IN INTERVIEW: EMILY ADAMS

Beautiful Emily Adams, from Pilates Body Studio sat down with us to share a little bit of what she's been doing, what keeps her inspired and what she is grateful for in this uncertain time.

(SHELTER) What are you doing whilst in Lockdown?

(Emily) Like many others, attending to a lot of much needed housework! Teaching online Pilates classes and private sessions keeps me busy as well as a lot of admin for both The Pilates Body Studio and Polestar Pilates Education businesses. I'm enjoying walks, playing chess and attempting to sing songs with my partner! Finally reading the book that I haven’t touched since the Christmas break, but most of all I’m really enjoying this much needed extra down time.

The first three months of the year has been so busy with courses and mentoring students towards their exams that the first two weeks of this lockdown I collapsed a bit so I needed this enforced downtime initially, but now I’m ready to get back into it all - in an online, virtual way of course!

(S) What is keeping you inspired during this downtime?

(E) Staying connected to clients and students online, watching documentaries and good quality movies, viewing other Dance artists and Pilates instructor's online material, but really what’s helping to keep me keep inspired is accepting the lockdown parameters, feeling motivated to adapt to a new normal and doing what I can given the unique circumstances we are facing.

Emily wears 10 pieces from Taylor.

(S) You’re an expert in body movement, while we are all keeping to our bubbles and in smaller spaces what do you recommend our clients do to stay healthy and their body moving over this period?

(E) Pilates is an ideal form of exercise to do at home as it doesn’t require a large amount of space! Getting a daily dose of fresh air from things like walking, running or bike riding I also think is essential for physical and mental health at this time.

(S) What are you looking forward to doing most once we get out of the lockdown?

(E) Having freedom to go anywhere other than my bubble or just local! Or The Shelter! Seeing my family, I really miss dinners with my family at my parents’ home every week we have a large family and we're very close. Zoom dinner meetings don't really compare, but of course a great and necessary alternative. I of course miss my friends, the Pilates studio and live theatre, so would be great to get to connect in person with these people and things again.

(S) What has been something you have been grateful for over this time?

(E) Having some quiet time and space to reflect and reset, doing things I usually don’t have the time to do, that I am healthy, that I can adapt some of my work to online, spending quality time with my partner and not rushing to have to physically be anywhere in particular other than home!

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