On Friday it is On Your Feet Britain Day, 27 April is a day to be on your feet. Part of encouraging the people of Britain to become more active, in a society where sitting down has become the new smoking.
I see a lot of people with non-specific lower back pain, hip pain, shoulder problems, rounded shoulders, feeling tired all the time, and predominantly they do a job which requires them to be sitting
at a desk with a computer for approximately 8 hours a day.
My first piece of advice is that if you feel tied to a desk, you should set an alarm for every 30 minutes to remind you to stand up and stretch. Move your body, open up your chest, walk a few steps around the office or the room where you are based. This helps to release the lower back, extends the spine, allows you to take in more oxygen, and mobilises the hips, knees and shoulders.
So on 27 April make it your business to be on your feet more, stand up to make a phone call, stand up to have a chat, have a walk around your office, have a walk to the end of your garden, park further away from the shops and walk to them…
There are lots of ways of being on your feet more, and ultimately it means a healthier, happier body, so make 27 April the first day of standing up more.
Have a fantastic week folks — keep looking, moving and feeling great.
Jane, Keith and the team
xxxxx
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This will help you to achieve the goal of being on your feet more, as I am sending you a balance sequence of exercises:
This will keep you on your feet and also bring you work for your core, mobility for the hips and knees and mind and body
connection for balance and alignment.
Work at the appropriate level for your body and simply knock on the door of pain, but don’t burst through it.
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
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Sometimes we don't take sufficient care of ourselves.
We pile stress upon stress on ourselves. We work long hours, we ferry children backwards and forwards from and to swimming, gymnastics, and school. We do the shopping, we do the housework, we do the cooking, we visit
ageing parents. We rush everywhere, we are always on a tight deadline, we have a never-ending list of jobs to do — even as we tick one job off the list, two new jobs appear at the bottom.
Now I'm not saying all of this isn't out of the ordinary — we are all going through it — and I'm not saying we can't manage to do it all. Of course we manage. Of course we survive. Of course we keep going, because there is no alternative. In many respects it is the curse of modern
life — and we have little alternative.
However at the same time we need to remember that — to keep going, to keep doing it all every day, every week, every year — we also need to allow ourselves time to stop and rest. It doesn't have to be for long. It doesn't have to stop everything else we have to do. But it does have to happen.
Rest allows us to repair ourselves. Rest allows us time to gather thoughts. Rest is necessary. Just as we
have a legal right to have rest breaks at work, we should also make sure we have rest breaks in our day-to-day lives.
Make sure this week — as well as standing more — you take time to rest. It is vital for us all.
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All classes — matwork and Reformer — are running as planned, all in their correct venues, at the correct days and times.
We are aware that the Calendar above can be a little tricky to read now that we have
so many classes with so many Coaches in so many venues running, some of which are at similar or the same times. So this week — apart from the usual Calendar — we are trialling a new Calendar that allows you to find out more information about each class, and also allows you to look ahead to future weeks. The new Calendar is live on the website now and the link to it is: http://www.janethomaspilates.co.uk/calendar/ If you'd like to take a look, please do and let us know whether it works for you or not.
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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