The Pilates Promise

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 10th Matwork at 7 am, 8 am, 930 am 

Tuesday 11th Matwork at 10 am and 11 am 

Wednesday 12th 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 10th at 11 am Barre Chair Standing  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84344602186 

Tuesday 11th at 8 am Matwork https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82455055719 

Thursday 13th at 8 am Matwork https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89666106291 

Thursday 13th at 9 am Matwork https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85187321112 

Thursday 13th at 10 am Chair Barre Standing https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86894418625 

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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 31st March. This week's Monday session is at the usual time of 1250 and we're in Kusuma Studio. 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: The Pilates Promise - From the man himself; "In ten sessions you'll feel a difference, in twenty you'll see a difference and in thirty you'll have a new body". From me; "In six you'll feel you have control, in ten you'll know you have control, in twenty you'll be stronger all over and in thirty you'll be hooked!" I promise you, that everything we do in class is good for our bodies.  Last week we created magic with our hamstring length and enjoyed the Jack Knife. 
This week, I have promised that we'll look at Control Balance - you'll see the similarities to the Jack Knife.  To prepare at home - you could enjoy the hamstring stretch we did in class last week?  Keep your CCTV on your legs and remember how we lengthen them - not by locking the knees - but by lengthening from the heels upwards - both legs - inside and out.  Now roll down, you know how.  Looking through your legs - breathe and breathe and breathe.  Use a resistance ball, or a pillow or two, on the floor in front of you and squish with your knuckles, let your spine hang out.  Now place it to the right of your right foot and squish ten-ish times, then to the left of your left foot and squish.  Now back to the centre and squish some more.  Remember how we spent time and we breathed and breathed - now let your spine hang out some more, still looking through your legs and checking in with the length of the legs, now gently lift your tail and let your arms hang loose.  Magic isn't it? See you in class and we'll find the jig-saw pieces that create and build a beautiful Control Balance.  Accessible to all. 

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

Summer 21 July - 31 August - last sessions Thursday 17th July, 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 went to the most warm-blooded and up-lifting concert: "Birdsong" devised by Daniel Gethin. He arranged all the voices and we heard compositions from the sixteenth century onwards.  Centre stage there were black birds, blue birds, swallows, turtle doves, swans, robins, cuckoos, sky larks and nightingales. Their chorus was divine and a cappella! - How do singers do that? Talent and technique, I guess? The practice and precision it must've taken for this remarkable choir - Myriad Singers - to deliver complex and beautiful arrangements with only their phenomenal voices, no other instruments, no tricks, no smoke or mirrors, no mics, just with the ease of birdsong. Even their movement to rearrange their line-up from one song to another seemed to glide, like watching birds safely flying in formation. I have to say at times they even looked like birds as they sang out! It's true, it reminded me of an exhibition I saw in Brighton in 2015 - Marcus Coates - Dawn Chorus.  The evening has most certainly put the spring in my step and I've been chirping ever since!  Spring is in the air and my garden is full of glorious surprises - Mother Nature at her best, as I don't remember ever planting all the wonder I am seeing springing up in every tub and corner.  See you in class and EV and I'll be at Ema's on Monday from 230 pm.  I eat one of their healthy meals and talk and catch up with anyone who turns up.  Come join me, if you're ever free at that time. 

Breathe Connect Move

Very best wishes, Wendy

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