Want to know why we frequently add seemingly silly rolling around to our serious Pilates classes? In our latest mini-pod (podette?) Liz and Samm offer you a speedy and succinct explanation of our reason, all the benefits and a teeny bit of the science.

It’s a bumper filled VitaChat edition with Liz and Samm doing their 20 minutes thing, catching up on the Triad ball class, what is a MET and extolling the marvels of movement snacks, plus squeaky wheel and egg white metaphors and a 'fashion your own triad ball' photo competition.

Autumnal joy and the wonder of a toy: It’s getting all Autumnal in the woods this week as Liz and Samm rustle through the leaves reflecting on 'rigid versus release' and the teaching term so far: zipping onto zoom, ‘those’ moves we love to hate, ‘client led’ adaptions and the joy of going sloooooooowwwww…

Welcome to the VitaChat Pilates Podcast for all Pilates teachers and do-ers - Liz and Samm are back in the woods chatting about the new teaching term, the Mysterious Core and comedy cueing….with Swiss Rolls and Do-nuts included…do get in touch at hello@vitapilates.co.uk to join in.

Sitting in the shady space, Samm and Liz talk you through 7 essential ‘Feet to Face’ exercises to move all your moving parts. There is the usual chat on the many benefits of each and how they suitable for all our clients.

This week we mull over the week of melting movement and look ahead to more moves with the band as the buzzard circles overhead.

In their sunny wander around the woods this week, Liz and Samm sign off on the underrated elbow class, chuckle about those pesky press ups…and look ahead to this week of fluidity and some whole body yawns to get us relaxing into July.

We are pitched under the parachute, perusing potatoes, petrol caps and of course all the fabulous facial fascia work this week, and looking ahead to busting some Big Core myths with the band next week. And also manage to get in some hot gossip on hoovers.

This week Liz and Samm are sitting in the shade sensibly sharing spiralling thoughts (and a quick review of the faces in that Friends reunion..) and pondering the awesome link between mind, movement and mood before pulling silly faces to prep for Facial Fascia Week.

Liz and Samm do a spot of birdwatching from the indoors this week as May has an issue with the weather. We talk the joys of toes, squats and this week of venues, vids/ and zoom togetherness and look ahead to next week’s All Together Now end of Term 5 montage with some bonus features.

Liz and Samm ramble through the woods reflecting on the fascia focused 'Floor and Core’ class and discuss baggy tights, saggy faces and Zoom necks. Once Samm is reassured that Nala hasn’t caught the baby rabbit, Liz introduces next week’s festival of 'Feet and Ankle Love'  to celebrate, and ease some of us back into, the Big Return Indoors.

Liz and Samm don their dungarees to chat about the ‘Organs' class and introduce this week’s ’Self Massage’, continuing our focus on feeling good and the power of our interoceptors. Key word this week is: Melting.    Quote of the Week: Pilates: Here to improve what you do most of the time.

This week Liz and Samm drift through the delightful dabbley woods discussing the benefits of Interoception, pause briefly for a daring dramatic dash to rescue a deer, then delight in drawing a breath to detail this week’s focus on using the Franklin Method to tone up our organ fascia with a quick exercise demo for the colon health.

After a quick update on where we all got this week without our SatNavs, Liz and Samm ramble through the windy woods talking about the classic Roll Down. It’s a ‘deep dive’ into the why and the how of not-hanging-upside-down, and the various variations to get the most out of this full-flexion-but-not-a-fall forward move, including Osteoporosis options. And Liz whips off her socks for yet another luscious foot stretch exercise to try at home.

Liz and Samm weave their way through the woods this week reflecting on your super Spirals and then going a bit scientific. Samm explains the aim of being mindful and connected in our movement to help keep our brains as well as bodies active and connected. And the results of That Cherry Picking experiment are in!

Liz and Samm crunch carefully through the thicket whilst tackling the issue of Osteoporosis and why and how we adjust our plans. We puzzle long legs versus side twists, Liz has a couple of corking do-as-you-listen spiral exercises, and we invite your thoughts on fountain pens...

Liz and Samm take a wander in The Woods to round up the week of the Loo Roll, discuss more on fabulous fascia and chat about next week’s back to basics focus on The Core; with special guest Roger Federer…not really….just Liz pretending…plus weekly hand cream and lipstick tips!

A crunchy, tweety, birdwatching stomp through the woods with another fabulous foot exercise from Liz on a log, listener feedback and lockdown Zoom musings on adaptability.

Liz and Samm go deep into the Woods this week to escape the wind, rest on our rugs and try some stillness. Samm tries out her magic growing tapping exercise on Liz before she in turn whips off her socks to describe and demo a fabulous foot exercise for you. We preview this week’s class with a focus on the Franklin Method imagery for toning the diaphragm with cat flaps, bucket handles and jazz hands….stick with us!

We are back with more Pilates and movement chat (and real wind sound effects as we learn about microphones) from The Woods. A general oozing of joy about our clients, even more for you on breathing and four (yes, four!) take away moves for the week that can be done inside or outside, on your mat, chair and wall. Plus hoovering tips and a question for our Vita Family Hive Mind.