Blue Door Pilates

Blue Door Pilates Pilates training with fully qualified Level 3 Pilates instructor. And let's face it, life is all about the balance isn't it?

Working on core strength, overall body strength, flexibility, mobility, posture, balance and overall well-being. You will come away feeling stronger, walking taller, with improved balance in both body and mind.

08/02/2019

2019 is just about here... let us greet you at the door with this mind!



10/01/2018

Gooooood morning!!! 🌞🧡✨

06/01/2018

Rise and shine, weekend warriors. You've got this!

08/11/2017
06/10/2017

As a new report reveals the mental health benefits of just an hour’s physical activity a week, it seems there is nothing a workout can’t cure. Here is why we should all sit less and move more

28/07/2017

More of us are developing back problems, and men are most at risk - could pilates be the answer?

10/07/2017

Remember this next time you're faced with a press-up 💪

01/05/2016

"Can I just stay in the child's pose forever, please?"

10/03/2016

It's always good to unplug once in a while!

26/02/2016

SO IMPORTANT TO STRETCH THE HAMSTRINGS PEEPS.......

Stretching your hamstrings is a bit like leading a reluctant mule. If you pull the mule, it will pull back. But you can coax the mule along if you make friends with it. Help the beast relax, give it a nice place to go, and it will happily follow you.

So it is with your hamstrings. If you stretch by yanking on them, they’ll only yank back harder. But you can coax them to loosen up if you set them at ease and treat them right.

It’s well worth the effort to befriend these large, powerful muscles. They often carry an enormous amount of tension, so releasing them feels marvelously relaxing, both physically and psychologically. Lengthening them also helps protect your lower back. Your hamstrings anchor your sitting bones, limiting the forward tilt of your pelvis at your hip joints. This is good; it provides a stable base for your spine. But if your hamstrings are too tight, forward bending can strain your lower back and lead to serious injury. Even if your hamstrings aren’t particularly short, they can restrict your performance and put your back at risk in yoga postures that call for deep movement. This applies to most straight-leg forward bends and also to demanding poses like Hanumanasana (Monkey God Pose).

It’s helpful to think of freeing your hamstrings as lengthening them rather than stretching them. “Stretching” is a term better reserved for inanimate objects. It’s true that we often approach our hamstrings as if they had no intelligence of their own, hoping to force them into a new shape just as we might stretch a pair of new shoes. But this approach can only get you so far, because a major factor keeping your hamstrings short is the stretch reflex, a built-in feature of the nervous system that holds muscles at a preset length and causes them to contract when they’re pulled beyond it.

The secret to lengthening hamstrings is to learn safe, effective ways to work with (or around) this reflex so it doesn’t stop your forward bends prematurely. Like a mule, your hamstrings know darn well when they’re being tugged. They sense how far, how fast, and how hard you’re pulling them—and if you overdo it, they resist stubbornly. But like a mule, your hamstrings can be convinced that it’s safe, even pleasurable, to let go and come along on the journey.

21/02/2016

Thanks to the earth's gravitational pull, the average adult can put up to 60 pounds of pressure on the cervical spine when bent at a 60-degree angle.

16/01/2016
13/01/2016

One-legged poses give us a chance to find our center of gravity and dance around its edges. Here's how to still the wobbling and create a sense of...

11/01/2016

“Oh, you teach Pilates? That’s great. I know I should try it, but I really don’t have time to fit it into my already busy workout schedule of...

01/12/2015

Sometimes ya just gotta quote yourself. 😁👍

Move more

And you can even replace soul with 'sole' because your feet hate sitting on the sidelines too. Get it? Soles of the feet 😁 (geek alert‼️)

10/11/2015

Two-time cancer survivor Ethel LaBranche now teaches others fighting disease. “As I was recovering from my cancer surgery and treatment, I knew I...

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