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My teaching career has had many firsts. When I was still in my cert programs and taught as an apprentice/student teacher, where if I'm honest, I admit that I both hoped I was being watched and it was duly noted somewhere how genius I was, how well I understood my…
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Not to any Pilates organization. You can if you chose too, but it isn’t necessary, and doesn’t get you more clients. Are you shocked?!?!?! I was too when I found that out. You mean I don’t need to empty my pockets of all that hard-earned money and hop a plane…
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To bridge or not to bridge? It is no secret that I have been on a path not to isolate my past contemporary style, but to honor it as well as delve deeper into "truer Pilates", just makes my toolbox fuller. Although for the last few years I've been fairly…
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As I browse the various Pilates forums, I always see questions about how to handle thistemperamental client, or what to do about that injury, or the group class pressure to “bring it”, or how to fit in with the other teachers – all because now you’re the FNG (Friggin’ New…
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Originally published in Me Time Journal Do you look in the mirror? Really look? Do you people watch, even YOUR people? Your spouse or partner, your children, grandchildren. How do you/they stand, sit, walk? Forward head and neck, rounded shoulders, looking down or up and leading with that appendage the…
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I was just at at workshop where we had taken my classical reformer and used it side by side a contemporary model reformer, no I’m not going to go there and bag on other manufacturers designs, as a matter of fact, I’m friends with manufacturers of both types of apparatus,…
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Dear client, It’s NOT Pilates if: It’s anything from Acrobatics to sitting and meditating and finding your Zen. To be clear, I’m not bagging on any sport, any Barre, any Bosu, or Suspension Training or Yoga, Wall or Rock climbing, Skydiving, Wind-tunnel play, Acro yoga, or any yoga. Any super…
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I’ve been on this Pilates journey for many years now, and it’s only in the last few that I think I’ve finally got the idea. WHY has it taken me SO long to figure it out? It’s really simple and yet so complicated all at the same time. This is…
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You know that saying, ‘You don’t know what you don’t know’? Well those who haven’t been contemporary first can’t understand the drive to hop/switch yesterday, BUT the reality of investing at a time of life when there is more to the story than just what YOU want to do is…
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