May 2012
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Have you tried Nordic Walking?
Sunday 3rd June 10:00am - 12:00 noon, Rainhill To The Dream Sunday 17th June 10:00am - 12:00 noon, Rainhill To Pex Hill Sunday 1st July 10:00 - 12:00 noon, Anthony Gomley at Crosby Beach Sunday 22nd July 10:00 - 12:00 noon, Formby Beach £6 including pole hire, £3 bring your own poles
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Spinal Revolution Workshop. Buy Now Book on our App!
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This workshop will apply the basic principles of breathing, grounding and elongation of the spine to both gentle and challenging postures and discover the possibility of relaxation, enjoyment and freedom in our spines. The thoracic spine is built for rotation, flexion, and...
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Why exercise makes us happy Book on our App!
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You know that happy feeling you get during or after a tough workout? Some people claim to experience powerful feelings of euphoria, while others feel calm and relaxed - as if they went to a spa. Athletes get “in the zone.” Runner’s call it a “high.” Whatever...
Boutique French Yoga & Pilates Retreat Friday 27th - 29th April 2012 £195 Buy Now Book on our App!
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Join Northwest Pilates & Yoga for wonderful Pilates Holidays and Yoga Retreats in Southwest France.
Improve your core strength and flexibility along with re-education of the body’s musculature, fascia, and movement patterns; allowing your body to achieve its...
Boutique French Yoga & Pilates Retreat Friday 27th - 29th April 2012 £195 Buy Now Book on our App!
Dear nisha
Join Northwest Pilates & Yoga for wonderful Pilates Holidays and Yoga Retreats in Southwest France.
Improve your core strength and flexibility along with re-education of the body’s musculature, fascia, and movement patterns; allowing your body to achieve its...
February 2012
6 posts
Pilates Reformer & Tower For Pregnancy
Pilates Reformer & Tower For Pregnancy
Pilates Reformer & Tower For Pregnancy Tuesdays 5:30 - 6:30pm Or Friday 5:00 - 6:00pm 4 Weeks For £40.98 Buy Now I recently had the opportunity to meet with world famous Pilates Instructor Carolyne Anthony in Kuala Lumpa, Malaysia. Carolyne is an international presenter on the Pilates circuit and also author of Pilates For Pregnancy. Her book...
Boutique French Yoga & Pilates Retreat
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Boutique French Yoga & Pilates Retreat
Boutique French Yoga & Pilates Retreat Friday 27th - 29th April 2012 £195 Buy Now Dear nisha Join Northwest Pilates & Yoga for wonderful Pilates Holidays and Yoga Retreats in Southwest France. Improve your core strength and flexibility along with re-education of the body’s musculature,...
Therapeutic Pilates & Yoga Workshop
Therapeutic Pilates & Yoga Workshop
Therapeutic Pilates & Yoga Workshop Sunday 4th March 11:00 - 1:00pm Cost - £20 Buy Now (Places Limited) St. Ann’s Millenium Centre View Road Rainhill, Merseyside Dear nisha This workshop will apply the basic principles of breathing, grounding and elongation of the spine to both gentle and challenging postures and discover the possibility of...
A New Year, A New You.
A New Year, A New You.
A New Year, A New You. Book your classes online now! Dear nisha A new year’s resolution is a noteworthy concept-start off the year with a change for the better. So how did it devolve into a subconscious exercise in self-loathing? Lose 10 pounds! (Message to self: You’re fat.) Stop drinking caffeine! (You’re unhealthy.) Call Mom and Dad once a ...
Steven Gerrard Does Yoga.
Steven Gerrard Does Yoga.
Try one of our Yoga Classes Wednesday 6:30 - 8:00pm - £7 Drop in Thursday 6:30 - 7:30pm - £5 Drop in Dont forget to bring your Yoga Mat! Dear nisha Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has spoken very positively about his recovery from the groin injury which saw him miss the last part of the 2010/11 season. Gerrard is confident on making the start of the new...
Harry Potter and Yoga are Evil', says Catholic...
Harry Potter and Yoga are Evil’, says Catholic Church Exorcist
Harry Potter and Yoga are Evil’, says Catholic Church Exorcist (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harry-potter/8915691/Harry-Potter-and-yoga-are-evil-says-Catholic-Church-exorcist.html) “Try our Yoga classes yourself and make your own oppinion!” Wednesday 6:30 - 8:00pm - £7 Drop In Thursday 6:30 - 7:30 - £5...
