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Exciting! TWO Saturday Sessions are available to book now! Join me for a Saturday session at SOMERSHAM VICTORY HALL (Small Hall) on; 🤸🏽‍♀️SAT 25th November 🤸🏽‍♀️SAT 2nd December 10:30-11:30am ✨Sat 25th November Saturday Stretch & Relax Take time to practice Pilates exercises, which stretch and relax you, unlocking tight muscles and allowing you to melt into your weekend. A slower paced class with a longer and deeper relaxation section towards the end to fully benefit and bask in the stretch exercises practised, harmonising body and mind. ✨Sat 2nd December Learn the key Pilates exercises in specifically targeting the back, helping unlock tight muscles and promoting restoration. Discover which set of exercises to practice when your back has been under stress and which TWO to perform daily to help maintain a healthy and happy back. Enjoy time scheduled for deeper relaxation with snuggle blankets too! Places are limited! £10 Book your place online at; https://www.corefactorpilates.co.uk/book-online

The NEW 10 week Pilates course at Somersham British Legion/Centurion Club starts tonight 6-7pm. There will then be a half term break so NO CLASSES from TOMORROW... 🍁TUESDAY 24th to FRIDAY 27th OCTOBER inclusive 🍁 Courses from tomorrow, will simply pause and resume next week commencing 30th October. So, if you want to come along to tonight’s class in person, just text me on 07530 438237 or jump on Zoom. If you’d like to do Pilates during the break remember Course members you can access my Pilates videos too to keep your core strong and your spine feeling fine! So see you tonight or next week and enjoy the Autumnal beauty out there. Pilates Liz 🍁🤸🏽‍♀️

🍁Diary of a Pilates Instructor...The September Newsletter has been launched and after 6 months, VENUE classes return next week, as well as being✨Zoomed LIVE too! Hurrah! 🤸🏽‍♂️ MEMBERS, check your Inbox for the September 2020 Newsletter, which is also available to read on the Members’ Area of the Web site www.corefactorpilates.co.uk The newsletter is intensely packed to the core with information, including; 🍁Classes return to VENUES this month as well as being broadcast live by ✨ZOOM! Check Diary Dates for details of which venue classes start when! 🍃Health and safety protocol all ready for venue classes 🍂Members, book your place at each VENUE class you wish to attend by PRE-BOOKING ON-LINE via the Web site www.corefactorpilates.co.uk 🍃CORE OFFER OF THE MONTH 🍁Core Factor Pilates monthly feature editorial ‘Running Below the Pain Barrier. No Pain...ALL GAIN!’ in the fabulous Cambridgeshire publication What's The Buzz? 🍃The Class Timetable with start dates of new venue & Zoom courses. Remember, NEW COURSE = NEW ✨ZOOM LINK! 🍂PLUS, a homemade easy, fabulously fun fudge recipe, celebrating the start of the pear season 🍐 🍃’Principally Pilates’ Running Technique and cardio fitness into autumn 🍁The technical LOW-DOWN on 'The Push Up’ ...and more! So, enjoy the read and see you next week for classes at both VENUES and ✨🖥ZOOM ON-LINE! #nootherPilatesInstructorlovesyoumore #Septembernewsletter #originalPilates #MatworkPilates #onlinePilates #venuePilates #getthecorefactor #seasonalhomemadefudge #pears #fudge #recipes #whatsthebuzz #inlovewithlocal

☀️Diary of a Pilates Instructor...The August Newsletter has now landed and my ‘Roadmap back to Venue classes’ is still on track! MEMBERS, check your Inbox for the August 2020 Newsletter which is also available to read on the Members’ Area of the Web site www.corefactorpilates.co.uk The newsletter is filled to the brim with information, including; ☀️My updated PILATES ROADMAP TO VENUES, detailing which classes are resuming in September! ☀️Summer break dates (after 6 months of teaching, it’s time for a break!) ☀️Venue and on-line classes or just on-line...you choose! Flexibility in both senses! ☀️CORE OFFER OF THE MONTH ☀️Core Factor Pilates NEW monthly feature editorial in the fabulous Cambridgeshire publication 'What’s the Buzz?’ Local Buzz Marketing ☀️The Class Timetable with start dates of new courses. Remember, NEW COURSE = NEW ✨ZOOM LINK! ☀️PLUS, a fabulous quick and easy seasonal lunch recipe, celebrating the flavours of summer ☀️Principally Pilates ☀️The technical LOW-DOWN on 'The Crab’ ...and more! So, enjoy the read and see you again next week for the last week of on-line Zoom Pilates in your room before the 3 week summer break! #nootherPilatesInstructorlovesyoumore #Augustnewsletter #originalPilates #MatworkPilates #onlinePilates #getthecorefactor #seasonalsoup #recipes #whatsthebuzz #inlovewithlocal

