Balance Pilates Cashmere

🌿 NEW JULY COURSE – NOW OPEN FOR BOOKINGS 🌿

The MenoMethod – Movement, Mindfulness & Menopause

A supportive Pilates journey for women navigating perimenopause and menopause.

If you've been feeling like your body has changed and you're not quite sure how to support it anymore, you're not alone.

The MenoMethod is a unique 10-week Pilates-based course designed to help you better understand your body through midlife.

Together we'll explore:

✨ Strength that supports your changing body
✨ Breathwork to calm the nervous system
✨ Movement that builds confidence, not exhaustion
✨ Nutrition and lifestyle strategies for healthy ageing
✨ Tools to help you feel stronger, calmer and more connected to yourself

This isn't about pushing harder.

It's about moving smarter, understanding your body and learning how to work with it, not against it.

📅 NEW JULY 2026 COURSE – NOW OPEN FOR BOOKINGS

Places are limited to keep the course personal and supportive.

Book now to secure your place.

🌿 www.balance-pilates-cashmere.com/menopause-course

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How Often Should You Do Pilates?

This is one of the questions we hear most often in the studio.

The simple answer?
Often enough that your body can stay consistent, feel supported, and continue progressing.

That's where the magic happens.

From the very beginning, Joseph Pilates designed his method around repetition, precision, and mindful movement, not exhaustion or pushing the body to its limits. Pilates works best when it becomes a regular practice, giving your body time to learn, adapt, and improve.

With consistent sessions, your nervous system, joints, and deep stabilising muscles begin to respond. Movement patterns become more natural, strength builds gradually, and your body starts to move with greater ease, confidence, and control.

For most people, 2–4 sessions per week is an excellent rhythm. It's enough to build strength and momentum while still allowing time for recovery and integration.

What does that look like?
2 sessions per weekA great foundation for improving strength, mobility, posture, and overall wellbeing.

3 sessions per weekThis is where many people begin to notice significant progress. Stability improves, movement feels more effortless, and strength gains become more noticeable.

4 sessions per weekA deeper level of practice where Pilates becomes truly transformational. Movement patterns change, confidence grows, and the body becomes stronger, more resilient, and more capable.

Whether your goal is to build strength, improve flexibility, support recovery from injury, manage stress, enhance athletic performance, or simply move and feel better, consistency is the key.

As Joseph Pilates famously said:
"In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a whole new body."

Pilates isn't about doing more.
It's about practising well, and practising regularly.

So why not try adding an extra class to your week and see what changes you notice?
Your body might surprise you.

This week we say goodbye to the amazing Annabel, who has been part of the Balance Pilates family while completing her law studies.
Having passed the Bar this past year, she is now starting her first role as a lawyer! 🙌⚖️

We are incredibly proud of her and wish her every success as she begins this exciting new chapter. Annabel, thank you for all your hard work, warmth, and friendly face on reception, we will miss you!

As Annabel moves on, you'll see both Ruby and Tessa on reception. Be sure to say hello and introduce yourself.

Ruby will be helping us over the next few weeks while Tessa is on her university holidays.

Congratulations Annabel, and thank you from all of us at Balance Pilates. 💛

💧 Hydration is about so much more than just quenching thirst.

Did you know that while the average adult body is around 60% water, some of our most important organs contain significantly more?

🧠 Brain: 80–85% water
🫘 Kidneys: 80–85% water
❤️ Heart: 75–80% water
🫁 Lungs: 75–80% water
💪 Muscles: 70–75% water
🦴 Bones: 30% water

Every cell, tissue and organ in your body relies on water to function effectively.
When we're dehydrated, even mildly, we may notice:
✨ Fatigue
✨ Headaches
✨ Poor concentration
✨ Reduced exercise performance
✨ Increased feelings of stress and anxiety
✨ Joint stiffness and aches

As we move through midlife and menopause, staying hydrated becomes even more important for supporting energy, temperature regulation, recovery and overall wellbeing.

A simple goal? Keep a water bottle nearby and sip consistently throughout the day rather than waiting until you're thirsty.

Your body is talking to you all day long. Sometimes it's simply asking for water. 💙

How clever are our clients!
Jill McKie borrowed a few flowers and succulents from the studio to add the finishing touches to an already incredible arrangement, and she came home with Gold! 🏆🌿

We love seeing the talents of our clients both inside and outside the studio.
Congratulations, and very well deserved!

We love hearing from our clients, sharing their experiences at our beautiful studio.
Thank you Jessie! 😍

Our next MenoMethod Course at Balance Pilates starts in July and is already filling up, to learn more or to sign up - go to the Courses link on our website, or the link in our bio.
www.balance-pilates-cashmere.com

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