November 2011
7 posts
Give the gift of Pilates to friends and family... →
Give the gift of Pilates to friends and family with North West Pilates Gift Vouchers. They can be redeemed for a class pass or for privates and personal training. Know someone who is wanting to get…
Give the gift of Pilates to friends and family...
Give the gift of Pilates to friends and family with North West Pilates Gift Vouchers. They can be redeemed for a class pass or for privates and personal training. Know someone who is wanting to get in shape but not sure where to start? Is a family member suffering from back pain who could be treated by our physiotherapist and wellness team? What about convincing a friend to join our fantastic...
Jane Makes Liverpool Even Hotter
North West Pilates Instructor Jane Grogan is the first Pilates Instructor to introduce HOT PILATES to Merseyside.Jane is also teaching at the newly opened Hot studio in Walton,Liverpool “Yoga Nation”.Hot Pilates is different from Pilates as its taught in a heated studio.Love it or hate it,its here to stay and has a celebrity following in the USA .You cant judge a HOT PILATES class...
Yoga may work better for lower back pain than...
Yoga May Work Better for Lower Back Pain than Conventional Treatments- Doing yoga is a more effective way for people with lower back pain to become more mobile than the treatments currently offered by GPs, according to new research. “Patients with lower back pain who did yoga showed bigger improvements in their ability to everyday physical tasks”. by Nik Fleming,theguardian.co.uk...
Marine Paul Thornly Makes Career Change to Pilates...
Paul will be hosting classes at our studio in St.Helens on Tuesday 8th November. His schedule is below so why not book on line and see what he has to offer. Tuesday 8th November with Paul Thornly 5.30-6.30pm-Level 1 Reformer /Back Care Clients 6.30-7.30pm-Level 1 Reformer 7.30-8.30pm-Level 2 Reformer Sold out 8.30-9.30pm-Beginners /Level 1 Reformer Royal Marine Paul Thornly made the massive...
Nordic Walking Visits Anthony Gomley Statues
Nordic Walking Visits Anthony Gomley Statues
Nordic Walking Visits Anthony Gomley Statues Sunday 23rd October, 10:00am - 12:00am Crosby Lakeside Adventure Center Cost £6 (Including pole hire) £3 (Bring your own poles) Book Now Schedule: 10:00am : Meet at Carpark, Set poles up & Warm up 10:30am : Proceed to sand dunes practicing technique and drills 11:15am : Nordic...
September 2011
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August 2011
9 posts
Kate Moss Eat Your Heart Out In Berlin →
Kate Moss Eat Your Heart Out In Berlin
Over the past decade, Berlin’s become a pillar of the fashion, Art, Design and music worlds, not just keeping up with, but setting new trends. A global influx…
Kate Moss Eat Your Heart Out In Berlin
Kate Moss Eat Your Heart Out In Berlin Over the past decade, Berlin’s become a pillar of the fashion, Art, Design and music worlds, not just keeping up with, but setting new trends. A global influx of creative’s has turned it into a cauldron of cultural cool that’s often compared to New York in the ‘80’s. What draw them is Berlins legendary of tolerance, openness...
Boutique Nordic Walking/Pilates/Yoga Retreat In... →
Boutique Yoga/Pilates/Nordic Walking Retreats In France Friday 30th September - Sunday 2nd October 2011 Or Friday 7th October - Sunday 9th October 2011 £195 all inclusive Join…
What Is Yoga? →
Yoga Drop In Classes (Paid on night to Teacher) St Helens United Reformed Church King Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1BQ Wednesdays 6:30 - 8:00pm, Cost £7.00, Level 1 & 2 Thursdays 6:30 -…
Boutique Nordic Walking/Pilates/Yoga Retreat In...
Boutique Nordic Walking/Pilates/Yoga Retreat In Charante
Boutique Yoga/Pilates/Nordic Walking Retreats In France Friday 30th September - Sunday 2nd October 2011 Or Friday 7th October - Sunday 9th October 2011 £195 all inclusive Join Northwest Pilates & Yoga for wonderful Pilates Holidays & Yoga Retreats in Southwest France. Improve your core strength and flexibility along with...
Nordic Walking Visits Anthony Gomley Statues
Nordic Walking Visits Anthony Gomley Statues
Sunday 7th August, 10:00am - 12:00am Crosby Lakeside Adventure Center Cost £6 (Including pole hire) £3 (Bring your own poles) Schedule: 10:00am : Meet at Carpark, Set poles up & Warm up 10:30am : Proceed to sand dunes practicing technique and drills 11:15am : Nordic walking on the beach (barefoot option) 11:45am : Nordic...
What Is Yoga?
What Is Yoga?
