Play Pilates To Our Strengths

Published on 17th March 2025

Welcome to You All,

See you at the usual times:

Room Sessions at All Saints SE21: FREE PARKING in Lovelace and Rosendale Roads (Parking restricted between Noon and 2 pm only) - you can bring your bikes into the lobby.

Beware that Rosendale Road is a School Street. You will receive a PCN if you drive through Rosendale Road at the Lovelace/Rosendale junction heading north between 815 am and 915 am and if you drive between 8 am and 9 am from Dulwich heading south.

Monday 17th Matwork at 7 am, 8 am, 930 am

Tuesday 18th Matwork at 10 am and 11 am

Wednesday 19th Matwork at 8 am, 930 am, (Chair Barre Standing at 1030 am)

Zooms This Week - Click the Link: No need to book Zooms; please email me to set up your account.

Monday 17th at 11 am Barre Chair Standing https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84344602186 (Please bring your bands for this week's Chair session)

Tuesday 18th at 8 am Matwork https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82455055719

Thursday 20th at 8 am Matwork https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89666106291

Thursday 20th at 9 am Matwork https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85187321112

Thursday 20th at 10 am Chair Barre Standing https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86894418625 (Please bring your bands or this week's Chair session)

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Online: I'm online 24/7; simply peruse the list of Pilates videos and fit your choice to your mood! Email me to set you up.

The RAD: Our last session of the term is on 31st March. This week's Monday session is at the usual time of 1250 and we're in the Kusuma Studio this week and next. Please contact me to join these Monday sessions. Please apply to the RAD directly for 2025 Easter and summer schools; I am teaching Pilates to Silver Swans, Juniors, Seniors, Exam Intensives and Adults. You'll also find me presenting at the RAD Members' Day on 11th May.

Cue the Move: Play Pilates to our strengths - we should never exacerbate our weaknesses. Play Pilates to our strengths is worth remembering, as we choose the level right for us on any given day, in any moment, as we guide our body through beautiful conscious movements. If you feel weak, stop, breathe and breathe some more. Prepare and establish your set up again, with all the awareness you know, and continue to breathe deeply and completely. Let me help you to put the jig-saw pieces together. There is no move we ever need to think we "can't do" - we do the "can do" and we play to our strengths. For now, find all you know of your sitting, or standing, posture. Start to gently lift your chest, hold that position for six deep complete breaths and relax. Take those inhalations in through your nose and into your upper back and those thorough exhalations through your mouth. And then relax.

Please note this unchanged list of term-times:

Spring term is in progress: Last sessions Thursday 3rd April.

All sessions resume Tuesday 22nd April onwards

Bank Holiday Monday 5th May

Half-term 26 - 30th May - last sessions Thursday 22nd May, sessions resume Monday 2nd June until Thursday 17th July

Summer Holiday 21 July - 31 August - Sessions resume Monday 1st September

Contacting me via email is preferred: - If I don't respond within 48 hours, it is definitely an oversight - please resend your email - I look forward to connecting with you.

News: I've met with much kindness of strangers this week. I've also had an unexpected two hours of amazing conversation with a ninety year old wonder woman. My favourite thing is hearing untold real stories. Plus, EV and I have had some beautiful walks with our friends. I've watched some riveting television, too; The Au Pair and then The Ruth Ellis Story. One a TV drama and the other, as we know, about the last woman to be hanged in this country. She was hanged on 13th July 1955. She was aged just twenty-nine. Both the TV drama and the real life story had a couple of parallel themes. Neither were an easy watch. I leave you without spoilers but with one line only, delivered by the inimitable Toby Jones in The Ruth Ellis Story. He played her solicitor, John Bickford. Here's the line; "Justice isn't real Ruth; it's a story written by the winners." Kelly Jones, as ever, gives us killer lines throughout the story.

The sunrise is stunning this precious morning and I'm looking forward to every moment of today and the week ahead; can't wait to see you in class.

Breathe Connect Move

Very best wishes, Wendy

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