Your Time Pilates

📝 NEW C-SECTION EXERCISE CHECKER TOOL 📝
I've been building something and I'm genuinely excited about it.
You know the C-section guide, the 3-stage PDF I put out earlier this year?
I've been watching how people actually use it since, and the honest answer is most of you download it, skim it once, and then three weeks later a client asks a real question and you can't for the life of you remember which stage she's in.
That's the format's fault, not yours. Nobody remembers a PDF.
So I've rebuilt it as something you actually open in the moment instead. Tell it where your client is post-op and it tells you what's appropriate right now, what to avoid, and what needs to happen before you progress her. No digging back through a document trying to jog your memory mid-session.
If you've already got the original, genuinely, bin it. This one does the job it was always meant to do.

https://yourtimepilates-csection-checkeroptin.netlify.app/

Would love to know what you think of this one, especially if you're one of the people who grabbed the original.
Alice x

Quick one, because I know it's end of term and life is hectic AF but I don't want you to miss out.

At midnight tonight the retreat workshop stops being £39. After that it's £89, lifetime access only.

https://yourtimepilates.thrivecart.com/retreat-training-5day/

I've been spying with my little eye. I've seen some of you you clicking and opening. So I know I've planted a little seed in there this week.🌱

I'd love to help you turn this idea you've been mulling over into an actual thing - something amazing for your clients that also brings you some proper cash.

So if there's something holding you back, just ask. 👋

Even if it's "can I buy now but start my 5 days in a few weeks, because the summer holidays are about to land on me?" - sure thing, sugar. You only have to ask. (Because, full disclosure, I didn't exactly think through the timing of this launch. End of term. What was I thinking?!)

Otherwise, let's go!
Alice x

https://yourtimepilates.thrivecart.com/retreat-training-5day/

One instructor in here said something last week that I think a lot of you are quietly thinking:
"I'm not sure retreats are financially viable. I've heard horror stories about people making losses."
She's right. It happens. And it happens for boringly avoidable reasons - people book the venue before they've priced the day, hire a £400 room they can't fill, buy the goody bags and the branded water bottles, and the whole thing turns into an expensive gift they've paid to throw for their own clients.
Done in the right order, it's the opposite. It's the most profitable afternoon in your calendar.
My actual numbers from June: Wimbledon Common. Six women, £75 each. £450 in. Costs? Massage oil, reflexology tools and a bag of crisps. Twenty quid, and only that much because the champagne was already in my cupboard. No venue hire, because I didn't hire a venue.
£430 profit. For an afternoon in a woodland ten minutes from my house.
Here's the bit I actually want you to hear though. They loved it so much they started asking about the next one before they'd rolled up their mats. So on Monday I put September's retreat on sale - and three of them paid me by lunchtime. I'm taking all of August off, and I've already been paid for a retreat I won't run until the kids are back at school.
That's what "financially viable" actually looks like. Not a huge launch. Not a big following. One afternoon a quarter, sold to the clients you already have.
I've put the whole thing - the order you do it in, the pricing, the venue maths, the presell that fills the next one before you've even booked it - into a workshop this week.
It's in my email today. Not on my list? Comment 🌿 and I'll get you the details.

For years I had a story running in my head that retreats were for other instructors.

You know the ones. Big Instagram following, professional photos, "last 2 spots for Bali!!" posts. I'd see them, think "well that's not me", and close the app.

Sound familiar? Because if you clicked A on my poll last week (retreats sound stressful), I'd put money on some version of that story running in your head too.

So let me tell you about my last retreat, three weeks ago.
It was on Wimbledon Common. A woodland, ten minutes from my house. Six women, six mats, one afternoon. £75 each.

My costs? Massage oil, reflexology tools and a bag of crisps. About £20 all in, because the bottle of champagne was already in the cupboard at home.

No villa. No chef. No Tuscany. £450 in, £20 out, and six women who left glowing and immediately asked when the next one is.

Here's what I've learned running these: your qualification taught you to teach, but nobody ever taught you to run an event. That's the actual gap. Not confidence, not followers, not a fancy venue. The venue maths, the timings, the pricing, what to do about food, insurance, wet weather. Event stuff. Completely learnable, almost never taught.

So I've put everything I know about it into a workshop: How to Host a Stress-Free and Profitable Postnatal Pilates Retreat.
👉 OOOH give me all the deets:
https://yourtimepilates.thrivecart.com/retreat-training-5day/

The whole system - choosing a venue that doesn't eat your profit, pricing it properly, structuring the day, filling the spaces. The exact process behind that afternoon on the Common.
It's on-demand, so you can start it tonight if you want. Watch it this week, plan your first retreat for autumn.

The workshop is available for £39 until midnight Friday 17th July - that's 5 days' access starting whenever you buy, so there's no penalty for thinking it over. Lifetime (£89) is on the same checkout if you want it for keeps and watch over the summer holiday instead.

👉 GET THE WORKSHOP - £39
https://yourtimepilates.thrivecart.com/retreat-training-5day/

After Friday, the workshop is only available at £89 for lifetime access.
Alice x

Quick question for you this week, and there's a freebie in it for answering.

Whenever I mention hosting Pilates retreats, instructors tend to file it in one of two places. "One day, maybe" or "F**k no, sounds like a nightmare."

Which is funny, because a retreat doesn't need to be a week in Bali with 30 clients and a chef. Mine are an afternoon, either out in a forest or local venue, and 8-10 mats.

A few hours of teaching, clients who leave buzzing, and more money from one Sunday afternoon than a week of group classes.

So I want to know where your head's at. Comment with the letter of the one that's closest:

A - I'd love to, but it all seems so stressful

B - Never really thought about it... but go on, I'm intrigued

C - I already run retreats

D - No thanks, retreats ain't my jam

If you commented either A, B or C and I'll send you my Retreat Cheat Sheet for free, (it's usually £7).

