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Published: Mon, 06/05/17

The Jane Thomas Pilates Newsletter
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Hello
It has been lovely to welcome June in with some sunshine and blue skies so I hope everyone has been able to take full advantage of it and spent time outside, increasing and improving your levels of vitamin D.


FOR ALL THOSE WHO ATTEND CLASSES AT ROSEBERY STREET MEDICAL CENTRE FOR DAYTIME CLASSES, WE HAVE HAD THE FOLLOWING REQUEST:

Please note that from 1 June–30 September you are able to park in the streets around the Medical Centre with no restrictions. Can I please ask that if the surgery car park is busy that you do not park in the middle of the car park, but instead use street parking?

We have had a few incidents with cars in the middle of the car park and this also causes issues if there is an emergency and access for emergency vehicles is required.

Many thanks for your co-operation.

Keep looking, moving and feeling great everyone.

Jane, Keith and the team xxxx

PS — The Summer Timetable will be sent out to you very shortly. Take a look, then book your chosen summer classes.

If you are a member of our Monthly Payment Plan — most of you are — you have 4 classes included (if you do two regular classes a week you have 8 classes included).

For people not on the Monthly Payment Plan you just pay for any Summer Timetable classes you want at the normal price.

And remember you don’t have to stick to your regular class … you could do all your Summer Timetable classes in one week if you wanted to :) go on, you know you want to ...
Exercise Of The Week
Working on our balance and alignment is so very important to our overall wellbeing and staying injury free, and I am often asked when prescribing an exercise should I do this on both sides or just the side that is injured?

The answer is always work evenly on both sides of the body.

The reason that this is so important is that if we only focus on one side of the body, we risk getting injured on the opposite side. Also an injury is often caused by the fact that one side of the body is over working.

I have been lucky enough to work with several Olympic athletes and in particular track and field athletes — Goldie Sayers was our Olympic medalist Javelin thrower (Beijing Olympics in 2008) and part of her training was to throw with both her right and her left arm, in order to stay balanced, in line, and injury free.

So if it's good enough for Olympic athletes … it's good enough for me :)

It is even more important when practising our Pilates to work evenly and with balance and alignment, so here is a short routine which specifically targets working and challenging the body on both sides, equally:


If you have problems with this Single Leg Shoulder Bridge, then keep both feet on the floor, and at the top of the move feel the weight transfer to one leg, without lifting the other. Go back to centre, then feel the weight go through to the other leg.

Practise this feeling of transfer of weight and feel the muscles on each side of the body responding.

Work at the appropriate level for your body.
See the video here
Your Whole Self
If you go looking for a friend, you’ll find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you will find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar

It is all about attitude and beliefs. Being honest and behaving with integrity, sharing my love and happiness is the starting point for how I live my life. At the end of every day, if I can say to myself — this is how I have lived today — and I can go to sleep happy.

It has been my experience over the years that if you stay true to yourself and your core beliefs, people will find you, and they will be the people you want to be friends with. 

Be true to yourself, your beliefs, your actions and have a fabulous week full of love, happiness and friendship.
The Week's Classes
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All matwork and all Reformer classes are running this week — except that is, for the two Thursday evening classes in Rempstone Village Hall. The Hall is being used as a Polling Station for some minor election or other, so there are no Thursday evening classes there this week.


Catchups
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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