Pilates is a great way to stay active and strong through your pregnancy, but there can be some confusion around is it safe to do Pilates in early pregnancy.

Neural flossing, also known as neural gliding, is a series of gentle movements that work to stretch and mobilise irritated nerves. Neural flossing can also help improve your range of motion through affected areas and decrease tightness of surrounding muscles that may be impacting your nerve pain.

Neural flossing can be helpful for conditions such as sciatica, piriformis syndrome, disc bulges and other disc pathologies. If you’re struggling with tightness or nerve pain down your leg, give these exercises a go. Our team of Osteopaths are here to help if you have any questions or would like some hands on treatment.

Learning to control your pelvic floor muscles is an important skill to learn for anyone, but particularly if you are on your pre or post natal journey. Creating a mind-body connection to this muscle group is integral to your pelvic stability as well as other things like bowel and bladder control. You’ll be surprised how many things can be helped with good pelvic floor awareness!

Try these pelvic floor activation exercises to get started and begin to strengthen your connection and engagement with this very important muscle group.

During pregnancy and birth there is a lot of tension and load that goes through your pelvic floor. In the postnatal period, the focus is on restoring activation and control through these muscles to help them recover post birth while also building some strength to support you while you’re caring for your bub.

While strength and activation are important, just like any other muscle group stretching is also important too! Taking some time to stretch and relax is beneficial to the health of these muscles but also gives you some time to focus on your body and listen to what it might need.

Your pelvic floor plays a vital role during pregnancy and works hard to support your internal and external structures as your body grows and changes. While it’s important to have a strong and controlled pelvic floor during pregnancy, it’s also important to stretch and know how to relax your pelvic floor during the prenatal period.

These are our top four prenatal pelvic floor stretches that you can do at home to make sure you are getting that relaxation and all important stretch through these muscles to help prepare your body for birth and beyond!

Gain confidence in your postpartum fitness journey with Collective Motion - your guide to common questions about returning to exercise after childbirth.

Explore our comprehensive guide to safely practicing Pilates during pregnancy at Collective Motion. Find answers to FAQs about Pregnancy Pilates classes.

At Collective Motion, we believe the benefits of Pilates are endless and that includes during Pregnancy as well.

Feeling tight and tense from chest feeding? 🧑‍🍼

Breastfeeding and bottle feeding your bub can place a lot of strain through your neck and shoulders, while the constant hunched position can result in tightness across the chest 🤱

It can contribute to neck pain, upper back pain, headaches and more.

Try these stretches to release some tension through the muscles and bring back some movement through those stiff joints!

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus is the third type of diabetes, along with Type 1 and Type 2. Gestational Diabetes, often referred to as GD, occurs during pregnancy and can be due to multiple factors. This blog will help you learn how GD can come about and allow you to understand the complex nature of insulin creation and resistance during pregnancy.

There are three main types of Diabetes and often a lot of misunderstanding about what each one is, how they occur and treatment options available. In this blog we will go through Diabetes Type 1 and 2 and help you gain an understanding of Diabetes as an illness that affects a lot of people worldwide.

So you think your bub is ready for solids, how exciting! But where do you start…? Our Dietitian, Julia, has put together some tips and helpful information to help guide you through the process.

Starting solids can be both an exciting and daunting time as a parent. Regardless of whether it’s your first or fourth child, parents can often still be unsure when to make the transition. Here are five signs, written by a qualified dietitian, that you can look for to help make the decision for when it’s the right time to introduce solids to your bub.

At Collective Motion, all of our Osteopaths and our Myotherapist are qualified to do dry needling and love incorporating it into our treatment plans. We commonly get asked ‘what’s dry needling and how will it help me?’, so here’s some information to help you understand why we love using it to help our clients.

Chances are you have heard of Reformer Pilates, tried a class or have thought about starting but not really sure what to expect. Regardless of your knowledge base let us break it down for you.