Shoulder Bridge with Arms Overhead.

🙌 Try this move today

The Shoulder Bridge is a Pilates classic, but taking your arms overhead adds a whole new dimension. Lying on your back with knees bent, you slowly lift the spine away from the floor, then take your arms up and overhead. Keep the arms overhead as you slowly lower the spine back to the mat.

That combination of length and lift is a challenge for both your spine and your core!

✨ Benefits:

• Increases spinal mobility and articulation

• Improves pelvic strength and stability

• Strengthens the glutes, hamstrings, back and core

• Deepens the mind-body connection through coordinated movement

Take your time with this one as you lift and lower the spine.

Follow along for more Pilates tips and exercises 🙏

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Shoulder Bridge with Arms Overhead.

Mindful Monday

Happy Mindful Monday and welcome to June! 🌸

A new month, longer days, a little more light and the perfect moment to check in with yourself and set a fresh intention.

Throughout May we focused on stroke awareness, walking, mental health, breathing and some brilliant exercises. And running through everything was one simple message:

We keep fit today for our tomorrow. 💜

That message doesn't stop in June. If anything, summer is the perfect time to recommit to it.

As the weather (hopefully!) improves, our bodies naturally want to move more. We sleep a little better. We spend more time outside. We feel a little more alive. 🌿

So this June, I want to invite you to use that energy intentionally. Not to push harder. Not to do more. But to move more mindfully, with purpose and awareness, in a way that genuinely helps your body and mind.

Here's my June intention 👇

I will move with awareness. I will rest without guilt. I will show up for myself so I can show up for others. 💜

What does June look like for you? Are you planning to try something new, get back to classes or simply move a little more each day?

If you're interested in joining us in class for the June/July term comment 'I'm interested' and I'll let you know what availability I have🌸

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Welcome to June

Slow Sunday

Slow Sunday and happy last day of May! 💜

What a month this has been. I just want to take a moment before June arrives to say a genuine, heartfelt thank you for following along, for moving with me and for showing up for yourself. 🙏

This month we have 👇

🧘 Celebrated International Pilates Day — the method that started it all

🧠 Shone a light on Action on Stroke Month — with some facts very close to my own heart

🚶‍♀️ Celebrated National Walking Month and the incredible power of simply putting one foot in front of the other

💚 Honoured Mental Health Awareness Week — because how you feel matters just as much as how you move

🌬️ Explored breathing techniques to calm your nervous system

💪 Tried exercises to strengthen, stretch and support your body

And through it all, one message has stayed constant:

We keep fit today for our tomorrow. 💜

If this month has inspired you to try something new, move a little more or simply think a little differently about why you exercise, then it has done exactly what I hoped it would.

June is just around the corner and there is so much more to come. Make sure you're following along so you don't miss a thing. 🌸

Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. 💜

See you on the mat. 🙌

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See you in June