When you literally have a pain in your butt… you may be suffering from Sciatic Nerve Pain, known as Sciatica, or muscular pain called Piriformis Syndrome. Both of these conditions can be relieved with this series of exercises that targets Read more…
In this Back Extension Tutorial we explore a safe way to strengthen your back by gradually layering in progression for those of you who feel your backs can cope with the extra load or resistance. We begin with the upper Read more…
Keep your spine healthy with this 20 minute routine that includes gentle strengthening, stretching, and mobility exercises. I encourage you to explore your own range of movement and levels of intensity as well as finding different ways to move your Read more…
Push ups and tricep dips to tone your arms, rotations and side planks to stabilise and mobilise the shoulders. This routine is perfect on its own or with the Pilates for Legs sequence for a whole body workout.
Strengthen and stretch your legs and stabilise and mobilise your hips in this short Pilates routine for the legs. Targeting all the muscles that surround the hips, including the glutes and hamstrings we are leg circling, straight leg stretching, side Read more…
Lower Back Pain can be brought on by any number of things, from doing too much to not moving enough. You may have a muscle strain or nerve compression, wear and tear or osteoarthritis. If you back pain is mechanical Read more…
Following on from the Rolling Like a Ball Tutorial, The Seal introduces variety and complexity to the rolling exercise. The Seal challenges our balance, using the core muscles, stretches the hip and adductor muscles and is a fun spine mobiliser.
This half hour Pilates class is the perfect “go to” if you are looking for a routine that gives you a little bit of everything. Working your front body, back body and side body with some great pilates classics you Read more…
In the last in the 5 day series of neck stretches, we come on to our backs so the floor gives us support and stability for the shoulders as we stretch the neck and also can provide some resistance. Arm Read more…
When we think about releasing tension in our neck we also have to address lack of mobility we may have in our shoulders, tightness in our chest, and/or weakness in our upper back muscles. In this routine we use internal Read more…
In this routine we laterally flex the neck from side to side, again identifying muscle tightness. Introducing gentle resistance and rotation to increase the intensity of the stretches.
