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Agne’s 6-Month Journey: Improving Scoliosis & Recovering From Knee Surgery

By |2025-12-04T12:56:38+00:00December 4th, 2025|Accepting change, back pain, Breathing, connective tissue recovery, Emotional Experience, Nose Breathing, One to one training, pain|

A powerful example of what consistency, awareness, and intelligent movement can achieve. When Agne began her six-month programme, she wanted to support her scoliosis, rebuild strength after knee surgery, and understand her body on a deeper level. What she gained was far more transformative — confidence, clarity, mobility, and lifelong tools she can now use [...]

Mel’s Success Story: Transform Your Health with CHEK Coaching

By |2025-12-04T11:34:21+00:00December 4th, 2025|Accepting change, Anatomy, back pain, Breathing, gossip, life, love, mind, pain, Peace, Pilates, stress, thinking, Thoughts, tired|

Another one-to-one client seeing powerful, measurable change — and the results speak for themselves. Huge well done, Mel! Your commitment is showing in every area of your life. Mel’s Results: Drinking 2 litres of water daily Boosted energy levels Eating clean, whole foods Improved digestion Stronger trunk stability Better movement in everyday life Fewer migraines [...]

Why abdominal tone relates to health

By |2026-05-22T05:06:54+01:00June 22nd, 2025|anxiety, back pain, Health and Wellbeing, pain, stress|

Fashion, marketing, media and of course TV heroes (including tough girls and guys) emulating perfect aesthetics and six pack abdominals are driving the concept of reality and the ideal. But is chasing this idealism holding you back in life? Stanley Keleman book Emotional Anatomy shows the interplay and connection between the body and emotion. Keleman emphasized how [...]

Teaching and coaching Pilates from the soul!

By |2026-05-22T04:59:46+01:00February 13th, 2025|Accepting change, anger, pain, Spirituality, The straw man effect, thinking, Thoughts|

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost There is so much noise out in the Pilates, fitness and wellness industry. We are sold everything on social media including looks, celebrity lifestyle, consumerism, false health, what we think is [...]

Can emotion and trauma cause dis-ease and disconnection in our body/mind?

By |2024-05-07T17:45:10+01:00April 23rd, 2024|Accepting change, back pain, Breathing, Embodied Emotion, Emotional Experience, life, love, Mouth Breathing, pain, Peace, Philsophy, psychology, sadness, stress, thinking, Thoughts|

Gabor Maté says: “trauma, from the Greek for “wound,” is not what happens to you; it is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you … It is not the blow on the head, but the concussion I get.” That, he says, is the good news. On Thursday 18th April 2024 my [...]

Rotation or lack of rotation?

By |2024-03-12T21:36:04+00:00February 26th, 2024|back pain, Bare feet, connective tissue recovery, connective tissue repair, gut, Inspiration, life, love, mind, pain, thinking, Thoughts, Uncategorised|

Whatever you want to call it, twisting, turning, rotating, or spiralling, any sort of rotation is the key catalyst of all the synovial joints in the body. Like a rusty hinge we may become stuck or restricted in places. This feels like a block physically and mentally. Like we would use WD40 to loosen a [...]

“As above so is below”.  

By |2023-08-28T09:34:22+01:00August 28th, 2023|Accepting change, Anatomy, anxiety, Breathing, habits, Mental health, mind, Mouth Breathing, Nitric Oxide, Nose Breathing, pain|

“The mind when housed in a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power’ – Joseph Pilates. The method of movement that you all know me for is: ‘Pilates’. The whole purpose of movement is to provide the body an environment in which it can heal itself from dis-ease and disconnection. We can all transform our pain into [...]

Are you unstoppable???

By |2023-03-26T10:53:03+01:00March 24th, 2023|Accepting change, Anatomy, anger, anxiety, back pain, Breathing, connective tissue recovery, connective tissue repair, life, love, mind, pain, Philsophy, Pilates, psychology, sadness, stress|

Do you feel you are star gazing and not making progress in your life, work, relationships or body? Are you comparing yourself to others instead of focusing on your daily actions, core values, dreams and goals? Life is like a train pulling all the carriages. The train engine starts slow down the track and then [...]

“Your results are an expression of your level of awareness”- Bob Proctor.

By |2023-02-05T21:57:00+00:00February 5th, 2023|Breathing, eccentric, Embodied Emotion, Emotional Experience, Flexibility, Inspiration, life, love, mind, pain, Philsophy, psychology|

We all have values, priorities and what is important to us in life. When we do something we love, we have energy, vitality and we are engaged. When we do something low priority, we feel overwhelmed and drained, as we feel what we are doing is not important to us or has little value. How [...]

In the way or on the way?

By |2023-01-07T22:04:47+00:00January 1st, 2023|Accepting change, Anatomy, Immune system, Inspiration, life, love, Mental health, mind, Mouth Breathing, Nature, pain, psychology, thinking, Thoughts, tired, words|

“I can’t do that because XXXX will happen". These beliefs will prevent you from taking action. Every decision that we make comes from our Amygdala (Amygdala is the integrative centre for emotions, emotional behaviour, and motivation. The amygdala is commonly thought to form the core of a neural system for processing fearful and threatening stimuli).  Our [...]

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