MEMBERS, check your Inbox for the August 2020 Newsletter which is also available to read on the Members’ Area of the Web site www.corefactorpilates.co.uk The newsletter is filled to the brim with information, including; ☀️My updated PILATES ROADMAP TO VENUES, detailing which classes are resuming in September! ☀️Summer break dates (after 6 months of teaching, it’s time for a break!) ☀️Venue and on-line classes or just on-line...you choose! Flexibility in both senses! ☀️CORE OFFER OF THE MONTH ☀️Core Factor Pilates NEW monthly feature editorial in the fabulous Cambridgeshire publication 'What’s the Buzz?’ Local Buzz Marketing ☀️The Class Timetable with start dates of new courses. Remember, NEW COURSE = NEW ✨ZOOM LINK! ☀️PLUS, a fabulous quick and easy seasonal lunch recipe, celebrating the flavours of summer ☀️Principally Pilates ☀️The technical LOW-DOWN on 'The Crab’ ...and more! So, enjoy the read and see you again this week for the last week of on-line Zoom Pilates in your room before the 3 week summer break!

February is the month of love ❤️ and beauty too...with The Beauty Lounge St Ives! 🤸🏽‍♂️💅🏻 ...My nail colour matches my Pilates mats! ...It’s as if I planned it! So, having waved goodbye to the long, dark and dry!❌🍷🥂🍸🥃❌ month of January, the New Year Party dust is now well and truly settled. It’s most definitely time to love yourself a little more this February and enjoy an exclusive CORE FACTOR PILATES MEMBER 10% DISCOUNT with The Beauty Lounge St Ives! Exciting! ✨ Just book with The Beauty Lounge and benefit from this 10% discount on your first treatment, just for you, until the end of February 2019! Health, happiness and well-being are all intrinsically linked to looking after yourself, balancing body and mind. It’s important to carry forward your New Year drive and determination into February and beyond. Fitness routines are well established by now, healthier choices and balanced eating plans continue; train yourself into a good sleep pattern and listen to your body! When you need to rest, you must try to or schedule in a quiet time away from distractions, to help clear your mind, even if it is for just 10 or 20 minutes. Good health is maintained from not only effective exercise, contentment, a good balanced diet, effective sleep and support from loved ones and friends but also from making sure you look after yourself. It’s important to make time just for you; from a short walk outside with nature, enjoying a quiet cup of tea with your thoughts, a gentle swim or practising Pilates, these are all part and parcel of a healthy and happy way of life! Having a massage soothes away the stresses of life and treatments for your hands and feet, dramatically improves the health and appearance of your nails. This ‘Me Time’, whatever activity, relaxation or leisure you do, is so absolutely crucial to your well-being and helps boost your confidence. So, please do take advantage of this special exclusive February discount as a Core Factor Pilates Member and book your treatment with The Beauty Lounge St Ives! They are conveniently located upstairs at One Leisure in St. Ives, Westwood Road. Appointments for men and women can be conveniently made 24/7 via their fabulous Web site with just a £1 deposit. https://www.thebeautyloungestives.co.uk When you visit, just mention ‘Pilates Liz and the February CORE FACTOR PILATES Member offer!’ and the 10% discount will be applied! Enjoy your time with The Beauty Lounge St Ives and I look forward to seeing you for more balancing of body and mind with #Pilates. #getthecorefactor #getthebeautyfactor #health #happiness #wellbeing #fitness #getoutside #balanceofbodyandmind #OriginalPilates #TheBeautyLoungeStIves #CoreFactorPilates

What a lovely event for the Victory Hall Committee to organise and it was such a wonderful atmosphere on the afternoon of 26th January! So many visitors through the doors all afternoon...hundreds! It was terrific! It was a privilege to be invited and to provide a presentation and demonstration of Original Pilates. It was great to see so many people and share in the celebration of such a fabulous facility on our doorstep. #lovewhereyoulive #supportlocalcommunity #supportlocalbusiness #getthecorefactor #PilatesLiz #originalPilates #Somersham

