2 Pilates Chicks: Recent Episodes
Hilary Opheim
Hilary Opheim, Pilates Mentor/Teacher Trainer is joined by her fellow Pilates friends, teachers and clients as they go behind the scene of all things Pilates! Laughs and fun are bound to come at ya!
Join the 2 Pilates chicks as we chat on issues that are new to creating boundaries with clients. Politics and things on social media have created so much division and freedom to say things that are leaving many in the studio uncomfortable. Clients and teachers are needing to create their own lines of what they will and won’t accept.
Join us as we chat on how important it is to adapt our language as Pilates teachers (cueing) to the individual client in so many ways! As a client taking Pilates it is key that the words to guide you are ones you can relate to and start to build your Pilates practice!
This topic has come up a lot! Join us as we answer some questions in teaching Pilates. When does it work to cue anatomy or intrinsic cueing? When does it make more sense to use a different technique such as action-based or extrinsic cueing? And what's the difference in how it affects the client's movement?
Join the 2 Pilates chicks with this latest podcast as we chat about the different types of environments where we can teach Pilates, and the styles of employment status in those places. The employee, owning your own studio, renting space and all the different places to teach. We chat on everything from big gym setting to small boutique studios.
Join the 2 Pilates chicks on this top of Continuing Education in your Pilates teaching career. If you are wanting to teach for a long time it is a key thing to stay learning, exploring and updated! Not only to keep your clients safe but, to keep that passion of teaching for your journey!
This episode we chat on those moments when you are teaching your Pilates client and you need to create some space for you. To ground yourself as a teacher, to take that breath and to be able to be with your client but also make sure you are in a good place to begin or continue.
Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat on how to retain clients that you get in the New Year to clients you have had for years!
We have heard so many things from new teachers and studio owners in regard to what the world of teaching Pilates is truly like vs maybe what social media shows to a lot entering this industry. Join us for our first chat of 2025 and if you are teaching Pilates, thinking about teaching Pilates or just wanting to know what the truth is about teaching Pilates join us!
It is the end of the year and our final episode of Season 5. Join us for our yearly Q&A episode as we take questions from listeners that are insightful Pilates questions to silly lifestyle preference questions. We had so many questions this year we only got to a handful but, those that didn’t make it this year are some amazing topics for 2025!
Join us for this episode that was a request from a listener. How to build that Pilates session for your long term client. We chat on how to keep them challenged and focused, keeping your clients for years and years as they continue to explore and grow in their Pilates practice.
Join the 2 Pilates chicks in this conversation on Pilates Certification vs Certificate of Completion. What does it mean to say you are a certified Pilates teacher? Are teacher training programs actually certifying students? Let’s discuss the confusion and debate of this in the Pilates industry!
Join the 2 Pilates Chicks on a conversation that got started by an email by Kevin Bowen. How do we know if what we see on Instagram is Pilates or someone just being creative or not safe?
We appreciated his message and tone in the letter, and just as he says, we've discussed similar ideas in previous episodes, but we felt the need to touch on it again.
Does posture cause or change pain levels? Is there such a thing as perfect posture? Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat on this and if Pilates actually changes that posture and how that affects if it does pain you may be having.
Join the 2 Pilates chicks in Season 5 Episode 12 as we chat all about Imposter Syndrome.
What is it? How do we navigate as a Pilates teacher with imposter syndrome?
This can affect us not only as new teachers, but really anytime throughout our careers in different ways.
In this podcast episode we chat on how everyone is different and Hypermobility is a specturm. There is so much to discuss on hypermobility and hypermobile disorders (hEDS, HSD). We dive into the basics of it in this episode.
Join the 2 Pilates chicks as we discuss thinking about how to plan for sessions with clients who are new to Pilates, new to us as teachers, and for those who have been coming for years.
We'll touch on some new tools for your teaching skills, teaching to that body in front of you, and various ways to think about planning sessions.
In this episode of the 2 Pilates Chicks we as we discuss how Pilates teachers might cue differently for our clients in Pilates versus how they are guided when recovering from an injury in therapy. It can be confusing for clients and Pilates teachers. Let’s talk about how to tell the difference in what you are doing and how you cue for those clients.
What cues are overly used and outdated for teaching Pilates? How can Pilates teachers update these cues to be more effective for our clients?
Join the 2 Pilates chicks to chat not only on how cues can work better for Pilates teachers but, for Pilates practioners and those looking to improve their Pilates workout
In the latest episode of 2 Pilates Chicks join as they chat about how to navigate client fears around pain and new diagnosis results from MRIs. Pilates clients may come in with apprehension after getting scans done with their medical team. Pilates teachers need to understand how to approach a session with a client who is nervous about an MRI, and help them understand the results while feeling supported and safe in the Pilates studio or even in just working out and moving!
Join the 2 Pilates chicks as we discuss the mastering of traditional and classical Pilates work even in today’s contemporary/modern training styles of Pilates. We chat on understanding the foundations and how this allows for more adaptability when teaching any style of Pilates
Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as they discuss from their own experiences how injuries impacts work as a Pilates teacher. How you can learn from them to be a better Pilates teacher or practitioner of Pilates
Teaching Pilates and even practicing Pilates sometimes that critical self talk can come into the brain. Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we discuss these moments and how to move past them for you and your Pilates clients. This can easily be applied to any part of your life!
Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat on the words, cues and how you guide a client in their Pilates experience. Have you ever thought about as a Pilates client or as a Pilates teacher the language that is being used to teach Pilates? Let’s explore and look at this topic!
