Reformer Pilates Transitions, Instructor Cue Cards, Springs and Breath, 105 Drawn Printable Cards

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The room finishes Footwork, and for the next fifteen seconds it is either still in your class or watching you walk the line of machines changing springs. These 105 transition cards are for those seconds. Each one takes a move from one named reformer exercise to the next, and gives you the line to say while the body and the carriage move, the breath it sits on, the spring change, and what your client holds still on the way.

Reformer Pilates Transitions Cards is a printable deck for Pilates instructors who build their own reformer classes. The cards are grouped by the position your client is leaving (lying down, seated, on the box, kneeling or at the bar, 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: Pelvic Curl to the Hundred, Coordination to Rowing, Swan on the Long Box to Long Stretch, Side Splits to the second side.

Every card carries a springs line. It gives the relative load she leaves and the load she arrives at (heavy, medium, light, never a color, because colors differ by machine), and then when the change is made: with the carriage home, as she sits up, before she kneels, while she rolls down. Where the load stays, it names the thing to check instead: the straps the same length, the headrest down before the legs go overhead, the box against the shoulder rests.

Every card names the link that joins the two exercises (take the straps, roll up to sitting, swivel on the carriage, box on and box off, feet back to the rests, step off the carriage) and rates what it costs the class: free, one move or costly. The 22 costly crossings, the box going on and off, getting on and lying down, the second side, each carry a bridge: a real exercise that fills the time so the room is still being taught.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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✔ 105 transition cards, four to an A4 sheet with cut margins
✔ Five parts by the position she is leaving: lying down, seated, the box, kneeling and the bar, standing
✔ The line to say, the breath, the springs and the hold on every card
✔ 41 spring changes, each with its moment, and a list of them by change
✔ A cost on every card, and a bridge exercise on every costly one
✔ A drawing on every card: the moment between two positions, or the exercise she arrives in, in one consistent line hand
✔ The five positions, drawn as one figure; the carriage home rule, the breath rule, the box and getting on and off, each on one page
✔ Where next: every exercise in the deck with the cards that leave from it, for planning
✔ 60 reformer exercises, from footwork and the straps to the long box, the long stretch series and the splits
✔ 44 pages, A4 PDF

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PERFECT FOR
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• Reformer instructors who build their own group classes
• Newer teachers whose classes stall at the spring changes and the box
• Mat teachers moving onto the reformer
• Studio owners who want 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
✓ The spring change is placed on the card, with the carriage home, so the change rides a movement she is making anyway
✓ Every pair is named, so you can plan a block and check the join before class
✓ The box and the second side get a real exercise, not a pause
✓ The twin of our Mat Pilates Transitions Cards, built on the same breath rule

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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• Digital download: one A4 PDF (44 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 and do not replace the manufacturer's instructions for your reformer. A transition on a moving machine asks something of balance, the wrists, the knees and the spine; a client who is pregnant, has a recent injury or surgery, or finds getting on and off hard may need another route, agreed with their healthcare provider where it matters. Springs are given as relative load; set the load on your own machine.