When you’re pregnant, being active is important for both you and your baby. It can help to keep you both healthy and it’s safe for your developing baby. Being active after your baby is born has lots of benefits too. It’s usually recommended that you take a break from exercise between 8 and 14 weeks. … More Pilates in Pregnancy

I have recently signed up as a supervising teacher for Body Control Pilates. This means that I will be helping trainee teachers gain practical experience during my mat classes. Trainees have to complete both observation hours and supervised teaching hours. What does this mean for you? a trainee teacher may come to observe your mat … More Supervised Teaching

I am insured with EMD UK, who are running a scheme for instructors to declare that they are taking all appropriate NGB and Government measures to run COVID-19 compliant classes, including appropriate social distancing, hygiene, and risk assessments. You can view my certificate below.

For 4 weeks from 25 Jan-21st of Feb 2021, CFN will be raising awareness across our social media (Facebook, Insta and Linkedin and Twitter) of all of the wonderful things that instructors and community facilities have been involved in through lockdowns 1, 2 and 3; and all the bits in between to support the physical, … More #lockdownlife

In Pilates, we work the pelvic floor muscles together with the deep abdominal muscles and muscles alongside your spine (multifidus), to stabilise your trunk. We call this action centring and it is one of our basic principles. By strengthening these muscles, they are better able to support your back and can help you manage or … More Centring

Joseph Pilates was passionate about the benefits of learning how to breathe efficiently. He said: “Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breathe properly. Our very life depends on it.” Breathing for Pilates In Pilates, breathing is one of our basic principles. We practise lateral or … More Breathing

The first basic principle is alignment, which refers to bringing your body into its ideal posture, where your joints are in their optimal position in relation to each other and your muscles are doing the minimum amount of work to hold them there. Without good alignment, you risk extra wear and tear on your joints … More Alignment

Different Pilates schools have different sets of guiding principles. I like to start with these three, which are easy to remember as ABC, they are: Alignment Breathing Centring Joseph Pilates used six: Precision Breathing Centring Control Coordination Flowing Movements He did not mention alignment, but I think that this is covered within the principle of … More Basic Principles