It is common in the Pilates/Biomechanics Coaching (BC) cross over for Kubler-Ross to re-surface.
When returning to life as a Pilates instructor the challenge of 'how it all fits together' may return. So I would like to instigate a thread for the purpose of this discussion.
OK so when I first embarked on the ITS courses, I had presumed that this would slide in easily with what I currently teach in class and privately, how wrong I was!
Most of my classes have been running for a few years now with probably 80% of the original members still with me, so to suddenly revert back to what in their eyes may be very easy exercises, that they can barely feel, has been a challenge. I started to introduce a couple of anti-spasms into the classes, but it almost felt like there was a deathly silence whilst they performed their releases, but they are coming round to my way of thinking now and so on their last class before the Jubilee holiday recently, I decided to put together a whole hour of IMF stuff, I even added a LLD demo at the end, released pec minor and the magic worked (phew!) they were all very keen to find out more and I had several texts and emails to say how much they had enjoyed it. So, even if they are coming to you for a "workout" and you give them something different, as long as they feel and see the difference then I am sure they will continue to be regular clients.
This is still a work in progress and so would love to share with other Pilates peeps...
