Pre Pilates
Functional Movement Resources
In this section we go through the 🔑foundational principles you can teach your students right away. Why? Because these key principles show up all the time in all the Pilates work that you’ll be teaching them.
Once they understand those principles, they will be able to move onto the more complicated aspects of the work — like the actual exercises that have more complex choreography. Teaching your students these concepts, will help them connect to their body in a new way as they begin to understand the the bones, muscles, and alignment in their own body.
This is the most essential aspect of your teaching — you get to educate people how they might connect to the basic (but often obscure) ways that their body feels and moves.
TIP 💡Be sure to refer back to these concepts often, and by name, ie., say “torso hug”, when that’s what you want them to do. This way, it becomes a way you communicate with them, and they communicate with their body in your sessions.