Why we ask at all
Knowing that your shoulder has been grumbling, or that you had an operation eighteen months ago, changes what we offer you in a class. Without it we’d be guessing, and guessing on a sprung bed isn’t good teaching.
It takes a couple of minutes, once, before your first class. That’s all.
Roughly what we ask
- How you are generally
- The standard pre-exercise questions used everywhere, covering things like heart conditions, dizziness and blood pressure.
- Any recent injury or surgery
- What happened, roughly when, and whether you’ve been told to avoid anything in particular.
- Pregnancy
- Whether you’re pregnant or have recently given birth. [CONFIRM: whether a VEA instructor holds a pre and postnatal qualification. Until that’s confirmed we can’t take pre or postnatal bookings.]
- Anything else you’d like us to know
- A box to write in. Honestly, the most useful things usually turn up here rather than in the tick boxes.
We teachexercise,not medicine
This one matters, so we’ll be plain. A class here is exercise instruction. It isn’t physiotherapy, it isn’t treatment, and it’s not a substitute for advice from your GP or a clinician. Meg is a physiotherapist by profession, and it’s why we chose the training we did, but a class is still a class.
When we’d ask you to speak to your GP first
If something in your answers ought to be checked, we’ll say so and ask you to have a word with your GP before you come. That isn’t us turning you away. It’s us making sure that when you do start, everyone is comfortable.
The same goes mid-class. If something hurts, we stop and change it. We’ll never ask you to push through pain.
Where your answers go
Health information is sensitive and we treat it that way. It comes through the booking system rather than a general contact form, and only your instructors see it.
Read our privacy notice