The Best Way to Prepare for your Pregnancy

As our group classes offer personalized training your body will greatly benefit by joining any one of our general pilates classes which are run 6 days a week. These classes will strengthen your spine, get rid of any aches and prepare your body deeply and beautifully for the body and lifestyle demands of pregnancy and motherhood.

If you have already been doing pilates with me you will be able to stay in your preferred class right up until you are about to give birth or you can change to either of the two specialist pregnancy classes.

The Best Classes to Join for Newly Pregnant and New Mothers

Ladies who are new to this pilates centre and have had their baby are welcome to join any of my classes but there are certain things that they would really benefit from learning about first in order to protect their body. The best way to learn is to either come to me for one private lesson and then go and join the class of their choice, or come with the still pregnant ladies to one of the two specialist pregnancy classes for one or two lessons before moving on to a general class.

Thursday Evenings: 7.15-8.15 p.m.
Tuesdays: 1.30 pm to 2.30 p.m.

My teaching is based on deep knowledge of your anatomy and physiology so that I can change each exercise according to your changing needs.

• Learn the best posture for you. Protect your energy levels and your body from pain. Learn how to be better balanced in your body to help you carry growing baby well whilst you are pregnant and for when you have had the baby.
• Learn how to CORRECTLY target and exercise all five groups of “tummy” muscles to help the birth process and then the recovery of your figure and strength after baby’s arrival.
• Improve your blood circulation by gently exercising the muscle groups that are important to return the blood to your heart.
  
• Easy, important exercises that you can do anywhere, anytime.
• Totally enjoyable, refreshing exercise
• Connects you to your changing body
• Protects and restores your figure and energy
• Leaves you feeling taller, slimmer
• Stronger and refreshed.
• Lose tension and re-energise your body and spirits
• Learn breathing for labour that will also help you long after baby’s arrival
• Increase your pelvic floor health
• Regain your shape faster, & safely

We can help you greatly with:

• Post Caesareans
• Flabby / weak tum muscles
• All muscular-skeletal needs:
  including weakness, stiffness, aches, all pain anywhere in the body.
• Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction
• Baby-sitting network
• Make new friends
• Partners also benefit greatly from joining a pilates class, and are invited to social events.
• Men and Women continue to benefit from attending exercise classes here years before and after they have had their children. Dads need healthy bodies too.
  

Team Work is Great:

I am totally delighted to liaise via the phone or in writing with your other health-care providers on your behalf.

Safety Advice:

Rosemary trained with an expert in women’s health, P. Downey, whose qualifications include: “Master of Science in Physical Therapy, Doctorate of Physical Therapy, Expert in Gynaecologic Dysfunction”. Ms Downey teaches pilates for all stages of parenthood but she has seen women damaged by certain forms of pilates, so please be aware that not all pilates or traditional forms of exercise
are suitable or best for new mums. Rosemary is particularly well qualified to teach pilates for pregnancy and muscular-skeletal health, because part of her pilates
training incorporated the Alexander Technique. Also, her medical background has qualified her to go on pilates training courses reserved for medical professionals.

Private Classes

A private class lasts 60 minutes, plus you need time to arrive and leave. If Rosemary makes your class a little longer she does not charge you. Rosemary also invests time in your class preparation for which you are not charged. Clients adore these classes because they are the gold standard opportunity to work specifically with your needs and no-one else’s. You are always offered a drink and there are facilities for you to help yourself to a drink if you arrive early.

I supply all the mats and equipment you will need. Just come in comfortable clothes and with socks for your feet. I look forward to helping you achieve your health goals.

To Join the Pregnancy Classes:

Once I have taken a full medical history and met you on your own for a free preliminary consultation, I invite you to try one class. Ater that I ask and recommend to pregnant mums to commit to a total of 4 or 6 lessons depending on where they are in their pregnancy. However if you inform me from the outset what you want I do my best to accommodate you. Even to come ever second week would bring you real body gains. If a mum becomes unable to do her paid for lessons either in sequence or because baby has arrived early, Mum can make up her missed class for free after the arrival of her baby which is always wonderful for her whole well-being. The general guideline is that Mums should wait for six weeks after the birth to re- commence exercise classes. Once again the specialist pregnancy classes are a lovely way to get back into pilates and exercise and I will meticulously teach you gentle, careful clever movements before you have your baby that you will thoroughly enjoy and benefit from and can do in the privacy of your home immediately after baby has arrived.

Mums come back to have more than one baby through this Centre. Mums who have only booked 4 weeks keep coming back too. People who have tried other classes for mums-to-be keep coming back to Rosemary’s pilates. So for an hour of body bliss based on deep knowledge please do join us. I’d love to help in every way possible.

What to Wear:

Anything that you can stretch out in, and lie down/stand up in. A pair of fresh socks for your feet.

Costs:

The standard price for all classes continues to be £11.00 per hour. You need to leave time each side of the hour to come and go as our hour is a very fully 60 + minutes. Please compare this to a personal trainer in a gym at £30 pounds an hour, or to a fellow professional such as a chiropractor or physiotherapist who charges £43 - £46 for 30 - 40 minutes. Rosemary has studied musculo-skeletal health for more than a decade with medical and movement specialists. Folk who come to Rosemary’s classes tend to stay healthier for much longer which saves them money and gives them the energy and body they want in order to live their lives to the full.