Our big news this week is about our new Absolute Beginners Courses starting in Loughborough, Sileby and Thurmaston. As you'll know, our Absolute Beginners Courses are the absolutely best way to start Pilates. These are 6 week intensive beginners courses, which teach you the essential techniques and skills you need to take the best advantage of Pilates for your future, with a class maximum of only 10 participants so you are closely supervised by your
Pilates Coach. Included with the course is a 52-page full-colour book (sample shown right), featuring all of the exercises in each of the six weekly classes.
You also get a weekly email with a link to a
class video (shown below), showing you the exercises, so you can practise your Pilates at home between the classes. If you'd like to join a course, or know anyone else who would benefit from Pilates, then our Absolute Beginners Courses are perfect.
The new classes are:
- Mondays 9.30am in St
Gregory's Social Centre, Sileby (free taster on 6 November)
- Wednesdays 1pm in Elizabeth Park Sports Centre, Thurmaston (free taster on 8 November)
- Wednesdays 2pm in Elizabeth Park Sports Centre, Thurmaston (free taster on 8 November)
- Wednesdays 7pm in Rosebery Street Medical Centre (free taster on 1 November)
Reply to this email for further details or to book your space in the free taster session.
Have a fantastic week folks — keep looking, moving and feeling great.
Jane, Keith and the team
xxxxx
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We have had quite a few new recruits to our classes recently, and from experience we know that breathing is one of the main issues people have when starting Pilates. Newbies shouldn't be worried about that though, correct breathing does come with time, experience, and good
teaching.
So this short video taking a close-up on correct breathing in Pilates is our Exercise of the Week this week. Pilates breathing is — more generally — known as thoracic breathing, because it's the thoracic part of the body involved.
It sounds simple, but actually it does take a bit of concentration and co-ordination to get right. For the latest members of our JTP family, the video is important watching. For the more
experienced, even if you've been with us doing Pilates for a while, just use the opportunity of watching this video to take a step back, recap, and become more aware of your breathing technique. Your Pilates technique will only improve.
There are other types of breathing too, used for other reasons. We'll look at those more closely another time.
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more
balanced.
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You know — quoting an old saying — laughter really is the best medicine.
Keith and I have been incredibly busy recently, planning, preparing, writing and publishing a course that I've just ran at our Studio. It is a continual professional development course,
aimed for already qualified Pilates teachers, so that they can learn how to use, and teach, Pilates Reformers. Now those of you in the know, will have already used the Pilates Reformers we have at our Studio. Some of you may even be coming to the Reformer classes we run.
But the thing is, the essential Pilates certification that all properly qualified Pilates Coaches must have for matwork Pilates does not cover the use of Pilates apparatus such as the
Pilates Reformer, Tower, Wunda Chair and so on we have at the Studio. So all Pilates Coaches have to have further CPD for the different pieces of apparatus. Hence the course I've just run. Initially it was for those of the JTP Coaches who haven't already had Reformer CPD, but now that it's developed I'll be running it again and again for any Pilates teacher who wants to learn how to use and teach with the Reformer. So the work Keith and I have put into the course is fully worth
it.
My point though, is that because Keith and I have been working flat-out on producing the course and manual, we haven't had much time recently to enjoy life. Truth be told, life was even getting us down somewhat. Until Tuesday night that is...
On Tuesday evening we had a date night! We went to Nottingham for a meal, then on to see the comedian Greg Davies in concert at the Royal Concert Hall. And boy did we enjoy ourselves. We had a fantastic
meal at a restaurant we didn't know even existed, then saw an absolutely hilarious stand-up routine by one of the funniest men we know. We've seen Greg before live, but his current tour is outstanding. Boy did we laugh! By the end of his act we were gasping for air, and even beginning to tire of the physical act of laughing.
Just to finish this week, I'm going to give you another old saying, which certainly strikes home — if you are too busy to laugh, you are too
busy. We certainly had been too busy. But laughing with Greg Davies on Tuesday was just the tonic we needed to get the course finished and presented on Thursday.
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We're back in full swing this week after the half-term break. As you'll see above, all matwork and Reformer classes are running as planned. The Thursday early morning 8am & 9am Reformer classes with Helen replace the ones missed in
September.
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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