It's our second week off to cover all appropriate half-terms throughout Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, but we do have a handful of classes on towards the end of this week, so please check the class timetable below to see if your class is running. Plus please check emails in case you have been sent some alternative dates for classes that have been rearranged from previous weeks.
NEW Absolute Beginners Courses
Our Absolute Beginners Courses continue to prove popular, and we have decided to run some more in November, so if you know anyone who would benefit from Pilates, please pass on the news.
Our Absolute
Beginners Courses are accompanied with a 52-page hard-copy full-colour fully illustrated book featuring all the techniques and exercises covered in the six weekly classes — a sample is shown right.
To complement the book, each week's class is accompanied by an email with a link to a video that covers the week's class exercises — sample shown left.
We believe that our Absolute Beginners Courses truly
are the best way to start Pilates correctly.
We are planning to run free taster sessions prior to all Absolute Beginners Courses, on these dates/times and venues: - Mondays, at 9.30am, in St Gregory’s Social Centre, Sileby. Free taster on 6 November
- Wednesdays, at 7pm, in Rosebery Street Medical Centre, Loughborough. Free taster on 1 November
- Fridays, at 9.30am & 10.30am, in Rearsby Village Hall. Free taster on 3
November
Courses will run from the following week.
For further details, or to book a space, just reply to this email.
Have a fantastic week folks — keep looking, moving and
feeling great.
Jane, Keith and the team
xxxxx
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As it is still officially holiday time I am sending another 10 minute routine for you to practise until your regular class starts again.
PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU HAVE ANY DISC PROBLEMS DO NOT ADD A TWIST TO THE ROLL UP, AND KEEP THE MOVEMENT
SMALL, CONTROLLED AND MAINTAINING THE FOCUS INTO THE DEEP ABDOMINAL MUSCLES AND THE PELVIC TILT.
Work at the appropriate level for your body and keep away from pain.
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
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A lot of the JTP family have been asking if I would include some recipes in the Newsletter — it was something I used to do quite regularly but have recently got out of the habit of doing, I think mainly because I haven’t really had much time for baking, until a couple of weeks ago when I was inspired
by the GBBO and I suddenly remembered how much I do love doing a spot of baking.
Now I should point out at this stage that I am not a Nutritionist, I am not a Dietician, I like my food, I like to eat, so the recipe I am sharing this week is not necessarily super healthy, but it does make quite a healthy snack or energy boost. The recipe comes from Nigella Lawson's Nigella Express recipe
book:
Ingredients - 1 x 397g can condensed milk
- 250g rolled oats
- 75 g shredded coconut
- 100g dried cranberries
- 125g mixed seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, sesame)
- 125g natural unsalted peanuts
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 130 °C
2. Oil a 23 x 33 x 4cm baking
tray
3. Warm condensed milk in a pan
4. Mix together all the other ingredients — then add warmed condensed milk — use a wooden spoon to make sure everything is coated
5. Spread the mixture into the tin and press down with the spoon — or hands (warning... it is sticky) — to get an even surface
6. Bake for 1 hour, thenremove from oven
and leave for 15 minutes
7. Cut into four across, and four down to make 16 chunky bars. Let them cool completely.
So before you all take a sharp intake of breath at the thought of the sugar content in the condensed milk, just hear me out — the breakfast bars are extremely filling, so I have never eaten a whole bar in one sitting. The distribution of sugar from the condensed milk into the dried ingredients means that each portion
contains only a small amount — plus I am not eating them all day every day. My rule of 80/20 applies here — 80% healthy vs 20% not so much!
They are delicious. Enjoy folks.
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As it is the half-term, there's only a handful of classes on this week, for classes where we couldn't have the venue earlier in the course. Make sure your class is one of them, before you turn up and wait outside for a class that isn't
on... ;-)
The timetable returns to normal as of Monday 30 October.
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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