081 - Pilates & the Menopause - Dinah Siman & Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr Louise Newson is joined by Dinah Siman who is a Yoga and Pilates teacher and the founder of Menopause Pilates.

Dinah chats to Dr Newson about the history of Pilates and how the method arrived in the UK with Alan Herdman, and how it is now established as a tried and tested system for functional body work.  Dr Newson shares her experience of Pilates during her last pregnancy and talks with Dinah about the huge benefits of muscle strengthening, bone loading, flexibility and proprioception it brings during menopause and beyond, and the focus on breathing and pelvic floor health. 

Dinah also talks to Dr Newson about the one-day Menopause Pilates course that she has have created for Pilates teachers and fitness professionals. The course contains evidence based information and exercise and educational resources and will be launching early in 2021. Dinah has been teaching Pilates to women in the menopausal transition for over 23 years, this combined with her own experience of menopause and passion for sharing menopause education has resulted in this unique one-day course.  

Dinah's Three Take Home Tips:

Try to view the menopause as an opportunity to learn Pilates, it will also benefit your long term health and fitness. 
If possible, start learning Pilates with a 1:1 session or shared private lesson for a bespoke approach, before joining a class.
And finally - give it time.  It can seem like learning a new language and that doesn't happen overnight, so have patience!

Follow Dinah on Instagram: @menopausepilates

Email: dinahsiman@gmail.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Neuson Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr. Louise Newson, a GP and menopause
0:15.8	specialist and I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity. In addition, I run the Newston Health
0:22.5	Menopause and Well-Being Clinic here in Stratford-upon-Avon.
0:30.9	So today with me for my podcast, I have Diana Seaman, who is a Pilates teacher, who I've been
0:37.2	connecting with remotely for quite a long time,
0:39.7	actually, and now we're seeing each other on the screen, but I've still never met you face-to-face.
0:45.3	But welcome. Thanks ever so much for agreeing.
0:47.6	Thank you. Thank you for inviting me.
0:49.7	So we've done a few, or I've done a few podcasts about yoga, which is something that I practice,
0:55.9	but actually we haven't done one about Pilates and it's very much in my radar. And in fact,
1:02.0	I, when I was pregnant for the third time, I did Pilates all the way through my pregnancy. And
1:07.8	it was great, actually. I really enjoyed it. I just haven't got time to sort of do
1:12.9	everything. But it's one of those things that I think many people don't know anything about.
1:18.6	And I don't really think you might correct me, but I don't think it's a sort of thing you can
1:22.3	put on a DVD and learn through a screen if you've never done it before. Because it's quite
1:26.9	subtle, some of the
1:28.0	movement so I'd really like to just start up really asking you what is Pilates and what's
1:33.8	the origins and what's just explaining to us and novices yeah no I mean Pilates has been around a long
1:40.7	time Joseph Pilates developed it but it was kind of a well-kept secret, if you like.
1:45.8	So he was around in the early part of the last century. He was German and he developed his own
1:54.1	fitness program for himself because he was a sickly child. And he studied a lot of different things.
1:59.5	He looked at what the ancient Greeks did. He looked at bodybuilding. He looked studied a lot of different things. He looked at what the ancient Greeks did. He
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