Pilates Client Sensation Reference, 201 Reports, 12 Body Sites (Digital Download)

Footwork, third client along, and nothing looks wrong. She says "I feel this in my lower back." You have about three seconds in front of eight other people, and the three things you could say are all guesses: engage your core, that's normal, or let's take that out. Whichever you pick, you never find out whether you were right, so she says it again next Thursday.

Every other teaching tool you own starts with your eye. This one starts with her mouth. It is 201 reports a client actually makes, across twelve body sites, and each one is read the same way. Is it EXPECTED, meaning it belongs to the exercise. Is it CHANGE, meaning a technique read applies. Or is it STOP, meaning the exercise ends now and it goes to someone else.

For the ones that are a technique read, you get the thing no blog post can give you: a change that is also a test. Put your hand under the back of her head and take its weight, changing nothing else. If she tells you the neck feeling has gone and the abdominals have arrived, it was the weight of the head. If she tells you it is unchanged, it was the position of the chin. Two different next moves, decided by one change that cost three seconds and was a reasonable thing to try anyway. You know inside one set instead of next month.

Forty-eight line drawings, made for this reference, show the change rather than the fault, because the change is the thing you have to get exactly right. There are four diagrams: the three classes, the order of operations, the body map, and one worked entry drawn as a branch.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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✔ 201 reports, written the way a client says them, across twelve body sites
✔ Every report classed EXPECTED, CHANGE or STOP, so you know what kind of thing you are dealing with before you do anything
✔ One question to ask first, with what each answer rules out
✔ The likely causes, ordered by how often they are the answer, every one a movement reason
✔ The change that tells you which, with both branches written out as what she says next
✔ A move for each branch, and a do-not-say line on every single report
✔ 48 line drawings of the change, and 4 diagrams
✔ Three ways back in: by the exercise family you are running, by the first words she said, and the STOP list on one page for the night before you teach
✔ 24 printable report cards and a clipboard card for the reports that come up most
✔ Two PDFs: the booklet (194 pages) and the cards (27 pages)

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PERFECT FOR
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• Teachers in years one to three, who can fix what they can see and have no procedure for what they cannot
• Group reformer and mat teachers with a room in front of them and three seconds to answer
• Teachers of private sessions, where what she reports is most of the feedback you get in an hour
• Studio leads who want two teachers to answer the same report the same way

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WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT
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✓ It makes the call you actually have to make, which is whether this is even a problem
✓ About one report in eight is EXPECTED, with the sentence that says so without brushing her off
✓ Every change moves one thing, so the answer means something
✓ The line is the cleanest one in teaching: an ordinary report goes when the exercise goes, and one that is still there in the morning goes to someone else
✓ Where the schools disagree, on the pelvis and on the breath, both are named and neither is called correct
✓ Nothing is diagnosed anywhere in it, because that is not your job and it is not this book's either

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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• Instant digital download: two PDF files, A4, printable or read on a tablet
• No physical item will be shipped
• Written for qualified Pilates instructors working within their own scope of practice
• This is not medical advice and it does not diagnose, assess or treat anything. Every cause given is a movement reason, never a claim about any tissue or condition. Where a report is classed STOP, that class is absolute: end the exercise and send the client to the professional named

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The best information in the room is the sentence she just said. This is what to do with it.