25/07/2022
Beautiful setting at St Anne’s Roman Catholic School Holiday Club 🌳🌳🌳
Delivering Pilates 🤸🏽♀️classes to primary school age children from Reception to Year 7 🧘🏻♀️
*Due to Safeguarding and Data Protection there are no pictures of the activities or any of the participants *
Pilates exercises were adapted with the incorporation of visualisation of animals/other items to help visualise and make the exercise more fun:
Elephant 🐘 encouraging Rolldown with arms as the trunk
Flamingo 🦩 encouraging Single Leg Balance
Airplane ✈️ encouraging descent and ascent in Single Leg Squat with arms out
Bird-Dog 🐦 🐕 we all know and love! Kneeling on all fours and lifting the opposite arm and leg…added a Soft Pilates Ball for more fun and giggles and of course a challenge!
Bear Crawls 🐻 to improve coordination and strength
Deadbug 🐞 also to improve coordination, control and strength
And somehow Bridge led to lots of extreme style bridging backwards onto the hands from many enthusiastic kids who do gymnastics … I’ll have to think of another name for that one so as to keep the traditional Pilates Bridge in there…still, it was great fun and the kids loved it!
Finished off with some Happy Baby, Pigeon, Cat & Cow, Cobra stretches and also Deep Breathing - they were all great with hands on their abdomen lying on their backs breathing quietly and deeply - I was impressed! And opened up into a dramatic finish with Mountain Breaths as well as some fun Rolling Like A Ball!
Looking forward to another 2 sessions of Pilates at this fantastic Holiday Club at St Anne’s tomorrow and Thursday!
