Pregnancy Pilates

Our Pregnancy Pilates classes support and empower you through your prenatal journey into motherhood and beyond.

SPECIALIST PILATES CLASS

Pregnancy Pilates

Our weekly Pregnancy Pilates classes will nurture you through movements that will help your body cope with the growing weight of your baby, remain as free and mobile as possible, and avoid tightness, aches, and pains.

Learn how to connect, relax, and control the power of breath with the function of the pelvic floor for labour. Strengthen and prepare your body for an active birth and the physical demands of motherhood.

The class is one hour of pregnancy-specific Pilates. Class blocks of 6-8 weeks. Suitable for the duration of your pregnancy.

What’s in Your Pregnancy Pilates Hub?

All our pregnancy clients have access to an educational hub with mini classes, exercise tips, and downloadable resources to support, inform and empower you through your pregnancy.

 

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Mini Pregnancy Pilates Classes

We’ve created some mini-classes which are perfect if you’d like to practice more than once a week or are short of time. You can access the hub at any time that suits you. All the videos complement what you do within the class.

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COMMUNITY

Connect with other Mums-to-be

Pregnancy is exciting, but can also be a daunting and worrying time. Having a lovely network of mamas-to-be around you can make you feel supported and empowered and, most importantly, can be alongside you when you become a new mum. We know from experience that friends and cake got us through the exhaustion of the early weeks! 

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Pregnancy Exercise & Tips Downloads

We’ve worked with some brilliant local services who we know can help support you along your pregnancy journey and into life as a new mum. See the guides we’ve compiled below - all available in the hub.

PREGNANCY PILATES BENEFITS

How is Pilates during pregnancy beneficial?

Pilates during pregnancy is low-impact

Pilates is a safe and effective form of exercise for pregnancy. It involves careful controlled movement usually seated or lying; there’s no jumping around and putting extra force on your joints or bladder!

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Supports your posture

Pregnancy causes many changes in our bodies, including a softening of our joints to be ready for birth. Pilates works on all the muscles that help support your spine and pelvis as your baby grows to help maintain balance and prevent deviations in your posture.

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Helps reduce aches and pains

Aches and pains are pretty standard for most pregnancies as your shape evolves, particularly in the lower back, upper back and hips. Pilates will help you move and stretch out tight muscles and relieve those tiring aches and pains.

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Focus on your breath

Pilates is a mindful movement practice, and the breath is something we pay attention to and notice how it can aid our muscles in moving. During labour awareness of your breath is really important and mastering control of your breath will help you stay calm, relax, and contribute to a positive birth experience.

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Strengthen your pelvic floor

Core strength is a fundamental focus of Pilates and this includes the pelvic floor. Many of us won’t be aware of the health of our pelvic floor until the weight of our growing baby is bearing down on it, but you can start to strengthen your pelvic floor at any time; it’s never too late! A strong yet supple pelvic floor is likely to heal quicker post-birth too.

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Feel confident

Practising Pilates will help you focus on you, preparing yourself for what’s coming. Feeling good in body and mind, feeling informed, and feeling supported in our group of expectant mothers will empower you to feel confident as you enter into motherhood.

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PREGNANCY PILATES RESOURCES

Three free guides to download when you join our Pregnancy Pilates class

Notes for a Positive Birth

I believe that knowledge is power so I share with you what I wish that I had known when I was pregnant with my daughters and through my training and experience of working with pregnant and postpartum women.

Pelvic Health Guide

A mini guided tour of the pelvic floor muscles and some exercises to practice throughout your pregnancy. Learning to connect to your pelvic floor now will help your postnatal recovery considerably.

Pregnancy Directory

Local services that could support you through your pregnancy and beyond. These businesses have not paid to be included in this directory, but are here because they are tried and tested by other mamas.

  • Lauren’s pregnancy and baby classes are fantastic.

    Lauren’s understanding of how your body changes throughout pregnancy and postnatally and her focus on each individual really make you feel like you are doing something worthwhile for both yourself and your baby.

    The studio is calm and relaxing and the classes are a great way to unwind and connect with your body, your mind and your baby. I couldn’t recommend these classes more from a physical, mental and social point of view for expectant and new Mums.’

    - Charlotte B.

  • The most positive birth I could have wished for

    Attending Lauren's pregnancy classes taught me to how to use my breath to relax and engage my pelvic floor, in addition to keeping me active which played a huge part in the quick, calm, and relaxed delivery of my daughter.

    I wholeheartedly feel that my combination of Pilates and hypnobirthing during pregnancy helped me to have the most positive birth I could have wished for, so thank you, Lauren.

    - Charlotte T.

Pregnancy Pilates FAQs

  • Yes. I am fully qualified to work with pre and postnatal clients and all the exercises we do during live classes or recorded classes are safe for mother and baby. You can learn more about me and my qualifications here.

  • Our pregnancy classes are suitable from 12 weeks or after your first scan.

  • You can do them right up until your due date as long as you’re feeling well. We advise doing the classes throughout your pregnancy in order to get the most benefit from them.

  • These classes are designed specifically for pregnancy to support the postural and muscular changes that happen as your baby grows.

  • No, not at all.

  • The classes run as a block but if you miss one class you can carry this over to the next block or to our postnatal classes.

  • As you can see on this page, our Pregnancy Class clients also get access to our Happy Mamas Hub which includes downloadable guides to support your pregnancy, some pelvic floor exercises, 4 short classes to do at home plus the option to join the private group WhatsApp.

If you have a question that’s not covered here, please check our General FAQs or use the button to ask Lauren a question.