One of my clients who is in her 70s right now and had double knee replacement told me once “If I knew that I would live that long I would have started doing Pilates at your age!”

At the time of our conversation I was 28 years old and I have been practicing Pilates for 5 years. Yet, I didn’t feel that I started early enough.

I remember reading an interview with Daria Pace, granddaughter of Romana Kryzanowska, when she shared her memories of having Pilates sessions as a child with her grandmother. Of course, she had an opportunity to take classes from Joe’s protégé and yet I was thinking that learning the Method so early was the biggest gift that she received.

I believe that any instructor out there would agree that teaching Pilates to children will be the most useful self-care tip that children can get. But how do you start teaching Pilates to kids? Working with children is so much different from working with the adults.

Today I am talking to Amanda Rhine, the owner of Discover Happy Pilates Studio in Decorah, IA. She has been teaching Pilates to children for 3 years and she shares her experience of working with probably the most challenging and most amazing population of Pilates clients – CHILDREN.

Questions discussed in the interview (INCLUDES: Practical Worksheet and Full Transcript)

1. How to develop essential skills for teaching Pilates to children
2. How to market and promote Pilates for children
3. How to get local exposure for Youth Pilates classes
4. Which exercises to include in a session
5. The best age to introduce Pilates to children
6. The length of the classes
7. What props/equipment to use
8. The biggest benefits of starting Pilates at a young age
9. The most rewarding part of teaching Pilates to children

Brett Miller is the new bold voice of the Pilates community. Chances are you have read his inbox magazine PilatesIntel or seen his comments in various Pilates forums. Brett lives and teaches in Stockholm while “marrying” his passion for Pilates with a full time career in software development.

I first came across Brett’s magazine Pilates Intel about a year ago and have been following it ever since. I have witnessed a rapid growth of his resource and was amazed at the abundance of interesting Pilates articles that came across my inbox over this past year. There were two things that absolutely amazed me about Brett:

1. The questioning mind. Brett is never afraid to challenge any Pilates truth or rule. His discussions are not about being right or wrong, they are about hearing different points of view that get all of us closer to the best way that we can practice and teach Pilates.
2. Career/Pilates balance. At first I thought that Pilates was Brett’s whole life. It seemed that he spent so much time traveling, teaching and talking to all the other instructors that there was no way that he could have been doing it part time. I was blown away to find out that Brett was successfully combining his Pilates passion with being a full time software developer.

Questions discussed in the interview with Brett Miller (INCLUDES: Full Transcript and Practical Worksheet)

1. The secrets to finding balance between a full-time career and Pilates.
2. How to find a complementing occupation to supplement Pilates income.
3. The “Why” of running an inbox magazine.
4. Brett’s definition of Pilates.
5. How asking questions makes you a better teacher.
6. Brett’s recent biggest discovery.
7. 3 factors that hinder the explosive growth of the Pilates industry.
8. Best tips for a successful Pilates practice.
9. 3 steps to become a better teacher.