High Peak Pilates

31/12/2025

NEW
Total Beginners Class starting January 2026 - TUESDAYS 10am . Get in touch if you want to find out more [email protected]

29/04/2023

an interesting read

Lower back pain in runners is a fairly common occurrence. It is usually not hard to pinpoint where the pain is, but the interesting question is why.

One of the most fundamental contributors is simply how you carry yourself as you run. Many runners are very aware of posture these days and try to remain very upright as they run, but often by keeping their shoulders pinned back and their spine in what they perceive to be a straight position, they actually block the normal rotational motion of the spine which would help to dissipate impact forces on the spinal structures.

Carrying yourself buoyantly against gravity does not have to be a fight. Try standing quietly, soft and relaxed for a moment, feeling the floor pressure under your feet. Now imagine a small helium balloon attached to the top of your head, just slightly behind the centre point. Make it real and give it a colour. Helium rises, and the balloon’s job is to take the weight of your head off your spine, allowing it to expand and lengthen. Feel how your shoulders drop, and how your lower belly draws in without conscious effort.

This is as much effort as it should take to support yourself while running, so use your balloon to create a relaxed self carriage which can be sustained over distance without over-stressing other structures.

You want to go forward, so don’t spend your energy straining upward!

For more like this, check out the blog: https://www.jemsmovement.com/read-jems/

30/12/2022

PILATES CLASSES 2023.
I'm restarting Pilates classes Tuesday, 3rd January
Classes are almost full. However, one or two places are left in the following classes:
The Studio, at Riverside Wellebing, Whaley Bridge
Mondays, 8pm Improvers L2 - 1 place
Tuesdays, 5.30pm Improvers L2 - 2 places
Tuesdays, 8pm Improvers L2 - 1 place
Wednesdays, 11am Beginners/Improvers L1/2 - 3 places

High Lane Tennis Club
Wednesdays, 4.30pm Mixed abilities - 2 places

do get in touch if interested:
[email protected]

17/05/2022

This week is the last of the current block.  On Friday I'm flying out to Munich to start my once a year (and cancelled the past two years due to Covid) cycling, working, trip that will take me, two other guides, and a group of 23 people through the German/Austrian/Italian Alps down to Garda Lake, ...

16/04/2022

I hear it's warm, and the sun is shining, back in the UK :)  Here in Italy too, so much so that yesterday, I had a lovely swim in the sea.   

11/01/2022

At last my new little website. Labour of love, and sometimes not ;)
https://www.highpeakpilates.co.uk
work in progress

01/01/2022

only be confirmed when payment is received Wednesday, 1100am Beginners   3 places left Please, remember (this coming week) to use the main/front door to Riverside Wellbeing (see picture above) to get to The Studio. You will need to ring the bell. continuous Bruna x  

28/12/2021

NEW - TOTAL BEGINNERS Pilates classes starting in January, in Whaley Bridge.

Monday, 5.30pm
Wednesday 11.00am

please, contact me on [email protected] to find out more

17/12/2021

I hope this email finds you well. Here we are at the end of another year, one that, yet again, has kept us on tiptoes.  I wish us all that 2022 will bring us some brighter times, and lots of sun :)  Below is the low down on Pilates classes from January.  Pilates Studio At last, the long awaited...

03/12/2021

NEW 2022 - Pilates Studio in Whaley Bridge

4th January 2022 - will see the opening of a dedicated space for Pilates classes in Whaley Bridge, part of Riverside Wellbeing.

Timetable of classes available at the new Studio:

MONDAY
5.30pm - Total Beginners L1
6.45pm - Improvers L2 ....also available on Zoom
8.00pm - Improvers L2

TUESDAY
5.30pm - Improvers L2
6.45pm - Intermediate Plus L3/4 ....also available on Zoom
8.00pm - Improvers L2 .....also available on Zoom

WEDNESDAY
10.00am Total Beginners L1

THURSDAY
10.00am Improvers Gentle L2 ....also available on Zoom
11.15am Improvers Gentle L2
4.30pm Intermediate L3 - ZOOM only

Numbers limited to 7 people per class!

More details to come in few weeks.

For classes enquiry, please, get in touch Bruna at [email protected]

22/09/2021

well worded and, in my view, totally true

How balanced is your movement diet? Each of your parts needs movement. You can move them all one at a time or you can move your whole body in a variety of wa...