Shaw Lifestyle

People think Pilates is about "the abs". More accurately it is about what works underneath: all the deep set core muscles that surround the central column that is the spine.🦋

The studio on a quiet morning, before anyone arrives. It is a small space, and deliberately so. Not a gym, not a class of thirty. Somewhere we can work closely, with proper attention. I think you can feel that the moment you walk in.🦋

This is what Pilates actually is underneath the reputation. Not gentle stretching. Quiet, exacting, controlled strength work.
I still practise it several times a week, partly to stay honest about what I ask of people, and partly because the precision is never finished. There is always a little more control to find.🦋

Starting something new is rarely about the exercise. It is about the story you tell yourself on the way there.
That you are too unfit, too old, too far gone, that everyone else will know what they are doing and you will not. I hear versions of this constantly, and they are almost always wrong. Most people arrive convinced they are the exception, and within a few weeks they are not thinking about any of it.
The first step is the hard one. Not because the movement is difficult, but because you have to walk in before you have any proof it will be fine. It will be.🦋

Some of you have wanted to train with me more regularly, but a full week of one to one sessions is not always realistic. This is for you.
A second reformer in the studio means I can now work with a small group at once, so the sessions cost less and fit more easily into a normal week, without losing the individual attention that makes studio work worth doing.
Full details on how it runs are coming shortly. For now, the graphic has the shape of it.
Message me if you would like to be first to hear when places open.🦋

A reminder, since it is easy to forget when life gets busy.
Wellbeing is not one thing done perfectly. It is a few things done consistently. Moving well, building strength, breathing properly, and giving yourself room to recover. Each one supports the others, and none of them has to be dramatic to count.
If one of these has slipped lately, that is the one to come back to first. Not all four at once. Just the next thing🦋