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Is Pilates the Perfect Exercise?
strengthens the whole body
eases back and joint pain
improves posture/alignment
better breathing technique
aids stress management improves balance
promotes relaxation and better sleep str…Twenty years on and I find myself grateful
This month is Prolapse Awareness month, a subject that's quite important to me and has definitely contributed to where I am today and what I do
When you first get diagnosed with a prolapse it often makes you question why it happened and what it was you did to make it happen
Then you start to miss out all the things that may have been the reason for it, or could make it worse
And then you think about strengthening the pelvic floor
I went through all these things - I blamed exercise first …
I'm about to tape my mouth closed to sleep better
So I just did a thing
I've been working on my breath for a while now - first to help with pelvic floor issues (thank you Hypopressives), then to help with stress (Hyoppressives and slow breathing techniques along with vagal nerve work)
These have been very effective and are easy to fit in
But there are two markers that have been bothering me for a while
One is my average number of breaths per minute
When I first started it was around 16 breaths. According to Patrick McKeown anything above …
Relaxation technique for people who can't relax their muscles
Perhaps being told to relax your muscles does nothing for you!
If so this method is for you - it's a way to use that tension to then be able to let go. Helping you to relax more easily
Hypopressives for anxiety - Annmarie's story
I started to suffer with anxiety and obviously that brings in struggling to breathe sometimes and then panic attacks and that kind of thing.
I was also struggling with putting weight on and was mindful that I needed to do some exercise - I wanted to lose weight but also had anxiety going on.
I felt like all the other kind of exercise that I did - swimming, joining the gym, walking - they just never hit the anxiety.
So I would do them and never feel relaxed or feel calm. And then I would go t…
Is is good to go barefoot?
I had a Balinese-inspired massage last week and the beginning of the ritual was to put a heated eye mask on
I then enjoyed being massaged with small and large bamboo sticks as well as with hands.
Then the time came to roll over...
Weirdly, having an eye mask on made it really difficult for me to turn!
That small dulling of one of my senses affected the rest of my body, especially my proprioception - where I was in space. In the end I had to lift it off my eyes so that I felt safe to move!…
How I became happy again
It's so easy to lose yourself when you become a mum...
In the early days, you're at the beck and call of a tiny dictator, so something as simple as having a shower can feel like a real treat!
You may then get so used to putting everybody else first that you forget your own needs
I only woke up to this fact a few years ago. So I decided to do some training that was less about exercise for once and more about my mood.
I learnt a few simple steps and have been implementing these regularly and …
How can I get more sleep in pregnancy
I've created a Back Pain Relief course for Mums-to-be and one of the modules is all about sleep
Quality of sleep has a strong association with back pain.
It also affects stress levels which can have a knock-on effect on your pelvic floor
I really struggled at the beginning of the first lockdown and was waking at 4-5am every morning. To begin with I stayed in bed for a couple of hours, just trying to get back to sleep but never really managing to
I came to the conclusion that it was better t…
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