About Studio Spring Pilates

Since 2004 Spring Pilates has been a place for people who want to move with greater freedom, suppleness and awareness. It's the oldest Pilates school in Maastricht.

In the light-filled studio in the centre of Maastricht I teach group classes and personal training, and offer Myofascial Release, with a focus on posture, fascia, freedom of movement and walking with less effort and fewer compensations. Performance and correct form aren't the point here; you learn to perceive how your body moves.

I teach Pilates, GYROTONIC® training, Myofascial Release and Anatomy in Motion.

Movement is more than training

Your body is constantly responding to tension, habits and movement patterns. When you move consciously and attentively, you learn to recognise new possibilities. In class you're given time to notice what you're doing while you're doing it, and you need that time to integrate a new movement pattern. As a result your joints can move more freely, unnecessary tension eases, and movement often feels lighter and easier.

Group classes

A broad range of somatic movement classes in which you learn to notice what you're doing as you move. Improvements in your posture and breathing, and changes in muscle tone and movement patterns, are grounded in your own experience rather than imposed by an ideal form.

With a membership you can take all the classes below alongside one another.

• Essential Pilates
  You work with the spring resistance of the Spring Pilates Unit, which keeps the exercise at a pace at which you can perceive where a movement initiates and how it travels on from there through your body.
• GYROKINESIS® classes
  You move your spine in circles, waves and spirals, first on a stool and then on the mat, carried by the rhythm of your own breath.
• Fascia in Motion
  Connective tissue won't be forced. In this class you learn to attune to what your body allows, and that's where space opens up.
• Walking with Ease
  We explore the way you walk, and you perceive how the shifting of your weight carries through your whole body.

The classes are mixed-level, with a limited number of participants, which leaves room for the details that deepen the quality of your movement.

Personal training

In one-to-one sessions we start from your own question or wish. A session might focus on:

• recovery after injury, surgery or childbirth
• improving posture and gait
• greater strength, mobility and coordination
• fascial release
• reducing tension and compensation patterns
• greater freedom of movement and body awareness

Together we explore how your body moves and which changes give it more space and ease.

Myofascial Release

Fascia is the network of connective tissue that links everything in the body. When it holds on to tension or loses its mobility, that affects your posture, your breathing and your freedom of movement. I work with slow, deep strokes while you make small movements yourself in the same area, and it's that movement which lets the layers of connective tissue glide over one another again. Your part is as much the work as mine.

Corporate fitness

Spring Pilates is affiliated with benVitaal, a Dutch corporate fitness scheme. If your employer takes part, you may be entitled to a contribution towards a group class membership; your HR department can tell you more.

A different kind of gym

• personal contact
• small groups
• learning to move through experience
• awareness and perception
• no standard fitness routines
• a non-competitive atmosphere
• fascia and multidimensional movement
• integrating the pelvic floor and breath
• posture and balance from within
• learning to trust your own sense of your body