Yoga Drop In Classes (Paid on night to Teacher) St Helens United Reformed Church King Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1BQ Wednesdays 6:30 - 8:00pm, Cost £7.00, Level 1 & 2 Thursdays 6:30 - 7:30pm, Cost £5.00 Level 1 What Is Yoga? The word yoga means “union” in Sanskrit, the language of ancient India where yoga originated. We can think of the union...
Boutique Nordic Walking/Pilates/Yoga Retreat In...
Boutique Nordic Walking/Pilates/Yoga Retreat In Charante
Boutique Yoga/Pilates/Nordic Walking Retreats In France Friday 30th September - Sunday 2nd October 2011 Or Friday 7th October - Sunday 9th October 2011 £195 all inclusive Join Northwest Pilates & Yoga for wonderful Pilates Holidays & Yoga Retreats in Southwest France. Improve your core strength and flexibility along with...
July 2011
5 posts
Nordic Walking Comes To St.Helens
What is it? Nordic Walking is an enhancement of ordinary walking - it makes something we can all do…. twice as effective! Nordic Walking uses poles to in order to add two major benefits to walking * The use of poles means the upper body muscles are used as well as the legs * The poles help to propel the walker along - this means he/she works harder than usual yet the support...
Pilates For Cage Fighters
Pilates For Cage Fighters
Recently former Cage Fighter and gym owner Steve McFarlane of www.jabandgrab.co.uk visited our studio for assistance with his back and Core Stability. Steve is presently on the 6 week starter package with Jane Grogan. Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts ...
Dynamic Pilates Reformer Hits St.Helens
Dynamic Pilates Reformer Hits St.Helens Special July Offer 2 Beginners Classes, Cost £14 Must be taken on a Wednesday or Thursday at 8:30pm within July. Dynamic pilates: Dynamic Pilates differs from Pilates because it uses a reformer machine. It’s faster, more fun and is more of a cardio vascular workout. It’s more interesting using poles, dumbells and boxing. There are just a lot...
Refresh, Review & Revitalise With Our Yoga/Pilates...
Refresh, Review & Revitalise With Our Yoga/Pilates Retreats. Friday 30th September - Sunday 2nd October 2011 Or Friday 7th October - Sunday 9th October 2011 £195 All inclusive I have just returned from running my 2nd Yoga/Pilates Retreat at www.passeroses.com, in the wine valleys of Charante. The weather was glorious and i took 15 Yogis and Yoginis, most of whom had never met before. We had a...
Nordic Walking Comes To St.Helens
Schedule: Warm up and introduction to using the poles at Manor Farm public house carpark Proceed from Manor Farm through the back feilds to The Dream Drills and techniques around The Dream Return on foot back to Manor Farm (Total Duration: 2hrs) What is it? Nordic Walking is an enhancement of ordinary walking - it makes something we can all do…. twice as effective! Nordic Walking uses...
June 2011
2 posts
In Times of Economic Crisis, People Turn to Yoga →
As layoffs loom and pensions plummet, more people are unrolling their yoga mats and polishing their poses to find flexibility and sanity amid the financial chaos. Fitness experts say gym memberships…
May 2011
6 posts
The secret to that derriere: Pippa Middleton...
The secret to that derriere: Pippa Middleton reveals Pilates classes are ‘weekly necessity
Ever since Pippa Middleton glided confidently down the aisle of Westminster Abbey holding Catherine’s train, the world has been fixated. More specifically, her toned figure has been one of the hottest Royal Wedding talking points since the event last month. Now Pippa has revealed that the...
Refresh, Review & Revitalise With Our Yoga/Pilates...
Refresh, Review & Revitalise With Our Yoga/Pilates Retreats.
I have just returned from running my 2nd Yoga/Pilates Retreat at www.passeroses.com, in the wine valleys of Charante. The weather was glorious and i took 15 Yogis and Yoginis, most of whom had never met before. We had a mixed level of ability from beginner to advanced. The special part about the weekend was the amount of solo...
Pilates for a Beach-Ready Body
Pilates for a Beach-Ready Body
WANT TO FEEL FANTASTIC in your bathing suit this summer? Then now is the time to tap into the transformative power of Pilates. Developed for dancers, this total-body strengthening and stretching system creates long, lean lines and a strong center by combining technique, alignment, and breath to fire up your abdominal muscles while you’re targeting other...
Pilates Comes To Manchester
PILATES FUSION Stretch, Strengthen & Tone with our Classes. Increase core strength and flexibility along with re-education of the body’s musculature, fascia, and movement patterns; allowing your body to achieve its natural alignment and support. Wednesdays 9.30- 10.30am Cost - £7 The Hall@Marthall Sandlebridge Lane, Marthall, Knutsford Cheshire WA16 7SB...
