Every time I see you, I will advance you and constantly challenge you, whatever your needs may be.

My Pilates mat exercises are a combination of the original exercises designed by Joseph Pilates as well as new physiotherapy based exercises.

 

My approach to it, both doing and teaching, is practical, straight forward, logical.

I view Pilates as an effective method of achieving physical functionality, body awareness/balance, core strength and back support.

 

Breathing – it’s a subject that is covered by entire books and, rightly so, it’s so important you will be constantly reminded that breathing makes the exercise…because it does. Breathing to either facilitate the moves or to make them more challenging, that’s about as far as I take it. I am not into meditation,  just breath in the exercise, trust me holding your breath only makes it harder. Ironically the hardest part is to make sure you breathe.

 

I appreciate participants making comments/asking questions during a class – sensible or otherwise :)  Although I am passionate and serious about Pilates, it’s equally important to me that people find it fun, relaxed, I’m always grateful for being challenged – after all, I’m learning all the time too!

 

I typically demonstrate and then concentrate of correcting you – mostly verbally but sometimes being quite tactile. Expect your muscles to be poked and prodded, your feet to be slapped and your ass to be kicked if I don’t get the activation or motivation.

 

I instruct with visual cues like “think like Barbie, hips stay forward whilst the midline rotates".

I constantly stress the importance of abdominals correctly activated. You may even go to sleep thinking Abdominals, abdominals, abdominals.

 

Likewise, I constantly check people are performing moves s-l-o-w-l-y and under control. This works the entire length of a given muscle –lengthening and strengthening. Elongation is one of my favorite words.

 

I will often ask you to focus on 'the bit wot doesn't move rather than the bit wot does'! I find that by focusing on STABILITY, it tends to give you more CONTROL.

 

Improving your mobility, stability and flexibility with alignment and control.

 

           

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