Complete Pilates

26/11/2025

🌀✨ Kneeling Cat with Rotation — Find Space Through Your Spine! ✨🌀
Think the Kneeling Cat on the Trap Table is just a flex-and-extend moment? Think again! Today Helen is cueing Lily through the rotational version — a gorgeous way to explore spine articulation, side-body length, and pelvic control all at once.
When Lily rotates and rounds, she’s not only segmenting through each vertebra, she’s creating length through the lower side body while keeping the hips stacked directly over the knees. That stability at the base is what allows the spine to move freely without collapsing or shifting.
As she rolls back up, Helen cues her to initiate from the pelvis — a slow, controlled uncurl that re-engages the deep abdominals and re-stacks the spine one piece at a time. It’s a perfect blend of mobility, strength, and awareness… exactly what makes Trap Table work so special.
⁉️ Do you find it easier to articulate your spine in flexion or rotation — and why?

21/11/2025

🪑FORWARD LUNGE ON THE WUNDA CHAIR — STEP WITH CONTROL✨
Think lunges on the Wunda Chair are just about leg strength? Helen’s teaching Lily that it’s all about control, balance, and precision!
💪 CUE IT:
Start with one foot on the pedal and one on top of the chair — hips square, spine tall.
✅ Inhale to prepare and find your lift through the crown of your head.
✅ Exhale as you press the pedal down with your back leg, keeping your front knee tracking over your ankle.
✅ Feel the glutes, hamstrings, and deep stabilisers kick in to support you.
Then, with slow control, inhale to lift the pedal back up, stepping backward down — keeping your pelvis level and your balance steady.
This is a two-way movement challenge — strength on the way down, control on the way up. You’ll feel your posterior chain, hip stabilisers, and core all working to maintain alignment.
✨ Top tip: Keep your gaze forward and imagine growing taller as you move — this helps keep the movement connected and stops you collapsing into your front hip.
⁉️Can you keep your pelvis level and your breath flowing from start to finish? Try it slowly and see where your control wobbles!

14/11/2025

🌳✨ CLIMB A TREE — FIND YOUR CONNECTION! ✨🌳
🤩 Helen is cueing Sophie through Climb a Tree on the Ladder Barrel — focusing on creating a strong connection through the hands and legs to support smooth spinal movement.
💪By pressing the hands into the back of the thigh — and the thigh back into the hands — Sophie builds deep awareness and core engagement from the start. This connection helps control the spine as it articulates over the barrel, lengthening through the front of the body with every reach.
🌿As she rolls back up, that same connection powers the movement — the earlier the hands connect to the thighs, the easier and more supported the roll-up becomes. It’s all about control, timing, and flow.
⁉️Do you use your hands-to-thigh connection when rolling up? Give it a try next time you’re on the Ladder Barrel!

12/11/2025

When you’re Pilates instructor says ‘pulse’.. we’ve all been there 🤣🤣🤣

12/11/2025

🤍🎄THE ULTIMATE NORFOLK CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY🎄🤍

We have teamed up with and the best group of Norfolk businesses to bring you THE ULTIMATE NORFOLK CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY - with 3 HUGE prize bundles!

We’re giving away (‼️‼️PLEASE ENTER YOUR PRIZE HERE‼️‼️) along with an incredible selection of prizes from other businesses!

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Giveaway closes on Sunday 14th December.
Open to residents of NORFOLK UK
Good luck!

10/11/2025