Another super week of 12 classes, fabulous 1-2-1 and lunchtime corporate sessions! Well done to you all! 🌟 I thought I’d share with you what I’ve been eating recently, which makes an incredibly satisfying breakfast or brunch...perfect for a lazy Saturday or Sunday... My husband, Barry, makes the most delicious hot crumpets, with bacon, avocodo, chilli and poached egg...My role in this, is creating the perfect poached egg every time! If you don’t want the meat, just ditch the bacon! Now, Jamie Oliver has pretty much taught me all I know on cooking and poaching eggs but I find that despite using super fresh and free-range egg, I do need more than use a pan of recently boiled water, to poach the perfect egg! So, here’s how to make this amazing crumpet feast; 🥑 Place 4 small cooking rings (3-3.5 inches in diameter) into a large, deep frying pan of water and boil. Then turn down to a very gentle simmer...you don’t want to see any bubbles as boiling water is just too hot! 🥑 Gently pan fry 2 rashers of good quality bacon Johnsons of Old Hurst. Do not brown or allow to crisp. Turn off the heat. 🥑 Remove the stalk end and carefully score and cut lengthways around a ripe avocado, feeling for the knife against the stone. Carefully remove the stone, pressing the knife edge in and with a gentle twist of the knife, the stone will detach. 🥑 Peel the avocado skin away from each half, place in a bowl flat side down and crush with a potato masher. 🥑 Blitz 3 small red Birdseye chillies 🌶 in a mini food processor or finely chop with a knife. 🥑 Trim the excess fat from the bacon rashers and remove just the main oval of bacon. Add the rasher lengths to the mini food prossesor and blitz together with the chilli. 🥑 Mix the blitzed bacon bits and chilli into the bowl of crushed avocado. 🥑 Then take 2 FRESH eggs from free-range ‘Happy Chickens’ please, crack each egg into a glass and then plop into a cooking ring in the simmering saucepan of water....and look away! (Get your supply from the happy hens at Colne Heath Farm, near the recycling centre 24/7 from the egg machines. There are now 3 sheds! 💕Just £2 for a dozen of the most amazingly delicious and super fresh eggs!) 🥑 In a little microwaveable bowl or cup, melt a knob of butter. 30 seconds should do it. 🥑 Toast 2 crumpets, plate and then drizzle the melted butter over each crumpet, so it oozes into the crumpet holes. 🥑 Keep an eye on your poaching eggs and be ready to turn off the heat just before they are done. You are looking for the whites to be cooked and the yolk to be done but not boiled. Poaching this way should take between 5-7 minutes only! Check by using a short pair of metal tongs, grabbing the cooking ring and gently moving just half an inch. The poached egg should move in tact with the ring. If it doesn’t, leave for another minute or two but watch. Turn off the heat and cover the saucepan with a lid. The eggs will still be poaching so don’t turn off the heat too late. 🥑 Then, using 2 dessert spoons, add a generous and thick amount (about an inch) of the avocado, bacon and chilli mix, onto each hot crumpet. Flatten down. 🥑 Then, with the metal tongs, remove each cooking ring leaving the eggs behind in the frying pan. 🥑 With a plastic slotted spoon, carefully manoeuvre the spoon underneath each egg and lift out carefully (it’ll be slippy!) Allow the excess water to drain for a couple of seconds and then place each egg carefully on top of each avocado layered crumpet, for the perfect crown! If making brunch, just double up the ingredients allowing 2 crumpets per person! Cut into the poached egg and quite simply, revel in this deliciousness! For all the latest news, class information, next course start dates, quips, pics, daily tips and much more, please ‘Like’ 👍🏼 the Core Factor Pilates Facebook page www.facebook.com/corefactorpilates or Follow on Twitter @PilatesLiz or Instagram corefactorpilates #Pilates #perfectbreakfast #perfectbrunch #perfectpoachedegg #getthecorefactor #eatwell #avocodo #corefactorpilates #crumpets #JohnsonsofOldhurst #freerangeeggs Elizabeth Reid - Member of FitProBackCare Professional Associate Member Level III Pilates Instructor  Proprietor, Core Factor Pilates Muddy Stilettos Awards Winner 2018 👠 M 07530 43 82 37 T  01487 843 477 E  pilatesliz@icloud.com www.corefactorpilates.co.uk www.facebook.com/corefactorpilates #@PilatesLiz Instagram corefactorpilates  Wix App http://wix.to/ZMC4AFA

Just to confirm that Core Factor Pilates classes resumed last night, kicking off with Somersham 6pm and 7:15pm classes! Also, due to the recent Christmas and New Year 2 week break, all classes this week, no matter what stage in the course your class was before Christmas, ALL CLASSES THIS WEEK will feel more like a MINUS WEEK 1! Ha ha! 😁 It is important to ease back into Pilates gently, so the focus is on stretching and lengthening with some gentle core strengthening. I’m also delighted to have my very own new Instructor leotards ready for this year, all superbly embroidered to an exceptional high standard by the fabulous Jack Hampson of Impressions Print and Label. I’m so thrilled we work together and very grateful for your support! It’s just brilliant to support local businesses. I’m also very much in love with my fabulous bling-tasting gold shimmery Spine Stretch mug you very kindly gave me for Christmas! 🎄 You’re not wrong...it is SOOOOoooo ME! Thank you so very much Impressions Print and Label for my wonderful and thoughtful gift! 🥰 Year 6 Anniversary snuggle blankets and Spine Stretch mugs are all done too! So these will be on their way to those who have been doing Pilates with me for 6 years or more and to those who recently placed their head on the floor during The Spine Stretch! So, I look forward to seeing you in class! Please ‘Like’ 👍🏼 the Facebook page for all the latest news, class information, quips, pics, top tips and much more! www.facebook.com/corefactorpilates #Pilates #2019classesstart #getthecorefactor #nootherPilatesInstructorlovesyoumore #SpineStretch

