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229. The Glow-Up You Didn't Know You Needed: Reformer Pilates at Home with Emma · She Rises with Ashy & Tijana

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Speaker 1: Apodje Production.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the She Rises Podcast. I'm Ashi and I'm Tiana.
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Speaker 2: This podcast is about female empowerment.
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Speaker 3: And encouraging you to be your biggest, boldest, and most
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Speaker 3: authentic version of yourself.
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Speaker 2: We help you shed the shame, grow to a new level.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna laugh, cry, and talk about the topics everyone
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Speaker 2: else is too afraid to talk about.
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Speaker 1: Get ready for your next level of self.
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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, welcome back to she Rises. Today. We have
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Speaker 2: a really cool episode, don't we It's really about building
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Speaker 2: a business. It's about women not feeling guilty for taking
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Speaker 2: just thirteen minutes for themselves and also the power of
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Speaker 2: Polarates Reformer. Now, we have a very special guest on Emma.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the podcast.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 2: Before we get started, though, we always ask our guests
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Speaker 2: and we always do a Share of the Week every
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Speaker 2: single Monday, so we'd love for you to share something
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Speaker 2: you recommend. It could be a product, it could be
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Speaker 2: a new move in Polarates, it could be a restaurant,
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Speaker 2: a TV show, a movie. Hey, literally anything.
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Speaker 4: So this is going to seem a little left field
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Speaker 4: perhaps and a bit woo wearry, but I've actually just
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Speaker 4: started hypnotherapy.
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Speaker 2: Cool.
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Speaker 1: So I did my first session via zoom.
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Speaker 4: Actually last week and it was incredible, tears streaming down
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Speaker 4: my face by the end of it. That really profound,
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Speaker 4: and I really enjoyed it. So I'm leaning into it.
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Speaker 4: I actually would recommend it for anyone if you're open
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Speaker 4: minded and you like that kind of thing to find.
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Speaker 4: You know, you're struggling with something that's been consistent for me,
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Speaker 4: It's anxiety. It's always been something I've been there for
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Speaker 4: a good twenty years as long as I can remember. So, yeah,
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Speaker 4: hypnotherapy is my new thing.
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Speaker 2: That's not that we were at all. It's right up Owley.
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Speaker 2: We wanted to try that emdrant that yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
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Speaker 2: It looks intense.
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Speaker 3: I've seen some videos of people do it and it
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Speaker 3: seems intense, but obviously very good because you just go
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Speaker 3: through the one session and you can just release and.
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Speaker 2: Finally you can choose one traumatic event and work through
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Speaker 2: it just in one session. I love Wow, any healing modalities.
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Speaker 2: I'm always Yeah, we love that. Were before we get
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Speaker 2: into it, do you want to give us a little
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Speaker 2: nutshell of who you are, what you do, and what
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Speaker 2: we're going to be talking about today with you. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Sure, So, as you said, my name is Emma. I'm
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Speaker 4: the founder of your Reformer. We are a Reformer plarti's
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Speaker 4: retailer in both the home market as well as B
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Speaker 4: to b's, so seeing our beautiful reformers in your home
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Speaker 4: as well as across studios and gyms. We're about the
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Speaker 4: full solutions. So we're really about making Reformer plarties more
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Speaker 4: accessible global. We are a global company now, which is
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Speaker 4: just a pinch me moment in itself. After four years,
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Speaker 4: it's been a ride, and I'm sure we'll talk about
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Speaker 4: that today. Yeah, So about making it more accessible and
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Speaker 4: just I'm very passionate about the modality itself and how
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Speaker 4: amazing it is for such a broad range of people.
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Speaker 4: I think there's a place that Reformer plays in each
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Speaker 4: season of your life, women and men.
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Speaker 1: So just really.
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Speaker 4: About people understanding and then realizing the benefits and ultimately
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Speaker 4: improving their quality of life.
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Speaker 2: I absolutely love that. And was there a pivotal moment
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Speaker 2: where you were injured or postpartum oil something happened You're like,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to give Applati Reformer a go, And was
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Speaker 2: it from that moment you were absolutely obsessed or tell
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Speaker 2: us your journey with reform and machines.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so mine was fertility.
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Speaker 4: So I was your typical ti Pai personality going really hard.
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Speaker 4: So prior to the sessions, owned a chain of gyms,
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Speaker 4: get out, you know, around the pas on the foot path,
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Speaker 4: hit training. If I didn't sweat, it was a waste
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Speaker 4: of time. Wasn't working. Yeah, So all those things, and
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Speaker 4: ultimately my cortisol was just constantly like chronic stress, whether
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Speaker 4: that was physiological or you know, what was happening with
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Speaker 4: me mentally, work wise or life wise. So got recommended
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Speaker 4: to stop that and essentially try some more lower impact.
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Speaker 4: Feminine energy movement was what I was told. I wouldn't
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Speaker 4: say it's feminine energy pilarates, but certainly I think from
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Speaker 4: the outside, if you haven't done it, that is the
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Speaker 4: impression that you get from the modality. So I was
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Speaker 4: going through IVF, and I think when you go through
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Speaker 4: a process like that, when you really want to become
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Speaker 4: a mum, you'll do anything and everything that anyone sort
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Speaker 4: of suggests. But I think what I've learned was really
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Speaker 4: about AKA finding what resonated with me, what felt right
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Speaker 4: for me, and kind of being in tune with the
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Speaker 4: connection between mind and body, and so I really leant
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Speaker 4: into it. I you know, went so far as I
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Speaker 4: was like, I love this, I'm going to become an instructor.
