When the Reformer Holds You, Freedom Begins

What happens when movement becomes more than just exercise? For Amy Rost, founder of Arc Pilates in Cochrane, Alberta, Pilates transformed from a desperate attempt to heal her broken, exhausted body into a lifeline that would ultimately change her career path and impact an entire community.

"The reformer and the spring could hold me and my stress, and I had the freedom to move," Amy shares, describing her first Pilates session. That profound experience led her from a corporate career in disability management to becoming a leading voice in Canadian Pilates. Working while raising four children—including twins—and navigating her oldest son's diagnosis with a rare degenerative neuromuscular disease, Amy discovered that maintaining her own strength through Pilates was essential for caring for others.

What makes Amy's approach special is her focus on accessibility and community over competition. Rather than getting caught in debates between classical and contemporary Pilates methods, she emphasizes their similarities: "Joe taught to the body in front of him, that's it." This inclusive philosophy extends to her creation of Pilates Fest North, born from her desire to bring Canadian Pilates teachers together regardless of lineage or approach. Despite launching during the pandemic, the conference has become a cherished gathering for the Canadian Pilates community.

Whether you're a Pilates practitioner, teacher, or simply curious about how movement can transform lives, Amy's story reminds us that the true power of Pilates lies not just in physical exercise but in its ability to support us through life's most demanding challenges. As she advises beginners: "Just start. Find a teacher who resonates with you, be open to the potential, and be patient—I promise it'll never be time that you regret investing in yourself."

About Amy Rost 

Amy Rost is the visionary founder of ARC Pilates, located in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada. She pioneered Pilates Fest North and co-founded the University of Pilates and Pilates Mentors. 

In 2016, Amy left her corporate career to become a Classical, Comprehensively Advanced, Trained and National Certified Pilates Teacher. Today, she is an internationally recognized educator and mentor in the Pilates community. In 2022, Amy expanded her expertise as a certified Life Coach through Jay Shetty’s certification program, enhancing her commitment to fostering community through movement, connection, and collaboration. Amy’s dedication to her practice and students and her impressive journey make her a visionary in the Pilates and w

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Heart of Motion Podcast host Susannah Steers is a Pilates & Integrated Movement Specialist and owner of Moving Spirit Pilates in North Vancouver, BC. She is passionate about movement, about connections and about life.

Through movement teaching, speaking, and facilitating workshops, she supports people in creating movement practices that promote fitness from the inside out. She loves building community, and participating in multi-disciplinary collaborations.

Along with her friend and colleague Gillian McCormick, Susannah also co-hosts The Small Conversations for a Better World podcast – an interview based podcast dedicated to promoting the kind of conversations about health that can spark positive change in individuals, families, communities and across the globe.

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heart, soul and science ofmovement as a pathway to more
active, vibrant and connectedliving.
Nothing happens until somethingmoves, so let's get started.
Over the years, in work and inplay, I've seen close-up how

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movement can inspire connectionsand confidence and support
really meaningful change forpeople.
At the same play, I've seenclose-up how movement can
inspire connections andconfidence and support really
meaningful change for people.
At the same time, I've alsoseen how it can create deep
bonds of community too.
My guest today embodies both ofthose.
Amy Rost is a force in thePilates community in Canada,
blending passion, resilience andinnovation into everything she

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does.
As the founder of Arc Pilatesin Cochrane, Alberta, she's
created a space where movementbecomes medicine.
An internationally recognizededucator and mentor, she founded
Pilates Fest North (Go, Canada!) and co-founded the University
of Pilates and the PilatesMentors.
Her commitment to the classicalPilates method is matched only

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by her dedication to makingPilates accessible to everyone,
fostering an inclusive communitywhere every individual is
empowered to explore theirpotential.
Today we're going to dive intoAmy's incredible story her path
from a career in disabilitymanagement to becoming a leader
in the Pilates world, and we'lltalk about her approach to

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teaching and community buildingand the why maybe behind her
creation of Pilates Fest North.
Together, we're going toexplore how movement fosters
connection, resilience and joy.
Amy, welcome, I am so gladyou're here.

