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Movement Science Made Simple

Smart continuing education for Pilates professionals As teachers, our tools are demonstration, touch, and language.

To be effective teachers our demonstration must be fully embodied, our touch supportive, and our language direct or poetic as needed. Movement Science Made Simple joins current concepts in anatomy, kinesiology, and motor learning with time-tested movement training strategies, giving workshop participants new skills to work with diverse client populations.

11/26/2025

Join Cara Reeser for a 2-hour guided Mat practice designed to deepen your cuing, ex*****on, and understanding of Pilates exercises that require sequential rolling of the spine. Together, we’ll explore how articulation of the pelvis on the femurs and control of the head and cervical spine contribute to smooth, supported rolling. We’ll also take time to problem-solve common challenges that arise in rolling exercises, with attention to individual structural variations. Exercises will include; Roll Up, Roll Over, Open Leg Rocker, Teaser, Crab, and more. This session is an opportunity to refine your skills, expand your teaching toolkit, and experience the joy of rolling with clarity and control.

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10/17/2025

Coming up! Your Song Is Your Strength, in which we get to the bottom of Pilates ideas of "core"! Join in person or watch the recording!

10/06/2025

Join us November 8-9 for Your Song Is Your Strength, in which we sort out the mysteries of breathing in Pilates, the use of the transverse abdominis, and "the scoop," with some side trips to the pelvic floorcand diastasis recti.

One current model of the body’s “core” includes the abdominal and low back muscles, the thoracic diaphragm, and the pelvic floor. Because these muscles are also intimately involved in breathing, breath control and core control are inseparable. Understanding the implications of this model makes it easier to correctly and safely coach both Pilates exercises and functional movement.

04/25/2025

Coming up in July, The Brain in Pain 🧠! Join us for a deep dive into pain science as it applies to teaching movement and exercise!

03/21/2025

Join us live in person in LA, NYC, Paris or Glasgow! Early bird 🐦 rehistration has started for all courses! Space is limited!

02/07/2025

Join for a look at what we know and don't know about fascia! Some questions we'll ask: Does "fascia-specific" training mean anything? Is myofascial release plausible? What is the relationship between fascia and pain?

What questions would you like answered?

01/31/2025

🐦 Early bird registration is open for Look, Listen, Push, Pull in-person at Hilary Opheim Pilates in LA! Join us for a weekend of training strength and mobility in the neck and shoulders!

01/20/2025

Last call for .design.lab Pregancy & Postpartum course this Saturday! Join live or register to receive the recording. If you work with pregnant or postpartum clients, you don't want to miss this!

01/13/2025

Last call for Everything Rotation with this Friday from 12-2 Eastern. Join us live online or register to receive the recording!

01/04/2025

A few of our favorite books from 2024 (some published in 2024, some we encountered for the first time)! For our complete annual list of books, articles and podcasts, join our closed Facebook group (link in comments).

11/15/2024

Join for a Leg Day!

Increased leg strength and power correlate with better performance and decreased risk of injury in athletic populations, while deficits correlate with increased falls and all-cause mortality in the elderly. So we want to have lots of different strategies for working on the legs! This may require us to think outside the standard Pilates tool kit in order to create programming that is appropriately challenging for all our clients.

In this course, we’ll look at ways to make the most of the Pilates equipment and supplement the standard Pilates repertoire to help our clients build maximum strength and power in their legs. Participants will learn:

Exercises for isolated quad and hamstring strengthening

Strategies for coaching “functional” movements such as squats, deadlifts, and lunges

Adaptations of exercises from sports performance (such as Nordic hamstring curls, reverse Nordics, and Copenhagen planks) for the Pilates environment

Plyometric progressions to work on lower extremity power for everyone

11/12/2024

Fascia has been a hot topic for at least two decades now, and is the subject of much speculation. Even the New York Times has written that fascia “may be a key to better health.” In this short course, we’ll look at what the research into fascia actually says (even the definition is not widely agreed upon!) and think about the implications for movement, exercise and bodywork. On the way, we’ll get a crash course in how to evaluate the claims made in popular science writing and on social media.

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