I watch Pilates Teachers teaching their clients. Some are staring off into space, looking around the room or talking so much I cannot tell what is really happening with their lesson. Clients walk in slumping and walk out slumping. Teachers teach a bunch of exercises but what is their focus, where are they headed in […]

Today’s Pilates Studios are not just Pilates studios of the past. In order to stay in business the owners have looked into many different ways to keep the clients happy and returning for lessons. Many studios have turned to classes almost every hour. Four to six students attend these classes after they have taken 4 -6 […]

Do you work at a studio that doesn’t have carpet or wall covering where noise and music reverberates off the walls? I have older clients who have some hearing issues and this background noise interferes with their ability to hear me when I am teaching. Also, music can get in the way of concentration on […]

I just read an article on education trends in the fitness business. Did you know there are 100 million baby boomers (over 50) that make up 30% of our population? The CDC stated 80% of seniors have one chronic medical condition, 50% have two or more. Are you prepared to work with these issues like […]

According to Annie Lowrey writer of this article in NY Magazine September 15, 2015, Pilates is facing a severe downturn. She makes nonfactual assumptions why this is happening. Her idea, boutique-fitness studios are closing right and left, men don’t like Pilates, Pilates is too critical, too antisocial and too quiet is not quite accurate. The […]

The times they are a changing. I spoke to several Pilates teachers from Los Angeles, Palm Desert, Omaha and Kansas City who said it’s getting more difficult to find students who want a body/mind workout. In their opinion the fitness market is shifting to sweating and feeling the burn. In 1981 when I took my […]