Rachel Neal Osteopathy at Alsager Wellness Rooms

24/09/2025

Brand new Pregnancy classes coming to Alsager!

A new term of Pregnancy Yoga & Birth Preparation starts at Alsager Wellness Rooms on Saturday 4th October 9.30-10.45am and here’s what you can expect 👇

A weekly 75-minute class designed to help alleviate common aches and pains experienced during pregnancy.

Suitable from 12 weeks pregnant, pregnancy yoga sessions flow through gentle postures to balance the body, breathwork and breathing techniques to use during labour and birth plus meditation and relaxation to help you connect with your body and your baby.

The movements will help you build strength and stability, with additional focus on supporting the pelvic floor. Alongside the physical practice, each week you’ll also receive short integrated antenatal education segments designed to give you practical tools, knowledge and confidence to prepare for labour and birth.

You’ll be held in a welcoming, supportive, non-judgemental space where you can build your like-minded community, understand the changes of pregnancy, labour and birth and create space each week to connect with yourself and your baby.

✨ Suitable from 12 weeks pregnant right up until you birth your baby
✨ No previous yoga experience necessary.
✨ Classes take place Saturdays 9.30-10.45 at Alsager Wellness Rooms
✨ Classes run as a 5-week course (£55).

If you have any questions before you book, please feel free to drop me a DM or email me: chloe@chloesena.com 🙏

www.bookwhen.com/chloesena

19/09/2025

Just 60 seconds a day of wall sits can have a surprisingly profound impact on your body and overall health. What looks like a simple static hold is actually a powerful full-lower-body and core challenge. By pressing your back firmly against the wall and sinking into that invisible chair, you’re activating your quads, glutes, hamstrings, and even your abdominal muscles in one coordinated effort.

Over time, this isometric hold builds muscular endurance the ability of your muscles to stay engaged under tension which translates directly into better performance in running, cycling, and everyday movement.

But the benefits go far beyond strength. Wall sits naturally encourage proper spinal alignment, training your body to maintain an upright posture and reducing the strain on your lower back. They also stimulate circulation, counteracting the stagnation caused by hours of sitting at a desk. With improved blood flow comes not only healthier muscles, but also better oxygen delivery throughout the body, which can leave you feeling more energized.

On a deeper level, wall sits are as much a mental challenge as they are physical. The longer you hold, the more you confront discomfort and the urge to quit, which sharpens your mental resilience and discipline qualities that carry over into every aspect of life.

What’s even more impressive is the research: studies show that this single exercise can lower blood pressure more effectively than many aerobic or strength routines. And when practiced consistently, wall sits can improve mobility, stability, and posture in just a matter of weeks, making them one of the simplest yet most transformative additions you can make to your daily routine.

10/09/2025

Brand new Pregnancy classes coming to Alsager!

A new term of Pregnancy Yoga & Birth Preparation starts at Alsager Wellness Rooms on Saturday 27th September 9.30-10.45am and here’s what you can expect 👇

A weekly 75-minute class designed to help alleviate common aches and pains experienced during pregnancy.

Suitable from 12 weeks pregnant, pregnancy yoga sessions flow through gentle postures to balance the body, breathwork and breathing techniques to use during labour and birth plus meditation and relaxation to help you connect with your body and your baby.

The movements will help you build strength and stability, with additional focus on supporting the pelvic floor. Alongside the physical practice, each week you’ll also receive short integrated antenatal education segments designed to give you practical tools, knowledge and confidence to prepare for labour and birth.

You’ll be held in a welcoming, supportive, non-judgemental space where you can build your like-minded community, understand the changes of pregnancy, labour and birth and create space each week to connect with yourself and your baby.

✨ Suitable from 12 weeks pregnant right up until you birth your baby
✨ No previous yoga experience necessary.
✨ Classes take place Saturdays 9.30-10.45 at Alsager Wellness Rooms
✨ Classes run as a 5-week course (£55).

If you have any questions before you book, please feel free to drop me a DM or email me: chloe@chloesena.com 🙏

www.bookwhen.com/chloesena

03/09/2025

💜 Shine Night Walk – In Memory of Kate 💜

This September, I’ll be taking part in the Shine Night Walk — a full marathon through the night — alongside a group of friends, in memory of one of my closest friends, Kate.

Kate and I met during my very first osteopathy job — she was the practice manager, and we quickly became close. She was kind, full of life, endlessly supportive, and a brilliant friend. She sadly passed away from ovarian cancer last year, leaving behind her four amazing children.

