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Pilates with Rachel

Movement is Medicine

Strengthen your body, enhance your wellbeing, and find balance through slow, controlled movement.

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Rachel offers various services, click to read more

Healthy Back Pilates

Accupuncture

The Bowen Technique

Healthy Back Pilates Class

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View our participant information pack here to find out what to wear, conditions that can benefit, and safety information

What is Healthy Back Class?

We provide a structured movement class. Drawing on principles from Pilates, yoga, biomechanics, and somatic movement. 

 

Each session includes:

  • Mindful warm-up and breath awareness

  • Targeted core and spinal strengthening exercises

  • Mobility and flexibility work

  • Postural awareness and movement re-education

  • Relaxation and cool-down

By working with all muscle groups - even the smaller, often-neglected ones - Pilates creates strength from the inside out, restoring freedom of movement.

For Every Body

Whether you're new to exercise or managing musculoskeletal problems like back pain or postural issues, Pilates can help. The key to recovery is movement and strengthening the right areas - and that's exactly what our class offers.

Suitable for all ages, sizes, and capabilities.

It's not about pushing harder - it's about moving smarter.

The Power of Gentle Movement

Pilates works through slow, controlled, low-impact movements that respect your body while challenging it to grow stronger.

Acupuncture

Through gentle needling techniques the promotion of the body’s intelligence to rebalance itself can heal and restore itself to optimal health. Therapeutic Acupuncture can work alongside your other treatment plan and can treat the following conditions:​​

- Abdominal distension

- Anxiety

- Ankle pain

- Arm pain

- Asthma

- Blood circulation and blood disorders

- Boost immunity

- Chest pain

- Common cold

- Constipation

- Diarrhoea

- Digestive issues

- Dizziness

- Eye problems

- Fatigue

- Headaches

- Heart palpitations

- High blood pressure

- Hypertension

- Infertiliy

- Insomnia

- Itching

- Knee pain

- Lower back pain

- Menopause symptoms such as brain fog, bloating, dryness, lethargy, uterine bleeding

- Menstrual issues such as bloating, period pain, irregular periods, dysmenorrhea

- Nausea

- Organ prolapses

- Pain management

- Skin conditions

- Stress

- Stomach issues

- Tinnitus

- Urinary problems

You will complete a pre-screening questionnaire to ensure the treatment
is suitable for you before your first session. This will help you gain the maximum from our time together.

 

In some cases, you may be referred to a Traditional Chinese Practitioner of Acupuncture if we feel that your issue is beyond the realm of Therapeutic Acupuncture.

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Pricing:​​

Initial Session: £55

Follow up: £45

Block Booking: 

£250 for 6 sessions, including your initial. We can discuss this on your first visit.

Acupuncture calms the mind and boosts your immunity bringing physical, mental, and emotional balance.

NADA Protocol

A form of ear acupuncture developed to help with addition recovery and emotional trauma. Typically administered in group settings.

Benefits of NADA

- Reduce cravings for alcohol and drugs, including nicotine

- Minimised withdrawal symptoms

- Increased calmness, better sleep, less agitation

- Relief from stress and emotional trauma

- An easier connection with counselling

- A discovery of inner quiet and strength 

The Bowen Technique

Gentle, rolling hand movements over specific areas of the body with the aim of promoting relaxation, reducing pain, and encouraging the body to reset itself- focusing on the body rather than a single symptom.

Taking into account medical history and personal goals, some clients report improvement after just 1 or 2 sessions, other require 3 to 6 or ongoing therapy. 

Pricing:​​

Initial Session: £55

Follow up: £45

Known to benefit following conditions:

- Sports injuries

- Tension / Anxiety / Depression

- Back pain

- Respiratory conditions / Asthma

- Hay fever / Sinusitis

- Migraine / Headaches

- Arthritis / Osteoarthritis

- Bells palsy

- Reynaud Syndrome

and more

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