Shorter Workouts: INTERMEDIATE LEVEL - Twists and Bends with Melanie Christou
Shorter Workouts (up to 20 mins)
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27m
Join Melanie for an intermediate class where you get to explore creative ways of adding more spine rotation, and lateral flexion to a mat routine. After a brief warm up, you will be gradually led through more challenging and multi-directional movements.
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With thanks to Freya Field
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Melanie is a London-based Body Control Pilates teacher. She is in the process of becoming a member of the Body Control Pilates teacher training team on the Matwork Certification Course. She trained as a dancer but her dancing career was cut short by the discovery of multiple issues with her spine. On retiring from dance at the age of 23, Melanie’s back pain got progressively worse. She decided to take up Pilates as a way to manage her own pain. Finding how effective Pilates was she felt compelled to learn more about it and share the benefit of it with others. That's what brought her to train as a Body Control Pilates teacher. Melanie’s aim is to help clients re-connect with their bodies and to encourage a healthier, more aligned moving body. With a background in movement education and with an interest in biomechanics, Melanie enjoys teaching people from all backgrounds and levels of experience. She has a particular interest in working with people with low back pain.
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For more info on Melanie, please visit: www.melaniechristoupilates.co.uk
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Filming and photography by Katie Cooper (www.katiecooperfilm.co.uk)
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