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Speaker 4: We implement it in our clubs. I got to kind
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Speaker 4: of really connect with the stories that our members were
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Speaker 4: sharing with me when they were trying pilarates. And I
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Speaker 4: was lucky enough to fell pregnant in the next cycle,
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Speaker 4: so we took a year off, and I know, I
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Speaker 4: found pilates and changed the way I moved and.
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Speaker 1: Balanced and yeah, felt pregnant. Had my sons, so so beautiful.
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Speaker 2: How is your son now? Hit out my mouth.
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Speaker 1: He's seven, He's nearly eight. So I've got two boys now.
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Speaker 4: So body was IVF and then Noah was natural to
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Speaker 4: continue the polarates and that change, and then was you know,
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Speaker 4: that very common story. I think you're hear when you
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Speaker 4: know you've gone through that journey and made the changes
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Speaker 4: that needed to happen, that was just the catalyst.
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Speaker 2: You're right, it's such a common thing for women, and
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Speaker 2: I've been through it too. Before kids, I was like
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Speaker 2: hit and training so hard and training twice a day
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Speaker 2: and just smashing and bashing my body and you can
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Speaker 2: do it up until a point where there's injuries, there's burnout,
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Speaker 2: your hormones are fucked, like, gets to a point where
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Speaker 2: you have to pull things back, and so many natural
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Speaker 2: paths and people suggest switching to polarates because it is
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Speaker 2: it's still an amazing workout, but it doesn't have that
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Speaker 2: impact on your body and the stress and your body
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Speaker 2: like a hit session. Not at all.
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Speaker 1: That was what I found from it.
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Speaker 4: It was, you know, I was still able to walk
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Speaker 4: away going I feel like I've worked, yes, and so
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Speaker 4: you still feel empowered and challenged, but you know what
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Speaker 4: was happening behind the scenes. You know that it was
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Speaker 4: low in pact. The body wasn't so it as you know,
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Speaker 4: getting smashed in the gym.
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Speaker 3: In the same way, I feel like Pilartes's Reformer is
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Speaker 3: kind of you know, trending a little bit and everybody's
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Speaker 3: like getting into pilates. But do you think there's a
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Speaker 3: difference between the way that people depict what pilates is
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Speaker 3: in terms of you know, going and getting my macha
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Speaker 3: and wearing my active way versus the actual movement, Like
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Speaker 3: what do you feel like the differences.
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Speaker 4: Between oh, this is such a hot topic intent. Yea,
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Speaker 4: is it just a trend now be around? You know,
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Speaker 4: I think people don't realize Plati's has actually been around
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Speaker 4: for over.
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Speaker 1: One hundred years.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's epic.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an evolving modality I think. I mean, Pilates
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Speaker 4: has a number of apparatus that fall under the spectrum
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Speaker 4: of Pilates. Reformer is one, and that's the one we've
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Speaker 4: chosen to lean into because we love the variety that
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Speaker 4: it can provide and the inclusivity it can give to
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Speaker 4: those who might be you know, mobility is a challenge.
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Speaker 4: Perhaps they don't have to get up and down off
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Speaker 4: the floor, so it can kind of really be accessible
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Speaker 4: for them, just as one example. But yes, I mean
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Speaker 4: from a media or so social media perspective, you've definitely
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Speaker 4: got the Polarates princesses that's there, and you.
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Speaker 1: Know we lean into that as well.
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Speaker 4: It's a bit of fun and you know, I think
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Speaker 4: our transposts are about coffee and polarates and in which
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Speaker 4: way that kind of goes hand in hand. But really
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Speaker 4: I think as we keep learning about the science, and
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Speaker 4: particularly women being in science studies now, so that we
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Speaker 4: know more about hormones and the body and how it
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Speaker 4: differs to men and how we have different stages in
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Speaker 4: our life. I think that's really where performer plarities, all
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Speaker 4: low impact training like that and strength training has come
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Speaker 4: about to kind of be the solution to what women,
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Speaker 4: as an example, are needing throughout their life to I guess,
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Speaker 4: have life longevity, which is obviously something that we're very
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Speaker 4: focused on as well. So you know, I think it's
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Speaker 4: a prevalent modality a because it's aligned to the science
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Speaker 4: and what we're learning. But be it's got variety, it's
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Speaker 4: an empowering movement. It's fun when you're in groups sessions,
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Speaker 4: You've got the music and everything, and it's low impact
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Speaker 4: so you can show up and do it every day
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Speaker 4: if it's something that you love, and ultimately we're just
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Speaker 4: trying to get people moving.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I love that. I would love to talk about
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Speaker 2: postpartum as you're a mom. I'm a mom of two
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Speaker 2: kids as well, and gosh, the difference of baby number
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Speaker 2: one baby number two in my recovery world's apart, I
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Speaker 2: tour with both of them, had very big babies for
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Speaker 2: both of them, but looking time round, I worked with
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Speaker 2: a plarates reformer instructor and she was also a women's physio,
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Speaker 2: so not only did she get to check me internally,
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Speaker 2: but for the first four months postpartum, all I did
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Speaker 2: was Plartes Reformer and what it did for my core
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Speaker 2: internally and my recovery. I can't even tell you, like
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Speaker 2: world's apart. If it's one piece of advice after a baby,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, get up a reformer machine or work with
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Speaker 2: a Plarates reformer, like go to the classes because that
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Speaker 2: was just game changing for my recovery. Could you talk
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Speaker 2: more about the science behind that or sure, I'm not
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Speaker 2: the only one that's experienced like the benefits of Plarti's
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Speaker 2: Reformer postpartum.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean, firstly, I think the thing with Reformer is
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Speaker 4: that it is one of those exercises that's very adaptable,
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Speaker 4: So you know, when you think about trying to ease
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Speaker 4: back into it and tailor it to the way that
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Speaker 4: your body is rebuilding in strengths and changes, which is different.
