On 7 September 2016, the Daily Express posted an article on tennis player Andy Murray. Murray had just won a crucial match in the US Open and had put his win down to a 'good night's sleep'. Simple but true. The first line of...
We've all been there. A bad night's sleep. But what if it becomes more than a one-off experience? It's amazing to think that up to 35% of people suffer from brief episodes of insomnia and up to 10% have chronic insomnia (Sleep Education)....
SLEEP. It's a huge problem. According to the BBC, scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Manchester University warn cutting sleep can lead to serious health problems. When they state 'serious' we are talking cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, infections and obesity. So, it is a...
That's right - creating your posture. You weren't born with 'bad' or 'good' posture. Unless we were born with a structural muscular skeletal issue,we would have all enjoyed a beautifully balanced structure. We would have innately understood the need for balance as we learnt to...
I wrote that simple sentence last week on a Pilates forum I belong to. Someone had asked a question as to "how important is it to teach breathing in a class?". I do not normally comment in these forums, but was moved to last week...
A few months back, inspired by a blip in my own health I reviewed my life balance. I bought all the fashionable eating books of this current time: Deliciously Ella, Kris Carr and Madeleine Shaw. I also picked up a book by Bear Grylls called...
I love to move - I take every opportunity to move my body on a daily basis. I try to attend classes whenever I can; so when I was on holiday in May, I took a Pilates class in the resort I was staying at....
I can't help myself but it just comes out - "anything but flip flops". What?! But I always wear flip flops, I hear you say. I know - they are no longer the cheap way to simply protect your feet from cuts and scratches around the...
That is the question! And it is a question I get asked a great deal by clients. Recently there has been a spate of articles written about the good, the bad and the ugly of stretching. I've shared a few on the Create Facebook page....
I still giggle at this recent tweet by Julian Baker @ecsbowen. Those of you that have worked with him know that he speaks directly! He runs cadaver dissection courses around the UK and this is how we met. I have been fortunate to attend a...