Summer Timetable Week 4

Published: Mon, 08/07/17

The Jane Thomas Pilates Newsletter
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Hello
For everyone who attended our Up Tight and Outta Sight Pelvic Floor Health Seminar with Cherry Baker — we now have the notes that Cherry was mentioning, and we have been sending them out on request. If you came to the seminar and would like to receive them please can you contact us and let us know by simply replying to the Newsletter.

So it's holiday time for me this week, but you will see from the Calendar below, and from your Summer Timetable we have sent you if you come to any of our matwork classes, there are still lots of summer classes to attend. 

We are already planning ahead for our new year of classes which will start in September, and there will be some changes to the timetable.

First, we are changing the booking system for our Reformer Classes to make it less complicated (we hope) and therefore easier to manage. Details of this will be sent individually to all who currently attend those classes.

Our matwork courses will also be longer — we will still take breaks to coincide with school holidays but we will look at running our courses for 12 weeks as opposed to two courses of 6 weeks. This will provide more time for fitting in Catchup classes.

Plus we are re-introducing the system of putting missed matwork classes towards a Reformer session. So if you have to miss 4 matwork classes during one course and you are having difficulty finding Catchup sessions, you can swap those 4 for a single Reformer session. Again there will be more details to follow once we have finalised our dates for our new year.
Have a fantastic week folks — keep looking, moving and feeling great.

Exercise Of The Week
In last week’s Newsletter I spoke about releasing the thoracic spine aiming to improve the range of movement, so this week I am providing you with two exercises to maintain the movement in the middle of the trunk.

The first exercise here looks at moving from the upper body.

The second exercise here moves from the lower body.

For both, you should recruit the deep abdominals throughout, focus on the quality of the movement, control the movement and keep away from momentum and pain.

Work at the appropriate level for your body. Remember you are as young as your spine is flexible! (a Joseph Pilates quote).

Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
Your Whole Self
Let's talk about consistency this week.

In order to get the results we want, we have to be consistent with our behaviour. I am a big athletics fan, and am looking forward to watching the World Athletics Championships which started this weekend. I always feel inspired when watching the performances of all the athletes, but what is most inspiring is their level of commitment towards achieving their goals.

Having worked with some athletes I understand just how consistent they have to be with their training, with their lifestyle, with their behaviour, with their choices, in order to get to the performance level they need to be able to compete.  This consistency is easily transferred to our daily lives, and that doesn’t mean to say we all want to be Olympic athletes.

When you think about everything we do on a daily basis the more consistent we are with our choices and our behaviour the more likely we will be to achieve our goals — whether it be to lose weight, to become more active, to bake the perfect cake, to grow the perfect vegetables, to improve our mindset — they all need a commitment towards being consistent.

I know that if I consistently practise my Pilates every day not only do I physically move with more freedom, but it improves my  mindset for the day ahead, I also know that if I consistently practise my scales on my cello (yes, that's me in the photo) I will eventually get to be able to play Bach’s Cello Suite No 1 in G Major.

Think about your actions, your choices and bring some consistency into your life and make the difference.
The Week's Classes
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The Summer Timetable continues — remember to check that you have booked your class, and that a class is on before you go...


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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