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The Pilates Centre Mosman is continuingly grateful to you, our wonderful community, who have stuck with us during this very strange time.  It’s been tough for small businesses all over Australia, and we would like to thank you by offering an entire week of free classes for you to enjoy!

Please enjoy our “Many thanks May” with free classes every day.

And of course, you will be able to VIEW the recorded classes on our website if you can’t make it LIVE

Zoom links here:

Nicky – Monday, 25/5/20 – 10am – BALLET BARRE – Bring a chair! – Click Here 

Mindy – Monday, 25/5/20 – 4pm – KNEE CARE 101 – Click Here For The Video Page

Felicity – Tuesday, 26/5/20 – 10:30am – FUNCTIONAL CHALLENGES – Click Here

 Andreina – Wednesday, 27/5/20 – 10am – FOUNDATIONAL TECHNIQUE – Click Here

Mindy – Wednesday, 27/5/20 – 4pm – SHOULDER THERAPEUTICS – Click Here For The Video Page

Nicky – Thursday, 28/5/20 – 9:30am – MOVEMENT TOMUSIC – Bring a chair! – Click Here

Felicity – Thursday, 28/5/20 – 1pm – STRETCH TO NEW LENGTHS – Click Here

Andreina – Friday, 29/5/20 – 11am – PROGRESSIONAL FLOW  – Click Here

Andreina – Saturday, 30/5/20 – 8am – BUILD YOUR SQUAT – Click Here

This week, let’s refer back to last week’s provisioning list, and the basic Miso soup survival anywhere anytime kit.

Join the dots so we can grow this snack to a fully nourishing meal by adding pumpkin and your own freshly sprouted lentils.

Here’s how…

Basic supermarket brown lentils come to life in just a few days.

You’ll need a jar, Muslin, or soft flymesh to fix over the opening with a strong elastic band. 

Simply cover the bottom of jar to 1cm depth with the lentils.

Fill the jar with water and affix straining cloth (a clean layer of Chux is better than nothing but drains slowly).

• Leave overnight
• Drain
• Actively rinse
• Drain again leaving no moisture to puddle or they’ll ferment.
• Wrap in an old towel to start the sprouting process in the dark since we are promoting root growth.
• Balance in a big bowl mesh down on a 45 deg angle with the seeds lightly shaken to distribute along length of jar is best.

A warm place such as a cupboard with hot water heater pushes them to sprout faster.

The rinsing and draining routine is continued morning and night.
You will be surprised how fast the first little emerging sprouts appear!

Cooler weather is not optimal, so be happy with short sprouts up to 5 per 6 days on.

You will see tiny leaves appear at this stage, so discard the towel for added nutrients as photosynthesis makes its contribution.

Ready to eat.

Multiple uses for this recipe

• Sprinkle on a salad
• Garnish a curry or casserole
• Add to a stir fry
• Put in Thai rice paper rolls with cucumber, mint and chicken.
• Stir through rice…and on and on…

The miso soup here is made as last week, with the addition of pumpkin steamed with minimal water and grated ginger.

Use the fluid to add to the miso paste instead of boiling water in this version.

Garnish with a generous handful of lentil sprouts and your maiden voyage spring onions finely slivered, grown from cut ends as described last week.

Yum again!

Xx Mindy in Bush Studio
~Quarantining up with friends in Pittwater (ahhh)

P.S. I have enjoyed successful private sessions with 6 clients so far on face time or Zoom.

One on one is an opportunity to finesse your practice and address long term issues or nip in the bud any new niggles.

It’s fun, and great to maintain social contact and fitness at once.

I am also working on group class ideas around specific issues such as
Kneecare 101 or Shoulder mechanics 101 etc.
~any requests welcome.

Xx M

Here are a few ideas for the isolation bunker.

• Dashi Miso paste
• Limes Lots and lots
• Whole cabbage
• Whole pumpkins
• Rice of course (many varieties)
• Lentils for sprouting
• Pepitas
• Sunflower seeds
• Sesame seeds
• Tahini
• Ginger
• Garlic
• Chillies
• Green onions (Plant the roots +2cm of the white and they will grow before your eyes, truly amazing.)

Hi foodie friends of The Pilates Centre Mosman,

You are probably now settled in for the long haul, however, it’s not too late for guiding your shopping list towards delicious AND nutritious provisioning.

Now, this is just an excerpt from my provisioning arsenal.

Here is what to do with your provisions.
We are working towards simple and sustaining miso soup which I would recommend (just like spinal wave) as an anywhere, anytime strategy for breakfast, lunch, dinner or morning tea or a midnight snack with Netflix!! You should also always have well-cooked rice on hand as general survival food.

Prepare the cabbage as described below and you have a great available ingredient for many creative uses.

– Take a nice outer leaf or 2

– Strip to a few long sections that can be tightly rolled.

– With your sharpest knife shred as finely as possible.

– Put in a largish bowl and massage a very small dusting of fine sea salt into it.

– Toss and turn it a few times over the next half hour or so. It will soften the cabbage, and be the start of the simplest ever pickle.

This pickle dish can be used straight away or stored in an airtight container; it’s very compact and versatile and yummy!

Now let’s make miso snack…

– Boil the kettle

– Heat a dessert spoon of cooked rice in the microwave

– In a small bowl put a teaspoon of the miso paste blend it with the juice of a small lime wedge

– Add a pinch or 2 of your cabbage pickle, the hot rice, fine circles of green onion, then top with enough boiling water stirring to taste.

– Eat as is and enjoy!

You will survive AND stay healthy!

More ideas to come!

Your in-house-stay-at-home Pilates provisions advisor Mindy xxx