NOVEMBER 2023 NEWSLETTER – FITNESS PILATES
Dear Fitness Pilates Member
Hope you had a good October and enjoyed the Halloween celebrations if you attended any. Here we are in November, the month before Christmas. So much to do, so much to arrange before the big event. But no matter how busy you are, it is still important to make time for YOU.
Planning ahead for the Christmas holidays – My last working day will be 15th December.
All classes will resume back to normal on the 2nd January 2024.
When classes resume in January 2024, as per my previous newsletters, there will be a small price increase for Wethersfield, Coggeshall and Zoom classes.
Please note that I am having a little procedure done on my foot again on the 1st November so will not be teaching on the 1st and 2nd. Marise will be covering the 2nd November at 1100 at Coggeshall and there will be no class at Wethersfield on the 1st.
Class Timetable
Monday – Stisted Village Hall 0930-1015 & ZOOM – 1100-1145
Tuesday – 3rd Tuesday of the month – Fitness Pilates/Mindfulness – Carers Connect – Bradwell Village Hall 1115-1200
Wednesday – Wethersfield Village Hall 1100-1145
Thursday – Coggeshall Village Hall 1100-1145
Friday – 1st Friday of the month – Fitness Pilates/Mindfulness – Carers Connect – St Peters Village Hall 1115-1200
Don’t forget…..if you can’t make the ZOOM times then I can send you a recording for just £5. Let me know and I can forward you a link from my YouTube Studio.
St Peters Village Hall/Bradwell Village Hall Pilates/Mindfulness 1st Friday and 3rd Tuesday of the month. If you or anyone you know cares for someone then you are more than welcome to attend. Classes are FREE. Light refreshments will be provided before the class. This is a good time to offer one another support and friendship from other carers. If you would like any further information then please do get in touch.
Christmas is coming up so FAST! – CHRISTMAS PRESENT IDEAS!
I don’t know about you, but every year I struggle to find Christmas presents to suit my family and friends. If you also have a similar problem then I have the perfect solution.
Is there someone you would like to buy for who has talked about Pilates but has never actually got around to attending a class? Then I have your ideal Christmas gift sorted. How about a gift voucher of classes? You could buy 1, 2, 3 or however many you require. Let me know and I will issue you with a personalised voucher.
I have recently ordered a stock of Fitness Pilates black T-shirts in S M and L so if you would like one then please let me know. They are £17 each.
My last working day before Christmas will be Friday 15th December and I shall be returning on Tuesday 2nd January 2024.
How to Stay Happy
A recent study on happiness has shown that in general quadriplegics are happier than lottery winners, how can this be? What does that tell us about the relationship between the external world and inner state. – notably content and happiness. Only 5% of your happiness comes from what you are doing right now ie Pilates to your overall total happiness
Extreme variations in external circumstances do not correlate to happiness ie losing your limbs compared to having access to limitless funds you would be happy?
Principles – internal and external – you cannot make yourself happy through external needs. Once you earn up to £75,000 any excess over that has no meaningful impact on your overall happiness.
Volunteering – 2 hours per week
Writing down 3 things a day that you are grateful for, being of service to other people and living a life where you are connected to a community, all increase your sense of purpose and meaning – pursuing meaning and purpose of which happiness is a by-product
Trying to be useful
Follow meaning and purpose instead of personal pleasure – change is inevitable
Focus instead on how can I be useful to other people, what am I grateful for , how I am being of service, what is the meaning and purpose of my life right now, rather than how am I going to be happy.
This study demonstrates that you can be in extreme discomfort or disability you can still be happy compared to someone who has had a massive lottery windfall
You can’t make yourself happy through getting stuff you can only make yourself happy through purpose.
Hu Breathing with Chico (X-Factor)
On the 26th October I attended a breathing workshop in Billericay with Chico. Such an inspirational man with tons of energy. It was absolutely fascinating and I included some of his methods in our Autumnal meditation that I did with you last month.
This is the website https://itschicotime.com/hu-breath and here is a link to a short meditation by Chico.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJPpsrjlMBc
Wishing you a great month!
Love Marisa x
Fitness Pilates Health Coach
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A few of you have asked for the poem I have read to you during our relaxation part of the class last month. I know you will agree, it is absolutely beautiful and so many of the words resonate with me, I am sure some of them will do with you too.
Breathe
by Becky Hemsley
She sat at the back and they said she was shy,
She led from the front and they hated her pride,
They asked her advice and then questioned her guidance,
They branded her loud, then were shocked by her silence,
When she shared no ambition they said it was sad,
So she told them her dreams and they said she was mad,
They told her they’d listen, then covered their ears,
And gave her a hug while they laughed at her fears,
And she listened to all of it thinking she should,
Be the girl they told her to be best as she could,
But one day she asked what was best for herself,
Instead of trying to please everyone else,
So she walked to the forest and stood with the trees,
She heard the wind whisper and dance with the leaves,
She spoke to the willow, the elm and the pine,
And she told them what she’d been told time after time,
She told them she felt she was never enough,
She was either too little or far far too much,
Too loud or too quiet, too fierce or too weak,
Too wise or too foolish, too bold or too meek,
Then she found a small clearing surrounded by firs,
And she stopped…and she heard what the trees said to her,
And she sat there for hours not wanting to leave,
For the forest said nothing, it just let her breathe.