V2 Max Plus™ Reformer - STOTT PILATES Reformer...
Location: Northwest Pilates & Yoga Centre Session Length: 60 minute session Class Size: Six participants View our new timetable Click Here Despite the somewhat medieval name, the STOTTPILATES Reformer machine is actually an amazingly elegant machine. The STOTTPILATES Reformer provides finely tuned exercise resistance that allows one to work very precisely to develop good alignment, core...
New Beginners & Pregnancy YogaNew Beginners &...
Whether you’re a Yoga beginner, or a fan who wants to adapt familiar exercises to suit your pregnancy, we have all you need to know. Find out about the different yoga styles that are safe for you to practise - as well as which styles aren’t safe. We have advice on how to learn relaxation techniques, and on how to focus your mind so you can do yoga meditation. Breathing exercises,...
April 2011
5 posts
Pilates/Yoga For Marathon Runners.
Pilates/Yoga For Marathon Runners.
Q. I am training for my first half marathon. How can incorporating Pilates into my conditioning routine help? Sally Belanger, Project Specialist, Education & Master Instructor Trainer responds: Running involves the utilization of large power generating muscles such as the gluteals, hamstrings, quadriceps and hip flexors. These muscles propel the body...
Adventures in India Part 4 - Bodhgaya
Adventures in India Part 4 - Bodhgaya
“Bodhgaya is the place where Gautama Buddha attained unsurpassed, supreme Enlightenment. It is a place which should be visited or seen by a person of devotion and which would cause awareness and apprehension of the nature of impermanence”. Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha-to-be, had been dwelling on the banks of the Nairanjana River with five...
Learn How to Increase Your Flexibility In 28 Days...
Learn How to Increase Your Flexibility In 28 Days With Yoga !
Who Needs Flexibility Training ? Everyone needs to stretch their muscles. Balance is everything when it comes to fitness. Many women practice yoga and follow rigorous cardio programs, but never lift weights. At the same time, many men lift weights but do little cardio and often don’t bother to stretch properly, if...
Fancy a Pilates & Yoga Retreat in France ?
Fancy a Pilates & Yoga Retreat in France ?
Join Northwest Pilates & Yoga for wonderful Pilates Holidays & Yoga Retreats in Southwest France. Improve your core strength and flexibility along with re-education of the body’s musculature, fascia, and movement patterns; allowing your body to achieve its natural alignment and support. Set amongst the rolling countryside of...
Indian Army Replace Military Drills With Yoga...
Indian Army Replace Military Drills With Yoga Workouts Dear Nisha, Yoga does not have a hard man image, it is difficult to envisage a troop of soldiers doing daily yoga practice as part of their military training. However, the recent experiment by the Indian Army showed that after three months new soldiers of the Bengal Engineering Group who did 50 minutes of yoga a day combined with 40 minutes of...
March 2011
5 posts
Pilates Reformer For The Equestrian.
Pilates Reformer For The Equestrian. Create a deeper seat and an ideal riding partnership with your horse. •Frustrated that your horse won’t respond properly to your commands? •Having trouble keeping a stable seat? •Feeling unusually sore and tired after a ride? Imbalances develop over time, based on physiology, posture and lifestyle. How you move when not riding - other types of exercise,...
My Indian Discovery of Rishikesh
I will be including my own personal experience and passion for Indian Philosphy, Buddhism and a touch of Bollywood. View my Bollywood experience Friday 6th to Sunday 8th May 2011 Arrival Friday afternoon - Depart Sunday afternoon Watch last years retreat in France Click Here www.passeroses.com Join Northwest Pilates & Yoga for a wonderful weekend of Yoga and Pilates in Southwest France....
Adventure in India Part 3 - Varanasi
Varanasi is a magical city of a myriad side streets leading down to the ghats by the river. Behind all of this roars a monstrous Indian city like anywhere else but down by the river is a world in itself. There are water buffalo cooling down in the water, sadhus and Brahmins praying, bodies being burnt and the whole cycle of life and death as it always was. The River Ganges herself is the most holy...
My Indian Discovery of Rishikesh
My Indian Discovery of Rishikesh - Watch Now Rishikesh calls itself the Yoga capital of the world with some justification as there are masses of ashrams and all kinds of yoga classes. The town’s setting on the banks of the Ganges, surrounded by forested hills, is conducive to meditation and mind expansion. In the evening, the breeze blows down the valley, setting temples bells ringing, as...