All you need to know about the Pilates side kick - how to correctly position yourself, the benefits and tips for your Pilates practice from experienced Pilates teacher, Lauren Hilton.

My top 5 benefits of using Pilates resistance props in your mat work to get a studio workout at home, and delve deeper into your Pilates practice, build strength, improve your bone density, feel more flexible and build muscle tone.

Get behind the scenes on classic Pilates exercises, learn the benefits of the movements, and what those mean for our day-to-day movement and well-being, this month’s Behind the Moves is all about the infamous Pilates Hundred…

If you are new to Pilates and are getting ready to take your first session, or are considering giving it a try, you probably have a few questions about what to expect and what to do to make the experience great.

Ever wondered about the why behind some of the Pilates movements you do in class? We delve a little deeper into a move per month so you can learn the benefits of the movements we’re offering our bodies and what those mean for our day-to-day movement and well-being.

Let’s talk about Pilates plank…

Each month we'll give you the why behind some of the Pilates movements you'll be most familiar with in class, so you can learn the benefits of the movements we’re offering our bodies and what those mean for our day-to-day movement and well-being.

Here we'll talk through Mermaid…

In each edition of Behind the Moves, we'll give you the why behind some of the movements you're familiar with in class. When we attend a class each week sometimes we're unaware of the benefits of the movements we are offering our bodies and what those mean for our day-to-day movement and wellbeing.

This time we're talking all things Bridging!

Going to a regular weekly class gives you all the Pilates movement benefits, like increased flexibility, strength, balance, and coordination, but here are my top 7 less obvious benefits that we get from Pilates class that are nothing to do with strength or mobility.

When we become pregnant we might continue with our regular exercise routine, perhaps we may choose to adapt it or we may decide to slow down and try a new movement practice altogether. A pregnancy-specific exercise programme, such as Pregnancy Pilates, is designed with the different trimesters in mind and to support the changes that occur in your body rather than fight against them.

Swan is a Pilates exercise that you may know from your mat class and it also features in all of the apparatus too. Swan is a back-bend, known in movement language and anatomy as an extension. Extension exercises can often be our least favourite.

Let’s take a deep dive into Pilates Swan…

Whether you're attending a block of mat or equipment classes with Lauren or Charlie, or one of Hannah's trainee classes for the first time, or as a regular, or you’re thinking about booking in, here’s a handy guide on all you need to know about Pilates classes at the Lauren Hilton Pilates Studio.