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Breaking the habit of being yourself

By |2021-07-26T10:06:26+01:00July 26th, 2021|accepting change, anxiety, Embodied Emotion, Emotional Experience, life, sadness, stress, words|

Dr Joe Dispenza has a called book ‘Breaking the habit of being yourself’. If you want to change you need to feed yourself a different diet, do something different. Nothing changes till you change. I have to train myself to do something different. Thoughts and actions only become easy when you drill them in enough. [...]

Knowing that if you lose, you are not the loser!

By |2021-07-26T10:07:28+01:00July 26th, 2021|accepting change, anger, anxiety, Embodied Emotion, Emotional Experience, genes, Immune system, life, love, Uncategorised|

When something happens how do you feel and react?  Now have a deep think about it - how do you really want to feel and react? And finally, what are you willing to do to change the way you feel?  Here are 4 helpful tips to help you change the way you feel: Stop arguing [...]

Garbage in vs Garbage out – What you do to the body, you do to the brain

By |2021-08-21T21:41:08+01:00July 26th, 2021|life, love, pain, stress, sugar, Teeth, transformation, Wheat|

Functional medicine, including Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, promotes lifestyle medicine as the foundations of health. And what’s the bottom line? We can improve our life by making better choices. For example after eating, rather than crashing out on the sofa or going to sleep, we should go for a walk.  Walking after food significantly lowers the [...]

England FC do Pilates

By |2021-07-11T10:17:20+01:00July 11th, 2021|connective tissue recovery, life, pilates|

If you thought pilates was just for women think again. Professional athletes have been using pilates, yoga and apparatus for years as part of their rehabilitation and pre-habilitation program. My first professional rugby league team was the ‘Saints’ (St.Helens) back in 1997. The strength and conditioning coach was Nigel Ashley Jones who had arrived from [...]

A studio of equality

By |2021-07-11T11:36:41+01:00July 10th, 2021|accepting change, anger, anxiety, eccentric, Embodied Emotion, Emotional Experience|

I am delighted and proud that my actions in the last 30 years of teaching supports equality, union and non-judgment.  Both studios follow the 2010 discrimination act. If you pop by you will find clients with all sorts of conditions, diseases and beliefs.  When we do Pilates, we become one. As the world becomes more [...]

Input v output

By |2021-06-12T16:00:34+01:00June 12th, 2021|accepting change, anger, back pain, Embodied Emotion, Emotional Experience, Immune system, Lateral sling sytem, life, love, pain|

Creating lasting change is hard. The truth is anybody can establish a habit or make changes for 3, 6 or 12 months but continuing them long term can be a struggle. Creating change depends on our behaviour, it’s not what we say it’s what we do. Talk is cheap, things only occur when we take [...]

Why pay more for Pilates apparatus???

By |2024-01-25T12:26:55+00:00May 15th, 2021|accepting change, anatomy, anger, classes, connective tissue recovery, connective tissue repair, Flexibility, Inspiration, Lateral sling sytem, stress|

How much is your health WORTH to you? WHO is responsible for your daily choices? WHO is responsible for how YOU feel and react? And can we CHANGE our perception ? (Ref: Dr.Edith Edgar Holocaust survivor) Is it the GP, consultant, hospital, government, man down the road or YOU responsible for your health?????? Are YOUR choices and priorities taking you CLOSER to health or FURTHER away??? Are you waiting for someone TO FIX [...]

The bathroom stinks……….

By |2021-04-29T16:17:48+01:00April 29th, 2021|back pain, carbohydrates, Events, life, Philsophy, psychology, stress, sugar, Teeth, tired, Wheat, yoga|

“My child, partner or friend is stinking out the bathroom”………is something that I regularly get told. Foul-smelling stools have an unusually strong, putrid smell. In many cases, foul-smelling stools occur due to the foods people eat and the bacteria present in their colon. However, foul-smelling stools can also indicate a serious health problem. Diarrhoea, bloating, or flatulence may occur [...]

Will Pilates cure my back pain?

By |2023-06-07T20:49:29+01:00April 29th, 2021|anger, anxiety, life, pain, tired|

Any movement to the body will either help of hinder us. This will depend on the condition of the tissue, the health of the person plus the environment (in other words the allostatic load). As Hippocrates said: “Food is either your medicine or your poison". The same goes for movement. There is no such thing as [...]

Will Pilates make me flexible?

By |2021-04-26T20:17:49+01:00April 26th, 2021|connective tissue recovery, connective tissue repair, Flexibility, life, Pandiculation, Philsophy, pilates, stress, transformation, yin & Yang, yoga|

First thing to remember, having a flexible able body will give you longevity in life.  Having a flexible mind will help you look at many points of view, giving you more empathy and compassion for others. Whether you are a weekend warrior athlete, a grandparent lifting the children or an office worker. We will all [...]

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