Elements Pilates

28/02/2022

Towel Spine, Towel Spine
Wind and Wind;

Slide Front, Slide Back
Glide and Glide;

Reaching Here, Reaching There
Do and Dare;

Towel Spine, Towel Spine
You are my Kind!

Have fun with your spine! This trio set helps with a good workout today. Wind or glide or reach… any works!

What do you think? 😀

31/01/2022

Let us embrace the Year of the Tiger with robust energy!

Let us proclaim the faithfulness and love we have experienced that will be projected into the new year!

Let us encourage each other and hear us ROARRRR!!

Happy Lunar New Year!!

31/12/2021

What a year!!!

It has been an interesting and challenging 2021 for most. However, we celebrate the strength and discovery that comes with 2021.

The many warm and encouraging spirits that came into the studio and our lives were a constant reminder of why we celebrate everyday in our own ways.

A big thank you and shout out to all kindred spirits!

Thank you for making 2021 unique!

Merry blessings!

24/12/2021

Blessed Christmas
filled with
gratefulness & laughter!

12/08/2021

Pushing! Pushing!

G-Ma Shirl shows some serious arm power here!!

Ever since a “frozen shoulder” experience 20-years ago, she decided to build up some arm strength. Her own creative movement here can be done slow or at rapid fire speed!

As defence, she also uses her arms to “block” others who may accidentally or playfully walk into her path…. Self-protection!! Hi-yahhhh!!!!

She is still training to try out arm wrestling. Give her some time……..

Once ready, she will show you her “guns”!!

💪💪💪💪!
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10/07/2021

I just know how working from home can accumulate all that “angst” on our bottom!! 🙄🙄😳😳

So start this week right! Give your bottom a bit of love! Sharing this full “BOTTOM” workout. Wiggle your bottom around but importantly, get your pelvis moving so that it is not stuck to a chair!

Bring the stretches and movement into your back, hips and legs. Get your spine active in all planes by moving one end! Gyrate and bring fun and flow into your week ahead!!

My preggers and youths loved this little bottom exercises. Circulate the flow from the other end! Blood flow, I mean!!

Join in! Bottoms Up!!
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26/05/2021

G-Ma Shirl doing her stuff!

G-Ma Shirl encouraging you into some movement. Her style-mylo pattern whilst walking in the park.

Let G-Ma Shirl see you “Squat-Stand-TipToe”!

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19/05/2021

The Bridge is a classical articulation movement (of the spine) that we all enjoy!

To be able to do so in a “fluid” manner, did you know you have to:
1. Envision your spine - bone by bone
2. Give your breath a rhythm
3. Rock your pelvis
4. Encourage pelvis to connect with spine
5. Complete your entire bridging movement with calmness (recruit muscles along the way)

This piece of exercise targets every part of the body and a good movement is not easy to perform! Challenges will come when you start to tweak little bits of the movement to allow “breath-thoughts” to come as one. Even my viscera enjoy the “upward” slide!

This may not be the best exercise for everyone if you are at different stages of spine concerns. As such, you are encouraged to inch your movement bit by bit and/or explore the breathing and visualisation of it!

Teaching this is a joy when we get the movement correct. What is even more joyful is when you understand what your body and mind can do.

Have fun articulating!

Stay Great! -🍎
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11/04/2021

Through ancient times, breath has been an important medicine to heal the body. It gets to the nervous system and opens up parts of us that we are unaware of. Calms your mind and brings better focus to your being.

Give your breathing patterns some thought. Athletes used it and so do the meditative monks in their line of focus.

Be aware of your breathing today!

25/03/2021

Useful breathing.......

Working to find balance can be quite a challenge for some. However, with a little help from proper breathing, balance can make a difference.

In this little video, we have added in a breathing pattern to better give ourselves audible support! The loud exhale (from the mouth) with the firm step acts as a guarantee that one’s footing is sure. The loud inhale (through the nose) acts as if to lift the entire spirit up so as to stay afloat and buoyant.

Breathing helps to :
1. calm
2. give a rhythm to movement
4. works the pelvic floor
5. nourishes the brain/mind
6. provides an assurance

Try listening to your breathing when you move and when you lie down. The effect is so different! Try breathing through the nose and the mouth in an alternating manner. Try a loud breath. Try a soft breath. Try a huffing breath. Just give it a try!

Breathing regulates us!

Try listening to your breathing patterns today!
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16/03/2021

Hello Fun Movers!

A bit of fun on the Reformer!

Enjoy what you do to be outstanding in your own way!

Stay Great! -🍎

06/03/2021

Losing balance or falling over or tripping can be a frightful experience for most. The constant fear can sometimes affect a person’s lifestyle and cause many restrictions.

The constant thought of “Oh no! Is this going to make me fall?”, can affect many decisions.

We hear some people in our studio say the same when they first started out but the important thing is that they gradually learn that they must stay DETERMINED to overcome this.

Simple exercises like breathing, core control, eye movements/focus and a WATCHFUL awareness for the positive can change that negative perception.

Try this simple exercise to see if it helps but stay DETERMINED to carry through! Hearing your own loud step may be helpful so it helps with an internal rhythm as well. Stomp on your steps at the start and turn the volume down gradually......

Have fun trying out!

26/02/2021

Did you know that you have to help a stroke within 4-hours?

Did you know that ancestry can play a part in how a stroke patient can receive treatment (in terms of surgery)?

Did you know that stroke can be categorised in a few levels like a Richter scale?

Did you know that music is a wonderful form of therapy for recovery?

Did you know that a stroke patient can recover better when they are determined to do so?

Proud to share with you the blog of one of our overcomer. Her personal journey. Grateful that she teaches me more than what I can offer.
Blog: www.mystrokeofenlightenment.com

11/02/2021

Hello Lunar New Year Movers!

Wishing all a Blessed Lunar New Year season! Good health, great fortune and wonderful love in the Year of the Ox!

Huat Ah!!

Stay Great! -🍎

10/02/2021

26/01/2021

The Spine Corrector is such a beautiful apparatus that lying on it helps the spine find its individual meaning when having to work it.

Our spine is mobile and flexible and yet can be rigid when required. Every vertebrae works individually and yet in a team. The wonderful soft arc of the Spine Corrector aids the spine to find that mobility and flexibility. And every movement needs great control.

Sitting at the lip of the Spine Corrector gives great feedback and allows the legs to hook at angles that are necessary to aid the challenge.

You are only as young as your spine.

O Spine, O Spine
You are so fine

Bending here and there
Movement everywhere

Springing like a babe
Flying in a cape

O Spine, O Spine
You are just so fine!

17/01/2021

The Pilates Chair..... is one of the most space saving apparatus among the apparatuses.

The versatility amazes each time and you can do this standing, sitting, suspending etc. You may have that fear factor when you start to mount The Pilates Chair; but when you practise proper and rhythmic breathing patterns, the “fear” factor fades away.

Love the fact that this apparatus provides a challenge and yet a comfort. Movements selected here works within that small space. So economical! In addition, when you invest in the Pilates chair, you start to invest in your own self care!

O Pilates Chair! You provide self care!

10/01/2021

Hello Barrel Movers!

Working on the Barrel has been most delightful and interesting as it helps the spine to re-discover itself when placed in different planes.

The Barrel works into flexion-extension, laterals and even into rotations - all of which, creates different loading force into the spine, depending on the different exercise movements.

The handstand requires more than just arms..... The flexibility and the mobility in the spine helps get the arms into its correct position. The push in the arms and the blood rush into the head.... how does one manage these??

There is definitely more to explore when on the Barrel!

Stay Great! -🍎