How do you “get into the zone” during your workouts? How do keep yourself true to the discipline of clean transitions, advancing your own practice and challenging your own personal ideal? Where do you give yourself slack? One of the things I have learned...

NOTE: The following was written by Conni Ponturo, owner of The Absolute Yoga and Pilates Studio in Woodland Hills, California and Pink Ribbon Program -trained specialist. In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Peak Pilates has asked Conni to...

NOTE: This article was written by Mary Bange, a Houston-based Peak PilateSystem® Certified Trainer and Cancer Exercise Specialist through the Pink Ribbon Program . In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Peak Pilates has asked Mary to share her experiences...

NOTE: This article, written by Suzanne Martin, PT, DPT, was recently featured on the Pilates-Pro website ( www.pilates-pro.com ) and is reproducued with permision.The original article can be found by visiting http://www.pilates-pro.com/pilates-pro/2008...

Last month I had the privilege of teaching several MVe workshops at Dallas Mania. It was a great convention and our MVe Chair was well received and it was great to see so many of our MVe instructors. However, many of the attendees were not Pilates instructors...

I have a new goal for my Pilates practice. I want to get back to being able to do a full Bridge on the reformer, which I haven’t been able to do since before my hip surgery. So here is the strategy I am using to help me reach my goal, I hope it helps...

I recently went to a cocktail party and during the evening I noticed a woman who is all too familiar to people in the exercise world: she was rake-thin, very ripped, too tanned, too blonde, and with dreadful posture. She looked older than her years and...

Teaching can be a daunting experience when instructing on a piece of equipment that is new or that you are unaccustomed to. The various Pilates equipment manufacturers have diverse designs that can present a challenge when following generalized equipment...

Obviously, one of the main benefits of Pilates is improved posture. As instructors, we know that many different postures walk through our studios every day. It is important to have the ability to make postural changes in your students’ bodies. This is...

Baby Boomers Bearing "Boo-Boos”- say that five-times-fast! Like most of you, the majority of my clientele are Baby Boomers. Baby Boomers is the term given to the generation of Americans who were born during a "baby boom" following World...

Recently an instructor e-mailed me with a question concerning guidelines for allowing clients to access equipment and workout on their own and the potential fees for this. This is a philosophical and organizational concern and it may be a legal one, too...

When I started PPS-I, the order seemed hard to remember. Some Pilates studios have the order posted on the wall. We don’t. I had to memorize it of course. I do not believe in cheat sheets. Now, however, I am doing PPS-II and again the order has changed...

We all know that Pilates is great! However, over this past year, I have been surprised at the number of young clientele that our studio (The InnerSpace in Avon, CT) has attracted. We first offered a class called ‘Playful Pilates’ a year ago. This was...

It is hard for me to believe, even as I write these words, that nearly five months ago I had a second hip replacement. After reflecting back on the experience and re-reading my journal I was reminded of the feelings and personal progress I encountered...

The fitness fusion movement is fascinating to many fitness professionals - for many very different reasons. My fascination revolves around potential applications and innovations of fitness programming that can impact cancer patients during treatment and...