Category: Pilates Instructor Education
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Less Talk, More Pilates
(working with unfocused clients, part 2 of 3) Segmenting & Variety With clients who are determined to remain unfocused there is often a frustrating result of anxious energy overlapped by the slowing of time. And it can throw off your planned programming and focus. Consider shaping the hour to include a broader level of programming;…
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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…