The “Konnections” workshop by Konnect Method revolutionizes Pilates by utilizing the innovative Konnections Band across mat, reformer, and chair environments to connect the limbs, amplifying traditional exercises for increased strength, awareness, and movement efficiency. This distinctive approach enhances body coordination and mind-body synergy, elevating both teaching and personal practice through greater proprioception. The program redefines Pilates as a more integrative and perceptive experience, pushing the boundaries of conventional training for enriched physical conditioning.

This unique teacher training course is designed to support the client experience from a diagnosis of breast cancer through to the ‘new’ physical normal. Once a client is diagnosed the medical world plays an enormous role. The client finds themselves on a roller coaster ride filled with uncertainties, anxieties and choices. Throughout, surgery, treatment and ongoing drug protocols take a toll on the body. This course guides you, the instructor, through the process of what a diagnosis means, the physical fallout from various treatments and the emotional toll cancer takes on a client. It will outline, at each stage, movements designed to restore physical strength, flexibility, range of motion, and most importantly a client’s trust in their body’s ability to heal and be well again. Movements in this course will incorporate mat-based Pilates, Reformer and Trapeze exercises. 

One of the best reasons to come to a Pilates on Tour is to experience the joy of coming together as a community of instructors; there is truly nothing like it. This is why we started a new tradition with the Pilates on Tour Keynote addresses. Join Ken Endelman, CEO and founder of Balanced Body, as he welcomes you and shares his History of Pilates presentation. If you know Ken, you know a few things: he loves building things, he loves sharing knowledge, and he is a really nice guy! You won’t want to miss this. 

The shoulder and its relationship to the spine is essential for most athletic endeavors from the mobility and power used in swimming to the stability needed in bicycling. Take a deep dive into the complex actions of the shoulder and spine and learn to feel, see and train the shoulder for optimum function using the Pilates Reformer. We will explore the synergistic actions of the shoulder girdle and spine, and you will enhance your hands-on skills and personal practice with excellent exercises to improve health and performance.

In this workshop you will learn what hypermobility is, who it affects and how it presents itself in our clients. We will discuss the effects hypermobility has on the nervous system – including anxiety and the fight or flight response – and why this matters to us in the clinic or Pilates studio. Jessica will share exercise principles and movement protocols for our hypermobile clients and give specific examples of movements to include and movements to avoid when working with the hypermobile client.

The essence of Pilates is what retains clients, fills classes and creates the sense of community within a studio and facility. Join Shelly as she teaches you how to utilize the whole of the Pilates system to discover, move and examine its essence. Learn progressions, from elementary mat to advanced apparatus exercises. Through discussion and practical work, you will have the tools to train all clients of all skill–levels, and learn how to create change, enhance the mind body relationship, and apply exercises that relate to functional, real‐life movements.

Join Lindy and Nora for an experiential session exploring techniques to empower your clients who experience pain. Self-empowerment and self-awareness can provide tools for clients to manage or minimize the role of pain in their lives. As instructors working with clients who experience pain, we may feel helpless, frustrated, fearful or overprotective of our clients, which may reinforce their experience. Techniques such as self-reflection, intention, client education and appropriate cueing, can effectively transform your client’s experience and your own from one of fear to one of empowerment and provide a safe environment for movement exploration.

Double up on the amount of tools in your teaching tool bag by bringing some classical concepts to your classes and small groups. Learn how to create autonomy, increase clients progress, and ditch the burnout. This workshop is excellent for the classically curious who want to add variety to current teaching, and for anyone looking to have a fun, moving experience that will challenge your mind and your practice. 

Gain a deeper understanding of the anatomy, biomechanics, and practical significance of hip flexion in your daily life and Pilates practice. Discover reasons why clients might experience tight or sore hip flexors and learn how to address these issues effectively.  
Through insightful guidance and hands-on experience, you will learn how to activate the various muscles of the hip and enhance flexion in exercises such as Spine Stretch Forward, Short Box Abdominals, Leg Circles and Teaser. Elevate your teaching skills and empower your clients to unlock the full potential of their hips. 

How we cue and share information with our clients determines how they will respond and embody their movement experiences and the exercises within each session.  In this workshop we explore the difference between directive cueing and dialogue. How to effectively use these techniques in combination is what creates a client–focused, positive environment conducive to creating powerful and lasting change. 

