Welcome to Bodyworks Studio for Pilates, Functional & Corrective Exercise
Bodyworks is an ideal choice for Pilates and Yoga practitioners/teachers as well as anyone wishing to improve athletic or sporting performance.
We offer Personal Training sessions as well as Group Classes such as Group Reformer, Core Suspension©, Core Flow©,Yoga and Pilates Mat classes.
We also specialize in helping persons with musculo-skeletal conditions such as back pain, poor posture and chronic or acute conditions.
Bodyworks also provides the LPG Cellu M6 which is great for post-workout recovery as well as the more well known applications for fat and cellulite reduction.
Corrective & Functional Exercise is a great way to obtain long lasting relief from a variety of acute or chronic musculoskeletal conditions :
| * Back Pain | * Scoliosis |
| * Knee Pain | * Hip Pain |
| * Balance Problems | * Joint Pain |
* please note we are NOT a medical facility and as such do not diagnose or provide ‘medical’ treatments as may be expected from your registered healthcare provider. You should always first check with your healthcare provider or doctor to ensure you are healthy enough to exercise. We do however work closely with the medical community to bring you the best in Functional and Corrective Movement.
Bodyworks is the only studio of it’s kind in Asia which incorporates Structural Evaluation within the framework of Pilates, Functional and Corrective Movement. Our instructors constantly update their skills in traditional manual therapy and osteopathic techniques to help clients improve restrictions in joints, connective tissues and muscular imbalances. Improved freedom of movement, range of motion and reduced muscle soreness can be felt and seen immediately after many of these techniques. Manual therapy is also particularly effective in improving conditions such as :
| * Back Pain | * Neck Pain |
| * Knee Pain | * Hip Pain |
| * Frozen Shoulder | * Fibromyalgia |
| * Scoliosis | * General Body Aches / Muscular Tension |
| * Thoracic Outlet Syndrome | * Sciatica |
Bodyworks offers Pilates sessions as Personal Training, Group Reformer, Mat Class and Foam Roller Classes. Pilates can be simply divided into ‘Studio’ and ‘Mat’ exercises. The Studio work allows either help or extra resistance to the movement performed and hence a greater variety of movements than using gravity alone. Emphasis is placed on isolating and controlling specific muscles and muscle groups and incorporating new patterns of movement. The result is an increased mechanical efficiency of movement which translates as a greater sense of wellbeing and improved performance in physical activities.Pilates has now become synonymous with the development of strong, sleek, slender, supple and strong flexible bodies. It can be practiced as a complete training system or a superb cross training tool for sports specific performance enhancement. It is also an excellent means of treatment for the rehabilitation of musculo-skeletal injuries, improving posture, flexibility and the prevention and treatment of back pain.
Sessions are 1 hour in length and use a variety of corrective and therapeutic exercise movement strategies including the use of a fully equipped Pilates studio as well as non invasive Manual Therapy techniques. Exercises are also given to enable clients to practice at home without the need for specialised equipment. Each Personal Training session is structured or focused around the client’s individual needs using Studio Pilates equipment, Functional & Corrective Exercise, Mat Work, Yoga and Manual Therapy Techniques depending on the client’s needs and individual goals.
Personal Training sessions are a great introduction to the classes at Bodyworks and we offer an initial reduced fee session for all persons who just wish to participate in the Group Classes. This essential introduction not only teaches the basic principles and exercises for the Reformer but also movement patterning and awareness to specific issues the individual may have.
Iyengar Yoga
Is initially learnt through the in-depth study of asanas (posture) and pranayama (breath control). Mr Iyengar has systematised over 200 classical yoga Asanas and 14 different types of Pranayamas (with variations of many of them) from the simple to the incredibly difficult. These have been structured and categorised so as to allow a beginner to progress surely and safely from basic postures to the most advanced as they gain flexibility, strength and sensitivity in mind, body and spirit. Iyengar style of practice is well known for the use of props such as ropes ,chairs and bolsters making it a very safe form of practice and especially beneficial to persons who suffer from musculo-skeletal problems.
Yin yoga
Yin Yoga contains the ancient, and some say original, form of asana practice. The sages who pioneered the path of yoga used asanas to strengthen the body, so that they could sit for long periods in contemplative meditation. If you have ever sat for a long time with legs crossed, you know the hips and lower back need to be strong and open. The sensations you feel are deep in the connective tissues and the joints. These are the deep yin tissues of the body, relative to the more superficial yang tissues of muscles and skin. Yin Yoga opens up these deep, dense, rarely touched areas. Consistent practice of the Yin postures will maintain and improve the free flow of qi in these pathways.
Hatha yoga
A form of yoga practice which uses physical means for purposes of self-development, teaching that it is possible to attain a certain grade of psychomental abstraction and to develop some of the lower vital-astral powers, by means of a set of physical exercises and postures, by the regulation of the breath, or by certain other psychophysical methods.