Amy Rost (01:42):
Oh, thank you so much.
I'm so excited to be here.

Susannah Steers (01:46):
It doesn't really matter how many different
Pilates teachers I talked toover the course of the years.
There's always a bit of adifferent story about how they
discovered it in the first place.
What is your story?

Amy Rost (01:58):
So I discovered Pilates actually a little later
in life.
I was working in a corporatejob in disability management.
I have four kids, my youngesttwo are twins, and so working a
job, you know, 40, 50 hours plusa week.
And then my oldest son wasdiagnosed with a rare

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degenerative neuromusculardisease.
And that's actually what led meto Pilates was my body was
broken, it was exhausted, it wassore and I thought oh, oh, boy,
I can't continue down this pathof just sitting at a desk.
And my husband kept saying tome you should try Pilates, you

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should try Pilates.
And I was like, yeah, I think Idid a Pilates yoga class in
university.
He's like, no, like you need togo where there's equipment.

Susannah Steers (02:53):
And had he done Pilates?

Amy Rost (02:55):
He had experienced Pilates.
So I literally booked anappointment, went in and,
honestly, the first day I wentin a little intimidated but I
was like and but I laid on thatreformer and it was like the
reformer and the spring couldhold me and my stress and I just
had the freedom to move and Ihadn't experienced that ever and

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I thought, if this could bemovement, I'm sold and I,
honestly, from that first move,I was like I love everything
about this.
And then it also a little bittranslated into what I was doing
in my corporate job and thatwas disability management in a
spine clinic and all of thosepatients who were told they were

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not a surgical candidate.
What options were we givingthem?
And we weren't giving them any.
We were telling them get onwith your life.
And so I really saw thecorrelation quick and I very
quickly was like I wonder if Icould teach this.

Susannah Steers (03:54):
I was going to ask you if there was a moment or
whether it sort of snuck up onyou.

Amy Rost (03:59):
It kind of.
You know, I never went inthinking I was going to change
careers.
I just feel like, you know,everything comes to you when
it's meant to.
And Pilates landed for me whenI needed it the most and I felt
the power of change in my bodyand I thought, wow, what a gift
that could be to give to otherpeople.
And it was pretty quick.
I started researching where canI train, how can I do this in

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Canada, and it wasn't too longbefore then I literally left my
job.
I always say I left my job on aWednesday and I started Pilates
school on a Friday.

Susannah Steers (04:31):
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
I'm really interested to hearyou say that it felt like the
equipment and the springs couldhold you.
That's a beautiful way ofputting it.
I'm always fascinated, evenwhen I'm using different kinds
of equipment, the differentbrands of Pilates equipment that

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you can get.
I'm always interested to feelhow that is different with
different kinds of equipment,and sometimes you do feel
supported and held.
It's just such a beautiful wayto put it, and sometimes it's a
little, a little less so.
I had never thought about itquite in that way, but I think I
might've had a similarexperience.
It was there was a container,there was a place to hold you as

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you did this stuff.

Amy Rost (05:18):
Well, I felt like the spring could hold the tension of
my life, like I could justleave it there, and and then I
had the freedom to move and I'llnever, I'll never forget that
day.
It changed my life.

Susannah Steers (05:30):
Yeah, yeah.
I think for me it was a littlemore the idea of of finding a
healthy way to move against thattension.
You know what I mean as a wayto engage with that tension.
It didn't have to be all ornothing.
To be all or nothing, therewere degrees.

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You've talked about twins, youhave one of your kids with a
really serious condition and youknow that's a lot.
How did Pilates help younavigate these challenges?

