New for 2023 : Dance For Your Bones and Pilates:

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New for 2023 : Dance For Your Bones and Pilates: A Fusion of Dance and Pilates exercise to Boost Bone Health

Embarking on a revolutionary journey towards comprehensive bone health, The UK Royal Osteoporosis Society introduces an innovative exercise program, "Dance For Your Bones."  In a remarkable twist, the Mbodies Training Academy aligns this initiative with their Bone Safe Pilates CPD Instructor courses, unveiling a harmonious blend of impact-based and safe-strengthening exercises for optimal bone wellness.

Dance Your Way to Stronger Bones

Developed in collaboration with Scottish Ballet experts, Dance for Your Bones is a breakthrough program designed by The UK Royal Osteoporosis Society.  It combines weight-bearing, moderate-impact exercises with artistically curated dance routines.  The primary aim is to inspire individuals to embrace impact exercises that are not only effective but enjoyable, fostering a consistent and engaging fitness routine.

Structured in six sections, the dance routine encompasses a series of graceful, energy-infused movements.  The meticulously crafted step-by-step instructions cater to all fitness levels, enabling participants to progress at their own pace.  Furthermore, inclusivity takes centre stage, offering low-impact variations to ensure accessibility for all individuals, regardless of their physical capabilities.

Embarking on the Dance for Your Bones Journey

Dance For Your Bones is an innovative approach to enhancing bone strength, featuring dynamic weight-bearing exercises like hops and jumps.  This captivating routine not only promotes bone health but also contributes to overall well-being.  The flexibility to select specific sections of the dance routine empowers participants to tailor their experience, ensuring comfort and enjoyment throughout the journey.

Whether relishing a solo dance session or involving family and friends, Dance For Your Bones fosters a vibrant and enjoyable path towards prioritising bone health. Adding personal music choices adds an extra layer of customization, making the experience even more delightful.

For the dance-oriented instructor, which so many Pilates instructors are,  it provides a customisable concept that you can adapt and teach to your clients.

Synergy with Pilates: A Holistic Approach to Bone Wellness


The true value of the NOS Dace course unfolds in the synergy between Dance For Your Bones and the Mbodies Bone Safe Pilates CPD Instructor courses. It is a remarkable pairing, enhancing the bone wellness journey for all clients. Mbodies' comprehensive training equips instructors with the knowledge and tools to adapt Pilates Matwork Repertoire into bone-positive or bone-neutral exercises, creating a holistic approach to bone health.

By seamlessly integrating Dance For Your Bones into the Bone Safe Pilates Class, instructors have the opportunity to elevate their offerings to diverse clients, spanning different life stages—pre-menopausal, perimenopausal, and post-menopausal. This collaborative approach transforms exercise into a well-rounded experience, catering to varying needs and fitness levels.

Embark on your Client focused Bone Wellness Odyssey

Pilates business consultant and owner of Mbodies Chris Onslow has for years been pointing out that the Pilates Matwork exercises taught to instructors at level 3 are often inappropriate and some are downright damaging to clients with Low bone density – in fact, evidence suggests the client would be better not doing any exercise than being given these exercises!   This is why, in his opinion, every Training School should be teaching adaptations to the original Pilates Matwork exercises, but where they do not, instructors should at an early stage be taking suitable CPD to gain the necessary knowledge to adapt the exercises themselves.

For those in this position, Mbodies Training Academy offers its acclaimed online course, "Understanding Osteoporosis and Bone-Safe Programming."  This one-day equivalent course empowers Pilates Matwork trained instructors to craft bone-safe exercise programs, ensuring a secure and effective workout environment for all clients at risk of Bone density issues.

Wrapping up

With the unveiling of Dance for Your Bones, accompanied by the insightful Instructor training from Mbodies Training Academy, a new chapter in bone health and fitness commences.  These innovative programs in combination; fuse the joy of dance with the precision of Pilates, forming a harmonious path to bone strengthening and overall well-being.  Dance For Your Bones, combined with the wisdom of Bone Safe Pilates, doesn't just offer a fitness routine—it presents a celebration of movement, inclusivity, and vitality for this very large Special Population – post-pubescent people at risk of bone density loss during their life!!   

Take the step now to take the Mbodies CPD, Understanding Osteoporosis and Bone-Safe Programming course and combine this with Dance for Your Bones, to help your clients part dance and part exercise their way to healthier, stronger bones.

For more information on Understanding Osteoporosis and Bone-Safe Programming Click Here 

To book an instructor training place on Understanding Osteoporosis and Bone-Safe Programming click Here  

To study Dance for your Bones Click Here   

Author:  Chris Onslow - Pilates Consultant

Chris Onslow, has run Pilates focussed businesses since 1998.  He and his team specialise in supporting Pilates entrepreneurs and business owners.  With a rich history of owning and running successful Pilates studios in the UK, and supporting others in Europe and the Middle East, Chris has broad expertise in maximising profitability and optimising operational efficiency.  His agency provides top-tier advice on selecting new, pre-owned, and hireable Pilates equipment from renowned brands such as Align-Pilates, Balanced Body or Stott-Pilates/Merrithew.  As the founder of Mbodies Training Academy, Chris continues to revolutionise Pilates education, offering premier online and hybrid CPD and qualification courses for Pilates apparatus instruction and special population CPD.  Discover more about how Chris can support your Pilates Business or home exercise choices at www.pilates-consultant.co.uk 

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