Half-term — Week 1

Published: Mon, 05/27/19

Hello

Remember that the Summer Timetable of our matwork Pilates classes between 8 July and 31 August is already available, and you can use the Timetable to check and make sure that you can get to all your four included classes over the summer. Remember that over the eight weeks of the summer you have already paid for your four scheduled summer classes.

If you can't get to any of your scheduled summer classes — if you are on holiday when any of your four classes are running, say — just use the Catchups form (follow the link at the bottom of the Newsletter each week, at the bottom of our email signatures, and at the bottom of the website) to let us know which class or classes and book into other classes for Catchups.

Extra Summer Classes

If you would like to take more than your four included classes over the summer you certainly can do — as long as there is space — by booking using the Catchups form. Extra classes — beyond your four included classes that is — are £9 each. Karen, who handles the Catchups system will arrange this with you when you book.

The link to the Summer Timetable is below.

ANNOUNCEMENT

There will be a FREE EXTRA PILATES class with Jane — SATURDAY 8TH JUNE 9.30AM START — in our Rosebery Street Medical Centre venue in Loughborough.

This class will be all about Pilates and Me — with some of my favourite movements and adaptations, all designed to give you a lovely experience. Numbers strictly limited on a first-come, first-served basis. Just reply to this Newsletter to request a space.

This is a FREE opportunity to get your body moving after the half-term break — PLUS+++ an added bonus...

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

One of my learner Coaches is looking for volunteer bodies, to practise her teaching before her final assessment. This will run immediately after my free class above — on Saturday 8 June, at 10.30am — so if you feel able to volunteer that would be great. It's a great opportunity for you to see how Pilates teachers learn their craft and how they develop their skills.

Please, please, please …. I would love some volunteers …. just answer this email and say Yes.

Have a great week folks — keep moving and feeling good and if you are missing your class this week, take 15 minutes and do the Exercise of the Week.

Jane, Keith and the team xx

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Exercise Of The Week

Upper Back Love — this week I am sending a short routine which is looking at strength and mobility of the upper back.

In Pilates we tend to focus on the lumbar (lower) spine, but if we can make the upper back more functional then this will have a positive effect on the lower back as well.

Enjoy the routine — and I do give modifications for different positions during the session so work at the appropriate level for your body.

Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.

See the video here

Your Whole Self

So it's holiday time for us at the moment, and it feels a bit messy as we seem to have had back-to-back holidays: Easter, followed rapidly by two Bank Holiday Mondays and half-terms.

Unfortunately, holidays bunched like this are totally out of our control, so we just have to make the very best of it we can. Making sure all classes have an equeal number of classes throughout the year is actually quite a major headache for us. We do what we can.

We are of course taking this week off fully due to half-term for the schools, and next week is a Catchup week for those classes that have had to be rearranged due to venue availability issues, and Coach absence. Plus next week we are having a Coach development week, where some of the team have chosen to do some Professional Development training. The aim is always to be the best we can be, because when we aim to be more, we can give you more.

However, for me personally I am ready for the break. It's been a big year for us here at JTP. We have had a couple of changes in the team, we have had sickness and health issues, and I have genuinely found that it has pushed me to my limit. I know that I haven’t been myself in some of my classes as I have felt completely drained.

I often talk about us having an invisible bucket which is constantly emptied or filled, depending on what others say or do to us. When our bucket is full we should feel great, but when it's empty we feel awful. If we also think about us having an invisible ‘dipper’ which we use to fill other people’s buckets by the things we say or do to increase their positive emotions, when we do this we are also filling our own bucket. If we use the dipper to dip from others' buckets by saying or doing things that decrease their positive emotions, we are also emptying our own bucket. This is why every time someone dips from our bucket, it hurts us.

Every moment of every day we do have a choice — we can either dip into our buckets and add to others’ and our own, or we can dip into their buckets and empty both theirs and ours. This choice can really influence our life, whether it be relationships, productivity, and even health and happiness.

Make a choice to use your dipper to fill others' buckets.

The Week's Classes

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Woohoo — it's half-term and there are absolutely no classes this week.

If you're missing your Pilates this week, remember that there's a great little routine for you to do at home in this week's Exercise of the Week.

There will be a skeleton number of in lieu matwork classes next week (week beginning 3 June), for absences and venue closures. Check the Calendar above to see if your class is running next week.

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.

Book your Catchup by clicking here

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