Issue #324 – Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Whose Business is Bad Teaching? Part I by Chantill Lopez Teaching is human. To teach is instinctual, even if in the smallest, most unrecognizable form. I teach my daughter how to fold her clothes, put away the dishes, scoop the poop from the […]
How to Create a Scoliosis Diagram – by Erin Myers
Issue #323 – Wednesday, January 27, 2021 How to Create a Scoliosis Diagram by Erin Myers This post is the second in a series of how to assess a client with scoliosis so you can work them out safely. Scoliosis can present very differently from client to client, and my hope […]
Active Opposition!! by Brett Miller
Issue #322 – Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Active Opposition (an exercise I was inspired to create by watching a video from Alycea Ungaro) by Brett Miller Today I am sharing an example of what I call “building block exercises”. These are simple, but by no means trivial, exercises that if […]
Hands-on Scoliosis Assessment – by Erin Myers
Issue #320 – December 9, 2020 Hands-on Scoliosis Assessment by Erin Myers Did you know there are millions of people living with scoliosis around the world? You may think it’s unlikely, but odds are one will walk into your studio someday. Are you prepared to work with them? I ask […]
5 Common Mistakes in Choosing Exercise for Scoliosis – by Karena Thek
Issue #313 – Wednesday, October 7, 2020 5 Common Mistakes in Choosing Exercise for Scoliosis by Karena Thek You have a new client with scoliosis, and now you are researching the heck out of exercise for scoliosis. I get it. You are afraid of doing the wrong thing, choosing […]
Mary Pilates – by Bonnie Hubscher
Issue #310 – Wednesday, September 9, 2020 Mary Pilates by Bonnie Hubscher Early in my Pilates career, and full of enthusiasm to share it, I held workshops to bring Pilates to people’s attention. Mary Pilates LeRiche was invited to be our honored guest speaker at one of these workshops and […]
Motivation – A Critical Factor for Success by Adam McAtee
Issue #302 – Wednesday May 27, 2020 Motivation – A Critical Factor for Success by Adam McAtee The work of Pilates is vast; as time progresses, it may have a significant impact on one’s physical and mental fitness. However, one could argue that we only receive as much benefit […]
Go Back To Your Studio – Your Clients are Waiting by Karena Thek (during Covid-19 Crisis)
From left to right: Forcius Marchus, Coiffus Perfectus, Antagonista Maxima with Whinius Caninus Issue #298 – Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Go Back To Your Studio – Your Clients are Waiting By Karena Thek (during Covid-19 Crisis) So. Here we are. A third of the planet on lockdown. And we’re only […]
Airplane on the Cadillac – by Reiner Grootenhuis
November 6, 2019 Airplane on the Cadillac by Reiner Grootenhuis Setup: Attach traditional leg springs at a height of 80 – 85 cm / 31.5 – 33.5 inches. The higher the spring attachment, the easier raising the body into the diagonal becomes. Supine position with the head pointing toward the […]
Forget That Cue! – by Mara Sievers
Forget That Cue! – Three Wrong Cues for the Shoulder Girdle by Mara Sievers August 21, 2019 Guiding your student with your words is a combination of skill and art. Sometimes we overuse cues or apply certain cues to a movement where it’s not appropriate. You might or might not […]
Why Use Directed Imagery? by Julia Wyncoll
Why Use Directed Imagery? by Julia Wyncoll August 14, 2019 I recently had a fellow Pilates teacher tell me, “Some of my clients don’t like images, so we don’t use them.” Well, I’m here today to challenge this idea, because it’s my belief that we are all using images all […]
A New Twist On Snake/Twist – by ‘Swami’ Doug Bentz
A New Twist On Snake/Twist’ On Snake/Twist! by Swami Doug Bentz June 20, 2019 Seeing as it is nearly summer and everything is blossoming and glowing with a sense of new life, why not bring some “newness” into your Pilates practice and to your clients? My intent with this […]
Growing as a Pilates Instructor – Advice from Three Experts by Holly Nava
Growing as a Pilates Instructor – Advice from Three Experts by Holly Nava Feb 7, 2018 In January 2017, I made a big change. I quit my career of 15 years to become a Pilates teacher. I’d been feeling like my soul was slowly dying as I sat behind my […]
The Challenges of Teaching with Clear Intent by Peter Roël
Oct 4, 2017 The Challenges of Teaching with Clear Intent By Peter Roël CAN YOU MAKE MAYONNAISE? 3 egg yolks 3 – 5 tablespoons wine vinegar or lemon juice 1 ½ – 2 ¼ cups olive oil or salad oil or a mixture of each oil ½ teaspoon salt […]
Help Your Clients To Help Themselves – by Stephanie Behrendt PMA-CPT and Theo St. Francis
September 13, 2017 Help Your Clients To Help Themselves Sharing Session Responsibility with Spinal Cord Injury Clients This post is a collaboration by a trainer, Stephanie Behrendt, and a client, Theo St. Francis. In Pilates Intel style, we thought we’d shed some light on an aspect of training that […]
The Importance of Honoring our Heritage – by Kathy Corey
The Importance of Honoring our Heritage By Kathy Corey Heritage is the linking of the present to its original source. To know where we are today, we need to honor the link to our past. No matter what are our differences, we share the common bond of the man who […]
Five Instructional Secrets by Sarah K. Negara
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The Legacy of Kathy Grant – by Kathy Corey
The Legacy of Kathy Grant by Kathy Corey Kathleen Stanford Grant was a dancer and first generation Master Pilates Teacher. She was born August 1, 1921 in Boston Massachusetts. “I think I started to dance in my mother’s womb,” Kathy said, “but growing up, there was not much interest in […]
Why I Quit Teaching Pilates – by Carol Robbins
Why I Quit Teaching Pilates by Carol Robbins Click Here to Subscribe and Receive Full Article I am one of those people inexplicably afflicted with the horse bug. None of my relatives or ancestors rode, although my mother’s mother was Irish, so it could have been in the […]
My #Pilates45 – by Clare Dunphy
My #Pilates45 – by Clare Dunphy I love sharing the work of Pilates and consider myself to be a bit of a Pilates nerd. Most of you reading this article probably are too, so we are in good company. The problem is that we all live pretty far away […]
Master Teacher Kathy Corey Joins Pilates Intel
Hello dear readers, do I have BIG news for you today. So big, that once I again I am sending out a SPECIAL EDITION of Pilates Intel. It will be short and sweet, and exciting. I want to announce that the intelligent, vibrant and ever giving Kathy Corey is joining […]
Fatal Simplicity – by Brett Miller
Until recently, before starting this magazine, I’ll admit I did very little reading of blogs, or to put it more succinctly, none at all. This lack of prior interest in no way reflects how impressed and even slightly envious I am of people who write blogs – it takes creativity, […]