Clare Curtis Yoga and Pilates

In our modern hectic lifestyles we have little time or consideration to connect with ourselves and notice our unconscious habits and to feel calm and have mental clarity. Our bodies have an innate ability to heal them selves when given the right conditions. Nowadays we are constantly busy and stressed flooding our bodies with too much of the potentially damaging hormones adrenaline and cortisol. The human body with its intricate joint system for amazing potentiality is designed to move every 20 minutes. Our modern technology through work and leisure pursuits (television, phones and computers) leaves us sat for hours in a similar position thus compromising their health and creating imbalances. Similarly our passion for fitness and sports can drive us through long hours of repetitive training with implications of joint overuse and resultant imbalances. In these mind and body classes we will develop the ability to focus inwardly, to listen and observe so we can start the practice of noticing our unconscious and unhelpful habits of tension and sub-optimal motor recruitment patterns and replace them with more useful ones. Our goal is to restore normal function so life and all the things we love to do will become easier and more enjoyable. We will lose tension and become more efficient, have more energy and be able to breathe more optimally. We will acquire the skill of noticing ourselves when we start to become tense and how to relax .Living in the present is so important and these sessions will give you that unique experience to self monitor and adjust through internal feedback mechanisms in place. To find a quiet space out of our busy lifestyles and become better people when we return to them and to feel empowered knowing that we always have that ability to be calm and focused whenever we need it so we can make better decisions about our relationships with ourselves and others.