Category: Pilates Teaching Tips
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Quick ways to read your client: how much self-awareness do they bring to the workout?
Everyday can be a different one for your clients and you need to be aware of their daily, lived experiences. A quick catch up at the beginning is always great – asking ‘how are you feeling?’ and ‘what’s your day/week been like in terms of movement?’. But until you observe how they move, you won’t…
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Pulling from the Stability Chair to Strengthen on the Mat: Side Leg Extension
We’re doing it again – pulling from a challenging, advanced level exercise to see if we can access some great foundational movement to build strength, endurance, stamina and awareness. Some of you have commented that your clients don’t do the advanced level exercises (or at least the one’s we’ve selected) – but that’s not a…
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Extension and the Pilates Workout: Helping clients get the most out of advanced Pilates exercises
As instructors, we want our clients to progress in their Pilates practice but we’re often unsure of how we can introduce advanced exercises safely and smartly. We tend to look at repetitive movement as a way to access these more advanced moves. For example, if a client is unable to move their spine into full…