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Body Control Pilates™
Europes leading professional body for Pilates instructors.
Body Control Pilates™ Teacher and Regional Assessor.
Pilates teacher Shelley Smith has over ten years experience as a Body Control Pilates™ Teacher, teaching Pilates matwork from beginners to advanced level. Shelley is qualified to teach both Pilates matwork and Pilates machines. Shelley is also part of the ‘Teacher Training Education Team’ as a Regional Assessor - mentoring students through their teacher training.
What is Pilates?
Pilates a form of precision exercise that balances strength with flexibility, increasing stamina and co-ordination. Focusing on natural movement patterns, it encourages the rebalancing of muscle groups, serving to bring the body into good postural alignment and allowing the body to function more efficiently.
Pilates exercise target the deep postural muscles, building strength from the inside out, rebalancing the body and bringing it into correct alignment.
Pilates helps to reshape your body, which will become longer, leaner and more toned. Pilates will also improve your posture, achieving the perfect balance between strength and flexibility, and it is a great way to relieve unwanted stress and tension.
Professional dancers have known for eighty years about the benefits of Joseph Pilates’ Method of exercise in their quest for strength, flexibility, posture and endurance. In the last ten years the popularity of Pilates has exploded amongst celebrities, sports professionals and is endorsed by the medical profession. There are now over a million of us in this country practising Pilates every week.
Why do you need Pilates?
Everyone has a history recorded in their posture. What we do every day, the way we are feeling, the work we do and the play we do, all reflect in the way we stand and the way we hold ourselves. We have all picked up bad habits and put ourselves in unnatural positions that can ultimately affect our longer term health and mobility; people who sit for long periods at a desk, cyclists who spend long periods hunched over handlebars, people who play racquet sports and overdevelop one side of their body, and runners who suffer from back and joint injuries caused by the constant impact associated with pounding the streets or the track.
Body Control Pilates - You're in safe hands!
The Body Control Pilates Association™ are Europe's foremost professional Pilates organisation, The 'classical' Pilates exercises that Joseph developed may take many years to perfect and may well be beyond the capability of the average person, so Body Control Pilates™ has broken those exercises down so that everyone can enjoy the benefits of Pilates whilst working safely and effectively as they move towards the more advanced exercises.
Body Control Pilates™ is widely seen as a benchmark for safe and effective teaching of the highest quality with small class sizes ensuring close supervision and support from your teacher. It is Europe’s largest professional Pilates organisation. All teachers have undergone
a comprehensive training course and continue to build their own skill and knowledge on
a regular basis.
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