Amy Rost (06:02):
Well, I think for me, when I was taking care of myself
, then I could show up and beavailable to them and as my best
self, and with a kid, you know,walking, this journey we're
walking is, um, is a difficultone.
I'm not gonna lie.
Um, I share a lot of it.
I don't share a lot of the someof the really hard stuff we see

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.
I knew that, for me, to be ableto take care of my child as his
needs increased and his physicalbody was failing him, that I
was going to need to be asstrong as I possibly could be to
be able to to just provide thecare that he needed.
And and that, for me, wasthat's where Pilates, you know,

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has given me the strength to beable to move a body that is no
longer has a ton of feeling init.
Um, it's fully wheelchair boundand you know, there's lots of
challenges, but it has kept mestrong, physically strong, which
also keeps us mentally strong.
Yeah, no, kidding, right?
So it is really that body, mindand spirit taking care of the

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whole person, the whole body.

Susannah Steers (07:13):
Yeah, that's it right, we talk about Pilates as
whole body movement and yes,it's physical.
But, just as you say, I alwaysthink of the body a little bit
like a hologram and we don't putthe pieces in discrete parts,
with the brain over here and theemotions over here and the body
over here.
They're all in one place andand if we can find a way to

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integrate and support them, thenwe're doing well and you can't
separate them right right, likeI can't.

Amy Rost (07:43):
I, you know all of the things that have happened and
that we can.
A body who comes to us that hasyou know their, their, their
journey to that point, comeswith them to a class we can't,
can't pick apart, uh, thosepieces, and I would rather see
them embody and integrate it all, and let's figure out a way to
work with all of it together toget the best out of them

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possible.

Susannah Steers (08:08):
Yeah, and then they're able to take that out
into the world too.

Amy Rost (08:12):
A hundred percent.
I always say I see them forsuch a small amount of time.
But then the real gift is whatthey get to take home to their
communities and their familiesand their jobs.
And you know their, theirsupport system gets the best of
them because they've investedthat time in themselves and in
movement and I do.

Susannah Steers (08:28):
Do you speak to that directly in your classes
or is this just something thatyou you're as part of the
process of teaching pilates andhelping them to embody that?
That comes, I do speak to itdirectly.

Amy Rost (08:41):
Yeah, I do, I, I do.
I can't separate them formyself.
So that, I think, is you know,probably the type of clients
that are attracted to me.
They're, they're, they'relooking for something more right
?
I always say I'm not yourteacher.
If you just want a six pack,you can get one, but it would
bring me no joy.
What brings me joy is that youmove well through your life.

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You are, you know, you havefunctional movement the rest of
your life and and that to me Iwould say, even every year I get
further into teaching andespecially, you know, teaching.
A kid who's got this horrificdisease has taught me so much
more about movement andfunctional movement and not so

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much about I could care lessabout performance.
I don't come from a dancebackground, so I don't have that
preconceived notion.
Performance just doesn't do itfor me.

Susannah Steers (09:39):
Well, it's funny, I came from a performance
background and when it came toPilates it was really more about
putting a broken body backtogether, because I had pushed
myself in performance mode untilI broke, and so it was really
good to be able to not do that

Amy Rost (09:58):
Right.
Yeah.

Susannah Steers (10:01):
I had my first Pilates experiences as part of
my dance training in the 80s andthen I did my initial training
and certification in 1995 or 96.
And back then we talked moreabout what Pilates lineage
people came from, which Pilateselder did you descend from, kind

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of thing.
Now we talk a lot more aboutclassical or contemporary or
even clinical Pilates fortherapists.
Are the primary principles ofwhat is now called classical
Pilates and I'm talking to youas a classical teacher are they
different?

Amy Rost (10:39):
So I think there's, I think there's such, there's so
much noise around thisdiscussion and I think I have
always come out of the lens.
Look, I had tried contemporarybefore I found classical.
And when I found classical itwas like, oh, this is actually

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like this feels.
When I found classical, it waslike, oh, this is actually like
this feels, what I need, and Ijust really fell in love with it
.
I think there are way moresimilarities than there are
differences and if we could, Ithink that just the better
conversation is.
What do we have in common?
And I even think, like looking,you know, and teaching teachers

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now, like I, we always try andbring the different lineages in,
talk about the different elders.
Joe taught to the body in frontof him, that's it.
And guess what?
Our clients don't care if we'reclassical or we're contemporary
or we're clinical.
They don't even know what thatmeans.

