Your Mindset Really Matters

Published: Sun, 03/28/21

The Jane Thomas Pilates Newsletter

Hello ,

EASTER HOLIDAY ANNOUNCEMENT

There will be no Live online classes from

Friday 2 April to Thursday 8 April (inclusive).

All recorded classes will be available as usual.

Live classes will be back online from Friday 9 April

YOUR WHOLE SELF

Confession time .....! I have been struggling with my mindset over the last few weeks, ever since taking a few days break from teaching online. It seems to have become a spiral of not sleeping well, headaches, worrying, lacking in energy ... having internal conversations of what if? ... but .... I should have .... Why haven’t I? ... and so on.

Some of you may be able to relate to this. And what happens to me when I feel like this is that everything feels wrong. I over-analyse everything I do, I overthink things that are said to me, and I don’t even like to see myself, so the filming of classes at the moment is a struggle for me.

I recognise that this is a pattern of behaviour for me — a reaction to an event or occurrence. And indeed all of the above has been as a result of something that happened at the end of February. When I think back it wasn’t a massive event, but it obviously touched a nerve and lit the fuse to start off the spiral.

Now I could say well, I just need to choose to change how I react — and while this sounds quite positive, and I talk about choices all the time, it just isn’t that easy. It’s not that we can’t decide to choose to change, its that we don’t always recognise other choices available, no matter how commonsense they may appear to others.

So my goal for April is to work on discovering the other choices of response that are available to me when something negative happens. When my mindset is struggling my physical health and wellbeing also start to struggle, and I am tired of this reoccurring. I want to break the programmed reaction that I have obviously learned to associate with the event. I have been working on mindful meditation which can help but I am going to add to this and work on my mindset so that I recognise options that will lead to a different outcome. It’s going to take time and repeated awareness of an alternative option of response until a whole new pattern of reaction is learned. But I have to do this, I have to invest in this for my own health....

If this sounds a familiar pattern for you, then please get in touch, and I can share my mindset matters practice with you.

Face-to-Face Classes

Currently Government guidelines regarding restarting indoor group exercise are giving a proposed date of 17 May at the earliest. These guidelines may change of course, and our professional bodies are keeping us up-to-date with appropriate regulations for when we are able to start again.

Online Classes Timetable

Here is this week’s online Live class timetable — (as usual, links to all Live classes are on the jtp.zone website):

Monday 8am — Kickstart With Jane — 15mins in Zoom
Monday 12.30pm — Lunch Break With Jane — 30mins in Facebook
Tuesday 9.30am — Morning Movement With Jane — 45mins in Zoom
Wednesday 8am — Kickstart With Jane — 15mins in Zoom
Thursday 9.30am — Easter Special With Jane — 40mins in Zoom (Easter Eggs compulsory!)

March Madness — Last Three Days!

Congratulations if you have maintained the 30-Day Pilates Challenge commitment to doing Pilates every day through March. I have been blown away by the lovely feedback from everyone who has been participating and I know you will be feeling the benefits. If you want to know more about how you can continue with me, and join in with online Live and Recorded Pilates classes, please see the 4-Week Trial offer below.

Popup Prop Class

There's a brand-new Pilates Popup Prop Class on the members jtp.zone website: Hand Weights — Take 2.

Reformers At Home

There's a new Reformers At Home routine available now on the jtp.zone this week — the routine is called My Workout.

4-Week Trial

If you have’t tried online Pilates classes yet, and you are new to Jane Thomas Pilates, you can have a Free 4-Week Trial of all online classes and material on the members area of the jtp.zone website — just click or tap the link here for details.

Start at the ABC

And if you are brand- or relatively-new to Pilates, I currently have an offer of my Free Absolute Beginners Course, which starts from the very beginning of Pilates, introduces you to the correct techniques and exercises you need to know to take your Pilates further, and gets you to the stage where you can join my regular classes afterwards. The Free Absolute Beginners Course comes with six class videos progressing you through the basics of Pilates, and is complete with a Free 52-page full-colour book, detailing the exercises and classes — so you can practise as often as you want over the two months of the Course. Click or tap here for more information about my Free Absolute Beginners Course.

Exercise Of The Week

Often lower back issues are caused by lazy gluteals, and they do get lazy particularly if you spend a lot of time seated at a desk, or driving for extended periods of time. We don’t generally find this out until we start to exercise and this can start to show us that those muscles in our posterior just aren’t switching on and doing it for us. So this week’s exercise is specifically aimed at strengthening and igniting those glutes.

Enjoy... Keep away from pain and remember to work at the appropriate level for your body.

Here is the video.

Have a great week everyone — keep moving, and keeping safe!

Jane xx

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