Pilates benefits:

• Soft tissue or joint pain and pathology
• Correct abnormal movement patterns
• Correct muscle imbalances
• Neuromuscular timing
• Neuro-pathomechanics
• Segmental spinal stabilisation
• Pelvic floor stability
• Core stability
• Lumbo-pelvic stability
• Re-educate functional movement patterns
• Injury prevention
• Postural and body awareness

Stephanie Watt our clinic director offers one-to-one, 2:1 and now we are delighted to offer small class sessions from February 2023 at our beautiful Sarisbury Green Clinic in our state of the art, purpose built studio!

Steph’s meticulous hour-long initial consultation will decipher your level, requirements and limitations. The follow-up sessions (60min/45min/30min) will then be meticulously tailored to your needs to ensure the exercises are appropriate for your individual needs. Steph’s bespoke one-to-one sessions are perfect for people who have been tentative about joining a class and can give you confidence, experience and the appropriate knowledge and technique for those wanting to go onto a class-based Pilates in the future.

Antenatal and Postnatal Pilates

Steph is also working towards her entire Matwork series and is currently undertaking an additional course in Ante and Post-natal (pregnancy) Pilates. This form of Pilates is a perfect, low impact exercise to do throughout your pregnancy, since it retrains your body to be strong, flexible and balanced without straining other joints. Steph will modify exercises to accommodate your growing bump to help improve strength and coordination, focusing on your core, pelvic floor and spinal muscles, whilst also focusing on deep breathing and relaxation techniques, perfect preparation for childbirth.

Common Pregnancy Conditions Pilates can help with:

• Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction (SPD)
• Pelvic girdle pain (PGP)
• Sciatica
• Sacroiliac joint sprains/strains
• Vertebral segmental joint hypermobility
• Pelvic floor dysfunction
• Gluteal myofascial pain syndrome
• Core muscle insufficiency
• Rectus diastasis
• Low back pain
• Pubic pain

Antenatal and Postnatal Pilates benefits:

• Strengthen your pelvic floor, which will help to support your bowel, bladder and womb as your baby grows and moves down and then restore normal function post-partum
• Strengthen your core muscles, which equips your body better to cope with the strains caused by the weight of your growing baby and to help restore normal alignment post-partum
• Reduces back pain, by exercising the deepest core muscles that stabilise your back and pelvis. Weak muscles can lead to back or pelvic pain.
• Helps with balance, as your bump grows you may feel a little more clumsy, or that your balance isn’t as good as usual. Pilates exercises strengthen your core and may make you more stable as you walk.
• Takes the strain off your back and pelvis, by using stretches and positions such as on your hands and knees, which is a great position for pregnancy. Towards the end of your pregnancy, it may also help to get your baby into the right position for the birth.
• Relax and control your breathing, which is important for pregnancy and labour.
• Help restore abdominal and pelvic floor strength and alignment, key for post-partum to support your back and pelvis.
• Help restore and retrain correct spinal and pelvic alignment
• Help retrain normal and functional movement patterns
• Help with health lifting of your new born

Pilates can be suitable for anyone and is becoming highly recommended by GP’s, Chiropractors and Physiotherapists. Athletes both in amateur and high level sport are seeing the benefits of Pilates in their performance levels and their recovery. Office workers wanting to work on their posture are seeing improvements in their sitting positions and a general decrease in low back pain with adherence to regular sessions. Pregnant patients and mothers post-partum are noticing better recovery from back pain and pelvic girdle pain associated with pregnancy and repetitive lifting of their new born child.

Have a chat with Steph about whether Pilates may benefit you.