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So for me it's just been thereis way more similarities than
there are differences, and oneis not superior to the other.
I think there's a value in allof them and it comes down to
what resonates for you.

Susannah Steers (11:59):
Yep, I agree with you 100%.
Yeah, I don't think we evenneed to go any further If we
recognize that people are cominginto Pilates, when they first
start, from all kinds ofdifferent directions.
You know, people have seen iton Instagram or their doctor

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told them it was a good idea fortheir back or whatever, and
they're coming into classicalstudios or contemporary studios
or clinical studios.
What do you think are the mostimportant things that beginners
need to know?

Amy Rost (12:36):
So for me it's a little history lesson is, you
know, recognizing that we teacha method that is attached to
someone's name and and, and itwas a guy.
Yes, like a little bit ofhistory.
And then it's really for themto experience all of it.

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I always like to say my firstfew sessions are let's try
everything.
First few sessions are let'stry everything, like as
everything is in the equipment,not every exercise, but let's
try.
Let's try everything so thatyou kind of get a feel for why
we have these different piecesof equipment.
And then let's talk about someprinciples that are really

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important, I think in the method, concentration being one.
I'm going to ask you to move,maybe in a way you haven't moved
before.
So let's talk about we got tofocus to do that.
Let's talk about yourrelationship to equipment how
does it help, how does it maybemake it harder?

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What you know, what, what, whatis the feedback you're getting
from it?
And then also let's like focusa little bit about how to kind
of drop into our own bodies andhave some body awareness,
because I I see now bodies arequite different from pre-covid
to post-covid and I really findbodies are there's more and more

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bodies that are just not notconnected.
I'm like, how do you operatethat in your everyday life
without having some awareness,and that's I really want to show
them also an experience thatthey feel good.
My goal is always you feelbetter when you leave than when

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you start it, and I don't careif we're doing foot corrector
for an hour.
You're going to feel better,yeah, yeah.
So, that's for me, yep.

Susannah Steers (14:35):
Well, okay.
So I want to dig into the whatyou're noticing after COVID.
This is my movement geek thing,because I've noticed some
differences too and I'm justcurious if you're seeing the
same things, do you think it'sdistractions?
Do you think it's the worldviewjust shifted and everybody
shifted on their axis.
What are you noticing?

Amy Rost (14:56):
I think it's a few things.
I think it's the busyness Ithink has almost, from such a
retraction to where we are today, I feel like, has accelerated
so much and I think, you know, Ithink bodies have changed in

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terms of what they're doing in aday.
Yes, so when we're working fromhome and we only have to walk
to our desk, that's creating awhole new set of issues.
Yeah, yeah.

Susannah Steers (15:31):
And the Zoom meetings, one after the other
after the other, withoutappropriate breaks and being on
47 different apps and all of theways people can get to you and
you can't get away.
And I've talked to clients like, put the phone away If you're
going for a hike.
Like put it away, put it away,notice what's around you.

Amy Rost (15:55):
Yeah, and I think it's you know.
The other thing I think Inoticed in bodies too is you
know, those who've come through,who've had COVID there's a
different body coming throughthe door there is.
There's just some differentpatterns, different challenges
that we're having to workthrough.
That we didn't have five yearsago.

Susannah Steers (16:17):
Right, it's funny when there's an experience
that was so collective and soindividual at the same time and
it has profoundly changedeverything, 100%.
Okay, I would like to shiftgears a little bit now, because
I first encountered you throughPilates Fest North, maybe first

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for people who haven't heardabout it, tell us what it is.