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Speaker 4: Every pregnancy journey is unique, and your body, you know,
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Speaker 4: as you've said, will have been one way in the
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Speaker 4: first after your first child, will be different after your second.
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Speaker 4: You're older, you know, all of those things that sort
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Speaker 4: of come into it.
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Speaker 1: And so it's really adaptable.
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Speaker 4: To be able to kind of take you where you
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Speaker 4: are now to where you want to be strength wise,
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Speaker 4: and the fundamentals of pilates is focusing on core and stability.
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Speaker 4: And you know, if you think about as a woman
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Speaker 4: in pregnancy, you know, the belly expands, so your abdominals
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Speaker 4: are getting stretched and losing strength. Then the relaxing that's
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Speaker 4: throughout the body, you know, your hips, everything like that
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Speaker 4: kind of you know, the stability reduces and it takes
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Speaker 4: quite some time to build it back up, and so
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Speaker 4: you need to kind of really port it to focus
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Speaker 4: on the internal the pelvic flora as well as the
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Speaker 4: core and stability. You know, especially when functionally you're lifting
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Speaker 4: a baby, you might be breastfeeding or bottle feeding, so
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Speaker 4: you've got that kind of hunch.
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Speaker 1: For where you know, we need to bring that posture back.
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Speaker 4: And then I think just also the element of losing
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Speaker 4: your independence or losing that time for you and that's
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Speaker 4: really important so you can then show up as mum
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Speaker 4: in a time that's the biggest change in your life,
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Speaker 4: really having a new baby. So being at a carve
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Speaker 4: out those moments where you can give back to your
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Speaker 4: body and your mind and rebuild your confidence in yourself
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Speaker 4: and your body in what your body now is. It
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Speaker 4: sort of ticks all of those different boxes, and so
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Speaker 4: for that reason, I think it's one of the best
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Speaker 4: things you can do for yourself postpartum.
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Speaker 2: I know you speak a lot about how thirty minutes
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Speaker 2: is enough, like just to take out thirty minutes and
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Speaker 2: not feel guilty about it, And definitely I found thirty
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Speaker 2: minute class of reform is more than enough. It can
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Speaker 2: be so challenging. Can you talk more about why you
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Speaker 2: think that thirty minutes is more than enough?
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Speaker 4: I mean exactly, so we can be very tailored in
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Speaker 4: a program, and I think as much as it would
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Speaker 4: be amazing to do a full hour and what we
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Speaker 4: could cover in a full hour, the reality of the
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Speaker 4: time that we have we're getting pulled in all sorts
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Speaker 4: of different directions priorities.
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Speaker 1: It's just not there.
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Speaker 4: And it could be the difference between well, I don't
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Speaker 4: have time to do that, so I'm not even going
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Speaker 4: to try, versus well, I've got twenty minutes. I can
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Speaker 4: absolutely do that, and then I can build upon that.
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Speaker 4: And really it's about consistency. So I often got the
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Speaker 4: question when we had our studios around how often should
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Speaker 4: I be doing this? And I said, it's not about
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Speaker 4: how often, it's actually about how consistent you can be.
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Speaker 1: So if you can give it two.
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Speaker 4: Times a week, but you know you can do that ongoing,
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Speaker 4: then you're going to see results versus I'm going to
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Speaker 4: do five times this week, I'm going to go hard,
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Speaker 4: and then I don't get to it for the next
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Speaker 4: two weeks because that's not.
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Speaker 1: Sustainable for me.
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Speaker 4: So on the reformer, you know we can be doing
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Speaker 4: an exercise that's touching legs, arms, abdominals and backball in
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Speaker 4: the one.
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Speaker 2: So true.
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Speaker 4: So the efficiency of what you can do in the
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Speaker 4: exercises where we can go right, if we've only got
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Speaker 4: twenty minutes, we've only got thirty minutes.
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Speaker 1: We can absolutely make that valuable.
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Speaker 2: The way it hits your deeper core muscles too, Like
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Speaker 2: I can't do that in weights. Such a different type
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Speaker 2: of workout, isn't it. Yeah, I mean you're doing hundreds.
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Speaker 4: You can do that for ten seconds and sort of
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Speaker 4: be like I'm done.
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Speaker 2: It's so true. Definitely just hits in a different way,
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Speaker 2: doesn't it does. It's so interesting.
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Speaker 3: I would love to hear a little bit about you know,
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Speaker 3: I know you mentioned before, like you know, in the beginning,
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Speaker 3: when you first started, you know, you had that increase
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Speaker 3: of quartersol.
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Speaker 2: Everything that you're doing.
