Movement

All of your movement sessions have been specifically built to support your healing body. In every chapter you’ll find that movement sessions are divided into two types, strengthening, for days when you feel stronger and like you want to move, and focused which target specific areas where you may be holding tension or experiencing stiffness.

Everything in this chapter has been designed to start gently. You'll notice that many of the exercises include progressions and regressions, allowing you to adapt each session to how you feel on any given day.

There is no right way to work through these sessions, and you do not need to complete an entire session in one go. Pilates is a practice, and much of its value comes from returning to it again and again. Rather than working through each session once, we encourage you to revisit them throughout these first few weeks, noticing how they feel in your body each time.

If you're not sure where to begin, start with the focused session for your neck and shoulders. Many of us carry tension, stress, and grief in our neck here, and even one gentle session can help to start to ease it.