Take your Pilates training to the next level with additional resistance using a Reformer.
The Reformer is a machine, like a sliding bed attached to springs, to provide a resistance. This adjustable resistance helps you to ‘reform’ muscular imbalances, tone, strengthen and lengthen the body without adding bulk, for a fantastic all over body workout. Arm and foot straps will give you a more dynamic targeted workout.
What sets the reformer apart from mat work is the opportunity to do footwork on the bar which is essential in this day and age. The foot is a complex structure of 26 bones, 33 joints, and is layered with an intertwining web of more than 120 muscles, ligaments and nerves. Many people suffer from foot pain related problems that start off with simple reasons, such as ill-fitting shoes, that force our feet into unnatural shapes.
Last updated July 7, 2016, 9:32 a.m. UTC
Mehret Hope founded Hope Pilates, based in the heart of South London, in May 2010. She teaches a variety of classes such as Mat and Reformer Pilates and Yoga, specialising in footwork and WRULDs injuries.
Having being diagnosed with Hypermobility, whilst also suffering from a work related injury, Mehret’s own firsthand experience of chronic pain has evolved her teaching methods to focus more on rehabilitation work and ‘real life’ mental and physical health problems. She qualified in CBT for Chronic Pain while working side by side with physiotherapists at Camden Physiotherapy and receiving mentoring from leading Hypermobility consultants and specialists.
And so Mehret began her mission to educate and empower others to transform their lives, just as she did.
What started with Pilates classes, soon evolved to incorporate other beneficial treatments such as the Pain Clinic, yoga, massage, dance and the newly offered Teacher Training.
