Rebuilding your strength after birth, from six weeks onwards, with teachers who understand what your body has been through.
Sadie is an excellent teacher and Pilates is the highlight of my week. I've never looked forward to exercise before but she's so warm and gentle, whilst making sure we're doing each movement right.
after birth, with healthcare provider clearance
small enough for your teacher to adapt to you
Pre and Post Natal Reformer
Pre and Post Natal Spring Wall
You do not need to arrive knowing what your pelvic floor is doing, or whether that separation has closed, or which exercises are safe yet. We have spent thirty years working with bodies after birth.
You turn up. We will see what your body needs that week and build from there.
Teaching it to release as well as lift, in time with your breath.
Leaking when you sneeze, cough or run
A heaviness or dragging feeling
Not quite trusting yourself on a trampoline
Rebuilding tension through the abdominal wall, in the right order.
Suitable if you have been told you have a separation
Helpful if you notice doming or a soft, unsupported feeling
We hold back on sit-ups and planks until your body is ready for them
Common is not the same as something you have to live with.
Feeding, changing, bending over a cot at 2am, the car seat always on the same side.
Neck and shoulder tension
Lower back ache
Giving that load somewhere better to go
Not for a number on a scale. For the things you actually do.
Lifting your baby out of the cot without bracing
Pushing a buggy uphill without your back complaining
Picking up a two year old who has decided, mid pavement, that walking is finished
You can begin postnatal Pilates in Leeds from six weeks after birth, once your healthcare provider has cleared you to exercise. That clearance matters more if you had a caesarean, a difficult delivery or any repair work.
There is no window you have missed. We see women at eight weeks and women at eighteen months. If your youngest is three and you have never properly rebuilt, you belong here too.
Small enough that your teacher can see your body and change what you are doing the moment it needs changing.
The equipment gives us support and adjustable resistance, so we can assist where you need it and challenge where you are ready.
No mirror wall. Everyone in the room is somewhere in the same season. If today is a tired day, we work with the body that turned up.
Sadie teaches our pre and postnatal classes. She is Polestar trained, a nurse and a mum of three, so she knows this territory from the inside.
Every teacher here trains through Polestar: six months of in person training, then six months of supervised apprentice teaching, logged and checked by an educator. There is no legislation in our profession and anyone can call themselves a Pilates teacher, which is exactly why we tell you what is behind the person in the room with you.
Six weeks in, five months in, not sleeping, wondering whether that feeling is normal. Very often the conversation in the doorway afterwards is worth as much as the hour itself.
We have watched friendships start here that have lasted years. That is not something we designed. It just happens.
No. Plenty of the women here started after having a baby. No habits to undo, just a body ready to learn.
You are very welcome. Get clearance from your healthcare provider first, then tell your teacher before class so she can work differently with you around the scar and deep abdominal wall.
Tuesdays 5.30pm on the Reformer, Thursdays 6.30pm on the Spring Wall.
Eight spaces in each.
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