Core & pelvic floor
Re-train your core and pelvic floor to be functional, reflexive, responsive and supportive to your body.
Investigate how your body works and find new ways of support from the inside-out.
Uncover ways of moving that will help you exercise smarter, breathe with ease and power, move pain-free, and strengthen and mobilise where you need it the most.
RYC® 5-Week Course
To be confirmed
This 5-week course covers the fundamentals of the comprehensive RYC® method. Expert attention and care is given to education around optimal core and pelvic floor engagement. This course is perfect for those experiencing hip pain, back pain, diastasis recti, incontinence and prolapse.
You will learn :
Exercises that rebuild strength and confidence to tone, shape, and rehab the core and pelvic floor.
How to optimally engage your core so you can exercise in a smart and intelligent way.
What it means to load your body with ideal support.
Optimal breathing patterns for core and pelvic floor function.
This course is more than just an exercise class as its educational format means you will learn about your individual movement blindspots to enable you to get stronger, move better and get back into the activities and movement practices that you love without fear of pain, injury or discomfort.
Each week you will receive weekly video homework sessions of a short duration that can be easily slotted into your busy lives.
In addition, you will be provided direct access to Shelley, who will make herself available for any questions that you have during and after the course, to help support you in your RYC® journey.
Private session
$105 for initial assessment. 90mins
Sessions thereafter;
$90 for one session,
$320 for a four class pack.
60mins.
In-person at home studio in Waterloo, Lower Hutt or online via Zoom
Your 90min initial session includes Restore Your Core® to highlight compensations and blindspots and create new patterns of movement for strength and support for your core and pelvic floor. In the session I will assess most of the following:
Alignment
Breathing
Pelvic mobility
Spinal mobility
Pelvic floor awareness
Core engagement
Gait analysis
You will receive a bespoke movement video with follow-up exercises and movement strategies to continue your learning and home practice.
These classes are perfect for those wanting to learn how to exercise smartly, those who experienced birth injuries such as tearing, or those who have core and pelvic floor issues such as diastasis recti, incontinence, prolapse, hip pain and back pain, or pelvic pain.
Sessions thereafter will progress your strengthening and mobility practices using Restore Your Core® teachings, as well as other yoga, pilates, mobility and functional exercise and breathing practices, with continued movement videos for your learning at home.
Core, Floor & More Class
Sat 15 October to Sat 12 November (no class Sat 29 October)
9:15am - 10:15am
Tiaki Physiotherapy, Level 4, 40 Taranaki St
$80 for 4 classes OR $25 drop-in
This yoga and movement class brings together whole body movement practices in a slow, steady and challenging class that focuses on everything that makes up the core (more, than just your abdominals!)
Incorporating Restore Your Core® teachings, functional movement practices, breathwork, strength and mobility exercises to strengthen, stabilise and support as well as find freedom and ease.
Particular attention is given to movement practices that help us to age with vitality such as bodyweight exercise and load input for bone strengthening, joint mobility and stability for the hips, shoulders, hands and feet, and balance and proprioceptive drills for visual and vestibular training.
Become a movement investigator as you challenge your brain and your body in the hows and whys of the way you move. Be prepared to lose your balance, and find your sense of humour in the process
This class is open to all, and is best suited from around 10 to 12 weeks postnatal (depending on your birth experience) unless you have had a private session assessment with Shelley prior.