Welcome to Pilates Therapy
26/03/17 11:54
Welcome to our Pilates Therapy blog!
Here we go, our first blog posting! Absolutely terrifying but doing it anyway.
Pilates Therapy was born out of the desire to offer therapy based professional development courses for Pilates teachers.
We are Bonnie Southgate and Stephanie Beeson a pair of American Pilates teachers who the universe kept arranging to bump into each other on courses. We got talking and discovered a shared passion for Pilates and an unquenchable thirst for more knowledge. We also realised we were integrating the skills we had learned outside the Pilates world into our teaching practice and were getting amazing results with our clients.
At first I resisted as life was busy enough and I had more than enough clients to teach each week. Why would I want to take on anything else? Bonnie, on the other hand, had other ideas.
I have to admit, I missed teaching other teachers. I had been a supervising teacher for Body Control Pilates around the turn of the century (sounds kind of cool seeing that in print but it is true, it was around 2000) . I was part of the team that set up the New Pilates School with Helge Fisher when she left Body Control. I ran a busy studio for a couple of years but decided to slow life down and be there for the school run more often. After that I had been teaching for around 10 years in my studio at home in Surrey working with tricky clients often referred from local practitioners. The school run was no longer part of my schedule and I had more time for clients and learning. This is when I first met Bonnie on a dissection day at Keele University and it was only a matter of time for Pilates Therapy to be conceived.
Pilates Therapy is our baby and was born out the desire to share assessment skills with other Pilates teachers. We work with qualified Pilates teachers to help them develop a deeper understanding of anatomy and biomechanics as well as identify clients that should be referred on to qualified practitioners within the medical community. Pilates is an amazing system and we believe the skills we are teaching help those teachers that work with more complex clients have the confidence to identify when to refer on and have a better understanding of how to work with their clients when they return to Pilates so their clients can get on enjoying their life with ‘spontaneous zest and pleasure’!
Here we go, our first blog posting! Absolutely terrifying but doing it anyway.
Pilates Therapy was born out of the desire to offer therapy based professional development courses for Pilates teachers.
We are Bonnie Southgate and Stephanie Beeson a pair of American Pilates teachers who the universe kept arranging to bump into each other on courses. We got talking and discovered a shared passion for Pilates and an unquenchable thirst for more knowledge. We also realised we were integrating the skills we had learned outside the Pilates world into our teaching practice and were getting amazing results with our clients.
At first I resisted as life was busy enough and I had more than enough clients to teach each week. Why would I want to take on anything else? Bonnie, on the other hand, had other ideas.
I have to admit, I missed teaching other teachers. I had been a supervising teacher for Body Control Pilates around the turn of the century (sounds kind of cool seeing that in print but it is true, it was around 2000) . I was part of the team that set up the New Pilates School with Helge Fisher when she left Body Control. I ran a busy studio for a couple of years but decided to slow life down and be there for the school run more often. After that I had been teaching for around 10 years in my studio at home in Surrey working with tricky clients often referred from local practitioners. The school run was no longer part of my schedule and I had more time for clients and learning. This is when I first met Bonnie on a dissection day at Keele University and it was only a matter of time for Pilates Therapy to be conceived.
Pilates Therapy is our baby and was born out the desire to share assessment skills with other Pilates teachers. We work with qualified Pilates teachers to help them develop a deeper understanding of anatomy and biomechanics as well as identify clients that should be referred on to qualified practitioners within the medical community. Pilates is an amazing system and we believe the skills we are teaching help those teachers that work with more complex clients have the confidence to identify when to refer on and have a better understanding of how to work with their clients when they return to Pilates so their clients can get on enjoying their life with ‘spontaneous zest and pleasure’!