Certified Pilates Teacher: What certification means in an unregulated profession
Pilates educator Laura Helsel discusses the vast ranges of PIlates Certification and what the term means.
You love Pilates. It’s changed your life. Is teaching for you?
PP Director Laura Helsel shares her experience guiding students through Pilates training. Drawing on many interviews with hesitant registrants Laura shares her thoughts on the steps and considerations to teaching.
The Challenge of Verbal Editing
“See all. Ignore most. Correct the essential.”
This Eric Franklin quote highlights the challenge we face as teachers in deciding when to correct and when it’s more powerful and positive to pass. It’s not about the cue it’s about the result.
The Pilates Process™ Approach
Teacher training: Adapting Pilates to the person, not the person to Pilates. With the Pilates Process™ approach our concern isn’t that the client performs Pilates well, though that will eventually happen over time. Our aim is that Pilates serves the client well...
Common Cues We Should Question
Cues and images are very personal. Pilates teachers can offer a cue to a group class and get 5 different responses as to how that cue is embodied. The direction to simply “Stand Up Tall” can illicit a variety of responses from improving posture and alignment, to worsening posture and tension levels and adding excess neck strain…