POSTURE ASSESSMENT
20 Minutes
One of the amazing benefits of the Pilates’ technique is the elongated body you achieve which has you not only looking exceptional, but most importantly feeling exceptional. In the Pilates Studio, it’s intelligent to address postural problems before doing anything else to get the most value out of the work you do. Muscles, bones and joints have a design and purpose, and exercising in misalignment with the wrong muscle patterning can result in injuries to the thoracic and lumbar spine over time.
Postural assessments look at your static posture to see if there are any deviations or imbalances in your body. Poor posture can have consequences that can result in dysfunction, aches and pains, tension, fatigue and headaches. Ideal posture allows your body to function at its best as it moves and distributes weight evenly and appropriately allowing the muscles, joints and spine to work together to help us move effortlessly.
After completing a postural assessment, we will be able to identify which muscles are overactive (or ‘short and tight’) compared to those that are underactive (or ‘long and weak’), and seek to correct the underlying faults in your movement. The Pilates exercises will therefore be strategically targeted to correct your weaknesses which will assist you towards getting the maximum benefits from your workout.
PRIVATE REHAB SESSIONS
50 Minutes
Pilates Instincts classes provide so much more than a workout. They provide a peak performance workout that rewards you by feeling stronger and freer in body, mind, and spirit. Pilates is a form of exercise that is also excellent for rehabilitating from injuries. Joseph Pilates’ created the method for this very purpose.
Pilates is recommended by Exercise Physiologists, Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Chiropractors and many more allied health professionals and is now widely practised as an injury rehabilitation method around the world to help restore imbalances in injured muscles. If you have been referred, we will ask you to bring a referral from your health care professional outlining the problem, so that we can work together in your recovery. No matter how severe the condition, there is always a way that Pilates can help.
Pilates exercises uses special equipment and apparatus to train the deep postural muscles of the core and help support the spine. Targeted movements help improve spinal mobility, control and stability of joints, increase flexibility of all muscle groups and improve body and postural awareness.
Pilates Instincts staff are qualified instructors who can help tailor an exercise program towards your swift and long-term recovery.
PRIVATE SPORT SESSIONS
50 Minutes
Pilates is an integral base in a professional athlete’s training because it achieves results towards perfection while strengthening the body to overcome or prevent injuries. It is in the pursuit of discipline in a skill, technique, or craft that science and art can combine. Mind, body and spirit will become one and you can excel through your limits.
If you play a sport, are an athlete, musician or a dancer, Pilates offers the Principles, mechanisms, and strategies to find strength in your weaknesses. Pilates targets functional and balanced muscle groups for breath, coordination, strength, mobility and stability where most population struggle. Harnessing the effectiveness of postural alignment, muscle recruitment patterning, muscle balance, function, coordination, line and length, Pilates has them all working together – initiated by the PURE CORE strength.
Working smarter – not harder – for the full body workout, Pilates will strike the right balance and offer the technique and endurance when needed to achieve the best in any sport or art you love.
SEMI PRIVATE
Ranges from 35 – 55 Minutes
Semi-private classes offer many of the same benefits of one-on-one Pilates classes, but are performed with one to two others working in the same group.
NEURO-PILATES
Pilates for Neurological Conditions
Neuro-Pilates is a scientific based method of applying Pilates for the purpose of neurological rehabilitation. It is a specialised Pilates program that can help with a safe and functional workout.
If you have a condition or injury affecting your brain, spinal cord or nerves, your co-ordination and ability to effectively move the body is impacted. The effects will cause muscle weaknesses and imbalances, stiffness and tightness of these muscles, and loss of motor control for planning and implementation of movement.
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Pilates helps relearn your movement and build stability and coordination back into your body whilst creating new neurological pathways in your brain. Simple, safe and effective exercises assist you in regaining strength, balance and control back into your body and mind. Movements are initially slow and deliberate, building relaxed body awareness from your center to achieve focus, stability, mobility and strength.
If you or your child has sensory processing issues you will understand that a body not aware and comfortable within its environment can be overwhelming and debilitating, both physically and mentally. The Pilates integrated movement and sensory awareness training can have a profound ability to organise and regulate the sensory systems. Pilates benefits the Vestibular system and proprioceptive sense in every form, and when slowly integrating the other senses – visual, auditory, tactile – into a centered body and mind, one can utilise this approach as a significant tool of confidence and regulation. In a comfortable environmental setting, awakening the final senses and integrating them all together can help release tension, and produce calm, composed bodies and minds.
Breathing strategies and exercise brings much needed oxygen and circulation, also providing consistency and strength in order to assist in the management of the condition.
To find out if this Pilates approach might be beneficial to you, please contact us today.
Private Classes – Are They Right For You?
What?
A private session is a one-on-one session and is the most effective way to start rebuilding strength from a strong foundation.
Who?
Why?
Benefits!
How?
Classes range from 35 minutes to 55 minutes.
Private and Semi-private sessions are scheduled directly with your instructor. Please call the studio at 0409 810 432 to reserve your session.