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Welcome to the Bodywise Blog

Hello, I hope you enjoy reading my posts on health and well-being. Please let me know your thoughts and if you find anything useful. As well as writing about Pilates and Mindfulness I hope to bring your attention to other ways of improving your health and life and finding the natural intelligence of the body. I love this quote by Mary Oliver

“You do not have to be good, you do not have to walk on your knees,for a hundred miles, through the dessert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body, love what it loves”

Born to Walk

I am attending James Earls three day workshop this weekend on Walking, Gait analysis and the role of Myofascia. In his book Born to Walk he talks of the Myofascia...

Finding Rest, Renewal and Effortless Core

This is taken from my workshop February 2017 The process of arriving in the body; the transition from everyday life rushing around, busy, lots of thoughts; arriving in class....

When is positive thinking negative?

I am starting to question the idea of positive thinking and what it really means. And I am drawn to a quote by Mabel Todd, who wrote in 1937 a...

The Autumn Winter Body

Gazing out over my garden on a still summers day, watching the flittering and fluttering of the bountiful butterflies, listening to the warm hum of the summer bees, I am...

Laugh for no reason!

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Laughter is the best medicine… and its good for toning up your abdominals. For those of you who come to my classes you will know that I do encourage laughing....

Understanding Babies

My interest in mums and babies has grown from my studies of Infant Movement Development. It was when I was studying for a three year diploma at the Institute for...

Mindfulness, we teach what we have to learn.

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The present – a gift we give to ourselves I practice and teach Awareness or Mindfulness; when we meditate or practice mindfulness we come back to the present moment, aware...