00:00Hello, so we are doing something very exciting today here in Glasgow.
00:04We are going for an assisted stretch, a nice wellness activity.
00:08So the studio is located in Woodlands in the West End.
00:12It's really easy to get to, you can walk up from town like I'm doing,
00:16just along Sunky Hall Street, or you can get the subway to St George's Cross.
00:20They open in December, it's the first of its kind in Scotland.
00:24So we're going to go and have an assisted stretch and tell you all about it.
00:28So, what is Stretched?
00:30So Stretched is a unique wellness offering,
00:34where when you arrive at the studio, one of our stretch therapists
00:38will assess how you move, assess your mobility,
00:42and then from there they will stretch your full body from your head to your toe.
00:46So my background is physiotherapy, so I'm a physiotherapist.
00:50I own physiotherapy clinics, and what happens often when people
00:54attend the clinic, they'll tell us that they don't stretch enough,
00:58they don't do enough mobility, and then at the end, when we're discharging them,
01:02we'll encourage them to do stretching, mobility, yoga, pilates,
01:06and more often than not they don't because they don't find time, or they just forget to do it.
01:10So it was a bit of a light bulb moment when I thought, maybe this is something that's missing
01:14within the wellness industry, and you don't necessarily need to be injured,
01:18and we can fill the gap in by doing some nice one-on-one assisted stretching.
01:22People come in initially for the physical benefits of it,
01:26stretching out your body, increasing range of motion and flexibility,
01:30but I think what I probably notice the most with people when they come in here is
01:34how instant that feeling of just relaxation, like a weight has been
01:38lifted off their shoulders, and you can see that from especially the 50-minute stretches
01:42when people initially come in to when they leave, it's just completely de-stressed for them,
01:46which is amazing to hear that, to give people that back to that I suppose,
01:50and make a difference in their life.
01:52All of our stretch therapists here have a background in how the body moves,
01:56so they're professional dancers, yoga instructors, massage therapists,
02:00so I created what's called Stretch Academy,
02:04so I wrote the course and got it accredited by a college,
02:08and then we teach the course in-house,
02:12so everyone's trained to the same standards,
02:16and then in the end they have to do 20 hours on models,
02:20and then an exam, so they're all accredited in one-on-one assisted stretching,
02:24so having everyone on the same level and the same training was really important for us,
02:28so now we can do it all in-house, which is pretty unique.
02:32So I honestly feel amazing right now, I feel incredible,
02:36I've never done anything like that before, I understand a lot more
02:40about my own mobility as well, which is always a good thing,
02:44it allows me to work farther and take on that information
02:48to make sure I'm fit and healthy, so yeah, fantastic,
02:52I'll definitely be back.
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