Back in 2022, Kate completed the Moonwalk for Breast Cancer — long before her own cancer diagnosis. That’s one of the reasons we felt the Shine Walk would be such a fitting way to honour her memory.

I’m also walking in memory of two other remarkable women I’ve been lucky to know, both taken far too soon by cancer.

As a healthcare provider, I see firsthand how deeply cancer affects individuals and families — physically, emotionally, and beyond. We can’t bring those we’ve lost back, but we can walk in their honour and help fund research that brings hope to others.

1 in 2 people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Every single pound raised supports Cancer Research UK’s ground-breaking work.

If you’d like to support us, you can donate here: 👉
And if not, a kind word or bit of encouragement means just as much 💜

In memory of Kate (and Ella & Sally too) In memory of the wonderful and much-loved Kate, a group of her friends (me included) are doing the nighttime Marathon Shine Walk. Kate herself took on the Moonwalk for Breast Cancer in 2022. Cancer is a bitch — and she should have had a whole life ahead of ...

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17/01/2025

📣📣📣 NEW COMPLETE BEGINNERS PILATES CLASS to start at iQ Therapies📣📣📣

Wednesdays 12:30
Starts 29th January 2025
3 week short intro course £32
Max 9 clients

Start at the beginning and build solid foundations on which you can gradually build strength, flexibility, balance and your confidence in how to work from your core 😊💪

Genuinely no previous experience required or specific level of fitness.

Worried about your current mobility or back pain? Dont be… we’ll find the best exercises for you and modify where necessary. My classes are NOT one exercise for all!

Book now!
Redpilates@live.com
www.redpilates.co.uk
Feel free to call me on 07816 879095 if you’d like to chat about your health and mobility before booking.

17/01/2025

In the early 2000s I did some postgraduate training with professor and distinguished physiotherapist Peter O’Sullivan Australia. At the time we were studying core stability in the way back core muscles worked with loading and lifting. Fast-forward now, 20 years plus later and a lot of what we know about the back has changed. Peter and his colleagues put this together in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Head over to my YouTube channel ‘The PainPT’ if you want to hear more about this paper.

01/12/2024

This is a post about Alsager Round Table - we are struggling a bit and need your help so I'd appreciate 3 minutes of your time if you could spare it please🙏

Did you enjoy the Christmas Market and Light Switch On Event in Alsager last night?

Do you think the town's Christmas Lights are something to be proud of?

Maybe you took your kids to the Bonfire and Firework display at The Plough earlier in the month or perhaps took part in the carnival back in the summer... we hope you enjoyed those events too!

Do you know that those events, and others throughout the year, are organised by a team of men aged between 18 and 45 years old, who volunteer their time as members of Alsager Round Table?

Like most reading this, they are not particularly special men. They all work full time in a wide variety of vocations and most of them are family men with the exact same demands on their time that everyone else has and NONE of them came to Round Table knowing the first thing about how to licence and operate events like these, close roads or how to run a compliant charity!

The group exists to facilitate "the betterment of young men, in thought and work and deed" (in essence to further somebody's business development skills by contributing to their local community) so being a Round Table member is about learning new skills and networking as much as anything

It's not attached to any of the councils in any way and isn't political, religious, secretive or exclusive... but IT IS SMALL and we're worried that we may not be able to do the things we do if new members don't come forward😢

We are about to start our annual tour of the town with Santa and it's a great opportunity to get involved - this event is one of the most enjoyable of the year!

Obviously we'll provide all the training you need as well as collection tubs, hi vis vest and a pocket full of drumstick lollies for any kids you might meet

Volunteers can do as many or as few of the runs as they like. They'll play a part in raising thousands of pounds for the Charity and walk miles. They'll keep walking when the weather turns and they start to get cold and wet (because we don't cancel any of these events due to the weather - imagine the disappointment that would cause!) and they'll be thankful of those local residents that, by prior arrangement, stop the sleigh for a few minutes to supply mulled wine and mince pies to Santa's helpers. They'll also understand why we do what we do when they see groups of kids, dressed for bed, be totally unable to contain their excitement when they get their first sighting of the big man - this is something that those kids will never forget and it can be emotional

If you're a man, aged 18-45 and interested in finding out more, the first step is to go to the Alsager Round Table page and send them a message... you'll be answered quickly and we'll take it from there!

Thank you for your time, we do need some new members if we're to keep these traditions alive 🙏

For those interested in the Alsager Round Table Charity....

02/10/2024

Great tips from the brilliant Noigroup.

09/07/2024

Changes in oestrogen levels influence tendon health, especially around the menopause. Now there's evidence that HRT may help pain and dysfunction.