Transform how you teach
Movement specialist and owner of Movementality in Melbourne, Ashleigh Berry explains to us how we get our clients to move is just as important as what we ask them to do.
Pilates Journal talks to Ashleigh Berry
When was the last time you explained something in detail to a client and they looked more perplexed than before you started explaining? We’ve all been there. In this moment did you make the assumption that they didn’t get it, and that they were missing something? It may sound harsh, but if the client is confused, it’s more likely a reflection on how you’ve demonstrated or explained it, rather than something they’ve done wrong. Perhaps you said too much or overcomplicated the answer. Maybe it’s time to take a breath, revise your approach and try something different.
Pilates Journal asked Ashleigh Berry, movement specialist and owner of Movementality in Melbourne, for her insights into how we make clients move better. Ashleigh understands all too well the nuances involved in working with our clients and how we get our clients to move is just as important as what we ask them to do.
Stress - what it is, and how to work with it
Unfortunately that doesn’t make your job easy in the mean time with clients complaining left, right, and centre, about their aches and pains and perceived stress in their lives. So what can we actually do to help them? Well lets consider one definition of stress is a subjective/relative stimulus driven activation of the sympathetic nervous system, causing a mobilisation of resources towards a fight or flight physiological reaction.
Growth VS Fixed Mindsets
Recently I have been participating in discussions with past and present leaders of Australian youth dance education and it has got me thinking. As new research continues to emerge about the correlations between brain neuroplasticity and thought patterns, I can’t help but relate it back to the adult learning environment we work in - the Pilates setting. There is so much emphasis currently placed on how our language and behaviors will shape our children’s learning habits and abilities. What we are failing to acknowledge is that they are also shaping our own adult learning habits and abilities. Often we are so preoccupied with the outside world that we forget that we are still learning, every day. Without a thought-out, considered approach to the way we are thinking, speaking and behaving daily, we can actually prevent ourselves from becoming successful learners.