Join Lolita San Miguel as she moves you through a series of Pilates exercises that are intended to inspire you, regardless of age and ability, and to keep moving for a lifetime. Lolita, herself a role model and advocate for the value of healthy movement strategies for a healthy quality of life, will share with you her secret to elegance in aging. The key is to stay young at heart and to move!

As our understanding of the incredible intelligence of the human body expands, new insights and more accurate modeling can be used to better direct our movement training. Based on the Anatomy in Motion model from creator Gary Ward, this workshop will guide you in exploring new concepts in improving gait on the CoreAlign. Tom will also introduce you to the Franklin Method to enhance embodiment and understanding in movement.

Pre-Pilates is a loose collection of ideas that most teachers missed in their initial certification. In this workshop, Chaz Knight shares how to create programs accessible to all teachers, from all lineages, and to transform the approach the building of the body. Using pre-Pilates exercises to link supine, seated, and standing positions, you will learn progressions which can be applied to all Pilates options, from mat to the apparatus.

Join Nora St. John, the creator of the Balanced Body Education curriculum and the new Advanced Movement Principles, as she explores the role of Pilates in maintaining, promoting, and encouraging health, longevity, and overall wellbeing.  

Create the ultimate healthy body for yourself and your clients with Pilates. Each exercise explored in this workshop creates an opportunity to challenge yourself and your client to achieve more of the advanced work on all of the apparatus in the Pilates environment. Shelly’s unique perspective on the traditional and contemporary Pilates exercises feels fresh and new and the tools and ideas presented are practical, accessible, and applicable.

Let’s build the core! Joy will guide you on a fun and informative walk through the core using the Anatomy in Three Dimensions skeleton. With clay, you will build the expanded core structures, including the psoas, the diaphragm, the TrA, and the thoracolumbar fascia. You will also explore and play with movement on the Reformer and the Tower which will highlight the interconnectivity of the structures you just built.

Pilates ‘uniformly develops‘ the body so it can move with ultimate efficiency and effectiveness, thus enabling detoxification and reoxygenation through unhindered circulation. This happens by acknowledging all the essential facts about the body in front of you and how you utilize Pilates exercises to purposefully accommodate all the physical uniqueness of the individual including proportions of weight, height and length, relative tightness and flexibility, and distribution of mass. All, and more, will be considered when determining and developing an exercise program designed to meet the ultimate goal – a uniformly developed body. 

Are you unsure how to compete with other Pilates studios locally or online? Learn how to show up and to be visible in a way that positions you as the expert and go-to studio which attracts the types of clients your studio was meant to serve. You will also learn how to nurture your business to keep your client funnel stimulating new interest while retaining current clients. These simple strategies and techniques can be deployed by everyone and will keep new prospects coming your way.  

Teaching multiple levels of clients at the same time might seem challenging, but it can be done successfully and will increase your impact and your income potential. Learn key strategies to safely, effectively, and successfully instruct small mixed groups which include new and experienced clients. Earn more per hour while easily scheduling multiple clients at a time without having to have duplicate equipment.

The human spine is incredible – it allows us to walk upright, protects our spinal cord and allows our upper body and lower body to work together. However, it gets a bad reputation, especially as we age. This course will review the expectations of the aging spine. Topics we will explore include knowing when a medical referral may be needed, what nerve pain in the lower extremities may mean, the effects of osteoporosis/sarcopenia, pain and more. In movement we will explore posture and how to create successful movement experiences using cueing, modifications, and props when working with aging clients. 

Our head directs much of our movement whether we are typing on a smartphone or throwing a tennis ball. Creating support for the head and the neck requires work on vision, posture, myofascial balance, and upper body work. This workshop from AMP: The Upper Body takes you through a series of specific exercises to create balance and resilience in the head and neck followed by cueing, modifications and support for decreasing pain and discomfort. You will come away with easy tools to use with clients who have a pain in the neck!

Spend time with Lolita as she shares her insights, cues, and tools from 50 years of teaching. Using exercises on each piece of equipment, Lolita reveals the key principles of Pilates and helps you to become a more effective and efficient teacher. Along the way she will share her experiences with Joseph Pilates and help you to understand the original intention of the work.

