What’s on this week: 21 – 26 August

We may have an exciting football match this weekend – Come on Lionesses! – but we are just as excited to introduce our new Find Your Flow®  themed Program – the Grasshopper!  We’ve had loads of fun putting together and practising the program – as well as planning modifications for those who need them.  Take a look at Community Corner below to read more about the focus of the Grasshopper Program and the benefits it will bring to your body!

We’re offering a full timetable of classes again this week.  As the holidays are in full swing, some classes are busier than usual, while others are quieter – this week, it’s the lunch time (Mondays and Tuesdays at 12.30pm) and Tuesday evening classes (6pm and 7pm) that are a little quieter.

The Studio will be open as usual on Saturday 26 August, and we’ll be offering the 10am class on Bank Holiday Monday (28 August).

Take a look at our full class timetable and reserve your place below.

As some of your are just returning from holiday and may not have seen it, we are still holding open the offer of 30% discount on 1:1 sessions with Arion (see below).  If you’d like to try 1:1 Pilates, this is a great opportunity to do so!

We’re now planning our Autumn timetable, so if the current class timetable doesn’t work for you please let us know when you might be available and we’ll see what we can do!

We hope you have a wonderful week and we look forward to seeing you in the studio or online!

Welcome Arion – Special Offer!

Since moving to the UK, Arion has been teaching 1:1 Pilates and Reformer Classes in a variety of settings.  He enjoys bringing a sense of playfulness to Pilates practice, while challenging clients to get the best from their practice.

Arion has some availability for 1:1 sessions on Wednesdays between 8.45am and 3pm.  To welcome Arion to the studio, we have an amazing one-time offer for up to FOUR lucky clients who’d like to try 1:1 Pilates.

The first four clients to take up the offer can enjoy a 30% discount on a FIVE session package of 1:1 Pilates (a saving of nearly £100 on the usual price!)  You must be available between 8.45am and 3pm on Wednesdays (on a first come first served basis).  The package is valid for 42 days.

You can buy your package here using the code: ARION30 to qualify for the discount – but don’t delay, it’s strictly limited to the first four clients who take up the offer.

Once you’ve bought your package, you can book your sessions  – with Arion only – here.

All Things Pilates Community Corner!

This week we are moving onto our  new Find Your Flow®  themed program.  We’re calling this one the Grasshopper Program.  We are looking forward to sharing it with you over coming weeks!

As with all of our programs, you’ll get a full body workout, which will be great for your bone health and posture, as well as overall mobility and stability.  We’ll be carrying forward, with a few tweaks, some of the movements you’ve enjoyed in recent programs.  The main intention of the Grasshopper Program is to help us find extensions throughout our body – from our toes through to the crown of our head.  As the weeks progress, we’ll also be expanding our range of movement and increasing our endurance (by holding into stretches).

As we find length through the front of our body, we’ll be working on the connections between muscle and fascial chains running through the length of our body. We’ll also work on lengthening and strengthening muscles in our back and shoulder girdle and in our arms.

We’re incorporating a range of movements into the program and, as always, will increase the challenge as we get stronger.  Over the next six weeks, we’ll be working through a range of movements, including the ever popular Hip Stretch and Scooter to open our hips and find length through the front of our body; strong core work with the Roll Back; Seated and/or Kneeling Arm work to strengthen the back and shoulders as well as the arms; and the Grasshopper.

The Grasshopper movement (which we’ll build up to over the course of the program) brings together all of this work and is a really fun movement to perform – we’ll take a closer look at the movement in coming weeks!

As always, we’ll offer modifications for those who may need them.  Let us know if there are any positions that you find particularly uncomfortable (we know, for example, that some of you have difficulty in a kneeling position).  We can always find a workaround solution.

We hope you enjoy the Program as much as we have enjoyed planning and practising it – we’d love to have your feedback!

If you’d like to experience the Grasshopper Program, reserve your place in class below!

Class Timetable: August

Gemma and the All Things Pilates team

Tel: 0208 549 2892
Email: admin@allthingspilates.co.uk
Website: www.allthingspilates.co.uk
Address: All Things Pilates, Unit 03 Princess Court, Horace Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2SL

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