Reset : Recharge : Rediscover your Best Self
Pilates and Self Care Experience
Welcome to Your Experience Page.
This is where you can access your Success Journal, where all the Pilates Workouts and all the replays of the live guided Reflection activities will be added. Keep the link to your Experience page safe.
This is a complete experience for your mind, body and spirit. If one of these elements is missing you continue to struggle to find and become your best self.
- Each day I'll send you an email which outlines everything you will have the opportunity to experience on that day.
- Each day I'll send you a Bitesize Pilates workout with a specific focus.
- Each day you can choose a Recharge experience from your Recharge Steps Sheet in your Success Journal
- Each day join me live in the Facebook group and I'll guide you through the Reflection activities in your Success Journal.
Enjoy
Gila x
Next Steps...
Take the time to do these next steps so you can immerse yourself in the experience and get the most from it.
Watch welcome video
Please watch the first video (below) where I explain the experience, if you haven't watched it already, so you are all set and won't miss a thing.
Download Success Journal
Please download your Success Journal - this includes your Pilates Progress Tracker, Recharge Steps and Reflection activities.
Join Facebook group
Please join the Facebook group 'Bitesize Pilates for Busy Women' if you haven't already. (If you are not on Facebook, don't worry, all replays will be added to this 'your experience page' and you can keep in touch with me via email.)
Don't miss anything
Please make sure you've added this email address to your contacts, so you don't miss this experience you're giving yourself. '[email protected]'
Welcome/thank you video
RESET: the basics of Pilates
Pilates called his system of exercise ‘Contrology’ because it is the ‘complete co-ordination of body, mind and spirit and through 'Contrology' you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body’.
New to Pilates....No problem
Reset with revisitng the basics - this is very useful even if you have done ilates before
As with anything new it can take awhile to learn and get the hang of. But with practice you make progress.
So you don't feel out of your depth and overwhelmed, I'm going to help you out with sharing with you the basics of Pilates. I've put together a guide to help you understand any new terminology, new positions and explained the key principles of Pilates.
Just hit the button to download your free copy.
Revive
'If your spine is stiff at 30, you are old and if your spine is completely flexible at 60, you are young.’ Joseph Pilates 1945
Rebuild
Joseph Pilates wrote in 1945 ‘Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures.'
Rebalance
Pilates himself said that Contrology ‘restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind and elevates the spirit. It stirs our sluggish circulation into action and your brain clears.’
Relax
‘Contrology exercises emphasize the need for constant stretching and relaxing’ Joseph Pilates, 1945
Your fitness will never be a chore again!
If you have enjoyed doing Bitesize Pilates, building strength and feeling good about yourself in an achievable, flexible and sustainable way then you may be thinking 'what now?'. I'd like to continue all the progress I've made whilst doing this taster bundle of Bitesize Pilates. I value my health and want to keep going.
Well, I'd love to introduce you to CORE, my online Pilates membership for busy women. If you'd like to hear when the doors open for enrolment to CORE, then click the button below and register your interest.
Hi, I'm Gila - your Bitesize Pilates Instructor
Instead of telling you my life story, here are 3 things about me that might surprise you…
I’m not a fitness fanatic
You won’t find me in a sweaty gym, lifting weights or doing crossfit! You won’t find my out running round the streets, I just don’t enjoy it! I don’t drink protein shakes and fitness isn’t my top priority, my health is.
Any activity I do, I do because I enjoy it. I have always danced since a little girl and I still do ballet now, because I love dancing and how it makes me feel.
I started to learn aerial silks a few years ago because it was something I had always wanted to do. It does of course improve your strength, but that wasn’t my motivation to do it.
I love Pilates, ever since I started doing it over 18 years ago. I love the fact I have to think about it, I have to concentrate and every time I do it, I am improving my control, precision, technique and challenging myself. Afterwards my mind always feels clearer, I feel energised and refreshed. I love how it makes me feel and that’s why I keep on doing it.
But I don’t obsess over workouts day in and day out. I care more about wellness, feeling good on the inside and out. I care about my health, my physical and mental health. I care about being active and enjoying doing the things in life I want to be able to do like running around with my children. I care about keeping active as I get older so I can continue to be independent and do things I enjoy.
I focus on how I feel not how I look
In the fitness industry the focus all too often is about how you look, with young women with flat stomachs, big breasts, tanned skin and long eyelashes pouting or lifting weights.
This is unrealistic and can easily make others feel discouraged and ashamed of the way they look.
I prefer to focus on how I feel and have made it my mission to help other busy women to feel better about themselves, improve their health and fitness, and make significant lasting changes to their lives without using how I look as a false and unachievable goal for others.
What you see is what you get! We may not always look a million dollars – that’s not real life, but I want to help you feel like a million dollars.
My weakness… (one of them!)
We all have something that we find hard to resist… I absolutely love chocolate! Anything from Cadburys to more exclusive brands and individual homemade chocolate.
However, much I love chocolate and could happily eat it all day, I also know that doing that would not be healthy. But I don’t stress over it and deprive myself of it. My approach is everything in moderation.
It is about having a healthy and balanced approach to your life, enjoying life, living realistically achieving a balance in what you do.
