Classes for Just Mum
Work Outs and More for Mums Only Near Maida Vale
Life After Birth
Postnatal Recovery Class at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth:
This unique class is specifically designed to optimise your recovery following the birth of your baby. A two hour interactive session, taken by our specialist women’s health physiotherapist.
The Benefits
- Optimise your recovery from a caesarean
- Optimise your recovery from a normal or assisted delivery
- Tummy muscle check
- Pelvic floor education and resuming intercourse
- Returning to exercise – what is safe and when?
- Meet other mums
For more information or to speak to Claire directly please call the Physiotherapy department: 0207 806 4010. Please note the women’s health physiotherapy service will continue to run as normal following the closure of the birth unit.
Fit at all times
Sarah is a personal trainer who is qualified for pre- and post-natal and happens to live on Warwick Avenue so very convenient for our mums – of which she already has some clients. She can train clients for home and outdoors. Get in touch with her at 07877744450 if you’re interested.
Postnatal Yoga / Pilates – Bring Baby
Jacqui Porjes BWY/ Reps/Dip nut therapy/ certified personal trainer
Yoga Class at Paddington Sports Club – Open to All
Every Friday 10.30-11.30 am
Come and join a fun and invigorating drop-in class, my class will be energetic but leave you feeling toned, refreshed and relaxed. All levels welcome.
07947 568890 or email Jacqui@porjes.com
- Classes from £10
- Shower & changing available
- If you would like a babysitter, contact Jacqui
Unique opportunity to attend parenting classes with Barbara Godoy directly afterwards. Contact Jacqui at 07947 568890 or email Jacqui@porjes.com for more information and to book. (see listing on our Parenting Solutions page)
Westnine Yoga
Glow & Flow Saturday Morning Intense:
Saturdays, 10-11.15am at Paddington Sports Club, Castellain Road, W9 1JQ (entrance next to Bon Appétit Delicatessen)
Dani teaches a wonderful mix of different traditions inspired by classical Hatha yoga and flowing Power yoga. The classes are vigorous to enhance fitness and soothing for those looking to relieve stress.
- invigorating yoga moves for beginners and advance yogis
- deep and active relaxation
- sauna and shower available
- suitable for all levels
FEE: £15 pay on the door. Few mats available.
Booking required: dani@westnineyoga.com or 07719 730 583.
Monday yoga class at the Beethoven Centre
If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding workout, then come along to a great yoga class with a fabulous teacher on Monday’s, 10-11am at the Beethoven Centre, Third Avenue, W10 4JL. Membership is £6 per year and costs £1.50 per class, or £3 per class for non members (the class is subsidised by the NHS). The Beethoven Centre offers free creche places for 0-5 year olds during yoga.
Iyengar Institute
Free yoga class for new members – Iyengar Yoga Institute is offering a free class to all Maida Vale Mums to try it out and see what you think. All you need to do is mention ‘Maida Vale Mums’ at reception when you go to a class. This offer is open to new members only.
Little Venice Pilates
Little Venice Pilates is proud to present our threesome classes.
They run every Tuesday and Thursday at 12noon – perfect for when the kids are at school! You can be pre-natal, post-natal, a man or a woman! These classes have been tailored to everyone’s specific needs! If you cannot find someone to do the class with you, don’t worry, we will take care of it! For further information about our threesomes, or the other classes we have available at Little Venice Pilates, please feel free to contact me on 0207 286 5000 or dalzette@littlevenicepilates.com.
ASHTANGA VINYASA YOGA
Monday evenings at the Church Hall of St. Peter’s, Elgin Avenue (at junction with Chippenham Road).
ASHTANGA VINYASA YOGA: 6.30 – 8pm (price £10)
ALIGNMENT-BASED HATHA YOGA: 8 – 9.30pm (price £10)
PLEASE NOTE: Both of these classes are now 1.5 hours and priced £10
Yoga mats are available but in limited supply, please bring your own or ring ahead to reserve one. Please wear loose comfortable clothing and it is best not to eat anything before class.
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to get in
touch: arianna@palin.tv, or call 07802 630194
Pilates in Maida Vale by Pilates Anyplace
Sharp Suite – St Joseph’s School Lanark Road
Monday and Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings
St Christina’s School
Tuesday evenings
The classes last one hour and the cost is £9. However, they have an offer of 6 classes for the price of 5. This involves a payment of £45, but classes do not have to be taken consecutively, i.e. if somebody cannot attend a class, it is carried forward and they do not lose it.
Post-natal mums: If the times are not convenient, it might be possible to book a venue at a mutually convenient time to allow mums to bring their babies into the class. But that would obviously involve a degree of commitment (say paying for a block of 5 lessons in advance) and enough people to make it worthwhile.
Gail also offers one-to-one sessions at people’s homes. She is a fully qualified, Pilates Institute trained instructor.
Gail Japhet
Pilates Anyplace
020 7286 6886
gailjaphet@yahoo.co.uk
The Special Yoga Centre
Pre- and post-natal yoga
First Floor, 2a Wrentham Avenue, London NW10 3HA
Nature Meditations
Violet Hill Studios 6 Violet Hill, London NW8 9EB
The Fitness Cafe
97 Boundary Road St Johns Wood
Integrates Fitness, Food and Nutrition. Jamie recommends it saying “there is a lovely quiet cafe upstairs with healthy food, a couple of hgh chairs and baby changing.”
Yoga with Sejel
Experience the joys of Hatha Yoga in a nurturing environment. Hatha and Pregnancy Yoga in Maida Vale
07944 979 069
sejel@yogawithsejel.co.uk
I Love Pilates
Private and group matwork classes in West Hampstead.
ZUMBA
Zumba Paula
Classes at the Notting Hill Harbour Club on Tuesdays at 7.45pm and Saturdays at 11am.
Zumba with Claudia
Tuesday evenings, 8-9pm. St Marks Church Hall, Abercorn Place.
Thursday mornings, 9.30-10.30am, St Johns Wood Synagogue, Grove End Road (opp St John and St Elizabeth’s hospital)
£7 per class. Class pass – buy 5 (£35) get a 6th class free! Contact: zumbawithclaudiag@gmail.com or 07977 449339.
DANCE
Ballet for You
is offering 10% off its Adult Beginner’s Ballet Course
to Maida Vale Mums! (£108 instead of £120!)
The 12 week course is suitable for adults with little or no experience in Ballet, or for those wishing to start afresh. Handouts are provided after each lesson so you can practise at home. Come and discover the dancer in you!
Day: Wednesdays
Time: 10.00-11.00am
Venue: Little Venice Sports Centre, 10 Crompton St, London , W2 1ND
Go to www.balletforyou.co.uk to download a registration form.
Serena Cundari ARAD , Dip. PDTD, RAD RTS is a former ballerina and runs courses across London for Adult Beginners, Improvers and Returning Dancers.
Tel: 07956 260108
Email: mail@balletforyou.co.uk
Regal Ballet
Adult ballet classes Wednesdays and Fridays in NW8.
07704 290479
therese@regalballet.com
West9Dance
Ballroom and Latin American Dance
Wednesdays 7-8pm at St Mark’s Church Hall, Hamilton Terrace, NW8 9RE and Saturdays 10:30-11:30am at Little Venice Sports Centre, 10 Crompton Street, W2 1ND. Prices are £8 per session.
Jive, Cha Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, Paso-Doble, Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango, Quickstep, Viennese Waltz.
