Think of your abdomen as a cylindrical container, where the pelvic floor is the bottom and the diaphragm is the lid. Your abdominal muscles wrap around from the front to meet your back muscles, providing support for your spine.

Pilates helps you find those small muscles that live inside the core, supporting bones and larger muscles. Combining deep breathing with a mindful connection to those muscles, Pilates helps you create awareness of muscular control at a very deep level. Your mind controls your muscles.

So what does this mean?

It means that you learn to control movement from the center of your body. You will be able to control your arms and legs from the center of your body. You will move from a deeper you.

Pilates is often thought of as “re-wiring” your body. Re-wiring means you are able to access the deepest postural and support muscles in your body for the purpose of alignment. Through Pilates work, you will move your body more efficiently and decrease the chances of injuring yourself. That’s because, as they say, “everything is connected.” A pain in your neck could indicate a misalignment in another part of your body. When one area of the body is weak or disconnected, the entire body will react.

Pilates re-educates your body to move in a more aligned, natural way by helping you find those deep postural and support muscles and using them correctly. Wake up your body and learn to how to move to avoid (or rehabilitate) shoulder, back, knee or foot pain by practising Pilates.

What makes Pilates so rehabilitative at Sphinx?

1. Comprehensive instruction and guidance in a safe environment
2. Therapeutic modifications of exercises
3. Instructors are educated in anatomy and movement bio-mechanics of the body
4. A focus on the deepest postural muscle connection
5. A focus on finding internal support for the body
6. Helping you reconnect to muscles you couldn’t find
7. Close observation of movements executed in the correct way – with precision
8. We work closely with health professionals (Osteopaths, Physiotherapists, Acupuncturists)
9. We focus on the whole body
10. We are accessible and approachable