.
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 occur.
Finally, please don't just tell your class Pilates Coach you will be missing a class, as your Coach is not aware of Catchups spaces and has no means of registering your space. Karen needs to know, and the link
here (it's also at the bottom of our website too) is the best way to let Karen know.
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