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Speaker 3: Was like smash and dash kind of like energy and
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Speaker 3: you know, stepping into that more feminine energy whilst doing
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Speaker 3: Plarti's Reformer for like a woman, like these days, everyone's
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Speaker 3: so busy, so stressed, nervous system is disregulated as hell?
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Speaker 3: Why is something like Pallarti's Reformer more beneficial for somebody
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Speaker 3: who does have a dysregulated nervous system, like a busy
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Speaker 3: mum or a business owner, Like why would that be
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Speaker 3: the thing that they go, Yes, this is something you
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Speaker 3: should implement because it's going to benefit you.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's a mindfulness movement. So I
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Speaker 4: think a lot of people struggle, and myself included, to
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Speaker 4: actually be disciplined to sit and do mindfulness like breath
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Speaker 4: work or meditation. But I love moving my body and
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Speaker 4: I feel like I'm ticking off multiple things in the
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Speaker 4: one efficiency and productivity to be able to come to
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Speaker 4: the reformer, And really there's nothing you can think of.
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Speaker 4: You don't have the capacity to think about anything other
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Speaker 4: than connecting the breath with the movement, wear your hands
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Speaker 4: on legs, what they're doing. You know, you're so focused
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Speaker 4: on how you're feeling and how you're moving that you're
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Speaker 4: so present, right, So you're getting this mindfulness period whilst
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Speaker 4: you're doing this movement that benefits ongoing even past that
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Speaker 4: twenty thirty minutes that you're spending on the reformer. And
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Speaker 4: then secondly, the movement's low impact, so it's not putting
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Speaker 4: the pressure on the joints. You're not getting your heart
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Speaker 4: rate to the same level you are when you're peeking
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Speaker 4: and hit and things like that, so you're not sending
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Speaker 4: the same messages to the brain that is like I'm
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Speaker 4: in danger.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, what that's doing. I love what you said
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Speaker 2: about the breath because it really is like I haven't
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Speaker 2: done a lot of polarates reformers, but but yeah, the
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Speaker 2: breath through the movement, it just helps you control it
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Speaker 2: more too. So that's why I feel like there's just
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Speaker 2: no injuries when it comes to Plarti's reformer because you're
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Speaker 2: really in control and you're moving with your breath, and
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Speaker 2: then it helps you connect to your bodies. I can
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Speaker 2: see where you say it's more of a feminine type
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Speaker 2: of exercise as well, which is really beautiful, and I
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Speaker 2: think a lot of women are needing more of that.
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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, I feel like a lot of women are
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Speaker 3: really disconnected from their feminine bodies, especially because we are
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Speaker 3: so busy huzzle culture, responsibilities, hustle culture.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it does.
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Speaker 3: It impacts our ability to drop into that feminine energy
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Speaker 3: because we're so in our masculine all of the time.
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Speaker 3: And I know, for me, when I do things like this,
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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my gosh, I can listen to my body,
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Speaker 3: I can hear the cues, i can feel where it's
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Speaker 3: tight in my body, and it's just like so beautiful
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Speaker 3: as a woman to be able to drop into that energy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: My next question for you is, I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of people are resistant to go to Ploti's Reformer classes
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Speaker 2: because of the price. Some classes can be up to
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Speaker 2: like sixty dollars for one session, So for a lot
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Speaker 2: of people, it's like, oh, I can't afford that. And
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Speaker 2: that's why I love that we've got one at home now,
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Speaker 2: because it's like I can literally incorporate this into my
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Speaker 2: routine as much or as little as they want, and
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Speaker 2: it's there for life. But I think that's why there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of resistances because it's so expensive. So why
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Speaker 2: do you think it is so expensive to go to
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Speaker 2: a class?
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean they've only got a certain amount of
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Speaker 4: time in the day where they can you know, charge
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Speaker 4: for their business.
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Speaker 1: Right, so they might only have ten reformers. That's ten people.
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Speaker 4: How they've got, you know, a very highly trained instructor
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Speaker 4: who are deservingly being paid well and all the other
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Speaker 4: overheads that happen with the bricks and water business.
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't necessarily.
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Speaker 4: Realize the costs involved in delivering a great class. Now,
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Speaker 4: there's a lot of great things about going to an
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Speaker 4: in person class, but it's rigid in a sense that
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Speaker 4: you have to be that at.
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Speaker 1: A certain time.
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Speaker 4: You don't get choice around what you're actually doing in
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Speaker 4: that class. If you're five ten minutes late, sorry, you've
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Speaker 4: missed it. And then you've got the commute there and
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Speaker 4: coming in going and you've got the cost which necessarily
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Speaker 4: available for everyone. And then I think there's another barrier,
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Speaker 4: which could be that if you're new or like I
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Speaker 4: know anecdotally from a lot of our customers, their partners
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Speaker 4: for example, like men starting to see the benefit you know,
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Speaker 4: getting interested in reformer plarties, but think I'm not going
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Speaker 4: to rock up to a studio where I'm going to
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Speaker 4: because my legs are going in straps and I don't
16:26
Speaker 4: know what I'm doing, you know, legs spread.
16:30
Speaker 2: The vision I just got my husband is like spread
16:33
Speaker 2: at home just for the Instagram video.
16:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they've seen those Instagram videos right where they're
16:39
Speaker 4: shaking like leaves, and so do we want to look
16:42
Speaker 4: like that in kind of strangers?
