Mary — one of my great team of Pilates Coaches, who recently went on maternity leave — wanted me to share her wonderful news with you all.
New baby Lily June Bodle entered the world at 2.28am on Friday.
Mum, Lily, and big sister Ellen are all doing extremely well — tired but well!
Midwives assure us that Dad Matt will recover from his ordeal very shortly... ;-)
New Classes Starting
Other news this week are our new Absolute Beginners Courses starting in September. If you know anyone who
wants to, or should be doing Pilates, please let them know and tell them to get in touch. So far (there may be more), our new Absolute Beginners Courses are:
- Tuesdays 10.15am Seagrave Memorial Hall
- Wednesdays 9.30am Gorse Covert Community Centre Loughborough
- Thursday 6.00pm Gorse Covert Community Centre Loughborough
All new classes will start in September, with many FREE Taster Sessions
in the run up to that.
Our Absolute Beginners Courses are — quite simply — the best way to start Pilates. Not only are our Absolute Beginners Courses very carefully designed with proper Pilates progression in mind, but everyone gets an inclusive 52 page colour booklet with all your course classes in (including the Pilates exercises within the course), as well as weekly emails with links to videos detailing each week's class. Classes are also limited in numbers, so
that you get the best tuition possible in a group Pilates class.
We also have some spaces in several Progressive Beginners and Improvers classes, so if you have done Pilates before and want to join us now, this is your opportunity. Some of these classes are:
- Mondays 10.30am St Gregory's Social Centre, Sileby
- Mondays 6.30pm & 7.30pm St Gregory's Social Centre, Sileby
- Tuesdays
9.15am Seagrave Memorial Hall
- Tuesdays 2pm Hathern Village Hall
- Wednesdays 10.30am Rosebery Street Medical Centre Loughborough
- Wednesdays 5.30pm & 6.30pm The Base Gymnastics Centre Loughborough
- Wednesday 7pm Rosebery Street Medical Centre Loughborough
- Thursdays 7pm & 8pm Rosebery Street Medical
Centre Loughborough
Summer's end
We're still in our Summer Timetable currently ( week 6 of 8),
but we're already thinking about our matwork classes restarting in September. Our year follows the educational year, and all our matwork classes will start back on the regular timetable from Friday 8 September. The bit youre interested in — the new timetable — is already on the website under the Classes tab, or you can download yourself a copy to print off and keep (stick it on your fridge door!) here.
Clients who are already with us in group matwork classes will be contacted shortly by email, inviting you all to return to Pilates matwork classes with us. Please just let us know though if you don't want to return, so your space can be allocated to someone else. Thank
you.
Have a fantastic week folks — keep looking, moving and feeling great.
Jane, Keith and the team
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A classic Pilates exercise is Swimming.
Physiotherapists, Chiropractors, and other medical practitioners often prescribe this exercise for addressing back issues and weak core issues.
How we teach it in our Pilates classes is
to ensure the lower back is stable as the leg starts to lift. The leg needs to feel strong and long as it lifts (no soft knees), and the lift needs to feel it is coming from the glutes and the hamstrings with the lower back working in a stable, neutral spine position. Our deep abdominal, stabilising muscles are recruited throughout to support the lower back, and those deep stabilising muscles include the pelvic floor muscles.
Mistakes to look out for are trying to
lift the leg too high — which can create a sinking in the middle of the body when performing this from an all-fours position — this could cause more pain in the lower back. Also, when the exercise progresses to the floor, it is vital to keep the pelvis stable on the floor and not feel it rolling from side to side as the legs move.
Work at the appropriate level for your body and keep away from pain — check in with your class instructor for more help with this
exercise.
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
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Those who have been reading my Newsletters for some time will remember that I recently did some mindset work with Philippa Burnett of Life Rethink (formerly Mindset Performance Academy).
One of the key things I got out of the work I did
with Philippa on my mindset, was to identify my core values.
The reason this was so important was because our core values form the basis of our lives, how we live them, what is important to us, and — ultimately — what makes us happy.
So I thought that — over the next few weeks — I would introduce you to my core values. This week it is Integrity!
What does integrity mean to me? Well it
crosses into all areas of my life, my business, my family, my relationships, my behaviour, my decisions, even my exercise.
As I grew up my Mum and Dad would instil this into me by constantly reiterating this statement — treat people how you would want to be treated — and this was my guiding force with my behaviour. When I was younger I admit that I didn’t associate this behaviour with integrity. However as I have become more mature I realise and
recognise how important this is to me.
Integrity means being loyal, being honest, being truthful, but also being compassionate, non-judgemental, caring, loving, generous and gifting. So on a daily basis I hold this core value dear and close to my heart and try to live my life accordingly. I haven’t always found this behaviour reciprocated in my life, and when this has happened I take a step back, think about how and why, and then use my integrity to move on.
Provided that I am using my integrity in my behaviour I know that I will be happy.
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This is Week 6 of our Summer Timetable, so please make sure your class is on and that you have booked your space before turning up.
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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