6 principles?!

Well hello,

Karen, your studio manager, here again on this most exciting week for Nin Yoga! This Saturday, the 8th, is our Penrith Studio’s [Re] Open day to launch our Reformer Pilates space and share our yoga space, good vibes and new timetable starting the following week.

For those of you who’ve been following at home, you will know this opportunity came about quite unexpectedly. But as we are yogis at the core, we embraced the ever-changing flow of life and now can’t wait to start this new chapter with you, our forever-loved community.

I ADORE Pilates. However, when I signed up for the Pilates teacher training, I didn’t realise how much I would adore it. I took the training because I was teaching dance then and wanted to improve my skills for my students. I was expecting a lot of anatomy and spicy burning muscles, but what I found ran deeper. 

Breath

Concentration

Control

Precision

Centre

Flow

These are the six principles of Pilates.

When I first saw these, I was very confused- they sounded more like something from my yoga training than the upbeat, glute-burning workouts I expected. But there they were. Written by Joesph Pilates himself.

As I delved into Pilates, I learnt that the practice is about engaging and interacting with each movement as much as it is about doing the exercise.

It is about adjusting all the interconnected parts of the body to activate a particular muscle. It is about using your breath with movement to get the most out of it for your body and mind. It is about learning to talk to and, more importantly, listen to your body. 

Yoga gives me space to listen to what my body is communicating about the state of my whole self.

Pilates taught me how to speak and understand its language. 

There are so many ways that Pilates can be engaged. Yes, it can be slow, mindful and concentrated. It can also be upbeat, energetic and spicy. But those fundamental principles are always there. And, being yogis, we know that the intention you put into your practice shapes the outcome.  

Reformer Pilates, though it is happening on relatively cool machines, was also developed by Joseph Pilates and carries the same principles. So when Nin introduced their Reformer room with the focus of all reformer teachers being Yoga teachers first, you KNOW you will experience a remarkable union of two wonderful modalities!

I look forward to getting on these reformers with our community and exploring all this modality offers to my practice of Yoga!

See you soon,

Karen

P.S Open Day is fully booked out, but you can join us for any of these classes during the week at our Penrith Studio:

Monday

6pm Reformer Pilates

7pm Reformer Pilates

Tuesday

6pm Reformer Pilates

Wednesday

6pm Yin Yang Yoga

7:15pm Reformer Pilates

Thursday

Vinyasa Yoga

Friday

5pm Reformer Pilates

Saturday

8:30am Vinyasa Yoga

9:45am Yin Yoga

Sunday

7:30am Vinyasa Yoga