We’re done! (well, sort of) On the Friday night of the final training weekend, Tanis tosses the teacher-trainees (TTs) into the pool – but only metaphorically. Several unfamiliar bodies show up for impromptu one-on-one lessons and the trainees must assess, program and teach –without consulting their manuals! Showing nerves only for a minute, each performs…
In this penultimate weekend, the Teacher Trainees are excited to tackle even more challenging progression in the vast Pilates repertoire. Tanis has customized a manual of Chair and Cadillac exercises geared to our current abilities and teaching level, equally good for self-practice and teaching advanced clients. Since illustrations or photos don’t always do justice to…
It’s springtime and true-to-form, the trainees are metamorphosing into teachers. Even the ones who came later to Pilates have surpassed all expectations (and me) – so there really must be something in the adage that to learn something, you should teach it. Even though these trainees are varied in their teaching styles, they are all…
Weekend 6 zooms and flows by……. Even though I’m never sure what more I can write about, I still ALWAYS learn something new. I also learn some things again (or maybe they just sink in better?) Such a layering process, this Pilates education. Because of our increasing proficiency, we can now handle a faster pace…
The landscape seems to have changed overnight. Perhaps stimulated by last month’s evaluations, aided by the growing comfort with practice students, and enhanced by the group meetings about what to expect and what will be expected over the next six months, things are feeling a little more focused in the studio. Teacher-Trainees are tallying their…
Exam time?!! The first written “midterm” prompted classic test anxiety, despite assurances that it was merely an evaluation (and more for the teaching team) of what TTs have managed to retain rather than memorize over the last few months. Just as our bodies don’t retain things unless practiced and integrated into our daily thinking and…
This second weekend of TT, we arrive knowing a little more of what to expect. And we’ve had tons of studio time to get comfortable with at least one additional piece of apparatus. We’ve come a long way from our first pseudo-apparatus (the 2×4) and we’d like to think we are now more accomplished at…
[Joan is a writer/editor and currently under performing athlete whose background and interest in sport and sport medicine fortunately brought her to Pilates as a practitioner. Her idea of teaching is through the written word so she’ll continue to blog on the TT journey to share the learning.] My head and my body are sore….
