Issue #325 – Wednesday, February 17, 2021 The Side Way Sitting Stretch by Reiner Grootenhuis ”The Side Way Sitting Stretch” is the original name used by Carola Trier I first discovered this exercise in the archive pictures of Joseph Pilates‘s student Carola Trier. Shortly afterwards I was taught the […]
Whose Business is Bad Teaching? Part I – by Chantill Lopez
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 […]
Pilates Wisdom from Jay Grimes – by Ana Caban
Issue #318 – November 18, 2020 Pilates Wisdom from Jay Grimes by Ana Caban When I sat down in Balanced Body Headquarters over 2 ½ years ago, I had no idea what an amazing and historical ride I was in for. I entered a conference room with managers of several […]
We’re Transitioning! – by Clare Dunphy Hemani
Issue #317 – Wednesday, November 11, 2020 We’re Transitioning! by Clare Dunphy Hemani It took me awhile to appreciate how powerfully transitions impact the work of Pilates. Their purpose and importance in our development as practitioners and teachers cannot be overstated. Let’s break it down and look closer at the […]
Review of Caged Lion – by Reiner Grootenhuis
Pic: Author John Steele with Joe and Clara Issue #316 – Wednesday, November 4, 2020 Review of Caged Lion by Reiner Grootenhuis As a Pilates Intel regular, you probably read the excerpt from John Howard Steel’s recently published “Caged Lion” here a few weeks ago. Time for a review and […]
Diving Deeper into the Pilates Matwork to Keep It Fresh – by Amy Taylor Alpers
Issue #315 – Wednesday, October 21, 2020 Diving Deeper into the Pilates Matwork to Keep It Fresh by Amy Taylor Alpers Pilates teachers often ask me, “How can I keep my Mat classes interesting – both for my clients and for myself? It’s so repetitive.” It’s basically the same […]
Pandemic Pilates! – by Teri Lee Steele
Issue #312 – Wednesday, October 14, 2020 Pandemic Pilates! by Teri Lee Steele On March 16th of this year, my husband and I packed our kids, pets and enough clothes for 2 weeks into our car and headed upstate to our house in the Catskills. We purchased […]
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 […]
Pilates at School A Dream Has Come True! by Eva Obenaus
Issue #309 – Wednesday, August 26, 2020 Pilates at School A Dream Has Come True! by Eva Obenaus I was a teacher of physical education and history at a Commercial High School in Austria from 1978 until 2017. In 2004, I started my Pilates education with Juliana Afram in Hamburg, […]
Teaching Tips for Tendon Stretch that are Rooted in Motor Learning – by Chelsea Corley
June 24, 2020 Teaching Tips for Tendon Stretch that are Rooted in Motor Learning by Chelsea Corley Teaching Pilates is an expressive art form. That is part of the beauty in what we do as instructors. It is so fantastic that the same client can go to several different […]
Pilates for the Ageing Population – the Power of the Feet – by Amy Alpers
Issue #303 – Wednesday June 3, 2020 Pilates for the Ageing Population – the Power of the Feet by Amy Alpers I’ve been teaching Pilates for 30+ years now, and some of my clients have been with me nearly as long. Consequently, some are now in the “senior” classification. And […]
My Personal “Return to life through Contrology” Post Stroke – by Tacye Lynnette
Issue #299 – Wednesday, April 29, 2020 My Personal “Return to life through Contrology” Post Stroke by Tacye Lynnette [Note from the Editor: This article was written prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.] One year ago, on April 27, 2019, I had a right ACA infarct (ischaemic) stroke. It came seemingly […]
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 […]
Pilates Intel Survey 2019 Results
Issue 288 January 22, 2020 Pilates Intel Survey 2019 Results No surprises with this graph showing 94% of Pilates Subscribers are Pilates professionals. 85% positive response to this question (Strongly Agree plus Somewhat Agree). For the 8% of the people who responded negatively – even though you don’t enjoy different […]
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 […]
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 […]
Love for the Baby Chair from Sunni A and Laura C
Feb 20, 2019 Laura Meets Baby (Chair) By Laura Cotler “The Arm Chair informs the rest of the workout,” said Andrea Maida, at her Solana Beach studio. The Arm Chair, also known fondly as the “Baby Chair,” or “Old Lady Chair,” wasn’t included as part of my contemporary Pilates trainings […]
