Category: “How to”: Pre-Pilates

This video tutorial will improve the mobility of your shoulder blades and help coordinate the movements of the spine, shoulder, arm and head.⁠

This video tutorial demonstrates an upper back strengthening and a mobilisation exercise it also helps us on the way to a plank position – important for many other Pilates exercises.

This video tutorial teaches Hip & Shoulder Circles. It’s a lovely exercise to perform!  The gyroscopic sensation is almost addictive!

This exercise video shows an exercise that teaches us how we can stabilise our pelvis and torso during functinal movemens such as running and walking.

A video tutorial teaching Dead Bug: a safe exercise that teaches us stability of both the shoulders and pelvis. It also helps to improve coordination of limbs.

This will help to mobilise the hip joint as well as the ability of the spine to bend sideways. It also helps us with more challenging exercises.

“Swimming” exercise in Pilates strengthens your back muscles (extensor spinae), bum (glutes) and back of your legs (hamstrings). It also helps us to learn stabile alignment: keep the movement going though keeping your shoulders and pelvis quiet.

Helps practice balance and coordination and noticing oblique connections within the body in both the front and the back.

This video tutorial illustrates how muscles and fascia create long trains that run throughout the body in interconnected “trains”.

Correct postural imbalances caused by our modern lifestyles: from gyms to screens.  It goes a long way to counteracting our forward slumped posture that is so common these days.

Learn your side lying position because you’ll need to be comfortable with it for later exercises! You’ll develop spinal strength and mobility with these bananas!

This exercise can help you connect to your spinals and oblique abdominal muscles. The objective here is to increase spinal mobility, control and strength.