Flyer for Hyperpressives class at Chapel House Studios, showing a woman lying on a yoga mat with arms extended out to the sides, promoting lower pressure fitness and core training scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

How can this class benefit me?

Initially developed as a non-surgical treatment for women with pelvic floor health issues, over time, this once specialized technique has evolved as an essential body health maintenance system.

Beneficial for:

  • Improving posture and respiration

  • Post-partum recovery and Diastasis Recti

  • Slimming the waist line

  • Pelvic floor dysfunction (including pelvic organ prolapse, urinary stress incontinence i.e. leaking when you cough/sneeze/jump/run etc.)

  • Lower back pain

  • Shoulder girdle pain

  • General Heath and wellbeing

  • Balancing the autonomic nervous system

Woman practicing downward dog yoga pose on a gray mat in a dance studio with ballet barres and light-colored wooden floor.
A woman practicing yoga indoors on a black mat, in a kneeling pose with arms raised, wearing a patterned sports bra and black pants.

What is Hypopressives/ LPF (Low Pressure Fitness)?

This is a complete movement system, a series of breathing and poses that is an alternative approach to traditional core training.

It is based around respiratory training focusing on lateral rib cage movement, specific poses, myofascial release and neurodynamics, restoring posture and enhancing myo-fascial mobility.

It uses posture and breath, to involuntarily and safely strengthen our deepest core stabilizing system, restoring function to the pelvic floor, abdominals, postural muscles and the diaphragm. (No Kegels, curl ups, hundreds or planks involved).

Hypopressives means ‘reduced pressure’. A hypopressive or abdominal ‘vacuum’ is used in this system to reduce pressure throughout the abdomen and pelvic girdle.

In addition to the benefits to the pelvic floor/core and surrounding muscles, this system can be used as a general body maintenance class for improved postural alignment, regulating and calming the nervous system due to the stimulation of the Vagus nerve and slimming the waist. Beneficial also to singers, dancers and athletes to enhance performance.

How do I book?

No classes w/c 27th Oct (half term)

4th November - 16th December (7 weeks) £84

Tuesday

12.30 - 1.20pm BOOK HERE

1.30 - 2.20pm BOOK HERE

Thursday

11.25 - 12.15pm BOOK HERE

Payment confirms place on course. Sorry, no refunds for missed classes or transfers. However, if classes can not run, you will be refunded. Payment is per full course only.

(Sometimes blocks are 4 - 8 weeks in length, depending on the half term dates)

Classes are taught by Victoria Lowry, Level 3 Hypopressives Trainer and founder of Chapel House Studios.

Please read more about this class, including more FAQ, and contraindications here.

A woman practicing yoga on a black mat in a room with wooden floors, performing a plank pose.