Were thankful for our November Believer, Trish Jegle! Trish Jegle has been attending Hot Pilates Secret for 9 years. She a dedicated believer who embodies HPS every single day with her beautiful heart and light sense of humor. The room gets a little brighter every time Trish enters it. We couldnt think of a better way to thank her, then by making her our Believer of November! Grace: When did you first start attending the Hot Pilates Secret classes? Trish: About 9 years ago, When Beth and Keith moved to Wantagh and the studio was in the cherrywood shopping center. Grace: How did you first hear about the studio? Trish: I met Beth at a jean party. She was selling jeans at a mutual friend of ours home and she had just bought the house around the corner from us. She told me all about Hot Pilates, she was telling me how great of a workout it was and Im like yeah whateva, whateva. So they move around the corner and I bring them some donuts and some coffee, which is what they really needed, so healthy that they are. Beth kept saying, come, just come. So one morning I decided to go, after I ran three miles. I went in full sweats, no water, nothing, layed on my mat, did the whole class. I then walked out of the old studio, vomitted out my guts, turned the wrong way, got lost going home because I was so dehydrated and freaked out from this class and swore to God I would never go back. So Beth called me a half hour after I got home and was like, You have to come back, you have to come back. and I was like, NEVER. needless to say, I was back there the next day and I continued to go from there on out, and brought people with me ever since then! Trish: One day Beth says to us in class, Does anyone have any questions? and I was like, Yes...Does it get any easier? this is after my 5th of 6th class, and everyone in the room just burst out laughing saying, NO. Ten years later, they were right, it doesnt matter who the instructor is it never gets easier. Grace: How has Hot Pilates Secet effected your life? Trish: You cant go with just Hot Pilates Secret effecting my life and not include Beth. Its all one for me. When I first started, she made me fill out a form asking, whats your goal for the class, and my goal was to lose 5 pounds. Beth probably looked at that and laughed, but never commented on it! For me it was to get a healthier life style, which she taught me how to do that through the pilates class but especially through my thinking and my thought process. Ive had Rheumatoid Arthritis for 26 years and I was on a gamit of different medications that I had to take and finally I found a method that worked for me, and it required me to give myself 2 injections a week, it wasnt fun, I hated it, but it worked along with eating properly and exercising. So finally I went to my rheumatologist and I kept telling him I wanted to stop my medication. And behind his back, I gradually stopped taking the medication and never told him, and after one visit he was like, I dont know whats going on, but whatever youre doing, keep doing it. I told him I hadnt been taking my medication for 6 months and now Ive been off of it for steady 6 years now. If I stop coming here, for a few weeks at a time, I feel it come back. So no more medication, all through Beth and Hot Pilates Secret. Grace: What is something that you take off of your mat from this class, and into your everyday life? Trish: Always be positive, find the brighter side to everything even when people can be nasty, dont be nasty back because it will just make it worse. Theres a reason that everybody has their problems. Always be positive. Trish: The Hot Pilates Secret class has also strengthened our marriage, and has strengthened our relationship together. (Points in Tims direction) Tim didnt want to come and once he started coming, we had this in common, and I think being on the mat once or twice a week together really makes a big difference in our relationship. Its the truth. Grace: Whats a story that really remind you of Pilates and Beth. Trish: Oh theres so many stories. When I first started coming to class in the very beginning, Beth an I had the instructor student relationship, but I dont kmow what it was but we got very close very fast. I think the common bond that we had was my son, and her mom had both passed away from terrible things. And I dont know what it was but one day she sent flowers to my house in a tea cup, and she didt know it, but it happened to be the anniversary of the day that my son had passed away. Beth had no idea, and it brought me to tears. She told me that, that morning when I had left class she sent the flowers because she just felt that I needed that. I told her what the day was and we both started crying when we realised it. So I kept the tea cup of course, and I still have it, and one afternoon after she passed away I was just thinking about her so much, and I was having a really hard day and I yelled at my son and I dropped the cup, and the cup broke. It brought me to tears, I was a mess, because that was my connection with her. Tim took the cup, and glued it all back together, and its still there sitting in my living room. But she knew, she was telling me, dont do that Trish, that wasnt the way to handle the situation. That was her way of showing me she knew what was going on. Shes always with us no matter what. I still feel her here. Trish: One day we had a big party in our backyard, and Beth said she would come, so she came at the bitter end of it, the party we called the red drink party because we had bartenders serving everybody red drinks. So Beth comes at the end, and me, Tim, my sisters, all of us we were just done, it was like 3:00 in the morning. And Beth put my husband and I to bed, no joke, she put us to bed, and drove my sister home. The next day, I went to class at 9:00 am in the old studio, I thought it was Beths class, and I was thinking, Im gunna show her! Im gunna get to class, I think I was still loaded. So I brought my sister in law with me. I ended up leaving my sister in law in the classroom and I fell asleep on the couch out in the waiting area! So later in the afternoon Beth goes, I cant believe you showed up! It was so bad, it was even too hot to sleep in the room. Trish: Beth is my devine connection. WE LOVE YOU TRISH!
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:36:51 +0000