Our (Essential Health Therapies & Pure Pilates) recent combined “Functional for Life” workshop at the Old Basing Village Hall received great feedback.

If you weren’t able to make this workshop don’t worry we’re working on another combined workshop for later in the year, or may be you’d like to try a 2 hour ‘Pure Bodybalance’ Masterclass?

It’s our pleasure to feedback to you on all that you thought of Essential Health Therapies and Pure Pilates combined workshop. Thank you for your facebook comments/’likes’/tweets/texts and emails. 100% achieved their personal goals and expectations set pre-workshop these largely included:

• Learning new exercise, increase knowledge – have fun!
• Time to myself (exercise & relaxation of mind and body)
• New experience – Learn how we use our bodies and how it affects our health
• Use of equipment in class
• Explore Pilates
• To be taught posture and pose correction 1-1 by professionals
• Exercise tips – how to stay flexible, learn about functional balance
• Understand Feldenkrais and revise Bodybalance
• Some good exercise / Increase core strength / Improve skills & ability

What worked well for you

• Breaking down each exercise / slowing down to think about what we’re trying to achieve including advanced options
• Making sure my body is in the correct position as it’s not always possible to do this in class
• Good clear explanation of how to achieve poses
• Bodybalance because it’s familiar / Extra challenges in Pilate
• Linking the Pilates to Bodybalance
• Osteopathic content/In depth talk
• Good to try Tai Chi and Bodybalance – Being challenged by the Yoga and Tai Chi routines
• It was all enjoyable! I feel 2 inches taller
• This workshop gave more time and was slower paced which allowed me to keep up much better
• Building on information/exercises from the previous workshop and from the classes I attend
• The length of the workshop – mixture of theory and practical

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Last month Lisa Ives (Director of EHT) teamed up with Pam Steele (Pure Pilates) to present a workshop combination that was completely new and exciting in the Basingstoke and North Hampshire district.

Our aim was to bring an innovative and synergistic workshop combining Pilates (mat/equipment)/Yoga/Tai Chi and introduce a new component ‘applied osteopathy’ which looked at posture and strain patterns. We sought to enhance our ladies & gents overall class experience, as well as go some way to help them understand the ‘whys & how’s’ of what we’re striving towards in the practical execution phase of our classes.

Feedback received from the workshop

100% achieved their personal goals and expectations set pre-workshop these largely included:

• Better understanding of Bodybalance and Pilates
• To have fun and try something new
• Improve balance and strength overall
• Gain a more intense workout and work different muscles
• Develop existing skills
• Learn new positions/exercises that you can take home
• Improve flexibility and prevent back problems

What worked well for you?

• Learning new things – great pace, fun & interesting
• Staged approach of new poses in a great atmosphere then putting it altogether
• Posture correction (being checked and adjusted)/Instructors walking around keeping an eye on you
• Doing exercises I thought I couldn’t do
• Learning about posture types (Osteopathic Content)
• Clear explanations from both instructors – Intro to Tai Chi & Pilates harder options
• All of it!

Both Pam and I look forward to seeing you at our Spring workshop (March 2015) – Namaste

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