Uncoil Pilates

Pilates - is a low impact exercise method designed to strengthen, stretch and balance your whole body. Pilates teaches you to have a connection with your body. With regular sessions expect to feel a sense of uncoiling and freedom from tightness or pain, improvement in your posture and be strong from the inside to out, resulting in better core strength and body alignment. The intergration of both Pilates equipment and mat exercises are used to create the best outcome.

Yogalates - A regular Yogalates session will include exercises and poses (asana) to cultivate strength, stamina, stability and flexibility with particular attention paid to building tone in the deeper postural “core” muscles. These protect the spine against injury, support the internal organs and foster pelvic and spinal awareness to promote good posture. Equipment such as blocks, resistance bands (which replicate the resistance training of the Pilates machines), weights, fit balls and foam rollers may also be utilised to further enhance strength and balance.
Poses (asana) are one of eight limbs in Yoga. The other seven include aspects such as cultivation of life force (pranayama) often known as breathing exercises, meditative practices to quieten the mind and develop concentration and ethical guidelines to support appropriate conduct both on and off the mat so that the practice is both self nurturing and in turn also benefitting others. In Yogalates the eight limbs of yoga are implemented making it a holistic approach which aims to bring about balance and unity in body, mind and spirit.

Yogalates is suitable for all ages and is a very safe and accessible method making it ideal for sufferers of back pain, arthritis, and osteoporosis and is particularly beneficial for post natal women. As an exercise modality it is excellent for developing general tone and fitness, while also encouraging a connection with self to soothe the nervous system, release stress, aid relaxation and instil inner calm and overall wellbeing.
At the end of each Yogalates session we finish traditionally by all repeating the Sanskrit word NAMASTE ……..which is a greeting used in India and Nepal. It has many definitions the more common one being “The Divine in me recognises the divine in you”……………Mutual respect is acknowledged between the teacher and student.