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- 2012
- ipilates win small business award
- Great Britain set second set world record in women's pursuit
- Online Bookings for March
- Victoria Pendleton, thoughts on the Olympics
- New year, New classes.
- 2011
- Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
- November 2011: Stockport triumph at English Cross Relays.
- What is your favourite Pilates execise ?
- Victoria Pendleton in Apeldoorn
- Re-engage that Centre.
- Our Pilates community
- An exercise for every day.
- Is hotdesking bad for your back?
- Work with what you have got and enjoy your body
- St Ann's Hospice midnight walk
- Child back pain
- More Pilates=Less treatment
- Do men do Pilates -yes they do
- Good sitting posture.
- New beginners class starting this Friday 2.30pm
- New facebook page!
- Studio is closed now until 3rd May!
- Exercises whilst watching tele!
- London 2012 Olympics
- Support not tension
- Does your back ache after gardening?
- The studio experience
- Welcome to the new site
- Do men do Pilates?
- Treat your feet! Exercises for your ankles, feet and toes
- Can Exercise Help Me Beat Stress ?
- New Year , New You
- How Can I Cure My Hangover ?
- Can Pilates Help With My Tension Headaches ?
- 2010
- Low Back Pain Guidelines
- My back feels stiff when I wake up-help!
ipilates win small business award
BBC Dragon Theo Paphitis showed his support for iPilates unique Pilates downloads on Twitter by re-tweeting a message sent to him by this small Wilmslow business. Dragon Chooses Wilmslow Studio as Business Winners iPilates was started by Tracey Corcoran and Julia Jackson, following Tracey’s d...
Great Britain set second set world record in women's pursuit
The 'Olympic factor’ kicked in five months early at the London Velodrome on Friday night when Great Britain’s women broke two world records in the space of 30 minutes on a remarkable day in which four world records fell – all to women In a thrilling women’s team sprint final Great Britain ca...
Online Bookings for March
This is a quick one from me today to say a huge thank you to our clients who have booked online. We have had a record number booking online for the March classes and the feedback from those who haven't done it before has been positive: "It took me a minute and I was booked into my favourite clas...
Victoria Pendleton, thoughts on the Olympics
Follow the link to read about Victorias' thoughts on the forthcoming Olympics.
New year, New classes.
Hi everyone, I hope you are getting ready to return to classes next week. we are ready to teach you. I have had a few requests to take things easy on the first week. We always do, to remind you of the basics of Pilates and to re-connect your body and mind. See you next week! Julia
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
It's our last week of classes this week as we close for the Christmas break.I would love to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have attended the studio this year. We now have 24 classes running a week and as teachers we are all in awe of how dedicated our clients are, turning up week a...
November 2011: Stockport triumph at English Cross Relays.
The men’s race had a surprising winning team in the form of Stockport Harriers at a wet and boggy Berry Hill Park on Saturday. In the annual relays Stockport Harriers enjoyed victory. Only 47th last year and never having put a senior team on the podium in the 26-year history of these champion...
What is your favourite Pilates execise ?
Now we have an "Exercise of the week" I have been asking clients at the studio and fellow Pilates enthusiasts on twitter, what their favourite Pilates exercise is, when they do it and why it's their best one. It's been so interesting and I will share some of them in the exercise of the week a...
Victoria Pendleton in Apeldoorn
Victoria won the European Keirin title in Apeldoorn on Sunday 23rd October. It was reported: The Olympic sprint champion's resurgence gave her two gold medals out of three events and was the high point of a third day's racing during which Great Britain more than doubled their gold medal tally wi...
Re-engage that Centre.
Welcome back to classes everyone and Hello to all our new clients. We have record numbers of new beginners this term and we hope you all enjoy the classes and the benefits they bring to your posture , movement and flexibility. Please take your time learning the basics , it really does pay off in...
Our Pilates community
As we teachers take a break for the summer to rest, plan our classes for the Autumn and do the boring maintenance jobs at the studio we want you all to know that our Pilates community is still here for you. We have our facebook page JuliaPhysioPilates and you can follow myself on twitter @juliat...
An exercise for every day.
In last night's classes we enjoyed working on our SPINE CURLS. We started in the relaxation position with some body awareness and focus, thinking about the position we naturally placed ourselves and just nudging out of that position and feeling the change. We nudged our position to feel our back...
Is hotdesking bad for your back?
A client of mine has recently experienced exacerbation of her back pain and, as we were working through her Pilates, I asked if anything had changed in her daily life. She explained how her company have adopted hot-desking, she no longer had her own workstation so could be working at a different ...
Work with what you have got and enjoy your body
A week in the greek sun people watching from beneath my sunhat got me thinking about how we feel about our bodies. Of course I was missing teaching my usual classes but you will be glad to know I was doing some fieldwork! One day, I watched 3 elderley Italian ladies on the beach laughing and chat...
St Ann's Hospice midnight walk
My friend and co-founder of ipilates Tracey is walking 10k on Saturday for St. Ann's Hospice and at midnight too.She is doing this with her son Chris. Tracey had major surgery less than 3 weeks ago and this is a personal challenge for an amazing cause. I am so in awe of her and I can't tell her t...
Child back pain
I was recently at a lecture by Dr Dashti, consultant adult and paediatric spinal surgeon. He was talking about the increased incidence of back pain amongst children and teenagers directly due to the playing of video games or sitting in front of a computer for more than 2 hours a day. He said on t...
More Pilates=Less treatment
Judith from my Monday class recently told me that now she does her Pilates class regularly combined with gentle swimming,she finds she has now gone from visiting her physio for treatment on her neck on average every 3 weeks to every 6-8weeks. This is a common pattern amongst our clients and...
Do men do Pilates -yes they do
Watch the guys going through their paces. Thanks to David, Richard, Matt and Richard.
Good sitting posture.
The best way to improve your sitting posture longterm is to take it slowly. Start by recognising how you sit and try to come out of the positon you habitually sit in all the time, this is the first step to improve it. I would recommend sitting on a swiss ball for 10 minutes a day, sit comfortabl...
New beginners class starting this Friday 2.30pm
Pauline is teaching our 5 week beginers course which starts this Friday 20th May at 2.30pm. It costs £50 for the course and will introduce you and your body to the basic Pilates techniques then guide you through the exercises at a beginners level. This class is suitable for complete beginne...
New facebook page!
Please browse our new facebook page and let me know anything you wish to see on this page. Don't forget to click "Like"! Julia
Studio is closed now until 3rd May!
We hope you all have a lovely break for Easter and the sun continues to shine. Classes start back o Tuesday 3rd May with Monday classes starting the following week (9th May). See you all soon.
Exercises whilst watching tele!
We had a few laughs about this on Monday in the classes. We were doing exercises with the spikey balls, working on our feet and ankles, when someone piped up"These would be good to do while watching the tele!" I then said that exercises are often judged by how easy they are eg: you can do them wh...
London 2012 Olympics
It's 479 days to go until the start of the London Olympics 2012 and 512 days to go until the start of the paralympic games. It's fascinating to see the Olympic park and venues taking shape in London, I have been watching the progress on the Official London 2012 website. Here ...
Support not tension
What's the lesson our bodies learn from Pilates? Core strength? Flexibility? The answer is yes we learn how to engage our core muscles and we become more flexible but there is a deeper lesson which lasts through all our activities. This lesson is SUPPORT NOT TENSION. Let me explain. When we mo...