Romana Kryzanowska’s Place in the History of Pilates by Amy Taylor Alpers
Romana Kryzanowska’s Place in the History of Pilates By Amy Taylor Alpers May 23, 2017 I wrote a piece for PilatesIntel awhile back in which I told Romana’s history and tried my best to describe her character and vivacious, fun-loving nature. Give her a glass of champagne, take her […]
Five Instructional Secrets by Sarah K. Negara
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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 […]
Pilates Stopped Working For Me – by Karena Thek
Pic of Karena in the water – I had a great team to get me back in the ocean: Surgeon, physical therapists and Pilates Instructors! Pilates Stopped Working For Me by Karena Thek I’m one of those people. You know those people who credit Pilates with giving them back their lives, their […]
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 […]
Getting Real with Deborah Lessen
Deborah Lessen has been around for a long, long time, and she is to me a cult figure in the Pilates world. I see her as the unofficial grand ‘teacher of teachers’ because she is sought after by many ‘big Pilates names’. I met Deborah last year at the PMA […]
Kathy Grant Heritage and Big Bear – by Jon Hawkins and Sunni Almond
This is post contains 2 articles, one by Jon Hawkins and the other further down by Sunni Almond. Kathy Grant Heritage Training by Jon Hawkins Kathleen Stafford-Grant was one of the individuals who learned directly from Joseph Pilates, known collectively as The Elders. Kathy was one of the many dancers […]
A Kind Statement from David Rosencrans
This statement from David Rosencrans is in reply to my recent article Modern Pilates Apparatus is Also Cool. David is the head of manufacturing and marketing at Gratz Industries. Hi Brett Although I do not personally engage in social media I feel like I know you through the forwded versions […]
Q&A with Siri and Jay Grimes
Dear Siri, I have knock knees and when I bring my legs together in parallel my knees touch, but of course my feet don’t. Even when I am in turn out, it still is uncomfortable having my legs and feet together. I do put a ball between my ankles […]
Article for Pilates Intel – by Andrea Maida
I recently taught a client at Vintage Pilates who asked what had initially brought me to Pilates. After telling him my story he agreed it is the same reason many of us come to Pilates: pain and embarrassment. Spot on. My formal education is in the theatre and I also […]
5 Pressing Reasons to Continue your Pilates Education – Andrea Maida
Romana’s Pilates Continuing Professional Education Seminar with Cynthia Lochard Garland Studios, Sherman Oaks, CA Post-workshop on Saturday afternoon, 5pm-ish…driving south towards I-5 after first procuring a treat for the trip back to San Diego. It’s been nearly 7 hours of Pilates, friends… Someone needs a cookie. The left side […]
From Sceptic To Convert – by Jehane Lindley
A new client walks in, they have been referred and this will be their first experience of Pilates. Unsure of what to expect but not believing it will be much, they sit wide-eyed, waiting. Recognising this ‘first-timer expression’ you approach them to do the meet and greet. For the most […]
9 Myths and Misconceptions about Pilates – by Kathy Corey
When I tell people that I’m a master Pilates trainer, I get a lot of interesting reactions. People who practice and love Pilates are quick to ask their burning questions or express their envy at my “dream” job. But many people who are less familiar with the popular form of […]
Teaching Topic – Working Symmetrically
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” – H. L. Mencken This week I thought I’d take up a subject that is close to my heart, one that I’ve been looking into for some time now in both myself and my clients. And that […]
The ambition of Pilates Intel
The ambition of Pilates Intel Welcome, welcome, WELCOME you to the very first edition of Pilates Intel , the newsletter advocating a global community of Pilates instructors. I thought I would make the very first letter about what this newsletter is about, who I am and what my ambitions are for this venture, which […]