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Pilates - West Dulwich
Wendy Jardine

Beginner Sessions

Suitable if you’ve not done Pilates before and for advanced students who want the fabulous fundamentals

1 Breathe, connect, lengthen and begin your Pilates journey

Good for spine: Lying face up; hip hitches, breath, core connection, neck and full body stretch. 

Video length: 9 minutes

2 Welcome to the wonder of releasing the body

Good for core connection: Lying face up knees bent; pelvic tilts, pelvic circles, full spine stretch with legs to one side, shoulder bridge

Video length: 11 minutes

3 Welcome to toning every muscle of our posterior chain

Good for upper back and middle back strength: Lying face down; extending through the back, legs, hamstrings, buttocks and quads, triceps and swan dive

Video length: 8 minutes

4 The wonder of the Hips

Good for hips: Lying on side; deep stabilisers of hips, outer thighs, inner thighs, breath to lumbar spine

Video length: 12 minutes

5 Everything you need to feel tall and strong

Good for warming up, preparing for sessions: Standing; placement, mobilisation of neck, spine, sides, hamstring stretches

Video length: 13 minutes

6 Feeling good, releasing and lengthening with the help of a wall

Good for neutral awareness: Leaning into wall; spine and neck placement and ease, posterior chain stretch, stabilisers of shoulders, abdominals, hamstring stretch,

Video length: 12 minutes

7 Making the neck feel good

Sitting throughout . Breath. Stretches for the neck, turns, tilts and releasing into the hand increasing mobility, roll downs sitting working the lats and mobilising the spine.  A wonderful way to balance your neck and spine.

Video length: 7 minutes

8 Looking after our feet

(Chair, golf ball and table top, or similar) Massaging the feet over a golf ball, calf stretches, noticing imbalances through individual foot rises and individual foot curls, strengthening and mobilising the feet. (Look at session 75 to easily and passively align the big toes with an everyday office elastic band).  

Video length: 11 minutes

9 Feeling and Finding the abdominals from the inside out

(Bath towel and cushion) Finding the deep abdominals, using the resistance of the cushion and then teasing the core.  Adding the movers, the side oblique fibres and the six pack, and then consciously engaging them all to roll up with ease and fluidity, and against gravity, with no tension in the neck or shoulders.

Video length: 9 minutes

11 Stand, grow and ease your spine

Shoulders, neck, spine, sides, hamstrings, balance

Video length: 8 minutes

12 Understanding the Plank

Building layer upon layer from the inside out, into full plank with circles

Video length: 8 minutes

13 Using an Isotoner to relieve the neck and lengthen and strengthen the spine

Breath, length, resistance. Placing and strengthening the neck, spine and sides

Video length: 8 minutes