Moving from within
The oldest Pilates school in Maastricht, since 2004
You put your head round the door and wonder what sort of place this is. What brings you here? Is something in your body asking for attention, or are you simply curious?
This is a movement lab, and here you move more slowly than you're used to. Movement habits are invisible to the person who has them, because to them they feel normal. Move quickly and your body will usually take the route it already knows; slow down, and you have time to notice what you're doing while you're doing it, and to try another way. Where does a movement initiate? Why does it go differently on the left than on the right? That's how you come to know your body from within.
What is your body grumbling about?
Your body makes itself heard through sensations. Most of us wave them away, especially once they've been around for a while. Learning to listen to them, to feel and to perceive them, is how you enlarge your comfort zone, the range within which you move fluidly and with ease. That holds as much for someone with a sore back as for someone who works with their body and wants to do so with greater depth.
The name tells only part of the story
Precision, breathing, movement from your centre: those principles of Pilates have stayed. I've let go of the fixed sequence of exercises and the levels, because I tailor each class to the people in the room. Alongside Pilates I teach GYROTONIC® training, help you walk with less effort, and work with your fascia so that reaching and turning come more easily. I learned what I know from people who defined their own fields, and from everyone I've ever taught.
The group classes are small. In personal training we start from your own question, whether on the equipment or at the treatment table. If you'd like to know first who teaches here, read About me.
This is also a playground
Play is built into the class itself. Within the same exercises you choose what you need that day. If you're tired, you do them gently. If you want to move with some vigour, you make them bigger.
You try a movement without knowing where it will lead, or do it the other way round for once. You search for your balance on a large ball that moves with you. Sometimes you surprise yourself, or find yourself laughing. Sometimes a memory surfaces of how you moved as a child. And on that same ball you can let yourself rock gently until you come to rest.
Wondering whether this is your kind of place?
Getting to know each other is free, either through a trial group class or in a conversation where we look at what's possible.
Come and meet me