Movement Teachers: What Miracle Can You Perform Today?

Here's some real talk from someone who has taught Pilates for a long time and worked with a lot of clients. This one's for all of my movement teachers or Pilates educators out there that are following along.

I want to address the fact that there's an unspoken contest or rule in this industry, in this field, to be the hardest teacher, to teach the hardest class, the hardest workout, and to be the most challenging. And I can tell you that I used to also lean into that goal. I wanted my class to be the hardest. I wanted everyone to be sore. I wanted them to feel the most challenged by taking my class. And I tell you what, I have evolved through my own study, through my own practice, through working with thousands and thousands and thousands of clients over the years, that my goal now is no longer to be the hardest class. I still throw down a pretty sincere challenge. I think that lots of people can attest to that.

However, when I'm walking in, my goal is how to serve. How to show up and serve in the best way possible, not how to show up and challenge in the most intense way. This is a job of service. This is work of empowering others in their own skin so that they walk out feeling better, functioning better and having a better experience in their own skin.

So I challenge you before you teach your next class or workout or session to pause, maybe even close your eyes and breathe and really imagine what can you do to best serve? I love the meditative kind of mantra or repeating the phrase, what miracle can I perform today? Because we can perform healing miracles that are going to help improve their experience in their own skin, in their own spirit. And that is a gift for us to give. And it's a shift of what your mindset is and what you're bringing to class.

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