Amy Rost (16:42):
So Pilates Fest North is my sort of passion project
and it's really a project thatis for the love of the Pilates
industry in Canada.
I got really tired of travelingto the US to take continuing ed
and being like, often I was theonly Canadian in the room and I

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just thought, well, how am Iever going to know what's
happening in Quebec, like, whereis the opportunity to come
together, regardless of yourbackground?
It is not a classicalconference and it's not a
contemporary conference, it's aPilates conference.
And how could we have a spaceto come together, learn from

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each other, move together?
I don't know.
There's just something magicalwhen there's a room full of
Pilates teachers doing thehundred together.
Yeah, the breath, just theenergy.
And I just saw there was a lackof that in Canada.

Susannah Steers (17:42):
That must have been a huge undertaking.
When was the first one?

Amy Rost (17:47):
Well, the first one was supposed to be the end of
April 2020.
So this and look, if I didn'thave a passion for this
community, it would have notkept going, because it was.
That was probably one of themost challenging experiences, as

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many other things werehappening in our own lives, with
challenges around COVID, butliterally six weeks out, we had
sold 80% of the tickets and wepaid all the venues.
Like I always say, I'm just agirl with a studio in her
basement, like I really I am,but I love this community and I

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had literally paid everything tovendors already.
And then we were shut down andthere was no like protocol in oh
, they have to refund.
There wasn't actually that.
So, anyway, so it didn't happen.
It paused.
We were able to bring back thebig conference in November 2021.

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And it was.
It was.
It happened when it wassupposed to, because it was so
magical and so many moments thatjust filled my soul and allowed
our industry to reconnect onanother level.
And then it happened again.
We took it on the road lastyear.

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We went to Kamloops last Mayand that's how we met and, yeah,
we're working on another onehere for maybe a little later in
2025.

Susannah Steers (19:24):
That's exciting .
I wish I had known about it in21, because I can only imagine,
after the chaos of 2020, youknow of that whole period and
the ups and the downs and andall of it to have people be able
to come together and and and betogether, and move together and
mourn together and and bejoyful in movement together.

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I can only imagine what apowerful experience that was.

Amy Rost (19:50):
Yeah, and that's part of part of my mission is that it
is a little bit of a differentkind of conference.
Yes, you can get youreducational credits, but really
at the core of me is creatingreally like unique and
meaningful connections and wetry to be really thoughtful
about how we do that.
And you know, we also had someof those also really great ones

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in in Kamloops and and those are.
You know, I think it's whatsets us apart from like a PMA or
um.
We we just have a littledifferent lens and I've learned
that the Pilates industry inCanada is a little, we are a

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little different.
Oh, what do you notice reallybenefits when we come together
towards growing strong,sustainable businesses in Canada
?
It's not competition.

Susannah Steers (21:00):
So how do you ensure that something like
Pilates Fest North is inclusiveand accessible to a wide range
of people, maybe including thosewho might not typically go down
to a PMA conference or andthat's Pilates Method Alliance
or, you know travel to anothercountry somewhere to study with

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someone else?

Amy Rost (21:23):
Well, and I think part of that is that inclusion is
one we're traveling in Canadaand we're using Canadian dollars
, which you know has been, youknow that has been a deterrent
from traveling to the U.
S.
It is very expensive and Ithink in you know, ensuring that
there is a diverse group ofteachers from all different

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backgrounds and again, I, as aclassical teacher, have never,
ever thought, oh, I would nevertake a contemporary session.
I always think, okay, there'salways something I can learn
from every single teacher, whatcan I take from that?

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So I think making thataccessible and I very much the
environment of Pilates FestNorth is, even if you come alone
, I promise you you will not bealone.
No one sits in the corner, noone sits in the, no one gets to
hide.
We, you will meet everybody andI ensure that we have some,
really you know, unique waysthat we are getting to know each

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other, I'm sure, unique waysthat we are getting to know each
other.
I'm sure Last time we were inour Taylor Swift era, so we had
friendship bracelets and you hadto find your matches.
Oh, no way, I was just thinkingan interesting movement
experiences and that kind ofthing, but that's fun too.