This fun and creative “WERKShop” is a movement-based exploration is Pilates mat integrated with primary Yoga poses. This session will explore the precision and focus of Pilates, and the fluidity and mindfulness of Yoga. In this workshop you can expect to move through a series of postures and exercises that will challenge your strength, flexibility, and balance. The connections to rhythm, breath and movement will also be explored. Expect to learn strategies to create sequences to add to your studio or group fitness classes. Expect to stretch, sweat, flow, and experience “The Werk”. For an added twist, music!

“Lift” is the most used word in my studio. Pilates helps us literally and figurately pick ourselves UP. Finding an UP feeling is one of the most noticeable changes in our body initially. We will start with the arches of the feet and work all the way to the crown of the head identifying the key components to continually building the UP. We will troubleshoot the subtle tendencies and habits that may have developed and refine them into a new level of lift.

You finished your Pilates training and opened a studio; now what? Join industry leaders, Lesley and Paula, to hear invaluable Pilates business advice, as well as ask questions and gain their valuable insight.  

Anterior pelvic tilt can be an important and vital part of a healthy and happy body. It can have a positive effect on numerous body systems, including your spine, organs, pelvic floor, hips, lower body and more. In this workshop, you will learn why an anterior pelvic tilt is a natural part of pelvic movement and how it relates to healthy positioning, function and biomechanics in the body. We will review assessment tools to help our clients with proper pelvic positioning and unlearn the old paradigm of a “perfect” posture to achieve. Finally, we will learn exercises on the mat and reformer to encourage healthy movement of the pelvis and to find muscle connections that support the pelvis.

Based on new exercises developed for Advanced Movement Principles, this workshop focuses on improving imbalances in the spine, pelvis, hips, and legs through unilateral and asymmetrical exercises in the Pilates environment. Using both new moves and variations on traditional exercises you will learn how to use the neuromyofascial system to improve alignment and create balanced muscle development in the core and lower body. The course includes foundational concepts but the focus is on experiencing and exploring the exercises so you can put them to use with your clients to create lasting change effectively and efficiently.

Explore, review, and discover the power of the Classical Reformer as taught by Romana Kryzanowska to Amy Taylor Alpers from the Pilates Center. Classical Pilates focuses on specific sequences, logical progressions, and smooth transitions between exercises to create a workout that requires focus, body awareness, endurance, deep breathing, and a high degree of skill. This is how Pilates produces the powerful ‘internal shower.’ Come and experience how the classical Reformer work can deepen and enrich your teaching and your personal practice.

The Chair is the ideal piece of Pilates equipment to practice functional movements for day‐to‐day living, for improving postural awareness, and to work hard while having fun. Join Shelly for an exciting look at traditional and creative Chair exercises. Learn how to improve your practice and teaching on the Chair and be able to apply the information into your practice immediately.

Tired of hearing hip clicks, or noticing clients working from their hip flexors? Maybe you are noticing them getting frustrated with Roll Ups, Teasers and more! You know what they need to be working but getting those muscles to turn on can be difficult. Especially when they do not have the connections yet!  
Discover how to turn on the back and sides of the legs and how to work our legs from our center. We will use props for the Mat (great for homework), the Cadillac/Tower and Reformer. Plus, cover ways to challenge the connections once we have them. 

Understanding the anatomy and biomechanics of the shoulder girdle is paramount for fitness and movement practitioners, particularly those in the Pilates field. This workshop delves deep into the structure and function of the shoulder girdle, equipping participants with the knowledge and skills to enhance shoulder function and movement freedom within their Pilates practice. As part of this exploration, participants will critically evaluate the widely used but often misunderstood cue, “pull your shoulders down,” assessing its applicability in various contexts and gaining a nuanced understanding of when and how to employ it effectively in their teaching and practice.

Wall Pilates has gained popularity in the media lately. Learn the wall exercises and the fundamentals of teaching the wall work.  Explore using the wall as a tool to inform your body when rounding, lengthening, side bending, and articulating. We will be applying all that we discovered to the mat work and the apparatus. You will gain a deeper understanding of how to teach your clients to feel Pilates and refine your eye for effective corrections.

Learn how to stretch effectively to move better for life! Expand your understanding and ability to improve functional flexibility and structural balance. You will learn the importance of alignment, joint mobility, dynamic eccentric activation, proper breathing, verbal and hands-on cuing. This interactive workshop will begin with a Franklin Method Myofascial release sequence for the shoulder girdle and neck. We will follow with active fascial stretching techniques. This workshop will give you an elevated understanding of how to improve flexibility and teaching skills to bring into your private sessions, classes, and personal practice.