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All classes are friendly and welcoming. I give several difficulty options for most exercises so that you can choose which option is best for you. The classes are non-competitive. Equipment is provided, including mats for yoga and Pilates, although I recommend that you purchase your own mat if the class suits you. With the exception of tai chi, the routines change from the first Monday of the month. There are no floor exercises in any of the tai chi or Active Seniors classes.
Active Seniors is a class designed for ages 60 and over. We exercise for health benefits, rather than fitness. This class is usually in two halves, the first half being low-impact aerobics, the second half often being a circuit. Most of the exercises are performed standing, although chairs are out so that you can hold on to the back of the chair if need be. Although options are given for different levels of ability, this is a class for active seniors: a prerequisite is the ability to walk 200 metres without using a walking aid.
Flow Yoga and Pilates includes flowing yoga sequences, such as sun salutations, holding yoga postures and Pilates exercises along with other strengthening exercises—promoting a healthy balance of mobility and stability. As the class includes flowing sequences, it is necessary to be able to get down and up from the floor within one breath. I still provide difficulty options for most exercises and it does include corpse pose at the end, so that you can leave the room feeling relaxed.
Modern Pilates classes use the same 6 principles as Pilates' original 34 exercises, but modifies the exercises to take into account that you're probably not an elite dancer, and takes into account the last 100 years of exercise research and innovative equipment. Since we are two-legged animals, Modern Pilates includes standing posture, mobility, strength and balance exercises, complementing the floor exercises. A great class to strengthen the entire body, the difficulty is somewhere between Flow Yoga and Pilates and Gentle Yoga.
Gentle Yoga is less physically challenging than Flow Yoga and Pilates, being more about relaxation. Although the class includes breathing techniques, meditation and corpse pose, most of the class involves gentle yoga postures, mobility exercises and other exercises—from standing and the floor—to stretch, strengthen and improve balance whilst breathing deeply. This class can also be done seated.
Tai Chi for Beginners is the least challenging tai chi class in terms of coordination; for example; we may do repetitions of the arm movements for a move that occurs in Tai Chi for Health or Yang Style Tai Chi or just the footwork. We do the same warm up as the other classes, then my own 33 Forms for Beginners. After a break we do one more complicated move each month but don’t add the complicated moves together as the months go by, meaning that newcomers can join all year round. This class can also be done seated.
Tai Chi for Health uses shortened forms from the Tai Chi for Health Institute, such as Tai Chi for Arthritis. Tai Chi for Health involves learning sequences of martial art-based movements in slow motion, working from standing, although the first and last ten minutes can be done seated if need be. Whilst absolutely useless for self-defence, it is fantastic for countless other things such as: relaxation, coordination, balance, reducing joint pain, improving posture and increasing energy levels.
Yang Style Tai Chi was founded by Yang Luchan in the early 19th century. It is the most popular style of tai chi in the world. The benefits are pretty much the same as those found in Tai Chi for Health; my main reason for teaching it are to provide more variety and after learning Tai Chi for Beginners (the first 6 forms of Yang 24) my original participants, like me, naturally wanted to learn the rest of Yang 24. We have also learnt Yang 8 and the more advanced group are learning Yang 40.
Ages: Active Seniors: ages 60+. All other classes: ages 18+.
Mark Wrench 07973 970 093
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Active Seniors | Flow Yoga and Pilates |
Hatha Yoga | Modern Pilates |
Yang Style Tai Chi | Sun Style Tai Chi |
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