NEWS: Restore Your Core ®️

Next year, I will be bringing you the Restore Your Core ®️ exercise, movement and core restoration programme. 

It is aimed at anyone who cares about their inner strength and stability, pelvic floor, mobility and posture, but it is particularly amazing for women especially if they have had babies (or even if not) and are concerned about their tummies and pelvic floors.

It has been a very exciting project for me and I can't wait to bring this learning to you. I am sure many of you will love the addition of yoga-like movement to what I already teach. We can do this work online and in in-person - so many ways to connect! 

The deep focus of my work with this programme, and with all my sessions generally, is on creating a reflexive core of muscles that supports you for life so you don't need to think about "pulling the belly in" to do stuff. That is so 20th century :)

Let's move forwards, ladies and gentlemen. No "bellybutton to spine" found here. But YES to excellent breathing, core recruitment and natural healthy body alignment, and moving with joy.

Scarring from surgeries

Sadly we sometimes have a need for surgery. It can be unavoidable, life-saving, and nothing short of miraculous with our current medical advances. 

I am in awe of the surgeons, their clever hands and brains, our collective learning which can save or improve so many lives.

But with all the intent in the world, then there is scarring that is left. Scarring has the potential to create a whole new set of issues - from adhesions that prevent our tissues from gliding, to creation of long term pain around the operation site, to tightness in surrounding muscles.

I wrote about C-section and abdominal scars in a blog recently 'How Can a C-Section Scar Give You Back Pain' 

When tissues stop to move freely as scarring creates snagging (for example, around the lower belly following a C-section), interconnected body tissues (for instance, those going into the ribcage or the pelvis) tighten up too. That is because the natural interplay and sliding between them is distorted. The effects can last a lifetime and come on gradually without us realising. 

We might put it down to aging, perhaps, or "just one of those things". Often, it's the scarring that sets the process in motion.

I worked with several people recently who felt that their balance standing on one leg was "off", something that we could confirm during the initial assessment. Or, lifting one leg up felt so much harder on one side. Using NeuroKinetic Therapy ®️ tools, I could see - and they felt, too - that one side of their tummy muscles was not performing very well. We traced it back to these ladies' C-section scars. Using specific scar assessments and releases, we addressed this and their balance standing on that leg improved in one session. And the leg felt easier to lift, too. Sounds like magic, doesn't it? Only it is not, we "just" optimised the muscle balance.

If you have a C-section, laparoscopy or any other abdominal scar, this may well be having a similar impact, which will have an effect on your whole body. Get your scar evaluated - I will be happy to have a chat to you about this.

To your health,

Kaye x

Classes schedule

To book a session, click here:  Book with Kaye

I see people both in groups and individually. 

Above is my schedule for my group classes. Pilates movement therapy is  based on Pilates with application of rehabilitative movement techniques. 

1-1 work 

If you have a specific issue to trouble shoot or would like to have a bespoke programme for strengthening, please reach out to chat today. We can work online over Zoom or in person if you are local. 

To your health,  

Kaye x 

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