Video Gallery

Below you’ll find a number of clips from our YouTube channel. They show some of the basic moves and techniques that we use. To see more, go to our YouTube channel and subscribe by clicking here.

BOOK A CLASS

Please use the form below to book into any of our classes. Please makesure you have read the class guidelines before attending any of your bookings, they can be read here.

Benefits

• Improves posture and alignment • Greater body awareness • Increased strength and flexibility of the spine • Strengthens the deeper core muscles of the body • Calms the mind • Improves balance

CLASSES AND GUIDELINES

Beginners Course In this course you will learn the introductory order and the principles of Pilates.

Fundamentals of Pilates Is our easiest mat class. It follows the classical mat order at a slower pace.

Basic Mat Classes This is suitable for all levels of experience.

Bringing movement, from within

Semi Private Classes The best of both worlds (nearly) with only two of you there in the lesson.

Private 1 to 1 Classes One to One sessions using equipment

All group classes have a maximum number of 12

Class Guidelines

● Please arrive on time or a few minutes before, if you arrive later than 10 minutes you will not be able to join the class. ● Please turn off/mute your phone. ● Wear comfortable clothes suitable for exercise with no zips or buttons as they can damage the mat / upholstery ● Long hair needs to be tied back when using equipment - reformer etc. ● Please remove jewellery - solid smooth rings eg wedding may stay on ● Feet - barefoot or grippy socks on equipment, normal socks are fine for mat. ● Please inform me of any changes to your health before starting a session. ● I use touch techniques. Please let me know if you are uncomfortable with this or would like to know more. ● If you need to take a break or something hurts it’s ok to stop and take a breath or two.

ABOUT ME - My Pilates Journey

Why did I become a Pilates Teacher? Well I felt I was running out of choices! I was in my late 40’s and looking for a career change, having spent most of my adult life working in a pharmacy. So I went in search, trying sweddish massage and sports massage. I knew I wanted to help people through their bodies when I came across shiatsu. I fell in love - truly, madly, deeply, it gave me the connection I was looking for. But sometimes you can fall too deeply and after two years of training the teachers and I decided that it would be better that I leave. It broke my heart. After a long period of grieving I knew I had to rebuild but where to start? I was exhausted. I started with learning to teach TMW a simplified form of tai chi which I had been practising for a few years as well as kung fu. It reignited my enjoyment of teaching, I had trained as a riding instructor when I left school. But it wasn’t enough, I needed something to anchor my mind in my body, so again I went in search. I knew yoga wasn’t for me, nor gym based courses. In my search I came across Karen Ingram Academy who trained comprehensive Peak Pilates teachers. After a chat and having a few lessons on the scary looking reformer I decided I had nothing to lose so enrolled knowing little to nothing about Pilates. It was the right decision; I deepened my footprints in the sand. Pilates for me has been a journey of recovery. It has helped me be stronger physically and emotionally. I feel that I stand taller and move forward from a more balanced position. By focusing my mind on the way my body feels as it moves through the movements, I gain control over my body and give my mind a place to reside. Pilates for me is about working with the whole of you. When you feel something you can explore it, support it, accept it, change it, play with it and challenge it. And that is what I like to bring to my classes. Ways for you to explore your own connection to your own body - bringing movement from within. Wherever your journey takes you, thank you for reading mine.

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“Have Patience, all things are difficult before they become easy”.

Saadi

“Know all that you are, and all that you can become.” Clara Pilates

Joseph Pilates

GETTING IN TOUCH

PHONE MOBILE: 07963 900420 POST Centred Movement, 35 Parc yr Helig Road, Birchgrove, Swansea SA7 9PL EMAIL centred.movement5@gmail.com We, like most other businesses are also registered with the UK data comissioners office. Our unique ICO number is 142 981 90 and can be used to check our current details on the data comissioners register. You can find a copy of our latest terms and conditons along with our privacy policy by clicking here: Terms and Conditions Privacy Statement

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

Lao Tzu

“Patience is not passive, on the contrary,

it is concentrated strength.”

Bruce Lee

Centred

Movement

Interested?

Then please get in touch and book a consultation. This will give us an opportunity to learn more about each other. You will be asked to fill in a physical assessment form and I will guide you through some fundamental exercises.

What’s next? - Beginners Course

In this course you will learn the introductory order and the principles of Pilates. • 2 x Private / semi private lesson • 5 x Group lessons From here you can join one of the regular classes.

Change happens through movement.

WELCOME to Centred Movement. Pilates is a sequence of

movements that builds strength and flexibility from the inside

out. It can be seen as a foundation stone to movement, balancing

the deep postural muscles of the body, It is not a quick fix but a

journey of understanding of learning to accept your body the way

it is today; not where you want it to be, only time, patience and

practice will make that a possibility. It's not about being perfect or

how you look. It is about how you feel.

It is suitable for everybody from the athlete to support their chosen sport to the everyday person who wants to enjoy an active life, and for those on a journey to recovery.