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Change Your Breathing to Change Your Mind and Body Health - Cancer Wellness Support Think about holding your breath for too long. Feels uncomfortable, right? Breathing is usually automatic, something we don’t notice unless we focus on it. When we do, we might feel a bit tight in the chest. But breathing is much more than just taking in oxygen. Breathing affects how our brain work...

Trying the room a different way 🤓

Winter up the mountains at dusk, one of the things I love about winter 🥶

Pilates clinical/private session with Clare. Doing one on one has helped Clare focus on slowing down and moving well, she has learnt a lot of body awareness and control. We learn together, we grow together.

Hanging out with fellow Pilates teacher Karen, exploring techniques and having some fun 🤩 and chatting 🤣

Ever thought of training in a different way.
The Pilates apparatus helps with stretching, strengthening, body alignment, body awareness and increased core strength. Our studio at Fernwood Penrith has the Wunder Chair, the Trapeze, Spine Corrector, Ladder Barrel, multiple Reformers and loads of small apparatus. I can help you one on one with more clinical style of training, semi privates if you want to work out with a friend or group sessions if you love the vibe of people around you.

Being a registered fitness professional means we constantly train and stay up to date. Proud to have been registered for over 10 years ☺️

Pilates at Nin yoga 9:30am St Mary’s this morning, how lovely is this space, we sit and chat and have a cuppa at the end of class, they even have chocolate 🍫 🤤

Celebrating our first year together. Happy birthday what a great team.

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First pilates class Monday morning at 9:30am. Lovely community and space. If you’re ever free come join me on the mat.

Passed whoo hoo, we did it 🥳🥳🥳 stoked and exhausted and happy and joyful all at the same time.

Love a full class at 7am in the morning here ❤️ we turned the music 🎶 up loud and partied 🥳 with a jump class 🔥🔥🔥

Les Mills quarterly workshops at Atmosphere last weekend meant hanging out with friends doing things we love ❤️

New Pilates Mat work class coming to St Marys starting Mondays 9:30am from 17th June 2024. Hope you can join me.

One of my favourite things about teaching at Cancer wellness support is the windows, we get to see the sun ☀️ I am often in awe about how blue the sky is and how green the trees are, the sound of the birds singing 🎶 dappled sunlight on your skin, I’m in heaven.

Big weekend with the Barre Nation crew, dinner at Theo’s rooftop, that place is lovely. Then today anatomy& pre/postnatal training with Kiraleigh Rule which was awesome 🤩

Happy International Pilates day 🤩 what is your favourite Joseph Pilates quote? When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.”

– Joseph Pilates.

Foam rollers on the reformer 🤩 💯 focus needed for this class. Challenging and yet rewarding at the same time.

.vintage still going strong and in her 3rd trimester. Reformer when pregnant 🤰🏼 it’s a great way to maintain your health and fitness in a low impact way. Jess does Mat work, reformer & Yoga with me. Being extensively trained in pre/postnatal I’m able to keep Jess safe in all of these classes by giving her appropriate modifications along the way. It’s so good to be a part of women’s fitness journeys into motherhood and beyond.

Love the morning sun glow that keeps the plants growing 🪴🌱🍃

I videoed a pilates session and this is some of the photos I took off that video. I only managed to capture the wunder chair but look at these super strong women exploring new things.

Arm work, expansion, extension on the Wunder chair. Feels like levitation 😁

I held a party the other week and grief came.

She wasn’t invited but she came anyway - barged her way in through the door and settled down like she was here to stay.

And then she introduced me to the friends she’d brought with her - Anger. Fear. Frustration. Guilt. Hopelessness.

And they sang in the loudest voices, took up space in every corner of the room and spoke over anyone else that tried to talk.

They made it messy and loud and uncomfortable.

But finally, they left.

And long afterwards, when I was all alone,
I realised there was still someone here.
Quietly clearing up after the rest.

I asked who she was and she told me, “Love.”

And I assumed that’s why she looked familiar - because I had met her before.
“Or perhaps,” she said, “it’s because I’ve been here the whole time.”

And I was confused then because I hadn’t seen her all evening.

But when I looked more closely,
when I looked into her eyes,
I realised quietly that she had been here.
All the time.

She’d just been dressed as grief.

*****

Becky Hemsley 2023
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I share this poem a lot because I think it can be quite comforting to think of grief as simply love in disguise ❤

‘Afterparty’ is from the book When I Am Gone
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Practicing corkscrew, this I find so challenging 😰 using the foam roller is helping me get my legs in a good position. The practice can get ugly but slowly overtime the movement will hopefully become fluid.

lol 😜 or chocolate 🍫