2 Pilates Chicks

In Pilates are you just "holding on for dear life" in your Pilates practice, or are you actually stable? In this episode, the 2 Pilates Chicks dive deep into one of the most misunderstood concepts in movement: Dynamic Stability. When we teach Pilates we want to understand and give these moments to Pilates clients in their Pilates.

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat on bridging the gap with traditional Pilates and using functional training in the studio. From the client coming back to surgery to the client heading to a challenge moment in their practice. Using functional training tools to integrate a full body movement that is Pilates.

"In this episode, we’re peeling back the labels. From 'Classical' purists to 'Contemporary' innovators, we’re asking the big question: Does the title change the work? We’re diving into the differences, the drama, and how to find your own voice within the method—regardless of what you call it."

Join the 2 Pilates chicks in this discussion of how cueing is so different between a class and a private Pilates session. Each has a unique goal and purpose and to do one vs the other is key to give clients the challenge and support they need for each type of Pilates experience.

This topic came from a listener who has taught Pilates for a long time. The teacher noticed how every corner, every studio now has that fast, watered-down teacher training program and worried that the safety and system of Pilates is now getting lost.

This year we love how all the questions about Pilates, our industry and teaching all had a common thread that came out as we ended.

Join the 2 Pilates chicks as we share stories on clients that come to Pilates and maybe aren’t looking for that typical success the Pilates teacher thinks needs to happen. Sharing our experiences with clients with issues and what makes them successful in their Pilates practice

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we discuss when you are wanting your client to connect to something but no matter what you say or how you say it they aren’t getting it. Is the cue wrong? What if it worked for someone else but, now isn’t? How do you know if a cue will work or most importantly “speak” to that individual client?

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we discuss the difference between Balanced Body, Gratz and Mega Reformers to name a few. What a Pilates teacher needs to understand as well as the Pilates client coming into the studio. Knowing how the springs, dimensions and things are different so how do you apply the work for you as a teacher?

website for Human Rights Alliance to help and find out more  www.hrasantafe.org

Join us as we discuss the full system of Pilates and what that means for cueing, what you are looking for in your clients movements and how each apparatus has its own “conversation” when it comes to feedback for that client and exercise.

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks on what it means to deep dive in the work of Pilates. Not only as a Pilates Teacher but also as a Pilates client.

Join us as we again talk about when clients have issues or pain and why we don’t as Pilates teachers want to take a movement away from them. Let’s explore how to keep them supported and strengthening without limiting what they do!

Join the 2 Pilates chicks as we chat on issues that are new to creating boundaries with clients. Politics and things on social media have created so much division and freedom to say things that are leaving many in the studio uncomfortable. Clients and teachers need to create their own lines of what they will and won’t accept.

Join us as we chat about how important it is to adapt our language as Pilates teachers (cueing) to the individual client in so many ways! As a client taking Pilates, it is key that the words you use to guide you are ones you can relate to and start building your Pilates practice!

This topic has come up a lot! Join us as we answer some questions in teaching Pilates. When does it work to cue anatomy or intrinsic cueing? When does it make more sense to use a different technique such as action-based or extrinsic cueing? And what's the difference in how it affects the client's movement?

Join the 2 Pilates chicks with this latest podcast as we chat about the different types of environments where we can teach Pilates, and the styles of employment status in those places. The employee, owning your own studio, renting space and all the different places to teach. We chat on everything from big gym setting to small boutique studios.

Join the 2 Pilates chicks on this top of Continuing Education in your Pilates teaching career. If you are wanting to teach for a long time it is a key thing to stay learning, exploring and updated! Not only to keep your clients safe but, to keep that passion of teaching for your journey!

This episode we chat on those moments when you are teaching your Pilates client and you need to create some space for you. To ground yourself as a teacher, to take that breath and to be able to be with your client but also make sure you are in a good place to begin or continue.

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat on how to retain clients that you get in the New Year to clients you have had for years! We will chat on all the tools and questions you need to remember as you keep clients for your teaching career

We have heard so many things from new teachers and studio owners in regard to what the world of teaching Pilates is truly like vs maybe what social media shows to a lot entering this industry. Join us for our first chat of 2025 and if you are teaching Pilates, thinking about teaching Pilates or just wanting to know what the truth is about teaching Pilates join us!

Questions from insightful Pilates questions to silly lifestyle preference questions. We had so many questions this year we only got to a handful but, those that didn’t make it this year are some amazing topics for 2025!

Join us for this episode that was a request from a listener. How to build that Pilates session for your long term client. We chat on how to keep them challenged and focused, keeping your clients for years and years as they continue to explore and grow in their Pilates practice.