16:43
Speaker 1: I don't know.
16:44
Speaker 4: So you know, having it at home again gives that
16:46
Speaker 4: benefit of that barriers removed because they're in the privacy
16:50
Speaker 4: and no one's watching or judging and they can take
16:52
Speaker 4: it in their own time and stride. But ultimately, like
16:55
Speaker 4: we are about accessibilities, so you know, there are good
16:59
Speaker 4: options for those that don't want to skimp on their
17:03
Speaker 4: wellness and the movement that they love, but are struggling
17:07
Speaker 4: to keep up with the costs of studio classes all
17:09
Speaker 4: can't get in because they waitlisted and you know all
17:11
Speaker 4: those sort of reasons.
17:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, Saystown a gym many years ago and we had
17:15
Speaker 2: a reform ut room. The girls absolutely loved it. It
17:19
Speaker 2: was so popular, but once again, we only had six
17:21
Speaker 2: reformers in there. So it was one of our biggest
17:23
Speaker 2: complaints is they could never get into the reformer classes
17:25
Speaker 2: because we couldn't have any more in there. And it does.
17:28
Speaker 3: I feel like it removes the barrier to entry as
17:30
Speaker 3: well when you have the reformer at home, because like
17:32
Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about driving there or going
17:34
Speaker 3: there or you know, planning something, especially if you do
17:36
Speaker 3: have children at home as well, you need somebody to
17:38
Speaker 3: look after the kids or if your partner can look
17:40
Speaker 3: after them, and that accessibility like puts a barrier between
17:43
Speaker 3: you and doing something that one is either a hobby,
17:45
Speaker 3: something that makes you feel good, or is that is
17:47
Speaker 3: just for you, that is for nobody else.
17:49
Speaker 2: And you've got more timeslots when your baby nabs or
17:51
Speaker 2: they go to bed at night or get up early.
17:53
Speaker 2: It's just there. You don't have to drive anywhere. It's
17:55
Speaker 2: like literally a mil oh so handy. I would love
17:58
Speaker 2: to know your thoughts on or the difference in what
18:02
Speaker 2: you think like Matt Plarates compared to row Former benefits
18:06
Speaker 2: pro cons.
18:07
Speaker 4: Both are amazing. Obviously, Matt is if you don't have
18:10
Speaker 4: access to a reformer, not everyone does. Like the MAT
18:12
Speaker 4: can be anywhere, right, So you know, often when I travel,
18:16
Speaker 4: you know, gosh, I would love the hotels that I
18:17
Speaker 4: travel in.
18:18
Speaker 1: To have one of that reformers. We'll work on that.
18:20
Speaker 4: We're working on that, but you know they don't so
18:23
Speaker 4: roll out of mat or use the floor in my
18:25
Speaker 4: room and do some mat pilarates. But what a lot
18:28
Speaker 4: of people don't realize is that matt pilot is this
18:31
Speaker 4: really challenging. So one of the benefits of Reformer is
18:35
Speaker 4: that it makes it more accessible. So with the springs,
18:39
Speaker 4: it can actually make an exercise more doable for someone
18:41
Speaker 4: who's more of a beginner. So actually some of the
18:45
Speaker 4: advanced exercises on the mat, the reformer was designed to
18:48
Speaker 4: build up the strengths to be able to progress to
18:51
Speaker 4: them doing it on the mat. Interestingly, it's definitely nothing
18:55
Speaker 4: to be kind of scoffed out. It is an intense
18:59
Speaker 4: workout on the mat, but in something that as well
19:01
Speaker 4: like and I'm obviously biased, but I just find the
19:04
Speaker 4: variety on the Reformer is something that I can't get
19:07
Speaker 4: the same on the mat as well, and I love
19:09
Speaker 4: variety of Like my brain keeps getting challenged and progressed,
19:14
Speaker 4: and that's why I keep coming back to the reformer too.
19:16
Speaker 2: And if someone was to purchase a Politis reforming machine
19:19
Speaker 2: from you, is there like a website where they can
19:21
Speaker 2: watch classes and do it from home as well.
19:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got an app.
19:25
Speaker 2: Okay, cools got an app.
19:27
Speaker 4: We've got over a thousand classes on there. Now, we
19:30
Speaker 4: got content every week, fitness challenges every month. Oh my gosh,
19:35
Speaker 4: I programs to stop. Oh yeah, you've got everything.
19:39
Speaker 2: You need over a thousand. So if I was like,
19:41
Speaker 2: oh today I want to work my core, I could
19:43
Speaker 2: literally gold and find a core Polates Reformer work out
19:45
Speaker 2: push playing off. I go, yep, oh there you go.
19:48
Speaker 2: That's a dream. That's crazy. And yeah, my husband literally
19:51
Speaker 2: did a session with his trainer last week and because
19:53
Speaker 2: he's got a shoulder injury and he's put him on
19:54
Speaker 2: the Plati's reform machine and he said he felt made.
19:56
Speaker 2: It was challenging, but he's like, I felt really really
19:58
Speaker 2: good to still be able to exercise and not aggravated.
20:01
Speaker 2: I actually know that I'm working towards healing it as well.
