Cost: £20 per month
Times: We alternate between Wednesdays, 19:00–20:00 at St George’s Hospital and Tuesdays, 19:00–20:00 for Pilates
We run both a group physiotherapy session with the physiotherapists at St George’s Hospital in Tooting and a Pilates class at Ikshana Studio, Huguenot Place. They run on alternate weeks, with the hospital session on a Wednesday and the Pilates one on the following Tuesday.
You can choose to attend all the sessions or just the ones in your preferred location.
Our group physiotherapy sessions at St. George’s Hospital vary slightly from week to week. They always involve stretching but often some cardio work too. There are always two physiotherapists present, with one leading and the other checking on everyone. They make personalised adjustments to each exercise to suit your flexibility. They will also take regular measurements of your range of movement so that it can be documented and tracked and they can then better tailor the exercises to your needs.
Our Pilates classes are led by Melanie, who trained at Central School of Ballet, London and is a fully qualified Pilates teacher. Throughout her career Melanie has taught dance to all ages. In 2015 she was the contemporary dance mentor for the BBC Young Dancer of the Year competition.
Melanie’s stretch class will ask you to focus on your breath while encouraging you to develop flexibility and alignment of your body. Working through a set of structured exercises drawn from knowledge acquired from her career in dance, Melanie will help you lengthen and strengthen whilst developing better posture and core stability. The class aims to leave you feeling more relaxed, mindful and aware of your body.
Please note that you must have a UK diagnosis of axial spondyloarthritis (Axial SpA) or ankylosing spondylitis (AS) to attend this branch.