Something that brings me an immense amount of joy is hearing from people who have been through our academy and are thoroughly enjoying implementing the system we provide.

Jane Thomas is one such person and she has even written an article about it which I would like to share with you……

<i>We Pilates teachers know our core, we know our balance and we know our alignment ... right? So how come we can get people to recruit their deep core muscles and do all those magnificent Joseph Pilates moves with the all singing, all dancing, spinning plates and humming the theme tune ... and yet they still wake up in the night with hip pain, or their lower back becomes uncomfortable if they sit at their computer for too long, or they come back from their run and their hamstrings feel tight and their calf muscles go into cramp? How come, eh?</i>

<i>Because of course there is more to it, and as wonderful as Pilates is ... and believe me I am passionate about my Pilates and my teaching ... we know that there is always something else that needs to be taken into consideration.</i>

<i>I had been happily teaching Pilates for 12 years doing mat work group classes and 1–to–1 training at my studio, and I loved what I was doing and the results I was getting with my clients. But because the left and the right side of my brain is fairly evenly balanced my left side, the analytical side, was always questioning that there could be more I could do to help my clients keep moving. Luckily for me I found the Biomechanics Education courses and in 2012 I began my training with them. Honestly, it was a bit daunting on the first day, for a couple of reasons, one I was a bit older than most of the other participants, and secondly I struggle to remember every single muscle name, its origin and attachment, in detail, and I knew this would be tested. But hey, stepping out of my comfort zone and into scary s**t zone for a few days wouldn’t do me any harm!</i>

<i>Almost immediately I recognised the missing link for me — what’s the point of having a strong core if it is holding your pelvis in a dysfunctional position.</i>

<i>In other words, if your pelvis is tilting and twisted your strong core will simply help to keep it tilted and twisted if there are muscles in spasm holding it there, and your movement will continue to be inhibited with muscles trying to produce movement they aren’t designed to do.</i>

<i>Our intrinsic biomechanics system — how our muscles produce movement — needs our attention. Our pelvis needs to be in a position to enable the right muscles to do the right job. After that everything begins to function correctly: we can stretch effectively and we can work on our core strength to maintain this; then movement becomes more free. In other words — and in the words of <a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/">Biomechanics Coaches™ </a>— we normalise, we stabilise, we functionalise. It all made complete sense.</i>

<i>As the training days progressed my clients kept popping up in my head as I realised what I needed to do with them in order to give them those marginal gains that would make huge differences to how they felt and how they would perform and function.</i>

<i>Since using the techniques and offering this facility to my clients it has made the Pilates so much more important and so much more effective as our 1–to–1 bespoke training programmes have become more specific and tailor-made. When we say our Pilates packages are bespoke, they really are bespoke, as a result of using <a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/">Biomechanics Coaching™</a>.</i>

<i>The training courses give you a depth of the knowledge needed to take your work to the next level. If like me, you are passionate about keeping people moving and active, intrinsic biomechanics training provides you with the scientific knowledge to do exactly this.</i>

<i>Our clients are fully benefiting from our packages too. One client said that as a result of her programme her sons had told her they felt they had their old mum back, because she was moving more freely, more active, doing the things she wanted to do with them that she had stopped doing due to pain. Plus I feel that I continue to learn as I practice my <a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/">Biomechanics Coaching™</a> and my teaching of Pilates has taken another step up because of this added knowledge. My aim is to get all my instructors qualified as <a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/">Biomechanics Coaches™</a>, so that our bespoke Pilates/intrinsic biomechanics Programmes are our standard package, which will fully benefit all our clients.</i>

<i>Jane Thomas is a Pilates teacher and <a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach/">Specialist Biomechanics Coach™</a></i>

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