Category: Pilates Teaching Tips
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Teaching Tips: Advanced Chair Pilates.
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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Teaching Tips: Working towards the Advanced Mat Pilates.
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…
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Retaining Rotation: Why It’s So Important and How Pilates Helps.
There are certain moves we do every day that we don’t really think about; like reaching into the back seat of the car, putting on a jacket, or turning from the stove to reach for something on the counter behind you. If a daily movement task starts to cause discomfort, most of us will adapt…