Mbodies Pilates Instructor Training Academy

From May 10th - May 15th 2022 it is Mental Health awareness week.  Over the last century Pilates has become well established for its broad range of physical benefits, including strength and muscle tone, flexibility and weight loss. However, the mindful movement practices employed in Pilates can also be considered as an alternative meditation technique to the stereotypical view of sitting still.  All the benefits of meditation can be gained, without any feeling of wasting time and many actually experience better results from a mindful movement that simultaneously cleanses the mind whilst exercising the body.  As such Pilates has a great range of specific benefits for mental health: Breathing Breathing techniques are fundamental to practicing Pilates.  The particular breathing pattern practiced in a Pilates exercise can improve its effectiveness in oxygen supply to the muscles, and subsequently aid the removal of the respiratory waste products carbon dioxide and water.  During the exerci

  Further to the development of online Pilates education in the UK, Mbodies is gaining a strong international presence as a Pilates Education Provider by introducing its video education content and assessment programmes in countries and languages other than English. Initial collaboration with TMSPilates studio, Budapest, introduces Mbodies Pilates Reformer Machine Education to Hungary, in the Hungarian language, and video content will be demonstrated alongside face-to-face practical interaction with students, in the studio.  TMS is the established regional distributor for Align-Pilates Reformers and as such, ideally placed to promote Pilates equipment-based training in their dedicated studio. The courses have been prepared for introduction in two phases: Phase 1 Initial training and assessment Initial training of local Hungarian tutors will be performed by Mbodies in order to train students in Hungary and assess them. TMSPilates use Mbodies tuition videos on screens in a studio for fac

The UK Fitness Industry as a whole accepts you as a qualified Pilates Instructor by virtue of passing your First Pilates certification course – any additional Pilates instructor training need only be CPD! To the benefit of Pilates Teachers themselves, insurance companies have re-focussed to align with the training needs of the individual Pilates Instructor, rather than the somewhat commercially influenced rules of Pilates Instructor Training Companies. In the past, the Insurance Industry in the UK had considered Pilates as a more niche discipline, and they were prepared to adopt the certification requirements stated by Individual Pilates training companies. Previously, in order to remain a certified instructor, a Pilates certification training company stipulated CPD from their own Pilates Instructor courses and also dictated the hours required each year. Without prior experience the Insurance companies accepted and adopted this as the UK rules for Pilates Certification. This practi

National Heart Month According to the British Heart Foundation (2021) there are currently 7.6 million people across the UK living with heart and circulatory diseases – with 25% of UK deaths resulting from heart and related diseases each year. Almost as many women as men are affected by these conditions. During National Heart Month (February) Mbodies Pilates Training Academy have been raising awareness of the benefits of Pilates on our hearts and overall wellbeing. When people think of Pilates; core strength, flexibility and mobility are words that spring to mind – but Pilates is so much more! Here are five ways that regular Pilates workouts can help your heart: Regular Pilates practice will improve your body alignment and posture. This means that our internal organs will sit more happily in our bodies, and work more efficiently – including our hearts, lungs and circulatory systems.   Regular Pilates practice will improve your body alignment and posture Lateral Breathing in Pilates e

  This post is the follow-up to the last post titled 'The first face-to-face Mbodies, post-rehab breast cancer course, since lockdown - the prequel. Freeland Village Hall Freeland   Ready and Waiting To recap - It is Saturday morning 8am on 26th June 2021 and Mbodies Training Academy events team is set up in Freeland Village Hall, Oxfordshire for their first face-to-face larger group education since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The course is Mbodies 16 hour Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer  running over the weekend titled  Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Post Operative Rehab Course The venue was rated as COVID-19 enabled for 16 people and was fully booked with 15 students plus course tutor Imelda Noble. The course build-up, communication, and on-the-day procedures and flow had, like so many businesses around the world, been re-imagined and re-designed:  The pandemic-ready individual teaching and learning station with social distancing was the new normal and the requirements

  ‘Spot the difference’ As we prepared on Saturday Morning 26 th June 2021 for Mbodies Training Academy’s  first face-to-face education since lockdown, it felt a bit like setting up a 'spot the difference' game:  6 Physiotherapists, 7 Pilates Instructors a Yoga specialist instructor and an advanced fitness professional were about to arrive for two days of Pink Ribbon Post-Rehab Instructor Training and what would in 2019 have been just a routine set-up was anything but that today. The arrival The Arrival No more lonely sign-in Sheet to greet you – instead ‘Lateral-Flow’ Covid 19 tests for those who had not brought photographic proof of their own negative test earlier that morning. .  Type IIR medical-grade disposable masks: the new requirement to be admitted to the course; as well as the compulsory sanitiser to use when entering and leaving the premises! The sign-in The Disclaimers and Waivers Added to the normal disclaimer and permission  forms covering liability, data-prote