Ivanhoe Pilates and Health Management

19/06/2025

Repitition matters, repetition with progression builds new pathways of efficient movement with safety.
We give you new and safe strategies of movement at IP.
(Thx Donna and Sherrie)

Why Repetition Is Essential in Classical Pilates🤔

In classical Pilates, we don’t chase variety for the sake of entertainment—we return to the same exercises because they work.

Each movement was carefully designed by Joseph Pilates to build strength, control, and alignment in a specific way. When you repeat an exercise, you’re not just going through the motions—you’re deepening your understanding of your own body.

🔁 With repetition:
•You stop “doing” and start feeling
•Subtle muscles begin to wake up
•You refine your technique, breath, and timing
•You build true muscle memory—not shortcuts

Over time, the exercises don’t get easier—they get smarter. What changes is you: stronger, more aware, and more connected to your powerhouse.

That’s the power of a method built on progression—not trends.
Stay consistent. Stick with the system. Let the work evolve with you. ✨

15/04/2025

Please support our comprehensively trained Pilates teachers. As an aging population it has never been more important to have individualised safe program design!

Good news at last.

Please support only comprehensively trained Pilates teachers and help preserve the legacy and integrity of this work

(By Penelope Latey PhD)

We are another step closer to being a rebatable service.
The Albanese government has accepted the recommendations of the Natural Therapies Review and relevant updates to regulations will be made following the election.
However to quote Mark Butler:
Coverage of natural therapies remains a decision for insurers. Insurers which chose to cover the therapies will work with the natural therapies sector on coverage and to re-establish provider credentialing .

Coverage can be considered - what type of provision of service.
Credentialing - confirming education and qualifications.

The research evidence is only positive for individualised population specific (by assessment), pilates small group or one on one sessions that is provided by a certified instructor.
We therefore need to reach out to PHIFs to support the inclusion of fully qualified comprehensive Pilates practitioners who provide individualised sessions as a distinct rebatable service.

**Please support this initiative by calling your local member (with the election looming) and pressing your private health funds.

23/03/2025

PAA this is the wonderful woman who has embodied the essence of movement for me for nearly ten years and enhanced my Pilates teaching!
❤️

21/02/2025

Why The Pilates Method (and its Methodology) matters!

21/01/2025

This article describes our Pilates philosophy at Ivanhoe Pilates. Lucky enough to have been taught by Madeleine Doty-Black!

Madeline Black, author of Centered, has made it her life's practice to study human movement. Here she shares her holistic approach.

27/11/2024

This is going to be my actual Pilates fight: let people understand that despite this Reformer "fashion", Pilates is not a Reformer class. Pilates is a philosophy based on control which has different tools/apparatus to make students better understand how to do specific movements. Especially big apparatus are mostly "facilitators" compared to the matwork so it drives me crazy when I see people using Pilates machines as they where in a Gym. Anyway, a Pilates Teacher should know how to use them all not only teach a a Reformer every single hours spent with a student.

29/09/2024

To remember!

The pelvic floor is a vital myofascial region for overall health and function.

By cueing and training the pelvic floor as a dynamic and adaptive structure we can more easily improve incontinence and pelvic health.

The super early bird discount for the Fit Floor Support For Life online pelvic health programme ends tonight!

Click the link below to book your space now:

https://www.tomwaldronmovementtherapy.co.uk/book-a-workshop/p/fit-floor-support-for-life-7-week-pelvic-floor-programme?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaDF1aTZN5thbD7eiRHcbCBadQXA9InVSQrT8_vCcGiw3F934dw5GtasAA_aem_q29DbYoEypu5s9KfQwcgVw

Movement is medicine

Tom

21/08/2024

We at IPStudio pay attention to your detail!

19/08/2024

At IPS we teach the method not just exercise!

06/08/2024

Very important to consider these ‘other’ aspects of movement. It’s what we do at IP Studio.

My free webinar earlier this week - Does Movement Matter in Clinical Practice - booked up in 24 hours, and was so oversubscribed I've decided to do it all over again this coming Monday. Hope you can join me - details below...

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Does Movement Matter in Clinical Practice?

There are a lot of mythologies and misconceptions out there, like ...

Can't go wrong getting strong.

Movement starts from the core.

Control is the goal.

It doesn't matter how you move.

You must move in this certain specific way or there will be hell to pay....

It goes on and on....

It can be confusing and tempting to diminish the conundrum by saying it doesn't really matter.

So here's the short version:

Patients don't belong in boxes. Posture and movement are the sum of multiple systems, an extraordinary web of interconnections that gives you huge scope and possibilities as a clinician. And AI can't do what you can.

