Pilates Exchange

Learn about the art and philosophy of Pilates and fitness mixed with evidence-based exercise science. Find helpful teaching tips, resources, and empowering ideas to elevate your classes/business. We will have tough and inspiring conversations with other coaches, experts, artists, and athletes. Our goal is to challenge myths, explore concepts, and engage in healthy debate as we dive deep with intrigue and curiosity. When we can trust and express ourselves through our bodies, we are unlimited in our ability to change ourselves and our communities for the better. As movement teachers and coaches, we have the power to help people experience this for themselves. Exchanging ideas and changing people’s lives, one session at a time. This is the pilates exchange.

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Ethical Social Media for Pilates

In our global society, social media often plays an integral part in our livelihoods and in our businesses. So, how can we as movement teachers and coaches make use of it in the most ethical way? Make sure you tune into this episode of The Pilates Exchange, where we delve into the big world of social media! Today, we share our thoughts on the ethics of posting pictures or videos of your clients or students and question the motives behind posting. We also discuss why it is so important to have a s...

Sep 22, 2023•20 min•Ep. 5

Shame Free Teaching with Christian Teutscher

As movement coaches and teachers, we want to focus on creating environments that are shame-free and fun for all our students, no matter their age or competency levels! Our conversation today stems from the idea of how we grew up as dancers, with different teachers, all who inevitably had an influence on us. Whether that influence was on our psychological, mental, or physical well-being or impacted how we view movement now. Our encounters with teachers and choreographers range from us as young im...

Sep 14, 2023•19 min•Ep. 4

Navigating the Critical Voice of Our Internal Dialogue

We are often so concerned with the physicalities of movement in our sessions, however, part of our role as movement teachers can be to create awareness of what is happening on the inside of the minds of our students. In this episode, we explore that inner critical voice, or inner monologue, that many of us have experienced. We talk about what to do about it, the impact it may have on movement, and how we can identify when it’s happening to our students. Our conversation steers toward the two dif...

Sep 07, 2023•25 min•Ep. 3

Cultivating Growth Mindset as Movement Teachers

As movement teachers, we know or have observed that growth is never linear and opportunities to fail greatly impact the growth trajectory. Today, we dive into a topic that is very much a pop culture phrase going around at the moment, the ‘growth mindset’. We explore what it means as it relates to movement teachers or studio owners and discuss what it looks like, the approaches toward it, and why it is important. We then take a look at how we can work toward cultivating a growth mindset as moveme...

Sep 01, 2023•34 min•Ep. 2

Introduction to the Art and Philosophy of Movement

Welcome to The Pilates Exchange, a podcast that delves deep into the art and philosophy of beautiful movement mixed with evidence-based exercise science, where we challenge myths, explore concepts, and engage in healthy debate with intrigue and curiosity. In this, our first episode, you’ll meet our host Hannah Teutscher who talks about her background in dance, Pilates, yoga, and movement, before sharing her thoughts on the current state of the movement world. Hannah shares why she believes we sh...

Aug 28, 2023•16 min•Ep. 1

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