Pilates Certification vs Certificate of Completion. What does it mean to say you are a certified Pilates teacher? Are teacher training programs actually certifying students? Let’s discuss the confusion and debate of this in the Pilates industry!

We appreciated his message and tone in the letter, and just as he says, we've discussed similar ideas in previous episodes, but we felt the need to touch on it again.

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as they chat on Posture and Pain Is there such a thing as perfect posture? Does Pilates actually changes that posture and how that affects if it does pain you may be having.

What is it? How do we navigate as a Pilates teacher with imposter syndrome? This can affect us not only as new teachers but really anytime throughout our careers in different ways.

Hypermobility is a spectrum, so everyone is different. However it's important for movement teachers to understand the foundations of what hypermobility is, how clients are impacted, and how to continue to safely move, strengthen, and progress with the hypermobile client.

We'll touch on some new tools for your teaching skills, teaching to that body in front of you, and various ways to think about planning sessions.

In this episode of the 2 Pilates Chicks we as we discuss how Pilates teachers might cue differently for our clients in Pilates versus how they are guided when recovering from an injury in therapy. It can be confusing for clients and Pilates teachers. Let’s talk about how to tell the difference in what you are doing and how you cue for those clients.

Join the 2 Pilates chicks to chat not only on how cues can work better for Pilates teachers but, for Pilates practioners and those looking to improve their Pilates workout

Pilates clients may come in with apprehension after getting scans done with their medical team. Pilates teachers need to understand how to approach a session with a client who is nervous about an MRI, and help them understand the results while feeling supported and safe in the Pilates studio or even in just working out and moving!

Join the 2 Pilates chicks as we discuss the mastering of traditional and classical Pilates work even in today’s contemporary/modern training styles of Pilates. We chat on understanding the foundations and how this allows for more adaptability when teaching any style of Pilates

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as they discuss from their own experiences how injuries impacts work as a Pilates teacher. How you can learn from them to be a better Pilates teacher or practitioner of Pilates

Teaching Pilates and even practicing Pilates sometimes that critical self talk can come into the brain. Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we discuss these moments and how to move past them for you and your Pilates clients. This can easily be applied to any part of your life!

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat on the words, cues and how you guide a client in their Pilates experience. Have you ever thought about as a Pilates client or as a Pilates teacher the language that is being used to teach Pilates? Let’s explore and look at this topic!

What does it mean as a Pilates teacher to “teach the body in front of you”? There has been a lot of chatter on Instagram, Facebook, and all of social media, but, does it mean what you think? Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat about this subject as it is our motto when teaching!

In Pilates teaching and any job there are those moments of difficult conversations you have to have with clients. Boundaries and more let's chat on how to handle those situations.

2023 and Season 4 is coming to a close and the 2 Pilates Chicks answer a few questions from listeners and look back a bit at the podcast and 2023!

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks in this podcast that delves into the social media Pilates Circus. Are you seeing all the acrobatics on the Pilates apparatus and seeing more discussions about injuries practitioners have suffered from in a Pilates class?

Do you know what to look for when you decide to do a Pilates teacher training program? The questions to ask, what is important information for you? Join the 2 Pilates chicks as they delve into this topic of teaching Pilates.

In this episode the 2 Pilates Chicks answer a question from a listener on when is the best time or right time to make that leap from a 9-5 job to teaching Pilates full time. Listen as Hilary and Davita chat on how you transition from teaching part time to full time.

Movement Science Made Simple is the post-grad Pilates program Hilary mentions and you can check them out https://movementsciencemadesimple.com/

Join the 2 Pilates chicks as they discuss dealing with not only moments of stress but long term stress and how to stay positive in your teaching and work life. Both Davita and Hilary have had to deal with that long term stress caring for family members and still take care and guide clients.

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat about what it really is to be a Pilates teacher. The realities of all things that come with teaching clients and Pilates as a career.

Inspried by a post by fellow Pilates teacher Danica Kalemdaroglu

Here is the link to the article that started this conversation for us! https://pilatesjournal.com/articles/thepilatesreformationtpj

Are they really demanding? What is really going on for this Pilates client. How do Pilates teachers deal and maybe get that client to be one that is understood and we can work with as teachers and give that Pilates client what they are needing and wanting.

Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we discuss what tactile cues are, what they mean and how they can be used to let the client figure out movement and how things feel in their workout. Get ready to discuss what the difference is between hands on and tactile. Are they the same?

This episode looks at the client who has fear due to an injury or pain. How do we move through that and feel safe and understand good or bad sensations?