Author Archives: ZenergyActive

Does getting your socks on feel like an Olympic sport?  Does the journey to touching your toes elicit oohs and aghs?  Stretching is a great way to improve flexibility but there’s another important factor to consider – your fascia.   Fascia is a type of connective tissue that wraps around every element of our body – like aContinue reading “Myofascial release for flexibility”

Many of us want to put in place good well-being and exercise habits for the new year but how do we over-ride our natural desire to snuggle under the duvet and reach for some snacks. This is what radio presenter Bob Johnson and I were discussing on Wycombe Sound this morning. Have a listen here:Continue reading “New year, same me – nourish not punish”

“I don’t get the endorphin buzz from Pilates that I get from running” is a criticism, and even a barrier, to Pilates that I hear a lot as an instructor.  I totally get it. I’m a runner and the two forms of exercise provide very different things.  However, I argue that Pilates still gives you a highContinue reading “The Pilates High”

Go to any good Pilates class and within 1 hour you’ll hear dozens and dozens of descriptions for how the movements should feel in your body.  Visualisations help students to co-ordinate their bones, muscles and breath within a simple sentence.  Joseph Pilates himself used words that would help convey his intention for the body and movement suchContinue reading “The power of visualisations”