Clinical movement expertise is not about prescribing exercises or using generalised testing protocols.

It is not the same as Pilates, yoga or S and C, although all of those activities have value.

It is:

The discerning use of movement in your analysis to help "get to the why" of a presentation in a way that is relevant and engaging to the patient.

Increasing specificity by exposing the web of potential contributing factors in the patient's presentation. These may be biomechanical, neuromuscular, sensory, emotional, perceptual, belief driven and more.

Identifying the most likely entry point/system on this web to enable change, instead of being overwhelmed and defaulting to "an exercise programme".

Being sufficiently agile to switch systems when the patient is struggling to experience change .

Helping patients to develop confidence and curiosity, in place of fear and helplessness.

And so much more.

It is as much about how you dialogue, question, invite, coach and modulate the experience as it is about the choice of movement, so it is not just about tests and exercises. It is about moving the brain.

It seems complex, but it doesn't have to be complicated.

I'm going to host a free open session to talk movement this coming week for those of you who are movement curious, movement confused, or who share my passion for this astoundingly beautiful, intensely human expression of who and how we are.

Join me for a frank chat and an opportunity to ask me your burning questions about movement's role in your clinical practice.

I'll share with you a variety of patient application examples to illustrate how to recognise this multisystem web in your own patients, and highlight some of the possibilities

WHEN: Monday August 5th at 7pm-8pm (UK)
COST: FREE
BOOK HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkc-6gpjIvGdQsjXeX3__5TBSfGv7SgHZq #/registration

05/08/2024

Yes, though I would add within the boundaries of safety!

Being aware of the research regarding back pain and neutral over the years has given me two massive upgrades in my teaching.

- Class creativity (not being afraid to break rules and teach how I want).

- Appreciation of other approaches to Pilates and exercise (teaching styles that aren't my preference are supported by evidence).

When we say "evidence based practice" that doesn't mean there's one approach that's evidence based.

It means there's an understanding and appreciation that multiple approaches can be equally effective or show efficacy.

I have my opinions, style and preferences that are unique to me and my teaching experience.

However that doesn't mean I don't value, respect and support other teachings.

All approaches can exist.

Movement is medicine

Tom

23/07/2024

We practice these wonderful JEMS principles at IP Studio!
Offering movement coaching, Pilates Movement Therapy, Remedial Massage and Osteopathy! What do you need??

UPDATE: This event is now fully booked. All being well we will share the recording next week.

Does Movement Matter in Clinical Practice?

There are a lot of mythologies and misconceptions out there, like ...

Can't go wrong getting strong.

Movement starts from the core.

Control is the goal.

It doesn't matter how you move.

You must move in this certain specific way or there will be hell to pay....

It goes on and on....

It can be confusing and tempting to diminish the conundrum by saying it doesn't really matter.

So here's the short version:

Patients don't belong in boxes. Posture and movement are the sum of multiple systems, an extraordinary web of interconnections that gives you huge scope and possibilities as a clinician. And AI can't do what you can.

Clinical movement expertise is not about prescribing exercises or using generalised testing protocols.

It is not the same as Pilates, yoga or S and C, although all of those activities have value.

It is:

The discerning use of movement in your analysis to help "get to the why" of a presentation in a way that is relevant and engaging to the patient.

Increasing specificity by exposing the web of potential contributing factors in the patient's presentation. These may be biomechanical, neuromuscular, sensory, emotional, perceptual, belief driven and more.

Identifying the most likely entry point/system on this web to enable change, instead of being overwhelmed and defaulting to "an exercise programme".

Being sufficiently agile to switch systems when the patient is struggling to experience change .

Helping patients to develop confidence and curiosity, in place of fear and helplessness.

And so much more.

It is as much about how you dialogue, question, invite, coach and modulate the experience as it is about the choice of movement, so it is not just about tests and exercises. It is about moving the brain.

It seems complex, but it doesn't have to be complicated.

I'm going to host a free open session to talk movement this coming week for those of you who are movement curious, movement confused, or who share my passion for this astoundingly beautiful, intensely human expression of who and how we are.

Join me for a frank chat and an opportunity to ask me your burning questions about movement's role in your clinical practice.

I'll share with you a variety of patient application examples to illustrate how to recognise this multisystem web in your own patients, and highlight some of the possibilities

WHEN: Monday July 29th at 7pm-8pm (UK)
COST: FREE
BOOK HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkcuitqDwoGtbI1C3po9g6wfve2-cuRwDg