Diary of a Pilates Instructor...what I had for lunch yesterday! So, with the arrival of a New Year and January, so besets the need to cut back on those December over-indulgences, which we all deserve and need. It’s important to not cut out sugar or banish carbohydrates completely but remember to enjoy a balanced diet. Aim to reduce or half your usual intake. Just a little bit of preparation and forward planning means that you can cook from scratch more and rely less on processed and quick meals. Takeaways and short cut meals are of course to be enjoyed but not to be relied upon. Home cooking is wonderful for beating stress, knowing what goes in your food and helping you enjoy real, wholesome food. So, to perhaps inspire you, I want to share what I fervently enjoyed for lunch this Monday! ...Soup left over from my Sunday lunch and it’s utterly delicious! For the veggie option, just ditch the ham and corned beef, swapping the chicken stock cube for a vegetable one; it’s no issue and tastes equally divine! You can enjoy this as soup, or just some as a cooking sauce, which is fabulous with pasta or coat a fresh piece of fish or chicken fillet, cover with foil and oven bake. Here’s my recipe for Lentil, Ham and Courgette soup. Full of Vitamin C and packs a protein punch! Enjoy! Makes 6 servings! 🥒 Chop 1 white onion and pan fry with a little olive or vegetable oil. 🥒 Chop and divide 2 large courgettes as well as 3 garlic cloves and add to the pot. Add 2 kettles of recently boiled water (about 3 litres). 🥒 Peel and chop 1 carrot and 1 large potato, popping both in with a chicken stockcube and stir. 🥒 Allow to simmer for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally. 🥒 In a separate saucepan, simmer for 4 minutes, a can of pre-soaked lentils in their can water then thouroughly drain and wash through with some boiled water. Add 4/5 of the lentils to the pot and set the remaining 1/5 aside to be added to the soup later whole. 🥒 Throw in a cup full of frozen peas. 🥒 Slice and roughly chop 2 large slices of quality ham and one slice of corned beef (Johnsons of Old Hurst) and stir. 🥒 Then blitz with a handheld mixer until the pot contents are blended smoothly together. 🥒 Add another half kettle of recently boiled water and stir in gently, the set aside lentils, keeping them whole. 🥒 Leave to simmer for another 15 minutes and then serve, with half a slice of fresh bread or half a bread roll. Enjoy! ✨ Please ‘Like’ 👍🏼 the Facebook page for all the very latest news, class information, quips and pics, top tips and so much more, including this recipe! www.facebook.com/corefactorpilates #Pilates #Courgettes #Lentils #Ham #Soup #lunch #Januarymeals #nootherPilatesInstructorlovesyoumore #getthecorefactor #getthegoodlunchfactor

Pilates Ode to 2019 So, we’ve enjoyed the Christmas cheer, And welcomed in the New Year! Full of plans and hopes for what it brings, But oh how tight are our hamstrings? Christmas is a time for fun and jolly japes, But too much time sat still, just causes body aches, It’s great to lounge about for couple of weeks, But blimey, our joints are now full of creeks! All those festive parties, Really soothe the soul, Time to wind down is vital, But who’s back feels like a pole? When those clothes go on, And all feels tight, It’s just too distressing, When those trousers don’t fit right. But fret ye not, Pilates Liz has got a plan, To get you moving, I’m a Pilates fan! When you think, That you can no longer bend, Don’t worry, I’m here to be your flexible friend! We’ll strengthen and lengthen the muscles and rest, Then we’ll strengthen and lengthen some more, with focus and zest. We’ll do ‘The Side Kick’ and stretch the Sciatic Nerve, Three reps each leg please, performed with control and verve. We’ll practice ‘The Scissors’ and stretch the spine, You’ll soon be refreshed and Skip from classes just fine! So, be with me from the 7th to bend the knee and stretch the waist, Come join me in classes this week, come join me with haste! Searching for the answer to balance both body and mind, You need a professional Instructor, someone qualified and kind. So, who indeed has the answer? Could it possibly be Smarties? No, the truth’s not within a tube, It’s with Core Factor Pilates! ✨ Written by Elizabeth Reid 6th January 2019 #Pilates #getthecorefactor #Pilatesclassesresume #OriginalPilates

✨🎄✨ ...I seem to have got myself a little tangled, trying to sort out the Christmas lights... Have the most wonderful day. Eat, drink and be merry. With a whole lot of Lizzie love...enjoy your Christmas Day! #Pilates #OriginalPilates #PilatesLiz #getthecorefactor #Christmaslights