I hope you have had a good return to Pilates with us. We have a few spaces in some of our classes at various venues, so if you have been thinking about doing two classes a week this may be a great opportunity to increase your Pilates practice and double the benefits achieved.
OR perhaps you know of someone who has been looking to start something new and you feel they would enjoy our kind of Pilates, tell them about us.
Either way, a free taster session can be booked by contacting Karen at office@janethomaspilates.co.uk to check out where those spaces are. Even if you are already doing a class with us, but feel you would like to try a second class but not sure how it
would fit into your timetable, then book a free taster — try before you buy. It is so important to make classes fit into your lifestyle, but this is definitely your opportunity to give it a go.
I just want to remind everyone that you can follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram… as I often post about Pilates, with links to new research, specific issues such as the benefits of Pilates for specific sports, but also health and wellbeing. Social media is a great way
of getting more information from us and if you share my passion for Pilates then you can fully benefit from all my posts. Search me out, send me a friend request and hey presto we can follow each other!
Have a fantastic week folks — keep
looking, moving and feeling great.
Jane, Keith and the team
xxxxx
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This week I give you — the Potty Squat — and while this is not a classic Pilates exercise, it is used a lot to warm up the muscles in the legs, bottom, back and it mobilises hips, knees, ankles.
The Potty Squat is driven from the hips so we use
the psoas which forms part of your deep core set of muscles.
When performed correctly, with precise alignment, it is a great exercise for knees as it provides mobility for the knee joint, as well as strengthening the muscles which stabilise the knee joint. It is also a great exercise to help strengthen pelvic floor muscles, lengthen and move the muscles in the lower back to give release from sciatic nerve impingement — and gets us warm because we are using big
muscle groups which requires our heart to pump more blood around the body. It's a win-win exercise. When practising, check your performance, check your technique, and keep away from pain.
As with every Exercise of the Week, work at the appropriate level for your body.
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
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Having had many conversations this week with everyone after the Christmas break and heading back to class, the most repeated statement I have heard is:
I hadn’t quite realised the full effect Pilates has been having on my body until I
didn’t do any for 3 weeks … I have really missed it and so has my body
It is so very true that when you have been regularly practising Pilates and then suddenly you take some time out and don’t do any for about 14-20 days, your body is going to begin to revert back to your pre-Pilates state!
Stiffness and general non-specific aches and pains can return, suddenly getting up from your comfy sofa feels a little bit more challenging,
getting out of bed in the morning everything feels a little bit stiff and tight, then we begin to get a bit fed up with ourselves because of the way we physically feel.
What this tells us is how important it is to try and make Pilates part of our lifestyle. I know I am always banging on about doing a little every day, make Pilates part of your daily routine … but honestly, it's true! Joseph Pilates said that Pilates is a lifestyle choice, you can keep strong, keep
your mobility, and flexibility, maintain posture and balance in your body, and continue to live a healthy and active life. You can continue to feel good about yourself, knowing that your lifestyle choice is a healthy choice, knowing that by doing a little every day you are continuing to take care of your overall wellbeing.
I try to make it easy for you by sending you an exercise to try every week, so why not make it a new year’s healthy resolution and do the JTP
Exercise of the Week, every day, it could make such a difference to how your mind, body and soul feel.
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For the second week running — all classes are running fully this week, all in their correct venues, and all at their correct times and days. We appear to have turned a new leaf with the New Year...
;-)
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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