Polestar Pilates Teacher Training: The Principles part 6 of 6
Okay, here we are at the final segment of the Polestar Pilates Teacher Training Principles. This is the movement integration principle, or in other words, how the heck do we put all of this together? If you are a fitness professional, imagine this scenario: Someone comes into work with you, he is carrying a backpack […]
Continue readingLearn to Run: Week 2
Wow! We are off to a great start! It was so fun to see the progress of everyone in the second week of our Learn to Run course! If you want a sense of the fabulous strengthening chaos that is our Learn to Run course check out the picture! That is what a well used […]
Continue readingPolestar Pilates Teacher Training: The Principles part 5 of 6
As we continue our exploration of the principles that every Polestar Pilates Teacher Training covers, we have come to my favorite principle: Alignment and Weight Bearing of the Upper and Lower extremity. This principle is my favorite for a very geeky reason. And that reason is the word arthrokinematics. The most basic kinesiology classes covers […]
Continue readingNeed a Day Job? Try Becoming a Pilates Teacher
If you’re considering becoming a Pilates Teacher consider the following information. According to Study.com: “Most pilates instructors are employed on an hourly, part-time basis. According to PayScale.com in 2014, the median hourly salary for pilates instructors was $28. Most pilates instructors wound up earning from $31,543 to $100,534 annually at that time, including bonuses and […]
Continue readingLearn to Run: Week 1
What a great first week! We are so excited to Learn to Run with you. You may be thinking, “What a great first class, now what!” And that my friends is why I am sending you this blog post. Each week after class we will send you a link to a blog post with three […]
Continue readingPolestar Pilates Teacher Training: The Principles Part 4 of 6
Over the past few weeks this blog has been has been explaining the basics of The Polestar Pilates principles that underscore all of the Polestar Pilates Teacher Training. We have talked about the importance of Breath, axial length and control, and spine articulation. Now we shall move on to the fourth principle, which is organization […]
Continue readingPolestar Pilates Teacher Training: The Principles part 3 of 6
On this blog, We’ve talked about breath and we’ve talked about axial elongation and control as the first to principles of Polestar Pilates Teacher Training. If you remember breath is a tool to facilitate movement and axial elongation and control uses alignment and length to create the most efficient pathway to movement. Now we move […]
Continue readingPolestar Pilates Teacher Training: The Principles, 2 of 6
In the last blogpost I spoke about how the Polestar Pilates Training, allowed me to be a creative teacher because of the system of principles that it teaches. We spoke about breath and using the breath as a tool for movement facilitation, and that led me to tell you, “Why Polestar?” Because with a system […]
Continue readingWhat’s learned in a Polestar Pilates Teacher Training?
I was once at a Polestar Pilates Educator meeting in which we were working hard to create content for the Internet to communicate to the world, “Why Pilates?” And “Why Polestar?” The answers I found to these questions were easy. Why Pilates? Because Pilates keeps every person doing what they want to do! Whether that […]
Continue readingBest candidates for a Pilates Teacher Training program love to move!
About four years ago I posted the following Facebook status, “What do a PT, a chiropractor, two dancers, a therapist, a painter, an international developer, and a teacher have in common? They are the fabulous students of the Polestar Pilates training that are joining Valerie Lyons Hodgson and I for R1/S1. What a great start […]
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