Candle-Lit Restorative Pilates & Breath

Service Description

Please feel free to dress festively! This 1-hour-15-minute class will follow the usual principles of Pilates flow as detailed below, but with more emphasis on restorative mobility and flexibility exercises, fascia release, dynamic stretch, rebound elasticity and breathwork. Please feel free to bring your own candle (in a safe-level container), cushions and a blanket for relaxation and breathing practice if you like! For this class, you will need a mat, a softball or cushion, a stretch band (or scarf, or pair of tights!), and a block (or small rolled-up towel). Please ask for more details if you are interested in buying new or good condition used equipment. Happy holidays, everyone! x Pilates is a fun, relaxing, easy-to-follow session designed to tone your abdominal muscles, strengthen your back, enhance your posture, reduce tension, control balance and increase flexibility. There is a happy mix of standing and floorwork exercises for all abilities and levels. Pilates also improves the pelvic floor, core strength, joint mobility, and stress levels! Recommended for everyone from athletes, fitness enthusiasts, those ready to rehabilitate muscular and joint injuries, office workers, postnatal mothers, peri/menopausal women, etc. Each Pilates exercise and stretch is taught and demonstrated at a variety of levels to suit both the beginner and advanced participants using resistance bands or small Pilates resistance balls to strengthen, lengthen and tone tight or weak muscles. Pilates is a low-impact load-bearing class that helps to decrease the risks of osteoporosis, improve balance and core strength, and increase mobility within your spine and other joints. Pilates is renowned for the celebrities' and athletes' way of looking good and performing well! If you have any questions, please contact me. Sam