Spine-safe Mat Pilates
Combining strength and mobility for a strong core and a healthy back. Staying true to the original Pilates principles but with a focus on spine-safe exercises and transitions.
Keep your spine happy with these spine-safe exercises to build strength and stamina, improve posture and mobility, ease pain, and calm the mind. This is a mind-body low-impact class that will enhance stability, emphasize joint and spine health, promote physical strength, and increase mental awareness. This class is done on the mat and leverages your own body weight and simple props, such as circles and balls, to move, tone, and stretch the body.
What does spine-safe mean?
Many classic Pilates exercises (and traditional yoga postures) are not suitable for those with concerns or pathologies such as back pain, herniated discs, sciatica, osteoporosis, scoliosis, arthritis, fibromyalgia, etc. Therefor, we offer a more individualized approach. Exercises and movements that risk damaging the structures of the spine will be modified or avoided to suit each individual.
Our framework is based on functional and accessible practices with elements of yoga therapy and a focus on spine safety. Yoga therapy is a whole-body approach to better health by using the tools of yoga to meet specific physical, mental and emotional needs and goals. A spine-safe approach ensures that the spine gets the movement it needs to stay healthy and modifying postures that might be unsafe or injurious for some. A functional approach accommodates skeletal variations and focuses on accessible postures for all.
Through our inclusive and accessible classes, we hold space for students in their entirety and allow them to nurture and heal themselves. Learning to work WITH our unique bodies and modifying our practice to celebrate our uniqueness is what we are all about.
If you seek health, look first to the spine.
This class is suitable for everyone who values the health of their spines.
You will learn how to modify your practice to suit your unique spine.
Bookings essential.
For those looking for greater attention to detail and a fully tailored class can opt for private classes instead.