Teaching Skills

“Practicing is where you work out the kinks in flow, spring changes, timing, music, intensity level and if you are hitting all the planes of motion.” Finding your teaching style and voice takes time. I remember the first time I taught a class to my fellow teachers in training… I was really quiet and stood […]

A big topic many of my teacher trainees asks about is cueing and how to get a large group flowing  without touching the participants. I tell them, the first thing is to practice the moves before class to know what students will be experiencing and second is to get them moving as quickly as possible […]

Anytime I find myself feeling stagnant in my teaching it’s usually because I have been neglecting self practice. I am not talking about personal fitness when I say this because taking a class from another person is not necessarily inspiring and sometimes workshops are out of the budget or not convenient. Diving deeper into the […]

When I was fresh out of my Pilates training program the hardest thing for me to really wrap my head around was how to properly assess and gather information about a client so that I can best serve them through the Pilates method. I knew that I was supposed to give them the studio intake […]