On the back of another
challenging week weather wise, we had several problems that cropped up, mainly starting on Thursday when a day of torrential rain caused Gemma (one of our team) to get stuck in her home in Sutton Bonington due to the floods. She sent us photos from her bedroom window which showed us what looked like a river running down her street. She definitely couldn’t have driven her car through it, so sadly we had to cancel her Rosebery Street Medical Centre classes on Thursday evening.
Then on Friday roads to Hathern were closed, again due to flooding but additionally bad accidents. The Police news was to avoid the area as an Air Rescue helicopter had to attend the accident because of the flooding preventing traffic getting through. We made the decision early to cancel my Hathern Community School Friday night classes as well.
We will endeavour to find replacement dates for these sessions and keep everyone affected concerned, and apologies to everyone involved in those sessions.
Thankfully we only had to cancel Pilates classes, a small thing in comparison to how some people’s lives have been affected by the flooding over the last few weeks. Homes destroyed, lives lost … we just missed our regular exercise classes.
Fingers crossed that the rain stops and we have a few bright, sunny, fresh days.
Have a good week folks — keep looking, moving and feeling good.
Jane, Keith and the team xx
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This week I am sharing something a bit different with you, which was inspired by me reading a post written by Rachel France of Biomechanics Education.
Rachel was writing about the effect of the foot mechanics and the pelvis mechanics on the knee joint, and how that forces from below and above the knee can result in poor stability and potential injury and pain.
So I decided to show some exercises that can be done regularly to help address the alignment in the body. I look at the feet and the pelvis, and what we can do to strengthen muscles that can help knee stability.
As a Pilates Coach, with any specific physical problem that presents itself in one area I always look at the whole body. These easy exercises for the feet aimed at anyone with over-pronation (flat feet) and for the hamstrings (back of the thighs) and for the abductors/adductors (outer/inner thigh), aim to develop improved alignment so that movement through the knee joint is more effective and the joint itself becomes more stable.
I hope you find it useful, if you have any questions then please, please, please email me.
Feel the difference, move differently, and look more balanced.
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So what makes you “tail wagging happy”?
It's often not the big stuff that we get our real happiness from, yes holidays in the sunshine can help, but the smaller, easier stuff in our lives is often what is at the bottom of our real happiness and real happiness is “tail wagging” in my opinion. I thought I would start to make a list because sometimes if you are feeling a bit hacked off, it's good to take a few minutes just to focus on all the small things that can cheer us up.
So in no particular order here's my list:
A cozy warm jumper, a good book, a scented candle, clean sheets on the bed, chocolate, spending time with a best friend, knitting, listening to or making music, practising Pilates, teaching Pilates, spending time with my son, sharing memories with my sister, seeing my family members happy and successful, spending time with Keith, going to the theatre, watching films, my first cup of coffee in the morning, walking in the woods, meals cooked for me, the colour orange, I could go on but here’s
just one more thing … becoming a Grandma!!!!!!!
Make your own list and stick it on the fridge and if you’ve had a bad day, just check it out and choose just one of those things … I guarantee it will get that tail wagging again.
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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 the Saturday 9.30am Quorn class on 23 November — which will be in the Old School in Quorn again, due to the Village Hall being unavailable that day.
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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