2 Pilates Chicks

2 Pilates Chicks

Hilary Opheim and Davita Paul are Pilates Teachers and Educators. Join them as they chat on Pilates, teaching, and life. Based in Los Angeles they will keep you thinking and laughing!

Episodes

September 14, 2025
Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we discuss the difference between Balanced Body, Gratz and Mega Reformers to name a few. What a Pilates teacher needs to understand as well as the Pilates client coming into the studio. Knowing how the springs, dimensions and things are different so how do you apply the work for you as a teacher?
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Join us as we discuss the full system of Pilates and what that means for cueing, what you are looking for in your clients movements and how each apparatus has its own “conversation” when it comes to feedback for that client and exercise.
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Join the 2 Pilates Chicks on what it means to deep dive in the work of Pilates. Not only as a Pilates Teacher but also as a Pilates client.
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Join us as we again talk about when clients have issues or pain and why we don’t as Pilates teachers want to take a movement away from them. Let’s explore how to keep them supported and strengthening without limiting what they do!
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Join the 2 Pilates chicks as we chat on issues that are new to creating boundaries with clients. Politics and things on social media have created so much division and freedom to say things that are leaving many in the studio uncomfortable. Clients and teachers need to create their own lines of what they will and won’t accept.
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Join us as we chat about how important it is to adapt our language as Pilates teachers (cueing) to the individual client in so many ways! As a client taking Pilates, it is key that the words you use to guide you are ones you can relate to and start building your Pilates practice!
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This topic has come up a lot! Join us as we answer some questions in teaching Pilates. When does it work to cue anatomy or intrinsic cueing? When does it make more sense to use a different technique such as action-based or extrinsic cueing? And what's the difference in how it affects the client's movement?

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Join the 2 Pilates chicks with this latest podcast as we chat about the different types of environments where we can teach Pilates, and the styles of employment status in those places. The employee, owning your own studio, renting space and all the different places to teach. We chat on everything from big gym setting to small boutique studios.
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Join the 2 Pilates chicks on this top of Continuing Education in your Pilates teaching career. If you are wanting to teach for a long time it is a key thing to stay learning, exploring and updated! Not only to keep your clients safe but, to keep that passion of teaching for your journey!
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This episode we chat on those moments when you are teaching your Pilates client and you need to create some space for you. To ground yourself as a teacher, to take that breath and to be able to be with your client but also make sure you are in a good place to begin or continue.

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Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as we chat on how to retain clients that you get in the New Year to clients you have had for years! We will chat on all the tools and questions you need to remember as you keep clients for your teaching career
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We have heard so many things from new teachers and studio owners in regard to what the world of teaching Pilates is truly like vs maybe what social media shows to a lot entering this industry. Join us for our first chat of 2025 and if you are teaching Pilates, thinking about teaching Pilates or just wanting to know what the truth is about teaching Pilates join us!
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Questions from insightful Pilates questions to silly lifestyle preference questions. We had so many questions this year we only got to a handful but, those that didn’t make it this year are some amazing topics for 2025!
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Join us for this episode that was a request from a listener. How to build that Pilates session for your long term client. We chat on how to keep them challenged and focused, keeping your clients for years and years as they continue to explore and grow in their Pilates practice.
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Pilates Certification vs Certificate of Completion. What does it mean to say you are a certified Pilates teacher? Are teacher training programs actually certifying students? Let’s discuss the confusion and debate of this in the Pilates industry!
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We appreciated his message and tone in the letter, and just as he says, we've discussed similar ideas in previous episodes, but we felt the need to touch on it again.
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Join the 2 Pilates Chicks as they chat on Posture and Pain Is there such a thing as perfect posture? Does Pilates actually changes that posture and how that affects if it does pain you may be having.
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What is it? How do we navigate as a Pilates teacher with imposter syndrome? This can affect us not only as new teachers but really anytime throughout our careers in different ways.
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Hypermobility is a spectrum, so everyone is different. However it's important for movement teachers to understand the foundations of what hypermobility is, how clients are impacted, and how to continue to safely move, strengthen, and progress with the hypermobile client.
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