Our Classes
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Educate
Welcome to our Educate Pillar. Speciality, foundational classes designed not only to get you moving, but to educate you so you can learn the why behind everything you do. Learn to move well & tune into your body as we incorporate mobility, stretching and mindfulness while improving breath control and posture.
Anyone joining Reformer classes for the first time will be asked to join an Educate: Reformer Intro class initially to get familiar with the machine and learn the fundamentals before joining our regular classes.
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Empower
After completing your Educate: Reformer Intro for Beginners class, Empower is ideal if you’re getting started in your Pilates Era, coming back from an injury/illness, or just wanting a slower paced class to perfect your form.
Suitable for beginners to join after their Educate: Reformer Intro class.
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Embrace
Open to Empower and Excel levels, this class allows you to work at whichever level suits you! In this unique class, we embrace the best of Empower & Excel. You can choose to challenge yourself at an Excel level for some parts of class, and regress to Empower for others. You make the class your own!
An excellent way to progress from our Empower class, or to balance your practice if you do multiple classes weekly!
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Excel
Suitable for Empower graduates or those with prior Reformer Pilates experience and no active injuries, Excel is our signature class! Excel in your movement and build fitness in these progressive classes so you feel stronger than ever while improving balance, mobility and flexibility.
Mat Pilates Classes
Mat Pilates is a medically endorsed system of low-impact movement developed by Joseph Pilates to strengthen muscles, increase flexibility and improve overall health. It was developed in the early part of the 20th century in Germany, and was originally called ‘Contrology’.
Classes are performed on a mat and we frequently add props to classes, which are provided! Adding props to a Pilates class adds a challenge to our usual exercises, introduces some new moves and makes the class a lot of fun!
Reformer Pilates
Reformer Pilates is an effective whole body training that helps you to move better and feel better. Whether you're an athlete training for higher levels of performance, incorporating movement to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle, or perhaps coming back from an injury, Reformer Pilates can help!
On the Reformer, we use springs both as a resistance to increase/decrease the challenge and as a stabilizer for a little extra support.
Join us for a reformer class and feel the benefits for yourself!
The Educate Pillar
Pilates for Pregnancy
During pregnancy, your body undergoes remarkable changes to accommodate your growing baby. Pre-natal Pilates helps you adapt by:
Building Core and Pelvic Floor Strength: Essential for supporting your growing uterus and preparing for labor. This includes working the deep transverse abdominal muscles.
Improving Posture and Allevating Back Pain: As your center of gravity shifts, Pilates helps maintain proper alignment, reducing common aches and pains in the lower back and pelvis.
Enhancing Circulation and Reducing Fluid Retention: Gentle movement can help minimize swelling and improve blood flow.
Maintaining Mobility and Flexibility: Keeping your joints supple and muscles strong can help with overall comfort and prepare you for the physical demands of birth.
Promoting Body Awareness and Mind-Body Connection: The focus on breath and controlled movements can help you connect with your changing body and prepare for the breathing techniques used during labor.
Adapting to Each Trimester: Exercises are modified throughout your pregnancy. For instance, in the second trimester, movements are adjusted to avoid lying flat on your back due to blood vessel compression. In the third trimester, focus shifts to maintaining mobility and relieving tension as fatigue and breathlessness may increase.
Postnatal Pilates
After birth, your body needs time and support to recover. Post-natal Pilates aids in this process by:
Restoring Core and Pelvic Floor Strength: This is paramount for addressing issues like incontinence and supporting internal organs.
Helping Return to Pre-Baby Shape and Toning Muscles: Pilates helps to gently and effectively strengthen and tone muscles that may have been weakened or stretched during pregnancy.
Improving Postural Alignment: Especially beneficial for combating stiffness in the upper back often associated with breastfeeding and carrying your baby.
Addressing Diastasis Recti (Abdominal Separation): Specialized exercises can help to safely close the gap in the abdominal muscles.
Boosting Overall Well-being: Exercise has been shown to reduce the incidence of postpartum depression and can help you regain energy and confidence.
Building Functional Strength: Preparing you for the physical demands of motherhood, such as lifting and carrying your baby.
Pilates for Running
Running and Pilates. Pilates and Running. Two things that should ultimately be joined at the hip, or at least both working the hip at the same time!
Practicing Pilates helps to create a stronger, more flexible spine and core, and also promotes faster recovery from injuries.
Pilates can help:
Improve breath control
Increase overall flexibility, strength, and balance
Improve posture for more upright running
Help you recover faster from injuries
In one study, runners who took part in a 12-week course of Pilates (attending two classes per week) significantly improved their 5K time and VO2 max!
Ready to give it a try?
Pilates for Menopause
With symptoms of peri menopause starting in some women as young as 35, menopause has a huge physical and psychological impact on women.
A 2016 study showed that as little as 8 weeks of Pilates was effective in decreasing menopausal symptoms, allowing women to gain a greater quality of life! How?
Pilates incorporates strength training, helping to maintain muscle mass, which can reduce due to the natural decline in estrogen during menopause
Pilates includes balance work, which can reduce the risk of falls
Pilates adds in some weight bearing exercises which helps to build our bone density which can be at risk of decline as we get older, and particularly throughout menopause
Pilates always includes an element of stretching which is excellent for both our minds and our muscles
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