Work Out
PILATES FOR UPPER BODY STRENGTH
Grab yourself a set of light hand weights (anything between 1 and 3LBS) OR a couple of water bottles or tins of beans if you don’t have weights.
Work Out
Pilates for Lower Body strength
A short routine that is easy to fit into your day, targeting your quads, hamstrings and glutes
Work Out
Body Conditioning Pilates
Another great routine that challenges your Muscular Strength and Endurance.
Breath Practice
THE 4/6 METHOD – Breath Practice 1/3
Uses counting to slow down your heart rate and promotes greater focus as you breath more deeply and evenly.
Breath Practice
Circular Breathing – Breath Practice 2/3
Visualise breathing around a circle to help calm your nervous system.
Breath Practice
COLOUR BREATHING – Breath Practice 3/3
e can all feel stressed, tense and anxious, for all manner of reasons. Using breathing techniques to lower our stress hormones and calm and soothe the nervous system just takes 5 minutes
Mobility
STANDING BALANCE PRACTICE
Practicing balance helps to improve our stability and therefore reduces the risk of falling and injury.
Mobility
KNEELING BALANCE PRACTICE
In this session we take our balance work to the floor, beginning with 3 point balances to 2 point balances in a classic Pilates exercise called Swimming from Kneeling.
Mobility
PILATES FOR A FLEXIBLE SPINE PT 1 (STANDING)
This standing sequence takes your sine through flexion, extension and lateral flexion as well as what I like to call “re-calibration”.
Mobility
PILATES FOR A FLEXIBLE SPINE PT 2 (FLOOR)
Continue to improve the flexibility of your Spine with some floor based exercises.
relaxation
Guided Relaxation
ve a special request and this months was for a guided relaxation. We do these on my monthly Saturday Workshops and quite often gets a few of you gently snoozing!!
Mobility
ROLLING (LIKE A BALL) TUTORIAL
There are several rolling exercises in the 34 Moves, including the Crab, The Seal, The Roll-Over, The Roll-Up and the Open Leg Rocker!!