Double the Challenge with Partner Pilates
March 4, 2009
Practicing Pilates with a partner can help students develop flexibility, stretching, strength and coordination. Partner Pilates offers an innovative twist on classic Pilates. Adding one or two partner movements into your regularPilates classes or adding a full partner class to your schedule gives your students an invigorating challenge. While some teachers define partner Pilates as one person holding the movement and the second person assisting, I define it as both partners en¬gaging in either the same or complementary coordinated moves.
Instead of viewing partner exercises and routines as mere variations on existing Pilates routines, I see them as entirely new and give them their own names. This helps students make the mental shift from rigidly expecting the Pilates exercises to be the same as the solo versions to enthusiastically exploring new possibilities.