20:03
Speaker 2: That's amazing. Yeah, yeah, really really cool. Okay, I would
20:06
Speaker 2: love to talk about the physical results from polates because
20:09
Speaker 2: I know everyone's like oh Polarti apps and Polarti arms,
20:12
Speaker 2: but like you look at girls do Plartis, they have
20:14
Speaker 2: incredible figures. Did you find you had quite a transformation
20:18
Speaker 2: in your body going from the hit style and smashing
20:20
Speaker 2: and bashing your body running the pavements, as you'd say
20:23
Speaker 2: to pilates, like, how did you find your body transformed?
20:26
Speaker 1: Definitely?
20:27
Speaker 4: I definitely noticed a different shape in my body, and
20:31
Speaker 4: with that came more confidence in my body, you know,
20:33
Speaker 4: and in the clothes that I wear and how I
20:35
Speaker 4: show up in my just style as a person. So
20:40
Speaker 4: you know, coming into this business where I need to
20:43
Speaker 4: be public facing, you know, being able to win legings
20:47
Speaker 4: and a corrop top in videos and so forth. At times,
20:51
Speaker 4: you know, I felt confident going there because I'd been
20:53
Speaker 4: doing the pilates and it really is.
20:55
Speaker 1: Yes, it's about.
20:56
Speaker 4: Core, but core is torso glutes legs, Like it really is.
21:01
Speaker 4: If I come back to that consistency piece, when you're consistent,
21:04
Speaker 4: you will notice the difference, you know, and fairly quickly too.
21:08
Speaker 4: So Yeah, we often get people ask us, you know,
21:11
Speaker 4: I want to lose weight. I lose weight doing form
21:14
Speaker 4: the flats, and I say, well, the same thing you'd
21:18
Speaker 4: say about any kind of exercise. That's one element to it, right,
21:22
Speaker 4: you know, obviously there's what you're eating or drinking and
21:25
Speaker 4: putting into your body is part of that too, but yeah, absolutely,
21:28
Speaker 4: it's a full body workout, so yeah.
21:32
Speaker 2: Also good for flexibility. I remember when I go on
21:34
Speaker 2: there too, like I'll just put my feet in the
21:36
Speaker 2: straps and put my legs out to the side. It
21:38
Speaker 2: just like stretches my amperthise so much. I'm trying to
21:40
Speaker 2: get really good at my three splits, and that is
21:43
Speaker 2: just so good for stretching.
21:44
Speaker 4: Stretching, strengthening and lengthening, so you get the mobility and
21:48
Speaker 4: the strength side all in the one kind of focus.
21:52
Speaker 2: It's very interesting.
21:53
Speaker 3: I feel like I've seen a lot of women go
21:55
Speaker 3: from kind of this culture of like training like men
21:58
Speaker 3: in the gym, a crossfity almost no, yeah, crossfitty too,
22:01
Speaker 3: but also weight training, and then transitioning into something like
22:05
Speaker 3: polarates reformer and transitioning in how they're feel in themselves,
22:09
Speaker 3: that more feminine energy that you were mentioning as well.
22:11
Speaker 3: I feel like there's definitely been a huge transition of
22:13
Speaker 3: women wanting to do more things that really benefit them
22:16
Speaker 3: more us to see yeah, instead of like actually stressing
22:19
Speaker 3: their body out more.
22:21
Speaker 2: Me too, I'm here for that. Hope it days.
22:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean strength training is really important of course,
22:27
Speaker 4: yeah for women, But I think Reformer Polarates has such
22:30
Speaker 4: a huge place to play. And we've just dropped content
22:32
Speaker 4: that actually incorporates strength with Reformer, so sort of showing
22:36
Speaker 4: how you can use Reformer in a progressive strength building
22:40
Speaker 4: way or then how do you incorporate you know, some
22:43
Speaker 4: weight training with your reformer as well, and how they
22:46
Speaker 4: can kind of really complement. We've got high Rocks complimentary,
22:51
Speaker 4: so you know, like there's so many ways that it
22:54
Speaker 4: just Reformer parties and Polarates in general can show up,
22:56
Speaker 4: like I said, to each season or stage or focus.
23:00
Speaker 2: That's so cool. So how long have you been doing
23:01
Speaker 2: Reform polarties for now?
23:03
Speaker 1: Ten or eleven years?
23:04
Speaker 2: That's impressive, that's very nice. And you said you're a
23:07
Speaker 2: global company in our congratulations amazing, incredible. Absolutely, So you're
23:13
Speaker 2: providing to gyms, providing to homes. Who else are you're
23:16
Speaker 2: providing to?
23:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I mean studios, gym hospitality, corporate wellness. That's
23:22
Speaker 4: from a B to B standpoint, we sort of separate it.
23:25
Speaker 4: That's very much global, So we have a large group
23:27
Speaker 4: of customers now across the UK and Europe and EMEA,
23:31
Speaker 4: which is sort of Middle East and South Africa included
23:34
Speaker 4: in there. From a home perspective, Australia, New Zealand and
23:38
Speaker 4: the US, this is where it's at for now. We're
23:41
Speaker 4: very much a high touch model, so it's really important
23:44
Speaker 4: about the service that we're delivering to our customers, and
23:46
Speaker 4: that includes the actual delivery of their reformers and the
23:49
Speaker 4: setup of it in their homes. So we make sure
23:52
Speaker 4: like majority of the delivery team are all our employees
23:56
Speaker 4: across those countries so that we can ensure that you know,
23:59
Speaker 4: really sometimes that's the only face to face interaction we
24:02
Speaker 4: actually get with our customer being an e comm business,
24:05
Speaker 4: So yeah, super important to continue to invest in that
24:08
Speaker 4: team and that solution. So we'll take our time as
24:11
Speaker 4: we continue to expand the home market.
