Post Natal Pilates
Strengthen your back and pelvis with Post Natal Pilates
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Giving birth is a blessing, something so natural yet challenging at the same time.
Just like it takes nine months to nurture and carry a baby in the womb, it will take another nine months for your body to slowly return to its natural state. While we let nature take its course, there’re things you can do to help.
Once you give birth, your body is never the same. That’s why Pilates is great for reconnecting to those deep layers. Moving your body is more than just “getting the body back”. It’s about gently reconnecting to your muscles, especially the abdominal, pelvic floor and back muscles – and that happens slowly, one class at a time because, contrary to what you might think, it’s not the working hard that will get you there but the reawakening of dormant muscles.
“During pregnancy, you lose muscle tone because your belly expands and the pelvis widens, and those muscles lose their connection to the rest of the body; it’s like a mini trauma. And if you don’t focus on these muscles first, you can stay weak while the rest gets strong..” ~ Charlene, @jeaniquepilates
During pregnancy, you lose muscle tone because your belly expands and the pelvis widens, and those muscles lose connection to the rest of the body; it’s like a mini trauma. And if you don’t focus on these muscles first, you can stay weak while the rest gets strong, and they won’t support the body as a whole.
Reconnecting and reawakening these muscles may take a bit, but it’s worth putting in the time for it. For example, I am a runner; as much as I wanted to be in my training shoes and go out and run ( which is something very liberating for me), luckily, because of my previous Pilates classes, I knew if I didn’t connect to core strength first, for sure I would end up in the Oestopat room because my back will have given up on me.
After almost three months of doing Pilates, I can run again slowly.
Xo
Jeanique
“Empower yourself and become the person you’ve always known you were meant to be! Believe.”
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