VERONIQUE COIGNAC - Featured Trainer Apr ‘09
Endorse: Alan Herdman, Polestar, Carolyne Anthony (The Center for Women’s Fitness).
Residence: UK Hertfordshire
Favorite Book: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.   Anatomy Trains by Thomas Meyer. It transformed my approach to teaching Pilates.
Favorite Training Attire: anything confortable,classy,smart that fits a small body!!
Admire &inspired by: Alan Herdman for being a [...]

How to Accept Criticism with Grace and Appreciation
By Leo Babauta
Every day, I get emails and comments that are amazingly positive and encouraging, and in truth these messages are the very thing that sustains my blogging.  However, I also get negative comments now and then: criticism of my writing, and not nice criticism either.
How do you [...]

Pilates Retreat - Why Choose To Do One

By Sarah Rosenfield
EASY!!! I can do that!!!  Or can you?  There are many ways to run a retreat / holiday with Pilates and massage and I have been running wonderful and successful short holidays for small groups for seven years.  Over the years, I have found wonderful places [...]

Acoustic-Neuroma Helped me Transform from Good to Great!
By Risa Sheppard
“You have a benign tumor in your right inner ear,” the doctor said.  “It’s called an Acoustic-Neuroma, a growth within your inner ear that is pressing against your brain, and you need to have it taken out.”
I had been feeling dizzy and nauseous.  Something was wrong.  [...]

Pilates Day - Not the PMA’s
March 13, 2009 - Lolita San Miguel, Pilates PMA Elder and one of two persons officially certified by Joseph and Clara Pilates to teach The Method, today expressed her disappointment with the position taken by the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) to make “Pilates Day,” which is to be held on [...]