24:13
Speaker 2: But yeah, big business. That's incredible. And when I went
24:17
Speaker 2: online to pick my reformat, there was a couple of options.
24:20
Speaker 2: Could you go over the difference between them, because I
24:23
Speaker 2: think if our audience is listening, it's like, oh my gosh,
24:25
Speaker 2: you want to get one of these. There's three different
24:27
Speaker 2: types and what would the between them.
24:30
Speaker 4: So there's the original, the original folding, and the studio.
24:33
Speaker 4: So the studio is our commercial grades, like you want
24:36
Speaker 4: the top of the top, that's the one that's the
24:38
Speaker 4: one we sell into commercial business too. Then the original
24:42
Speaker 4: and the folding only vary based on whether it's can
24:46
Speaker 4: folding half essentially, so they're what we call light commercials.
24:50
Speaker 4: So something that was really important to us, particularly with
24:53
Speaker 4: our background of owning gyms, is that the quality of
24:57
Speaker 4: our reformers was of a really high level.
25:00
Speaker 1: We wanted to be known for that.
25:01
Speaker 4: Affordable luxury is what we say is part of our
25:05
Speaker 4: business or our business model, what our customers want to
25:07
Speaker 4: think about for us. So you know, the foot bar
25:10
Speaker 4: and the springs and the kind of key things that
25:13
Speaker 4: make the function of the reformer amazing are all very similar.
25:17
Speaker 4: But of course people have inner city dwellings, they might
25:20
Speaker 4: be in apartments, they might not have the luxury of
25:23
Speaker 4: being able to have a studio at home or a
25:25
Speaker 4: spare room. So being able to fold in half and
25:29
Speaker 4: sort of tuck it away to the side so that
25:31
Speaker 4: you can have it in a multi purpose area again
25:34
Speaker 4: speaks to making it more accessible and still providing an
25:37
Speaker 4: option for someone warning to have Reformer at home.
25:40
Speaker 2: It's so aesthetic, so beautiful. The color this is muching
25:45
Speaker 2: my couching coman.
25:46
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I was like, this is definitely it so cool.
25:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love leaning into the colourways.
25:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's important. Thank you so much for joining us.
25:54
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm very very empowered and inspired to
25:58
Speaker 2: go home and use my Reformer. To know that there's
26:00
Speaker 2: a thousand classes, Like a thousand classes. I know that's incredible.
26:04
Speaker 2: Everyone know that.
26:04
Speaker 3: I I don't need to worry about what I have
26:07
Speaker 3: to do trying to like figure it out in my
26:10
Speaker 3: head of having to learn something new, Like I think
26:12
Speaker 3: that takes all of the stress out of it already
26:14
Speaker 3: because you're like, okay, it's done for me. All I
26:16
Speaker 3: have to do is show up. And I think that's
26:17
Speaker 3: such a beautiful thing about trying new things or doing
26:20
Speaker 3: like stepping into a new world like Polart's Reformer is
26:23
Speaker 3: because you don't have to get overwhelmed with doing anything yourself.
26:26
Speaker 3: It's literally all there for you. I think that's it.
26:28
Speaker 2: The last two times I went to book in to
26:30
Speaker 2: go with the girlfriend to Palati's Reform, it was booked
26:32
Speaker 2: out so I was on a waiting list, so I
26:34
Speaker 2: waited around Wokhart went to go and I couldn't get in.
26:36
Speaker 2: So it's just frustrated, as ah, I'm going to go back,
26:38
Speaker 2: but now I can just do it at home. Open
26:40
Speaker 2: up the app, and core is something that I really
26:42
Speaker 2: want to work on because I just want a stronger core,
26:44
Speaker 2: and you to take my back when I do heavier
26:46
Speaker 2: weights as well, because I do enjoy heavyweights the cause
26:48
Speaker 2: wanting to be a big focused me to know I
26:50
Speaker 2: can just go in there and find a ton of
26:51
Speaker 2: core workouts.
26:52
Speaker 4: I'm so excited to like incorporate this into my routine.
26:54
Speaker 4: So good, Actually you won't be able to avoid the core.
27:01
Speaker 2: No, so good.
27:03
Speaker 3: I would love to know, like if there was somebody
27:05
Speaker 3: who wanted to try this, but it was a little
27:08
Speaker 3: bit scared, a little bit nervous, or was like a
27:10
Speaker 3: little bit in her head about trying something new, feeling
27:13
Speaker 3: like oh but I'm too old or I'm to thisel scared,
27:17
Speaker 3: like any story that they may have, Like what would
27:19
Speaker 3: your best piece of advice for them be?
27:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think, as we mentioned before, like
27:24
Speaker 4: this is the best option in terms of you know,
27:28
Speaker 4: removing a lot of those reasons why you wouldn't start
27:32
Speaker 4: or try. We've got videos that literally handhold you all
27:36
Speaker 4: the way through, So how do you even orient the reformer?
