Low back pain is a common complaint among adults, with an estimated one third of adults in the UK reporting pain. Most low back pain goes away on its own within 4-6 weeks, but back pain can be more pervasive than that, creating an impact on everyday quality of life. I was compelled to write …
How many times have you heard someone say, ‘I’d love to do that, but I’m too old for it now’? I hear it all the time – I even saw someone who is younger than me write this online yesterday! While that may hold true for some things, it is absolutely not true for the …
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Many of us, with the best of intentions, set new year resolutions. Providing us with a guiding force for how we’re going to make this year our year. And most of us make it to around mid-January before those resolutions get binned. You’ll have likely heard a lot about goal setting and why it’s important. …
We need to stop commenting on people’s weight and placing thinness on a pedestal of being the epitome of health. Because when I lost over two stones in weight last year, it wasn’t all due to good diet and exercise. It turned out I was literally starving myself to thinness.
As a fan of both Pilates and Yoga, my favourite exercise is kind of a crossover and a staple used across the fitness industry. It is so versatile, has dozens of variations and is a good all-rounder in terms of targeting muscles (engages more than 20 of them!). It is none other than – THE …
How much of your self-worth do you place in your dancing? Can you separate who you are from the person you see in the mirror at dance class? Or on the video screen when you get a performance video? Can you even bear to record yourself when practicing or improvising? Last year I listened to …
Pilates classes are a fantastic form of exercise for general fitness, but also for overall well-being. In the Pilates classes we offer at the school, we combine mobility, strength, flexibility, core activation, functional movement, breathing and mental well-being as part of the overall offering in each class. We focus on balance, correct posture and alignment …
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