There’s never a bad time to start looking after your mental health. Right now, today is the best time. Something I learned (the hard way of course) is to do the work even when your mental health is in a good place. It’s maybe even more important you keep a strong practice when you […]
Author: Jen
Its time to get moving!
Moving a lot of your body a little is much better for your overall health than moving a little of your body a lot! If you spend lots of your day sitting, whether it’s at a laptop or on a sofa, if you are on your phone a lot, you really need to get your […]
Control The Controllable
What do I mean by that? You control what goes in your mouth – eat and drink with intention to be healthy. You know that tanning a bottle of wine and eating the whole cheese board/chocolate cake isn’t good for you every day… Start to ask yourself WHY you are reaching out for these comforts […]
The Difference & Similarities Between Pilates & Yoga
I have been thinking about this post for a long time, and I finally have set out the time to actually write it… The Difference Between Pilates & Yoga From the outside there are many similarities in Pilates & Yoga. Both are generally taught on a mat, moves are slow and controlled, both can be […]
Guided Meditation
Guided meditations can be really useful for people who find that it’s difficult to keep focused on your breast or quieting the mind. At the end of all my yoga classes I guide my class through at least a 10-minute sometimes 30-minute guided meditation. So, why is meditation so important for us? In Today’s world, […]
Breathing In Pilates
Layering in the breath to the moves in Pilates is a fantastic way to enhance your experience of the exercises. In Yoga, we are often encouraged to belly breathe, which is lovely, but only sometimes. I would argue that there are times in Yoga that doing the lateral breathing that we do throughout Pilates is […]
Benefits to Doing Yoga & Pilates Online
Moving classes online wouldn’t have been on my list of priorities or even been possible with my client base had we not been forced into it back in March 2020. As much as it’s not a way I love teaching, it has meant that not only have my current clients been able to keep […]
PILATES: TO POINT OR NOT POINT YOUR TOES?
Should you point your toes or flex your foot? Pointing your toe in a Pilates class came from it being taught a lot in the beginning to ballet dancers and no one (or not many) questioned it, so it has been passed on through the decades. My answer – it depends. When doing Pilates pointing […]
Neutral Alignment
It’s pretty much written in the script when teaching Pilates to talk about a ‘neutral alignment’. Less common in Yoga (unless you come to my class). It can be useful in Yoga to play around with neutral in/out of neutral to see what you experience yourself. The simplest way to explain neutral spine is where […]
Sweet Valentine
Are you showing yourself enough love?? In my book 9 Rules to Sort Your Shit there is Rule #7 Self Love & Self Belief… In that chapter I write this: ‘When I think about self-love, I believe it’s about looking after yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, respecting yourself, putting yourself first, and filling your cup, remember […]