It's the one-page version of how I plan mine. Venue, numbers, what to charge, and the timings that stop the whole thing eating your life.

And if you're in camp A... keep an eye on your inbox next week. I've got something that deals with the stressful part properly.

Alice x

I am terrible at online workshops.
I've usually got a wash on, one ear on whatever's happening downstairs, and I'm only half there. I never catch the replay. Anyone else?
Something about being in a room just makes me learn differently. And there's a bit I really miss about in-person too: being around other instructors. Teaching can be lonely, can't it? You're mostly on your own, getting on with it. A day in a room with people who work with the same clients and care about the same things is its own kind of brilliant.
So on 11 July, Lara Painting and I are doing something about it.
Our first ever in-person training day for pre and postnatal modifications. In London. Together. Six hours, hands on, small group, real questions answered in real time. No chat box. No washing machine.
Everyone takes home a printed pocket book too: 34 modified exercises, straight in your kit bag.
📅 11 July | 🕒 10am-4pm | 📌 St Michael's Church, Wandsworth Common, London | 💰 £225
Come and work with me. Link below. 👇
https://yourtimepilates.thrivecart.com/ppnworkshop/

Come and work with me in London. 👋
On 11 July, Lara Painting and I are running our first ever in-person training day for pre and postnatal modifications.
Six hours, hands on, in a small group. The two of us coaching you in real time, answering your actual questions, in an actual room.
Every attendee leaves with a printed pocket book too: 34 Pilates exercises, each one modified with teaching instructions, adaptations and reminders for pre and postnatal clients. Practical enough for your kit bag, useful enough to actually use in class.
📅 Saturday 11 July
🕒 10am-4pm
📌 St Michael's Church, Wandsworth Common, London
💰 £225, printed pocket book included
Spaces are limited and the group is deliberately small.
Save your space 👉 https://yourtimepilates.thrivecart.com/ppnworkshop/

I got the call you DON’T want this morning.

My husband was hit by a car while on his bike. He's okay, broken hand, sore everywhere, but thankfully okay. We spent the day in A&E and are both now rearranging things we thought were fixed – including me having to accept I’ll be doing the bins for the next six weeks!

And while I was sitting there keeping an eye on my emails between scans, I had a quiet thought about how lucky I am that I can be there with him today. No asking anyone's permission, no scrambling to find cover. Just here, where I need to be.

👉 Sometimes you get to decide what changes in your life. Sometimes the universe decides for you, and you adapt.

Today the universe made the call. And I could answer it because of the way I've built my business.

Consciously and deliberately so it would fit around my family.

A small number of consistent clients who pay on direct debits, who don't mind being moved when something like today happens. A diary with room in it. Work that bends when you need it to.

If yours doesn't yet, I'd love to help you work out what needs to change so your business fits your life, not the other way round. You making the moves, not leaving it up to that fickle witch the universe.

That's what my Bums on Mats sessions are for. Ninety minutes, just the two of us, on your business and your numbers. £197, and I'm only running them through June and July.

If you'd like to know more, comment or DM me the word 'BUMS' and I'll tell you how it works.

Alice x

P.S. I'm working on something fun. An in-person workshop in London, all about pre and postnatal exercise modifications. 11th July. More soon.

Is it too late to fix diastasis?

This came up in my instructors' coaching group recently:

"Can a diastasis close years after pregnancy through core and pelvic floor exercises? Or is there only a small window after giving birth where that can happen?"

Great question, right?

Here's the truth:
👉 It is never “too late” for a postnatal woman to see improvement.

What matters most isn’t the clock - it’s the strategy.

If you’re still carrying a gap years later, it usually means the system hasn’t been retrained properly:
- The TVA haven’t been integrated
- The pelvic floor and breath aren’t syncing with load
- The nervous system is hanging onto compensations that keep the gap from changing

When those pieces come together, I’ve seen women make progress 6 months, 6 years - even 16 years - after giving birth.

So if you’ve ever worried that the “window has closed” for your clients (or for yourself), let this be your reminder:

✨ Healing is possible at every stage.

Have you worked with a client years down the line who still saw improvements?

Drop into the comments or DM me, I read every one.
Alice x
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If you want to go deeper on diastasis:

→ The DRA- friendly lesson plan I use with clients in the first phase of closing a gap (£12) https://yourtimepilates.thrivecart.com/dra-lesson-plan/

→ The Powerhouse Membership my monthly room where diastasis programming questions like this one get answered in real time (£37/month, stay as long as you need, cancel anytime)
https://yourtimepilates.thrivecart.com/powerhouse/

→ The Postnatal Core Rehab Method goes through the full diastasis protocol module by module, from screening to return to load. Self-study is open, supported autumn cohort opens later this year. Reply PCRM to talk it through

I meant to get this out earlier in the week. Then something crazy happened.
I can't go into the full details until it's actually set to happen but it's going to be life changing!
It's a total roll of the dice. But we looked at it and thought, if you actually want something to change, you have to do something you've never done before.
Which is exactly what I want to talk to you about.
If you've been plugging away at your postnatal business, doing the same things month after month, and the clients still aren't coming in, doing more of the same won't change it.
Something different has to happen.
That's what my 'Bums on Mats' Strategy Session is for.
90 minutes, one to one. We work out what's actually getting in the way of you getting more postnatal clients, and you leave with a clear 30 day plan to fix it.
£197. June and July only. Sort it now and you can properly switch off over summer, knowing exactly what you're doing when the September enquiries start landing.
Want the full details? Comment or DM MATS and I'll send everything over.
Alice x