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Pilates
What is pilates?
Pilates is an exercise system tailored precisely to your needs as an individual.
This respected therapy helps you regain your natural balance, restoring your body’s correct alignment. The exercises strengthen the core muscles that govern your posture, and help relieve stress and tension.
Central to the pilates philosophy is breathing correctly, and you’ll be encouraged to move your body smoothly and easily, so that you become aware of how the parts of your body interlink with each other.
What to expect
You’ll exercise on a mat, lying down on your front, on your back, and on your side. Sometimes you’ll be seated. Your pilates practitioner will encourage you to relax, and then you will be guided through a series of controlled exercises. You’ll learn vital breathing techniques, and shown how posture and body alignment affect your health and well-being.
What it treats
Pilates can help you recover from injury, back pain, and problems caused by poor posture. It can improve your general fitness and reduce your risk of future injury. Clients report that pilates has helped their self-awareness, so that they sense more strongly the complex links that exist between mind and body. When you learn to listen to what your body is telling you, you can help it regain its natural balance.
