Course Overview
Discover a more considered approach to movement with our Essential Mat Pilates: Move Better, Feel Better class.
This technique-led mat Pilates class focuses on helping you move with greater control, strength and awareness. Rather than simply working through repetitions, you’ll learn to focus on the quality of each movement and understand how good Pilates technique can support the way you move in everyday life.
Through slow, purposeful exercises, you’ll explore the essential Pilates principles of Alignment, Breathing and Core, supported by concentration and precision. These principles are applied throughout the class to help you develop greater body awareness and perform exercises with control and good technique.
Combining mat Pilates with functional movement, the class works on whole-body strength, flexibility, coordination and balance. Exercises can be adapted for different abilities and levels of experience, allowing you to work within your own range of motion in a welcoming and supportive environment.
Whether you’re new to Pilates, returning after a break or looking for a mat Pilates class with a greater focus on technique and movement quality, Essential Mat Pilates provides an opportunity to develop practical skills that can support the way you move every day.
Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond and Ryde. Enrol now!
What you will learn
Course outline
In this class you will explore:
- The essential Pilates principles of Alignment, Breathing and Core
- How to perform mat Pilates exercises with greater control and precision
- How breathing supports controlled and purposeful movement
- How to develop greater awareness of your posture, alignment and movement
- Techniques for developing whole-body strength and control
- Exercises that support flexibility and coordination
- Movements that develop balance and body awareness
- How concentration and precision can improve the quality of movement
- How Pilates principles can support movements used in everyday life
- How to work safely within your own comfortable range of motion
Course outcome
Through regular participation, you should develop greater awareness, control and confidence in the way you move.
You will work towards:
- Moving with greater control and body awareness
- Developing whole-body strength
- Improving flexibility and coordination
- Developing balance and movement confidence
- Understanding and applying the Pilates principles of Alignment, Breathing and Core
- Performing mat Pilates exercises with greater concentration and precision
- Applying better movement patterns to everyday activities
What you need to know
Entry requirements
This is a mat Pilates class focused on good technique and quality of movement. Exercises can be adapted for different abilities and levels of experience.
You are encouraged to work within your own range of motion and focus on developing your technique rather than trying to keep pace with others.
What you need to provide
- A Pilates or exercise mat
- Comfortable clothing that allows you to move freely
- Water bottle
Other information
This is a mat-based Pilates class and does not use Pilates reformer machines.
The focus is on slow, purposeful movement, good technique and the essential Pilates principles of Alignment, Breathing and Core. Exercises can be adapted to different abilities and levels of experience, allowing participants to focus on their individual movement and technique.
About your trainer
Michael Wilkinson is an experienced fitness and Pilates instructor with qualifications in fitness, personal training and Pilates. He holds Certificate III and Certificate IV in Fitness, completed Fundamental Matwork Pilates training and holds a Breathe Certificate IV Pilates. Michael is also an AUSactive registered fitness professional.
Michael has extensive experience delivering group fitness and mat Pilates classes. His approach focuses on good technique, purposeful movement and helping participants develop strength, flexibility, coordination and balance through exercises that can be adapted to different abilities and levels of experience.
Michael’s Essential Pilates classes focus on the quality of movement and the principles of Alignment, Breathing and Core. His supportive approach encourages participants to develop greater awareness of how they move and build practical skills that support movement in everyday life.