Respect Your Amazing Body: Pilates and Beyond
Pilates in Wimborne, love the human body, support and nourish the nervous system
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- Dec 17, 2023
Back Pain, Joint Stability and Mobility - How is Yours, Head to Toe?
What’s your greatest movement achievement of 2023? Perhaps sticking to your new fitness programme, taking up running or lifting weights,...
- Sep 25, 2023
Core SOS: Are You Too Grippy In Your Belly?
Recently, we have been exploring the “slowed down” approach to movement in my sessions. We experimenting with self-assessing how the core...
- Mar 25, 2023
Pilates, Hypopressives and Other magic for Pelvic floor health - Part 1
How do we heal our pelvic floors? Pilates is a form of exercise that has traditionally been viewed as very effective for pelvic floor...
- Oct 17, 2022
Dealing With Chronic Pain - Part 2
In the previous post, we spoke about the mechanism via which chronic pain comes about. Briefly - it is a construct of the brain and is...
- Mar 16, 2022
Under Pressure
What have hernias around the abdomen and disc prolapses in the spine have in common? It seems like they are quite different things, don’t...
- Jun 20, 2021
Breathing Optimally: Part 2
Breathing Optimally: Part 2 In part 2 of this blog post, we will continue to explore key concepts relating to breathing, and talk about...
- Jun 4, 2021
Tissue Adaptation
Tissue remodelling - how does this work? Can we quickly undo the damage caused by hours and hours spent in one posture? Through our life,...
- May 26, 2021
What is a Dermatome?
Do you have back pain? Do you know why we can get pain down the leg, for instance, when we are told that there is a herniated disc in the...
- May 17, 2021
Stretching Beyond Your Limits
Traditional wisdom suggests that if your muscles feel tight, you should stretch them to feel looser. Right?! Traditional wisdom suggests...
- Apr 13, 2021
Good to Know... Intra-Abdominal Pressure
What is intra-abdominal pressure? Intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is the pressure in the cavity we have between the abdominal wall and the...
- Apr 10, 2021
Are AB CRUNCHES and SIT UPS good for us?
Let me start by saying this. There is no good or bad movement as such. All movement is good, generally. We should and can be doing a...
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