Hope you are all booking into your Summer Timetable classes as everyone has been sent an email with the Summer Timetabled attached, and some classes are getting booked up already. If you don't think you have received your copy of the Summer Timetable, please check in your junk mail folder that your email has not been placed there by your email provider.
Many of you have been asking about some of the coding we use with our
classes so here is some clarification: - ABC — Absolute Beginners Class — self-explanatory, for those of you who have only just started our Pilates classes
- PABC — Progressive Absolute Beginners Class — for everyone who has completed an ABC course with us and is now looking for a little more challenge
- Improvers Level 1 — For everyone who has been doing Pilates for a while, has had some experience of different classes,
looking for a challenge, but who may have some specific issues with the body in terms of spine issues, neck issues, and for those looking to continue to build strength in the core. For those who want to work at a higher level for each exercise, but who may require some modifications and adaptations
- Improvers Level 2 — For those who have been doing Pilates for a longer period of time, looking for more challenge, confident with the basics and foundations of Pilates and
wanting to develop strength, increase mobility and feeling an increased level of work for the whole body. For those who need less modifications or adaptations.
I should explain that if you are trying a session with a different instructor please have a chat with them before the class starts so that if you do have any specific concerns the instructor is aware of them and can help appropriately during the session.
The Summer Timetable is a great
opportunity to try a different Coach, and although as a team we all share the same philosophy and aims with our Pilates classes, we are all different and will provide different challenges within the class. Just as Pilates is a unique experience for every individual who participates, every Pilates Coach brings their uniqueness to their teaching, I hope you will all welcome and embrace the opportunity that our Summer Timetable provides. Have a fantastic week folks — keep looking, moving and feeling great.
Jane, Keith and the team
xxxxx
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Last week I looked at pelvic tilts in different start positions and how important that little movement can be towards improving mobility in the spine. So this week I am showing you a handful of exercises that require a pelvic tilt to create the
movement.
As I said in last weeks Exercise Of The
Week — if you have a fused lumbar spine due to surgery, then a pelvic tilt will not be appropriate for you and with the exercises I am showing this week, there will be an element of a straight spine lift (in shoulder bridge for example), and there will be no pelvic tilt in a roll up or a cat stretch. If you have had surgery to fuse the lumbar spine the mobility in these movements will come from mid/upper back. The deep abdominals role then becomes strength and for stability rather than mobility
and flexibility. If you have any queries please get in touch directly with me.
Remember a mobile spine is a pain-free spine.
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
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Let's take a moment and look at Rules!
Whose rules do we use to live our life by? Are they truly our own rules or have they been imposed on us by society? For example what are the rules about what makes us a good mother, daughter, father, son, friend, work colleague?
Have they been set by someone else or set by us for us? Have we created a life that we want or what we think others want us to create?
So something I have been looking at for myself are my friendships. I tend to be a busy person with my business, and it has taken over my life a little, which means some of my friendships have gone by the wayside because of my lack of time.
I am also, in truth a bit of an introvert, so I like my own
company and I like doing things on my own, and if I have had a busy week, it isn’t always at the top of my list to book time with friends at the weekend.
Some of my friends have recognised this, accept it and so when we do get together, they know that it is because I want to be there rather than feeling that I should be there. I realised with some of my friendships they were only working because of someone else’s rules, I constantly felt judged, I constantly felt
guilty, because I hadn’t phoned enough, or seen them enough.
Once I could see that this was because that is what I thought others believed made a good friend, not what I believed made a good friend, I became happier and simply accepted that this was how it had to be.
My rules about friendship are that my friends know they can come to me at anytime and I will be there, whether I saw or spoke to them last week or last month, I will always
be there. I may not phone them every week, I may not want to see them every week, but I will be there, with no judgement, just acceptance, the same as I have always been — my own rules!
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All classes/venues/days/times are running as planned this week.
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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