Susannah Steers (22:48):
A whole different theme, I like it.

Amy Rost (22:51):
Yeah, I also think there's like setting the stage
for, you know, any teacher whowants to present and making sure
that every voice is heard.
I mean, one of my favoritememories of the last one was
because of our connection.
So Sue had nominated one of herteachers for the Pilates Heart

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Scholarship to attend theconference and Katya came and
such a beautiful, beautiful soul.
But in our finale is, everyteacher had to teach an exercise
in our final math class andshe's like, and she was so cute
because she's like I don't knowthe words I.
I said then speak in Ukrainian,we all speak, we all speak

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movement, and it was one of themost impactful moments and I
think it's, you know, settingthat stage.
It's guess what we're not likehere and the rest of the
teachers are here.
No, we're all here, yeah, andmaybe one's a little further
along than you, but everybodyhas.

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Again, I just think everybodyhas value to share and we can
learn from that.
So that's how we keep itinclusive as well.

Susannah Steers (24:03):
I love it when really we recognize I mean
Pilates at its heart is an oraltradition.
It's not something you learn inbooks, it's something you learn
from another teacher, it'ssomething you learn from other
people.
And I love it when we can cometogether in a non-competitive
environment and just learn fromeach other.

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Well done you, Thank you.
Do you see the community inCanada evolving?
Is it changing?

Amy Rost (24:35):
I do.
I do think it's changing.
I do think you know, PilatesFest North is a real grassroots
festival and I think it changesby having one inviting.
I always say, say, I'll alwaysmake the table bigger, nobody is
excluded from the table and Ithink with the more

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opportunities we have to cometogether is where we see real
shift and again it's invitingthose who are ready to shift.
I appreciate not everybody isready.
I appreciate not everybody isready and that's that's okay too
.
That's okay too as long as weare providing events and

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supporting events that arehappening in our industry and
within our with.
We have to support them withinour country or they don't
survive.
That is a huge undertakings.
People don't maybe alwaysunderstand the undertaking it
takes to produce something likethat.
It is not for the faint ofheart I can't imagine.
But I do think it's evolvingand I do think, because we've

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been through such a collectivedifficult time, that we are more
open to healing and rising evenhigher in this next time.

Susannah Steers (25:52):
You have so much on the go between Arc
Pilates, university of Pilates,the Pilates Mentors, pilates
Fest North and a very fullfamily life.
You know there's a lot going onfor you in pretty much every
direction, I look.
How do you balance it all?

Amy Rost (26:12):
Well, I think you know , when you're blessed with twins
, you learn some really goodscheduling.
Um, you know I have always beenreally good with time.
I am really good with timemanagement.
There are times where, like art, pilates gets my full attention

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and then there's times where,you know, pilates Fest North
doesn't get as much time.
Right now it's not getting asmuch time.
That's just the season it's in.
But I also like variety.
There isn't one that I wouldtake off my plate.
I might from time to time haveto adjust the amount of time it
takes on my plate, but for me,as a teacher, I continue to grow

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because of those other thingsthat I do Right.

Susannah Steers (26:59):
They kind of feed each other.

Amy Rost (27:01):
A hundred percent.
Yeah, a hundred percent.

Susannah Steers (27:05):
Okay.
So now I have to ask how howyour movement life fits into all
of that.
I mean, maybe aside I meanPilates, obviously is a part of
it, but maybe aside from Pilates, what kind of things do you do
and what does movement mean foryou?

Amy Rost (27:21):
Movement is everything for me, and I don't mean that
like I'm like spending 10 hoursa day moving.
I am moving.
I don't work in a desk job,right, I'm moving in my everyday
, but for me it's.
Can I get outside?
I am very.
You know, I live just outsideCalgary.
We are a 30 minute drive to theRocky Mountains.

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We are hiking, walking,paddleboarding, skiing, all of
those things in our downtime,and I, you know our bodies are
meant to move.
If I'm not moving, nothing'smoving in my downtime.
And I, you know our bodies aremeant to move.
If I'm not moving, nothing'smoving in my life, Nothing's
moving yeah.
Yeah, and it's, you know it.

