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Comfortable clothing: Wear breathable clothes that allow you to move with complete ease.
Not too baggy: Avoid overly loose garments so they do not catch on the studio equipment.
Footwear: We work safely in either socks or barefoot.
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Private Restorative Pilates: £45 for a one-hour session.
Private Block Booking: £220 for a discounted block of five sessions.
Shared Session: £30 per hour, working alongside one other client.
Shared Block Booking: £147.50 for a discounted block of five sessions.
The Emmett Technique: £60 for up to fifty minutes treatment .
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During your initial clinical consultation and movement audit, we will:
Take a medical history: Review a brief overview of your medical background, past injuries, or surgeries.
Discuss your goals: Talk through the specific structural issues, chronic pain, or physical limitations that brought you to the studio.
Observe movement: Undertake gentle, low-intensity assessment movements to identify your safe physical starting point.
Establish a plan: Determine a clear, personalised direction of travel for your ongoing movement re-education programme.
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Both approaches support your recovery, but they address different stages of your physical health.
Choose an Osteopath (Physio Therapist or Chiropractor ) when:
You need an acute diagnosis: You have a sudden, severe injury or a newly painful joint flare-up.
You require structural manipulation: Your body needs direct joint adjustments, bone alignment work, or high-velocity thrust techniques.
You are in the crisis phase: You require primary medical or physical diagnosis to determine if a structural tissue injury has occurred.
Choose an Emmett Technique treatment when:
Your nervous system is overloaded: You are managing chronic pain, stress, structural ageing, or post-surgery tightness that leaves your body feeling guarded.
You need gentle muscle release: You want to address deep-seated muscular tension without heavy, painful pressure or cracking.
You want to build structural trust: You need to switch off overactive pain receptors using light, specialised touch resets so your body can move safely again.
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The short answer - The Emmett Technique clears the path by releasing deep-seated tension, and Pilates builds the strong, stable foundation you need to move through life with confidence.
The long answer - When your body is dealing with habitual postural issues, chronic illness, or a past injury, your nervous system often goes into a defensive "braced" state. Trying to exercise through that tightness is like driving with the handbrake on—it leads to compensation, frustration, and pain.
Here is how we use both modalities in your session to create a safe, responsive bridge to recovery:
1. The Emmett Technique: The "Reset"
Before we ask your body to move, we need to release the tension. The Emmett Technique is a gentle, responsive light-touch therapy that acts like an emergency release valve for your nervous system.
What it does: By targeting specific receptor points, it coaxes tight, overactive, or "braced" muscles to instantly let go and reset.
The result: Your pain or restriction decreases, and your body regains a sense of safety and ease before you even begin to exercise.
2. Clinical Pilates: The "Restore"
Once your muscles have stopped fighting themselves, the real magic happens. We immediately transition into bespoke, assessment-led Pilates programming.
What it does: With the "handbrake" off, we can now retrain, stabilise, and strengthen your body without triggering defensive tension.
The result: We build deep biomechanical awareness, helping you establish new, healthier movement patterns so your old habits or injuries don’t reclaim control.
How Restorative Pilates safely recovers strength, flexibility and balance in your body.
A quick easy to digest overview to identify if restorative pilates is the right option for you.
By providing dedicated, 1:1 or semi-private bespoke programming tailored to your daily capacity, Restorative Pilates ensures you are never forced beyond your limits, making it a safe harbour for building strength, balance, and coordination at your own pace.