Category: Pilates Business
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Less Talk, More Pilates
(working with unfocused clients, part 3 of 3) Empathy:Generally speaking we come to know our clients quite well; we know there are those that can focus easily for the hour and those that who can’t. Both are equally rewarding to work with because either way as an instructor, you’re provided with a task and you…
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Pilates Instructors as Cultural Intermediaries
(learning from the ‘lived body’ & having different conversations) Pilates practitioners are always game to learn more about the body in order to give clients the best workouts possible; from anatomy classes to other, complementing movement modalities, most Pilates instructors remain students at some level. But what about learning to think critically about the embodied…
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Less Talk, More Pilates
(working with unfocused clients – Part 1 of 3) As Pilates instructors, we fill a specific niche in personal training. We’re working both body and mind, but also strengthening our clients’ self-awareness, spatial control and coordination with a variety of learning techniques. Verbal cues can help clients learn to listen better while mental imagery and…