What To Expect From This Move & Bloom Pregnancy Pilates & Hypnobirthing Course…
This course provides you with the benefits of pregnancy safe Pilates exercises, meditation and hypnobirthing tracks, all carefully designed to support you through your pregnancy, prepare you for a positive birth experience, build up your strength for life as a mum and ensure a smooth postnatal recovery.
The Move & Bloom Pilates Course Includes:
An online facetime/skype call with me to get you started where we do a deep health pre screen and we talk through your goals
Access to a supportive closed facebook group
Online access to 2 hours of my favourite pregnancy Pilates exercises
Interviews with pregnancy experts to provide you with invaluable information to support you with your pregnancy and early postnatal recovery.
An equipment bundle that includes a spiky massage ball, a red 280g fascial release ball, a Pilates overball, two therabands and an under-door anchor to support you with your home practice.
A joining gift of 30 positive affirmation cards for pregnancy
Hypnobirthing MP3s – Support your birth preparation with our Zing Wellness hypnosis tracks recorded with Angela’s familiar soothing voice. They include 3 pregnancy hypnosis tracks , a birth preparation track, a labour track and a c section track.
Why Invest In Pregnancy Pilates & Hypnobirthing?
The Pilates exercises are focused on gentle releases to alleviate pregnancy tension caused by your ever-changing body shape, maintaining a balanced posture and optimal alignment and reducing the stresses and strains caused by your growing foetus and bump. This will help you prevent back pain and tension building up in the body. We want you to ward off SPD or pelvic girdle pain (PGP) or if you already have these pregnancy related conditions learn how to manage them (and ideally rehabilitate them).
Gentle restorative movement will help you connect with your baby and pregnant body. There is a deep focus on breath work and connecting with your pelvic floor and deep abdominals and learning how to both strengthen and release them.
We focus on optimal foetal positioning and preparing your body for childbirth. This will aide you with your birth preparation and enable a positive birth experience.
The course gives you all the tracks so you can practice hypnosis for birth to help you unwind, relax and place you in a positive mindset no matter what your birth preferences might be. Our hypnobirthing MP3 audio tracks will help you to prepare you for birth, help you to relax, alleviate stress and anxiety.
I believe strongly in preparing mums for the postnatal period so we also incorporate functional exercise to strengthen and tone the body as being a mum is hard work.
Your Pilates Course
Purchase this pregnancy Pilates course
Cost: £99
FAQs
When can I start pregnancy Pilates classes? You can start classes from 14 weeks depending on how you are feeling.
Can anyone do your pregnancy Pilates class? There are some pregnancy conditions that will require medical consent for you to exercise and a few that mean that you should not participate in exercise. I will send you a health screening form to complete and this must be completed before you commence exercise.
Our Expertise
I am a specialist pilates teacher with deep knowledge and experience of working with the pregnant and postnatal population. I did my initial training with Rachel Rafiefar and completed her Thoughtful Body Pregnancy and Postnatal Postgraduate Assessment in June 2015.
Realising that this was an area I was truly passionate about and wanted to specialise in, I went on Carolyne Anthony’s Center for Women’s Fitness Pre and Postnatal training. Still thirsty for more knowledge I have recently started Advanced CPD in Modern Pregnancy Functional Exercise & Birth Preparation Programming with Burrell Education, the leading Women’s Wellness, Fitness & Therapy Educator. Most importantly, I have been through three pregnancies and births and, due to congenital hip disorder, I really struggled through my first two pregnancies ending up spending the third trimester on crutches. I really do understand the toll pregnancy can have on your body both emotionally and physically. My Pilates studies and personal experience really helped me through my pregnancies and births resulting in a really wonderful pregnancy and home birth third time round. I am passionate about supporting women through their pregnancies and helping them to have the birth experience they want whilst being fit, relaxed and pain free throughout pregnancy and strong for life as a mum.
I have experience and many successes supporting pregnant mums with a range of pregnancy conditions such as pelvic girdle pain (PGP) including pubic pain which was previously called symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD), sciatica, sacro-iliac pain, pelvic floor weakness, back and neck tension, piriformis pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, oedema, hypermobility, headaches, pregnancy related insomnia, stress and anxiety.
Benefits
Manage your ever-changing body shape
Maintain a balanced posture and optimal alignment
Release postural tension & learn techniques to improve your posture and alignment
Ward off Pelvic Girdle Pain or SPD or manage the symptoms caused by these conditions
Reduce the stresses and strains caused by your growing foetus and bump
Move your body
Increase your energy levels
Have the healthiest and most positive pregnancy possible
Practice relaxation techniques
Connect with your pelvic floor / deep abdominals and learn how to both strengthen and release/relax them
Learn mindful breathing
Prepare for your birth & aide a positive birth experience
Learn exercises to encourage optimal foetal positioning
Prepare you for a smooth postnatal recovery
Strengthen the body in readiness for motherhood
Eliminate urinary incontinence and those whoops movements when you cough, sneeze, run or jump
Learn how to integrate Pilates into your everyday movement patterns
Widen your pre and postnatal support network by meeting a range of pregnancy experts
Have some time to focus on you
Learn mindful breathing
I enjoyed Angela’s Move and Bloom Pilates and it helped my back a lot. Even if the hypnobirthing is not for you, I would do it just for the quality of the pilates and all you learn from the course. You barely need your NCT after that! 🙂
I thoroughly enjoyed the Pregnancy Pilates class. I suffered with SPD during my second pregnancy and found this class really supportive in helping keep me moving easier and avoiding SPD in my third pregnancy. The classes were relaxed and friendly and Angela is so knowledgeable that it was an all round good experience. I would highly recommend these classes.
I attended pregnancy Pilates classes with Angela just before the birth of my son. The classes are the perfect balance of stretching and toning to prepare your body for the latter stages of pregnancy, the birth and also postnatally. Angela helps you to focus on your posture, breathing and pelvic floor – all of which played a huge role during my labour and aided a very quick recovery. Angela is a brilliant teacher. She’s calm, thoughtful and incredibly knowledgeable. I thoroughly enjoyed all her classes and will be back for some post natal sessions.