Suffolk Woman's Wellness Centre

Are you are woman who wants to feel confident about her body and the way it works? Would you like to work on your core and pelvic floor to ensure it is strong and supporting you to be able to live the life you want? Then join Coach and Midwife Nina Parnham who will guide you through 6 or 12 weeks of gentle restoration from the inside out. Suitable for all ages through all life phases including before childbirth, post-natal and the menopause. Holistic Core Restore® is THE most evidence-based, modern and effective system to enable you to feel connected to your body, strong and confident! We focus on more than exercise. Our program uses a whole approach to wellness, incorporating nutrition, mindset, bowel and bladder health, sleep hygiene and rest to support women to optimum health. Please join me and the other women who all have the same goals as you and want to be fitter and capable. No woman should feel that her body is limiting her from the life she loves to live.

Giving you the confidence to exercise safely with experience and knowledge that you can trust. Taught by Midwife and Pregnancy Exercise Specialist Nina Parnham. Suitable for all levels of fitness, no previous experience necessary. This Functional Pregnancy Exercise programme gets you strong for the life you lead and ready for your birth.

Core focus exercises are aimed at strengthening your core abdominals and pelvic floor but also improving general trunk strength, upper limb and lower limb strength. You will notice an improvement in the ‘connection’ to your core, and feel stronger, have more stability and have the ability to manage daily tasks with more ease. Come and join a small friendly class where you will be closely monitored by a women’s fitness professional, and meet other fitness minded women. The class involves exercises using the swiss ball, plus other stability equipment such as bosu balls and wobble boards throughout for total body muscle sculpting. This class continuously challenges participants with exercises that use either body weight only or dumbbells.

Barre class is a workout technique inspired by elements of ballet, yoga, and Pilates, that focuses on low-impact, high intensity movements designed to strengthen and tone your body. It is also designed to boost endurance, improve balance, increase range of motion, promote better posture, and help with weight management. You don’t need a dance background While this style of class is dance-inspired, ballet is by no means a prerequisite. Anyone can benefit from it. Barre classes are typically low impact and gentle on the joints. Plus, the moves can be modified to fit your strength and flexibility level. The great thing about this method is that it meets you where you are in life, whether you are recovering from an injury, bouncing back from a pregnancy, new to exercise, post menopause and want to project your bones, or just looking for a challenge.

All classes are interactive through the power of Zoom. You will need to register for a free online account beforehand to access the classes, which is simple. Find the link here https://zoom.us/ You will be able to see & hear me and Kerry......and we will be able to see and hear you! You can chose to turn your camera off if you prefer, but we won't be able to see you.

Gentle yoga-based exercises and stretches to prepare you for birth. As well as classic yoga poses, you’ll focus on positions for labour, breathing and relaxation techniques. The class is suitable for you from 12 weeks pregnant all the way until you give birth, regardless of your fitness level. No experience of yoga is necessary. The class finishes with a wonderful relaxation and meditation session, helping you to connect with your baby and prepare your mind for your forthcoming birth.

You will tone muscles giving yourself the chance to get back to pre-pregnancy weight faster, and maintain your body and keep it injury free. You will learn how to work your core muscles around your tummy to manage carrying the baby in pregnancy and beyond, and have the chance to become strong to carry around all the baby paraphernalia and hold your baby whilst feeding without back and shoulder pain. It is an opportunity to have time for you. Better than that though, after the session your blood will be full of endorphins which make you and baby feel good. Your baby is shown to become fitter too when the mother exercises, a good reason for mummy-to-be time.

Are you aware of how your body is feeling? Have you taken the time to listen to what it may be telling you? Do you trust yourself? Do you feel stressed or have signs of tension in your body? Do you feel hyper alert unable to switch off? Or in shutdown? As a culture we are facing a health crisis from the effects of chronic stress. This can be relieved by learning how to better regulate your nervous system. Slow mindful yoga is as important to your health as cardiovascular exercise, the neuroscience behind it shows a regulation of metabolism, immune system, the pain response system and hormones, as well as improved energy. Slow is rare, valuable and precious, we savour the minutes, taking time to restore, and build up your resilience to adapt to stressors, develop greater patience and improve overall health. Mindful movements, breathing practices and meditations in class will engage the “rest and digest” or parasympathetic nervous system response. This is a function that is below the level of consciousness, for example overriding stress signals, and helping improve digestion. It is a foundation for healing, reducing inflammation, detoxifying and optimising all of the other systems in your body.

Aqua Blast essentially aerobic exercise in the water. It typically takes place in shallow water at a swimming pool and as part of an organised group session that lasts 45 minutes. Workouts usually comprise of routines familiar to those who have experienced land aerobics, and could include jumping jacks, cross-country skiing motion and walking and running backwards and forwards. Workouts also commonly feature such special water devices, such as foam tubes and dumbbell floats, which are used to aid flotation and resistance. For all ages and abilities. Great for rehab from hip and knee operations.