Imagine you could get a great body, feel taller, improve your strength and flexibility, improve your posture, improve awareness of how you walk, sit or drive, relieve back aches and joint pains, flatten your abdominals, strengthen your pelvic floor, decrease stress, boost your energy and confidence, be in control of your body and improve concentration, all through one kind of exercise!

In this stressful, busy life, why not take some time out for yourself and try Pilates? Pilates is a discipline that can change the way you look, feel and move, and, with regular practice and commitment, will afford you an altogether healthier body.

Pilates is not just exercise; it also teaches you how to relax, rejuvenate and restore yourself: the perfect antidote to our hectic lifestyles. Throughout our lives, we adopt poor postural habits or overuse our bodies doing everyday activities. With Pilates, you learn how to move correctly and strengthen your body from the inside out. It returns you to a balanced state where the body is re-aligned, muscles work in harmony, and flexibility is restored. Pilates is also readily adaptable so that it suits all ages and fitness levels. Everyone can reap the benefits.

Sue Lloyd offers classes in Pilates mat work and private, 1 - 1 sessions in the Henley-on-Thames area. 

Osteopaths, chiropractors, physiotherapists and general practitioners, are now recommending Pilates as one of the safest forms of exercise today.