Matwork Beginners
There is only one space left in our Absolute Beginners Workshop starting this Saturday, at 8.45am in our Loughborough Studio. Please reply ASAP to this Newsletter if you want the space or want more information. Our Absolute Beginners Workshops are quite unique — only four people for three, weekly, hour-long sessions in our fantastic newly furbished Studio room — and are an ideal way to start Pilates with only the very best and correct Pilates techniques.
Reformer Beginners
There's also still a space left in the new Beginners Reformer class we are planning to run on Fridays at 10.30am. The class will be able to start once we have all four Reformer spaces filled. Please reply to this Newsletter for more information, and check the website information page here. Reformers are an absolutely brilliant way to start Pilates (Joseph designed all his original exercises on a Reformer, before adapting them for matwork classes), and also to boost your
Pilates to a higher level.
My Podcast — Tanya's Story
I had the joy of sitting down with Tanya Davies (who is one of the JTP team of Pilates Coaches) last week and having a chat with her about living with EDS/DS. Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes are hidden disorders that can have monumental impact on how you live your life, so I was interested to find out more. The podcast is available on all good podcast sites — Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and so on — just search for Jane Thomas Pilates to find it. This is just part 1 of my chat with
Tanya. Part 2 will focus on how Tanya decided to focus on her Pilates, why she wanted to become a Coach, and where this has taken her.
Bodies Still Needed Please
Volunteers — I am still looking for some volunteers for our Saturday 29th June, final assessment day for two of my Student teachers. The timing is from 1.30pm to 3.30pm, at Rosebery Street Medical Centre in Loughborough. That doesn’t mean you will be doing Pilates for a full two hours if this is putting you off volunteering. You will be taking part in two sessions, they will last no more than 40 minutes each and there will be a break between the two sessions.
If you do think you would be available and interested in being part of this assessment afternoon, please let me know. Even if you can only make one of those hours eg, 1.30pm–2.30pm or 2.30pm–3.30pm — this will be very helpful.
Have a great week everybody — stay fit and flexible with Pilates.
Jane, Keith and the team xx
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In my classes we have had a little break from Shoulder Bridge recently, but I am once again including it in my classes at the moment. It is a brilliant exercise for developing and improving mobility of the spine. I also use it for strengthening all the core muscles.
Often when performing this exercise the deep stabilising muscles in the stomach get forgotten, so my challenge for you is to perform the shoulder bridge and ensure that you are recruiting those deep muscles for the whole movement.
Also have a think about the front of your thighs (quadriceps) and try to use them more. Obviously the gluteals and the hamstrings will be challenged.
As with all Exercises Of The Week, work at the appropriate level for your body and keep away from pain. Feel it and move with purpose.
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
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The importance of feedback as a Pilates coach is crucial to the ability to teach effective sessions. You will often hear us ask during a class “how does that feel? where are you feeling it?” but also some people take time out to email their feedback to me.
Last week, I received a whole lot of feedback from both class participants and also some of my one-to-one clients.
It's great to know that we are making such a huge difference to lives.
Within the group situation, we try to work and help individuals, but inevitably the programme of exercises we put together have a generic baseline, then we adapt as necessary and appropriate for specific issues that arise within the group.
In the one-to-one environment, it is much more of a bespoke programme that we put together. As a fully trained Biomechanics Coach, often when I start to work with an individual, I perform a Biomechanics screen which will tell me what is happening in the body. I then work through a process of muscle spasm releases that are appropriate to what I have found in the screen. These are aimed at improving movement, so that we can then look at stretching the appropriate areas that have become tight
as a result of muscles being in spasm, then we work on strengthening the weakened areas that are the result of the muscle imbalances in the body. This is when the Pilates programmes come into their own, making the exercises really specific to the body that is presented to us.
Although one-to-one sessions are very different to teach than group classes, we still love to receive feedback. Our aims are the same, we want to get people moving, reduce pain, improve strength, and be able to live the life they want to live. Whether it be specific goals, such as cycling coast-to-coast, or whether it be general, such as being able to walk every day without pain, they are all personal goals and we believe our Pilates programmes can help. So when we receive feedback to say
that you are meeting your goals, living your life, this means the world to us.
A big thank you to everyone who has taken time out of their lives to email with some fabulous feedback, and sharing their successes … we really do appreciate it.
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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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