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It it starts with the movement,whatever that can be.
So you know we've got abeautiful day here in Cochrane
today.
I'll get out on my path andtake that dog for a walk and
enjoy whatever fresh air andoutdoor movement.
And for me it's become.
You know, pilates supports allthese things that I want to be

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able to do and, as I you know,get into middle age and the
challenges that come with that.
Movement really is it'smedicine for the body.
It keeps those joints moving,it keeps me doing the things I
want to be able to do in life,and as soon as we stop moving,
we run into trouble.

Susannah Steers (28:42):
Yeah, I'm with you 100%.
If you were speaking to someonejust starting their Pilates
journey, either as apractitioner doing Pilates for
themselves or an instructor,what advice might you give them?

Amy Rost (28:59):
I always say just start.
That's the hardest part.
Find a teacher and this wouldgo for both.
Find a teacher who resonateswith you, who you connect with,
and just be open to what thepotential could be and your
potential and I always say thisin my classes do not look at

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what the other person is doing,it's your practice, it is not a
competition.
You're going to give your besttoday and that's going to return
your body to life, as Jo wouldsay.

Susannah Steers (29:31):
With spontaneous zest and pleasure.

Amy Rost (29:33):
Zest and pleasure yes.
And be patient.
Be patient because Rome wasn'tbuilt in a day, as you said,
right, yeah, it takes time, butI promise you it'll never be
time that you regret investingin yourself.
I love it.

Susannah Steers (29:53):
Before we go, I wanted to let people know that,
among all the other thingsyou've created, you also have an
online Pilates platform calledthe Pilates Vault.
Can you tell us a little moreabout that?

Amy Rost (30:08):
So this I'm going to be honest with you came out of a
lot of discomfort for me.
Lot of discomfort for me.

Susannah Steers (30:13):
Oh, interesting ,

Amy Rost (30:13):
But it came out of I do not like video.
It just it is not my preferredplatform.
But out of COVID, I had like800 videos unlisted on my
YouTube channel and I keptgetting asked you know where can

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we keep working with you?
And I didn't want them in ajust anyone could have added in
YouTube, because there'sdifferent levels, there's
classes for different people,and I wanted to make sure that I
could present that in a waythat was accessible.
Right To be like, is this alevel I should be working in?

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We shouldn't start at advanced.
Yes, right, it looks cool butdon't start there, don't start
there, and so that has beenreally a labor of love over the
last four months trying to getthis up and running.
I've got an app that's coming.
It's available right now onApple.
We're still waiting for Googleapproval.
We talked about the tech stuffat the beginning.

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This has been a lesson intechnology which is not my like.
I always say like that's not mylane, my lane is movement.
I get to find the people whocan do the tech.
So that's really where it camefrom, and it's actually maybe
taken a little bit of adifferent path than I thought it
would in terms of more and moreof the practitioners I work

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with are recommending this totheir clients.
It's a way to keep Pilatesaccessible financially and
geographically and them stillget a great workout and have
access to me as a teacher.
So that's where this hasblossomed from.

Susannah Steers (31:55):
I love it.
There were so many interestingthings that came out of the
scramble that we all had to doduring the pandemic, and it's
lovely to see that something hascome out of that for you in
this way, and you havegenerously offered our listeners
a free seven-day trial on theplatform, so I'm going to make
sure to add all the details forthat in our show notes for today

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.
Amy, it is always inspiring totalk to you.
Thank you so much for joiningme today.

Amy Rost (32:24):
Thank, you so much for having me and always such a
pleasure to speak with you.

Susannah Steers (32:28):
I'm sure we will find each other soon,
whether it's in Canmore, whetherit's in some other part of the
country.
I look forward to gettingtogether in person one day Me
too.
All right, take care, and we'lltalk soon.
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For now, let's get moving.