Mat Pilates Transitions, Instructor Cue Cards, Breath and Hold, 95 Drawn Printable Cards

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The class finishes the Double Leg Stretch, and for the next ten seconds the room is either still in your class or waiting for you. These 95 transition cards are for those ten seconds. Each one takes a move from one named mat exercise to the next, and gives you the line to say while the body moves, the breath it sits on, and what your client holds still on the way.

Mat Pilates Transitions Cards is a printable deck for Pilates instructors who build their own mat classes. The cards are grouped by the position your client is leaving (on her back, on her front, seated, on her side, kneeling or standing), because that is where you are standing when you need one. Find the part, find the exercise she just finished, and the card for where you want to go next is there: Hundred to Roll Up, Swimming to Leg Pull Front, Clam to the second side, Rest Position up to standing.

Every card names the link that joins the two exercises (a log roll, a roll to the side and press up, a side-sit, a sit through, a walk in and roll up) and rates what it costs the class: free, one move or costly. The 16 costly crossings, the second side and getting onto the feet and back down, each carry a bridge: a real exercise that fills the time so the room is still being taught while it turns over or stands up.

The breath follows one rule, written in the front of the deck: exhale on the effort and the curl (rolling, folding, turning over, pressing up, standing), inhale to lengthen, reach, open or arrive. The hold is the one thing most likely to be lost on that crossing: the knees stacked as she presses up, the underneath arm placed before she rolls from her front, the head coming up last.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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✔ 95 transition cards, four to an A4 sheet with cut margins
✔ Five parts by the position she is leaving: the back, the front, seated, the side, kneeling and standing
✔ The line to say, the breath and the hold on every card
✔ A cost on every card, and a bridge exercise on every costly one
✔ 19 links drawn, each the moment between two positions: head up, fold to tabletop, roll through the spine, roll to the side and press up, log roll, quarter turn to the side, thread the leg through, turn through the front, side-sit, lower to the front, press back to all fours, sit back to the heels, kneel up tall, sit through to the floor, walk the hands in and roll up, roll down to the floor, step up to standing, fold the knees in, onto the forearms
✔ The six positions, drawn as one figure, and the breath rule on one page
✔ Where next: every exercise in the deck with the cards that leave from it, for planning
✔ 55 mat exercises, from the classical order and the contemporary beginner and intermediate class
✔ 41 pages, A4 PDF

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PERFECT FOR
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• Mat instructors who build their own sequences rather than teaching one fixed order
• Newer teachers who know the exercises and not yet the joins between them
• Reformer teachers covering a mat class
• Studio owners who want group classes that do not stop between blocks

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WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT
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✓ Built for the moment between exercises, which most cue decks skip
✓ Every pair is named, so you can plan a block and check the join before class
✓ The second side and the floor-to-standing moves get a real exercise, not a pause
✓ One breath rule across the whole deck, so the room hears the same pattern every time
✓ No equipment: a mat and the room

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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• Digital download: one A4 PDF (41 pages). No physical item is sent.
• Print and cut the card sheets, or read them on a tablet.
• For personal teaching use. Please do not resell or share the file.

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DISCLAIMER
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These cards are a professional resource for trained Pilates instructors. They are not medical advice. Rolling through the spine, turning over and getting down to and up from the floor ask something of the neck, spine, wrists and knees; a client who is pregnant, has a recent injury or surgery, or finds the floor hard to reach may need another route, agreed with their healthcare provider where it matters. The cues are examples of instructor language; use them with your own training and judgment in the room.