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How to Build a Pilates Class That Transforms Your Clients Without Burning You Out

How to Build a Pilates Class That Transforms Your Clients Without Burning You Out

Update: 2025-11-10
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Behind every powerful Pilates class is a teacher who understands subtlety. In this solo episode, Nic shares how to create classes that help clients find ease, awareness, and lasting change.


After years of teaching and now educating other Pilates instructors, Nic has noticed a recurring question from listeners: what does it mean to teach with subtlety?


In this episode, she breaks down the art and science of structuring a Pilates class that helps clients move with more awareness, ease, and confidence.


Nic explores why starting supine allows students to unwind tension and reset their nervous system, how to layer exercises to set them up for success, and why spine articulation and standing integration are essential for taking Pilates beyond the studio and into everyday life.


She also shares her philosophy on mindful cueing, unlearning old teaching habits, and how to guide clients towards noticing change.


If this episode helped you see your teaching in a new way, share it with another instructor who would love it too.


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How to Build a Pilates Class That Transforms Your Clients Without Burning You Out

How to Build a Pilates Class That Transforms Your Clients Without Burning You Out

Nic Lenny