How will I benefit

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Better Posture

Your spine supports the weight of your body and allows your body to move with ease and comfort. But in practice, hours spent sitting in front of a computer screen or slumped in front of a television means that the spine’s natural shape is lost, resulting in back pain and rounded shoulders. Pilates helps to realign the spine and with that comes better posture.

Relief from Back Pain

Lower back pain frequently results from poor posture and daily mistreatment of our spines. By realigning your spine and improving your posture, lower back pain can often be eliminated entirely.

Greater strength and stamina without adding muscle bulk

Pilates helps increase both your strength and stamina without adding unwanted bulk, because it focuses on developing your ‘core’ muscles – muscles found in your abdominal and pelvic regions as well as in your back. By toning and stretching these muscles, and by correcting posture, your natural strength and stamina will improve in leaps and bounds.

Better balance and co-ordination

Pilates helps improve your balance and co-ordination by realigning your spine and strengthening your core muscles. Better balance and co-ordination means fewer injuries; hence the growing popularity of Pilates among professional sports people, from dancers to rugby players.

A great way to relax and beat stress

Pilates is a gentle form of exercise that literally re-introduces you to your own body. And the better you understand your body and how it works, the easier it will be for you to release tension, relax and beat the stresses and strains of modern life.

A good night’s sleep

Ask most people to name three things essential to life and invariably they identify water, air and food. Few people mention sleep and yet it too is an essential ingredient to life. A disturbing 10 million prescriptions for sleeping pills are issued every year in England alone. Pilates helps stretch muscles thereby releasing tension and pain. Pilates also helps trigger natural sleep responses.

Better Posture

Your spine supports the weight of your body and allows your body to move with ease and comfort. But in practice, hours spent sitting in front of a computer screen or slumped in front of a television means that the spine’s natural shape is lost, resulting in back pain and rounded shoulders. Pilates helps to realign the spine and with that comes better posture.

Help in preventing incontinence

Stress incontinence is the most common form of incontinence and affects over 3 million people in the UK. A common cause of this type of incontinence in women is pregnancy, where the pelvic floor muscles can be weakened. But as we get older, muscles in the pelvic floor region weaken too. Pilates helps to strengthen these muscles thus preventing what can become a very distressing problem.

Help in recovery after injury and preventing recurrence

With its low impact nature, Pilates is widely recognized as being of benefit to people recovering from certain types of injury, especially whiplash and a wide range of sports injuries. Indeed, many injuries suffered by sports people can be avoided – Pilates having the potential to play a big part in ensuring correct body movement and core body strength.