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Our news this week is that our successful online Pilates classes are expanding.
We already run five Live matwork Pilates classes each week of course, and maintain a databank of recordings of those classes, for all our clients to view and use, but now we're introducing a brand-new new concept — called Reformers At Home — of online Reformer Pilates classes, specifically for people who own a home Reformer.
Home Reformers have been available for a while of course, but in our experience we know several clients of ours who have bought one, but lack the necessary experience to use the Reformer to its best advantage. They quite often simply gather dust underneath the bed... the home Reformer, that is, not the client 😆
Our new Reformers At Home programme aims to help, by providing real online Reformer Pilates classes to follow — making the best and most economical use of your home Reformer... it's almost like having your personal Reformer Instructor, in your home.
There is more information available about our Reformers At Home programme on both the jtp.zone website (which is specifically for our online Pilates classes) and our main janethomaspilates.co.uk website. Please take the time to check both sites out, then contact us by
replying to this Newsletter to request more details (please include your mobile number) and we'll do our best to help you.
If you think you like the idea of buying yourself a home Reformer we can help with information of what is available (we don't sell them so our advice is totally impartial), and which is best for your circumstances and your home.
Coffee and Catch Up
There'll be another Coffee and Catch Up Zoom meeting with me, on Wednesday morning 3 June at 10.30am. The link to it is on the jtp.zone website, on the main Timetable.
So what have you been doing for weeks on end, in lockdown?
My guess is that you've been doing an awful lot of sitting down. Which is fair enough — no work to do, no chance of going anywhere, no socialising, but plenty of time to watch those boxsets... hahaha.
There's little wrong with sitting of course. We've surely earned it, and lockdown gives us the perfect opportunity to do it — without guilt. It's just that we should also make sure we do sufficient movement so our bodies remain flexible and coordinated.
This week's Exercise Of The Week is a short sequence of movements designed to aid our balance. It will only take just over five minutes, so this would make the ideal little routine to follow when you first get up in the morning, or when you're standing cooking a meal, or... well, you get the idea — you could fit it in anywhere.
The more often you do the routine, the better your balance will be. Enjoy!
We all know of the benefits of perseverance. It is a quality that has, throughout history, always been vaunted. However, sometimes perseverance can slide into stubbornness and when this happens it is no longer beneficial for us to keep going. So what do we do then?
The answer is simple, we give up. We give up and move on. When perseverance becomes stubbornness the benefits of whatever we are persevering at are lost. The stubbornness we feel is to save our ego, not to gain the benefits from whatever we were doing but to save ourselves from admitting we were wrong.
There is nothing inherently bad about being wrong. What makes it bad is how we respond to it. So how then do we stop it from being bad? By accepting it for what it is, understanding why we were wrong and learning from it. If we do this, we save ourselves from being hurt in a way that being stubborn can’t and we must find a new and better opportunity to persevere at.
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