What does it mean as a Pilates teacher to “teach the body in front of you”? There has been a lot of chatter on Instagram, Facebook, and all of social media, but, does it mean what you think? Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat about this subject as it is our motto when teaching!
In the 2 Pilates Chicks first podcast of 2024 it is all about having those difficult conversations with your Pilates clients.
2023 and Season 4 is coming to a close and the 2 Pilates Chicks answer a few questions from listeners and look back a bit at the podcast and 2023!
Join the 2 Pilates Chicks in this podcast that delves into the social media Pilates Circus. Are you seeing all the acrobatics on the Pilates apparatus and seeing more discussions about injuries practitioners have suffered from in a Pilates class?
Join Hilary and Davita, the 2 Pilates chicks as they discuss what Pilates Teacher Training Programs are really like. How do you decide if one is the right pick for you? What do you need to know before signing on? Choosing the right Pilates Teacher Training is like picking a college, lots to think about.
In this episode the 2 Pilates Chicks answer a question from a listener on when is the best time or right time to make that leap from a 9-5 job to teaching Pilates full time. Listen as Hilary and Davita chat on how you transition from teaching part time to full time.
Movement Science Made Simple is the post-grad Pilates program Hilary mentions and you can check them out https://movementsciencemadesimple.com/
Join the 2 Pilates chicks as they discuss dealing with not only moments of stress but long term stress and how to stay positive in your teaching and work life. Both Davita and Hilary have had to deal with that long term stress caring for family members and still take care and guide clients.
Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat about what it really is to be a Pilates teacher. The realities of all things that come with teaching clients and Pilates as a career.
Here is the link to the article that started this conversation for us!
https://pilatesjournal.com/articles/thepilatesreformationtpj
Are they really demanding? What is really going on for this Pilates client. How do Pilates teachers deal and maybe get that client to be one that is understood and we can work with as teachers and give that Pilates client what they are needing and wanting.
Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we discuss what tactile cues are, what they mean and how they can be used to let the client figure out movement and how things feel in their workout. Get ready to discuss what the difference is between hands on and tactile. Are they the same?
Join us as we chat on the client who has fear that stops them from moving. Fear due to injury, pain or sometimes not understanding the difference of pain and sensation. Are you someone who has fear of a movement? At some point we all do, so how do we overcome that fear?
Join the 2 Pilates chicks in this podcast that is all about that fear of flexion in Pilates and all fitness avenues. When did flexion get a bad rap? Is it bad? What do we need to really know about flexion for ourselves and those we teach to move!
Join the 2 Pilates chicks in this podcast all about using props with your Pilates clients. Why do you use them? how do you use them? This podcast will show you and make you think the next time you as a client or as a teacher grab that prop for “work” in your Pilates session.
Join us for the first in our series looking at the psychology and personalities of clients! The bored client. The Pilates client who says to the Pilates teacher “I am bored” . Are they bored? What do you do as a teacher?
This podcast started with listening to Simon Sinek and how the brain doesn’t hear negaitve. Join the 2 Pilates chicks in this episode on how using that negative cueing affects the clients learning process and how to change that into Positive. Let’s discus as Simon Sinek said the brain doesn’t hear negative!
It is the first episode of Season 4 and the perfect time to look at the personalities of the Pilates clients hat come in to the studio. New Year means new clients .Join the 2 Pilates chicks in this start of the new year exploration into the minds of our clients!
Take a listen and share your thoughts with us!
Join us for this episode as we look at what making mistakes in Pilates as a Pilates Teacher and as a Pilates client is about. Making Mistakes is not a moment of panic but, time to look and learn!
Take a listen and share your thoughts with us!
Join Hilary and Davita as they chat on how keeping certain things in your life including the studio will keep your teaching fresh, allow you to have a life outside the studio and stay happy and building your Pilates business without giving up your sanity or healthe
What makes a bad Pilates cue or a good one? How do you connect and cue for your client and trust us we found the answer! Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we discuss
Season 3 begins with Davita and Hilary having fun chatting about clients and lessons you learn in the studio and how you take them into your outside life.
Chat with Hilary and Tracy on getting Pilates Graduation during a Pandemic and the pivot of where to teach when things change in unexpected ways.
Join the conversation on running a Pilates studio in a fitnes center, finding your Pilates soul sister, and seeing what is important in the pandemic in studio and friendship life. Learn about Fascial Stretch Therapy and how it applies to Pilates and your health.
Hilary and Dana sit and chat on their journeys of picking up leaving the place they had lived all their lives for new adventures!
Hilary and Christina talk about being thankful for all things Pilates. The journey, the clients, fellow teachers and this amazing community
For all Pilates teachers the 2 Pilates Chicks chat on how to get clients, maintain clients and those boundaries while training clients. How to keep them challenged and engaged so they stay your clients for years and years.
Hilary and Christina are back to talk about all things Pilates and why everyone from athletes to someone who has never worked out can do Pilates and get benefits from Pilates.
Hilary who created the WAPilates Tacher Training Program and her Assistant Director Christina give great insight into all things in regard to picking a Pilates Teacher Training Program.
Hilary Opheim with Assistant Director Christina leave the studio and head to Hugs and Donuts in Houston to ask people if they know what Pilates is? Armed with postcards and pics of apparatus they see if they can convince those getting donuts to a. chat with them and b. learn more about Pilates
Hilary Opheim, Pilates Mentor and Teacher Trainer is joined by her Assistant Director and fellow WAP teacher in this Blogcast Pilates Chicks. Hilary and Christina have a fun, positive and easy way and this introduction shows a bit of the "outside the studio" personality.
Get to know Hilary Opheim a bit better and join the 2 as they show you all about Pilates, Teacher Training, and Workshops.