Beginners Courses

APPI Absolute Beginners Pilates courses

Learn the 5 key elements of Pilates and how to incorporate these not only into all the different exercises positions in class but also into your everyday activities.

• Be taught the basic Pilates moves and exercises.
• Understand how to use your deep abdominal, back and pelvic floor muscles and to activate them to help stabilise your spine.
• Enhance your mobility and flexibility.
• Improve your body alignment and posture.
• Heighten your body awareness.
• Improve your core strength and stability.
• Learn how you can help to relieve back ache, shoulder and neck pain.
• Improve your balance & co-ordination

This progressive course will introduce you to the fundamental and sound principles of Pilates exercising … these include controlled, slow and flowing movements performed in a concentrated, mindful and precise manner.

The exercises are all performed with an awareness of good body alignment and posture, a stabilized spine and lower abdominal area, using correct and efficient breathing techniques.