Do you feel tight or weak in your back? Have you got grumbly back aches and pains? Daily life, gravity, and rounded posture through desk working, cycling, gardening, picking up the children, and lifting weights – all contributes to a more compressed spine. In these sessions, we’ll lead you through a progressive series of classes to help you build an internal suspension to restore the natural space between your vertebrae. Learn how to decompress your spine, find space for your joints and vital organs and strengthen your lower abdominals using just the mat, your body and gravity! This class ..read more

Want to take care of your heart and lungs more? Start a healthy way to boost your fitness without having to go out running on the street? Want to feel more confident for the Summer months? Introducing the popular Cardio Jump and Flow Class The jump board was actually first created by NASA as a way of simulating the feeling of weightlessness to the astronauts. Gratz Industries helped bring it to the Pilates world with their version of the jump board back in the 80s and was first introduced not by Joe Pilates but by his protege, who took over the studio, Romana. Originally designed as a tool to ..read more

active for aprilIt’s really simple. We all don’t move nearly as much as we need to! According to the current Physical Activity Guidelines, the recommendation is for adults to be active per week for 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity activity  PLUS 2 days of muscle strengthening activity. It’s time to get moving and make the most of Spring. So let’s get Active for April! Whatever activities you choose it’s completely up to you. Let’s all agree to find something active to do every day. It doesn’t have to be a lot, just 30 minutes a day is ..read more

Tiger Claws? A few weeks ago I was at my regular private session at the pod with Michelle. This particular week she had lost her voice so we decided we would work our way through the intermediate reformer order that I know well and would require less verbal instruction I’m stuck into my footwork, desperately trying to centre myself and stop my butt levitating off the reformer which is usually how footwork starts for me. I glance over at Michelle, when I realise she appears to be trying to communicate with me through the medium of mime! I look at her frantic hand actions and crazy eyebrow ..read more

You can’t beat a good bit of bread and butter can you? I like good bread. Tasty, delicious, lovingly baked by people who know what they are doing. The only time I like a bit of thin, tasteless, bleached, white bread was after 40 hours in labour. Then that toast, is the best toast ever! And butter, I like real butter. Not that trans fat margarine stuff that my mum got us all into in the 80’s and 90’s with the rise of diet food. Nope, give me a tasty, well churned bit of butter any day. Butter on hot toast… well now we’re talking. That’s the Reformer and the Mat. Mat is the bread. The backbone o ..read more

Do you need help improving the function and control of your pelvic floor muscles? In this specialist 5 week course, you will learn tried and tested techniques to support and restore your pelvic floor muscles using floor based exercises, releases, breathwork and light hand weights/resistance. Like any other muscle, the pelvic floor needs strengthening and stretching to ensure it functions correctly. The pelvic floor muscles not only help with bladder and bowel control, they also help with sexual functions, and support the pelvis and lower back. They can get weakened by hormone changes, menopaus ..read more

Pilates is not having “a thing” at the moment! New year, new fitness fads. It’s the same every year. Journalists and health bloggers go mad trying to find the next amazing workout or fitness gadget that is changed everyone’s lives in a quick fix. This year is now exception. You only have to google the term Pilates and you will find endless headlines of Tik Tok fans rushing to do “Plank challenges on a Reformer”, or how to do a “Killer Abs Pilates challenge” or the latest Instagrammer announcing how “Pilates is a thing right now” and how to do “HIIT Pilates.” A word of caution All of the above ..read more

Edge back into fitness and make YOU a priority this 2023 with our “Taste of Pilates” between 23rd January -5th February. Choose 2 classes to taster – during our 2 week taster period – for just £22. PLUS you can enjoy a taste of 1:1 private training – with 2 sessions for £120! We’re here to help you kick-start your wellness with an exercise regime that is free from fitness fads and fashions. A studio that is equipped with the whole Pilates picture and not just some pieces of the puzzle. From Reformer, to High Chair, Wunda Chair, Cadillac, Tower, Ped-o-Pul, Spine Correctors, Barrels, Toe Gizmo ..read more

Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year but not if you’ve got Present Wrapping Back, Shopping Shoulder, Tree Stretching Neck or Sofa Surfing Hip. Ok, so we might have made those names up but every December and January, we see a rise in acute back, hip, shoulder and neck pain and our local Osteopath tell us it’s all Christmas related. If you don’t want want to be a statistic, or spend more time at the Osteopath’s than spend time with your family, then check out our helpful tips for surviving back pain this Christmas. Probably the biggest increase is in back pain associated with s ..read more

Supporting small businesses like ours on Friday 25th November… Last year, Holly & Co launched Colour Friday to kickstart a retail revolution for Christmas shoppers. So rather than taking part in the mass consumption of Black Friday, they encouraged the nation to celebrate the colour and creativity that small businesses bring instead — and buy carefully from UK independents. This year, we’re getting behind this even more because did you know… In a recent poll, half of UK small business owners said they’re genuinely concerned that this will be their last Christmas trading?¹ Carbon emi ..read more