Summer Timetable Classes 2019
This week we are announcing our Summer Timetable of classes. For those of our clients who have joined us since last summer, here's a brief explanation of how it works, and what the Summer Timetable is...
Basically, we run a special Summer Timetable of matwork Pilates classes every year over the summer — so that each particular class has four scheduled classes. This means you don't need to miss your Pilates over the summer — you've already paid for your Summer Timetable classes if (1) you're on our Monthly Payment Plan, or (2) you've paid for the whole course in advance. Term-time classes end in the first week of July, so the Summer Timetable runs from 8 July to 31 August — a total of 8
weeks.
All classes are staggered over the summer, due to our Coaches all taking different holidays, so there are always some classes running over all 8 weeks of the summer. The Summer Timetable can be found if you follow the link to it at the bottom of a Newsletter. The link is also at the bottom of the website, and at the bottom of any of our emails — so it's easily found, and easily downloaded/printed off/stuck on your fridge — for your reference. You will see on the Summer
Timetable the four scheduled classes for the class you normally attend. If you can get to all four of your scheduled classes... that's great! And you need do nothing else other than turning up to the classes over the summer.
However, we’re always aware that not everyone can make all of their scheduled Summer Timetable classes due to their own holidays etc. So — not to worry if you can’t attend a scheduled regular class — instead you simply book a Catchup class in any of our other classes over the summer using the Catchups system in the normal way. The link to the Catchups form to do this is at the bottom of the Newsletter, at the bottom of the website, and at the bottom of our emails — again, easy to find for
when you wish to book any Catchup class, not just Summer Timetable classes.
We’ve always found the Summer Timetable/Catchup combination works really well for everyone. We hope you take full advantage of it, so that you can keep doing your Pilates over the summer.
Celebration
I love a celebration, so this week I want to celebrate one of my class participants who reported to me that she can now do a full roll up from the floor. She has been practising at home daily and has achieved the full range of movement. This exercise is great for mobility of the spine and for strengthening deep stabilising muscles and while it is not necessarily suitable for every individual, if it feels good and it helps your mobility and strength then that is brilliant. Amazing work, and
I am giving a little cheer for her here, as it just goes to show how doing a little every day is beneficial to the whole body.
Podcast
Check out our podcast where, in the latest episode Jane shares her story about how she became a Pilates teacher, plus she shares a little known fact about her life. The podcast can be found in a number of different listening platforms, https://anchor.fm/jane-m-thomas, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, RadioPublic, plus others.
Mental Health Awareness
Last week was Mental Health Awareness week, and at Jane Thomas Pilates we recognise the importance between Pilates and emotional wellbeing. So this week — in our Exercise of the Week — I want to focus on your whole self. This routine will move your body with stretching and length but also the use of breath to help with the mind, body and soul.
So have a perfect week folks, being the perfect you …. keep looking, moving and feeling good.
Jane, Keith and the team xx
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This week's Exercise of the Week is a mindful movement routine.
Please work at the appropriate level for your body and engage with the breath and feeling the movement as it releases the body of stress.
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
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In our lives we can find that we put an awful lot of pressure on ourselves to make things perfect. Do we have a perfectly clean house? Do we cook the perfect meal? Do we bake the perfect cake? Do we have the perfect body?
And the problem with this is that we are constantly being dictated to about what perfect means.
This is when we begin the conversation with ourselves that we can’t quite match this standard, and therefore we are failing in some way and I believe that this is a big player in our mental health.
So I want to stop that conversation, and change the dialogue.
Basically we are all different, every single one of us, so what we have to do is understand that what is or might be considered perfect for one person isn’t going to be perfect for someone else.
The perfect body is the one that functions for you and the one that allows you to live your life. The perfect cake is the one made with love. The perfect home is the one that is welcoming and full of warmth and love.
One of my friends reported that one of her close relatives had visited and the first thing she said was that her windows weren’t very clean…. now my friend has 3 children, two dogs, quite a demanding job, plus she is on her own, a single parent. This had upset her, and had made her feel like she was failing in some way …. how and what did this relative think she was doing in saying this to her?
This is just an example, and while clean windows may be very high on this person’s list of priorities, and my friend’s windows didn’t match up to her idea of ‘perfectly clean’, this comment left my friend feeling anything but ‘perfect’ …. here are the facts. My friend is a brilliant Mum to her children, she loves and cares for her dogs, she loves and cares for her friends, she is fantastic at her job, her home is full of love and warmth … this is her perfect.
Perfect means whatever perfect feels for every individual. One of the things I have found over the years of teaching Pilates is that we need to celebrate our differences, and our differences are what make us perfect.
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All classes — matwork and Reformer — are running as planned, all in their correct venues, at the correct days and times with the exception of Thursday 23 May evening classes in Rempstone Village Hall. The Hall is in use as a Polling Station again (for the European elections, this time) so we have no access. These classes will run on Thursday 6 June instead.
Book a Catchup/Missing Class
If you know you will have to miss a class in your course for any reason, want to let us know or would like to book a
space in another class instead, just follow the link to register 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 and your class Coach know.
Simply tell us the class you will miss and — most important if you want to book a Catchup — please give us as many alternatives as possible. If you only
give us one alternative, we cannot guarantee you will get a Catchup.
Please let us know if you will miss your class but don't want a Catchup — the whole Catchups system relies on knowing when spaces will occur.
Finally, please don't just tell your class class 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 and fastest way to let Karen know.
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