Happy, Healthy Belated New Year!

I've been a little unwell since the new year, a combination of too many celebrations, too little sleep and running on adrenaline in the mad run up to Christmas and all that entailed with school functions and all their text missives that need immediate actioning!

When you have a small child you don't get the chance to rest and recouperate, just taking her to and picking her up from school in the cold and damp is enough to set you back.  A drenching (literally) or two were the last two straws this week.

I cannot wait for some Spring sunshine and lighter mornings, getting up before 7am when it is still pitch black is demoralising when you feel under par, but a huge bonus is seeing the sun rise over the sea view from our house.  I will get my camera out one of these mornings and capture it.

I rarely get unwell so this new year has had me slowing down and getting a lot of extra sleep along with a truckload of natural remedies and I think I should buy shares in those very popular throat lozenges!  Or maybe I've been made to sing Let It Go too many times!

So here's to getting a little less of this (and I know we have been fortunate so far this winter and missed the snow).......

and a bit more of this .....

And now I'm on the mend nearly half way through January, maybe I can put some of my goals for this year into place and start working on them!

Happy, Healthy Belated New Year to you all

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Pilates in Brighton

I've been looking for a Pilates machine studio locally for so long, the last studio I attended had a ball and other small pieces but nothing larger than that and the two classes I have gone to in the past left me feeling aching badly and a little injured!

So when I was grabbing a coffee and a fabulous pastry from the Real Patisserie shop my eyes fell upon an A-board outside advertising Pilates classes and I was thrilled to find out they had machines!

Pilates in Brighton studio in Kemp Town was founded in 2010 by Carolyn Bailey MCSP a physiotherapist and clinical pilates instructor with over 20 years in the fitness industry who has worked at London's top pilates studios and as Physiotherapist for Rambert Dance Company. 

The light and airy studio is well equipped with a balance body reformer, cadillac, ladder barrel, combo chair and Pilates arc.  Another room is dedicated to mat work.  Classes can be booked online.

So yesterday I took my aching body for a one-to-one with Carolyn and was very impressed.  I left understanding why my tummy muscles are doing what they are doing, why my pelvis and lower back ache continuously and why my neck is so stiff!

She took me through a range of exercises designed to build my core tummy muscles so that my back isn't doing all the work (why it hurts!) and gave me some to do at home until next week.  I was also used to breathing into my tummy yoga-style but with Pilates you fill your rib cage with air, so a lot to get used to but a more effective way to get to where I need to be.

Looking forward to my next session!

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