27:39
Speaker 4: What's the footbar and how do you adjust that? How
27:41
Speaker 4: do you adjust the straps through to beginner classes or
27:45
Speaker 4: the way to progress? So you know, you really have
27:47
Speaker 4: everything you need and you've got the combination, and I
27:50
Speaker 4: think that's what a lot of the questions come about
27:52
Speaker 4: in terms of virtual and oh would it still be
27:55
Speaker 4: the same as if I've got an instructor? Is it safe?
27:58
Speaker 4: You've actually got two things, one of which you're missing
28:01
Speaker 4: when you're in person is that you don't have that
28:03
Speaker 4: visual representation to see what you should look like on
28:06
Speaker 4: the reformer, So you've actually got that, and then you've
28:09
Speaker 4: got the audio cues that you would generally get with
28:12
Speaker 4: an instructor in room with you. So you do have
28:15
Speaker 4: both elements to kind of give everything you need to
28:18
Speaker 4: give it a try. And we also have rental, so
28:21
Speaker 4: you know a lot of people like, oh, I don't
28:22
Speaker 4: want to invest, you can hire a reformer thirty nine
28:25
Speaker 4: a week, so literally a cost of maybe less than
28:27
Speaker 4: a class if it's going to your studio, actually for
28:29
Speaker 4: six thirty nine a week and do it as much
28:32
Speaker 4: as you want and see if it's for you.
28:34
Speaker 2: Wow, that's such a good option. I feel like you've
28:37
Speaker 2: got nothing to lose.
28:37
Speaker 3: Even if you wanted to like host an event or
28:39
Speaker 3: something like that, you wanted to pull out the class.
28:41
Speaker 3: Is that something that you would do as well? Or
28:43
Speaker 3: does that apply the same as doing it at home?
28:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
28:46
Speaker 4: You can reach out for events that might be running,
28:48
Speaker 4: and we can provide reformers and so for that's why
28:51
Speaker 4: we keep it as a rental fleet. We want to
28:52
Speaker 4: be able to have the reformers there and their commercial grade.
28:56
Speaker 4: They are what we sell to our businesses good. We
28:58
Speaker 4: want them to last the test of time. But yes,
29:01
Speaker 4: absolutely that's not time and so cool.
29:03
Speaker 2: Back on the question if someone was beginning, what would
29:06
Speaker 2: your professional advice be of? Like, okay, well, how many
29:09
Speaker 2: sessions should I do a week?
29:11
Speaker 3: Two?
29:11
Speaker 2: Three? Like? What would be your recommendation for an absolute beginner?
29:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think start with two three would be great,
29:17
Speaker 4: But two's enough to I guess, get the foundations and
29:20
Speaker 4: solidify the learnings. And I think it's just about don't rush,
29:24
Speaker 4: go slow to go fast. The foundations are key, and
29:28
Speaker 4: once you've got the foundations, then they translate really beautifully
29:32
Speaker 4: into the other movements that you can then layer upon
29:35
Speaker 4: and progress with. I think you mentioned earlier as year
29:39
Speaker 4: around like not going to you know, it's not a
29:40
Speaker 4: practice where you go very fast. Is it's about contrologies
29:44
Speaker 4: another terminology that's being used with it and is about
29:47
Speaker 4: slow and controlled, which again suits beautifully to beginners who
29:51
Speaker 4: you know need to.
29:52
Speaker 1: Learn the movement and the form to get the most.
29:55
Speaker 2: Out of it. So cool, stunning, very excited, get into it.
29:58
Speaker 2: Absolutely go home tomorrow. I'm like, that's it right now,
30:03
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Do you guys have an Instagram
30:06
Speaker 2: or website or where if anyone listening that wants to
30:08
Speaker 2: rent one or try one or buy one, where can
30:10
Speaker 2: they find you and connect with you? Ask any questions
30:13
Speaker 2: all of the above.
30:14
Speaker 4: Your Reformer dot com dot au is our website or
30:17
Speaker 4: on Instagram, it's a your Reformer follow us along.
30:20
Speaker 1: We'd love to hear.
30:21
Speaker 4: We've got a team that we invest very much in
30:24
Speaker 4: that high touch, so we've got a team here. If
30:25
Speaker 4: you've got any questions, you can just DM, email, webchat
30:29
Speaker 4: us and a real person is there responding to you.
30:32
Speaker 2: It's not a bot, yes, no.
30:34
Speaker 4: So yeah, we would just encourage you if you've got
30:36
Speaker 4: any questions, if you're curious, touch base on either of
30:39
Speaker 4: those platforms, and we'd love to continue the conversation.
30:42
Speaker 3: So good, so good, Thank you so much for everything
30:44
Speaker 3: today and just sharing a little bit more about yourself
30:47
Speaker 3: and your mission and why you do what you do.
30:49
Speaker 3: I think a lot of women at myself especially, would
30:51
Speaker 3: really benefit from doing more things that do drop me
30:53
Speaker 3: into my feminine energy, especially in such a very busy,
30:57
Speaker 3: over stimulated world like what we do. And I think
30:59
Speaker 3: we all could benefit so much more from really dropping
31:02
Speaker 3: into our bodies.
31:03
Speaker 2: So thank you for what you do.
31:04
Speaker 1: Thank you.
31:05
Speaker 2: It was great to chat all right, Emma. Thank you
31:07
Speaker 2: so much. And we'll see you guys on Wednesday. Yeah,
31:10
Speaker 2: we'll see you on Wednesday. Thanks. Bye bye,