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Kathi Ross-Nash: The Red Thread or the connection of each move to another in the system.
Bob Liekens/Jay Grimes: "Remember, every exercise has a beginning (a clean, swift set up), a middle (the exercise) and an end (a clean, controlled exit)".
Cara Reeser: "It's not that you eat too much bread that you have a double chin, there are muscles under there that you need work!
Romana: "Don't breathe like a steam train.", "Be one piece of steel from head to heel" (long stretch), "bend like a willow in the breeze" ( side bed short box), "be poetry in motion", "don't just eat the raisins from the cereal" (when spending too long on the cadillac).
Ed Yong: Tells his baseball players to keep their "bling" away from their shoulders!
Andrea Maida: Two way stretch and opposition. We only have one exercise – double leg stretch.
From Michele Larsson: "It's movement people, just move!" and "Everyone steals (movement), just steal from the best and acknowledge who you got it from".
Alan Herdman: Leave your baggage outside the Studio door. Focus on the work and your clients, never take this precious time to talk about your problems!!
"Effortless effort! Make it look easy" "don't work so hard , you are making me tired " Romana.
Carole Amend: Teach your clients how their bones move and then have the client tell their bones what to do.
Troy Hyatt: Dorothee Vandewalle is magic! One of my absolute favorite memories of apprenticing with her was watching her work with a morbidly obese middle-aged woman. She worked her hard but at the same time gently encouraged her to stand tall, be proud, and take on the world. I still use Dorothee's words when I end classes: "You're now tall, lifted, and floating. Now go out and enjoy your evening at the opera!" And Dorothee actually does float!
From Moses Urbano, simply 'I teach Pilates' without defining C or C, he simply won't engage in that conversation.
And from Jennifer Kries: keeping cuing simple: "as you ____, pull this, or lengthen _____" hold hold hold.
From Sunni Almond– "No one gets worse" You know how everyone stresses over their inability to grasp a new concept in their body, I remind them that once they didn't even roll over, let alone crawl or walk or run 😉 I also say, "Stop the madness", if they refuse to slow down and try for control, we all know what that one looks like.
Some of these are brilliant cues, some of these are to remind us to keep cuing simple, and bring the professionalism as well as the fun. It's just exercise.
I respectfully disagree that "it's just exercise". PILATES is a system where the student is always learning. Yes, have fun but allow the student to appreciate the process.
Sunni is a comprehensively trained teacher who's start in Pilates was in the contemporary style and she has spent the last few years bridging to classical. She has been teaching for nearly 20 years, and remains a student studying with the most gifted and solidly trained classical teachers.
Passions include her grandchildren, painting, (she did the mural in this pic), her 3 Great Danes, and flying in The Wind Tunnel now that she no longer skydives. Her home studio has been voted #1 in her area since the 1st year she opened. Sunni also holds educational workshops at Studio S Pilates and shares the Pilates wealth as it were by offering the workshops via Skype and private video link, for those whom travel isn't in the cards.