About Chantill Lopez

Chantill Lopez, NCPT, RYT
Mentor, Author, Educator, Coach

“What greater, more humbling journey is there than to be a teacher? Outside of being a parent, I can’t think of one. Teaching not only demands paying attention with your whole being, but that you reflect, grow and investigate beyond what the non-teacher may be willing to endure. It is a life of humility, curiosity, learning and missteps, but one that nothing else matches. If what I have gleaned from the amazing teachers I’ve known can be shared, I hope it is of as much value as it has been to me.”

I’m glad you’re here!

I’ve been teaching for a long time and the only reason I’m still doing it is because I love what I do! But not only that. I’ve been through the mill, had to ask the tough questions, search for and find the right answers, and have come out on the other side not only knowing my purpose more clearly, but knowing myself more deeply. Want to hear it? Here it goes:

My purpose through Skillful Teaching is to develop you as a WHOLE person, to guide you down the long road of integrating your technique into a profoundly powerful career of service, education and creativity that is not only financially successful, but personally fulfilling.

Here’s a little bit about me:

After more than 20 years of teaching, 15 of which have been spent teaching Pilates, yoga, dance, meditation and other movement modalities to a complex variety of folks, I am proud to be a teacher of teachers. Building relationships with teachers who want to be unabashedly amazing at what they do — teachers who want to move beyond the clockwork pieces of technique and blow the top off their potential – is what excites me most about my work and keeps me inspired.

My current focus is on building and refining both the Skillful Teaching Mentoring Program and The Science + Psychology of Teaching Master’s Program. 

The Master’s Program exposes teachers to critical areas of teaching never before directly addressed in a full-length certification program including brain science and education, interpersonal relationships and motivation-enhancement techniques, dynamic brain-based body-awareness curriculum and advanced skills in nervous-system-based teaching.

This 6-part online and in-person project-based program is focused on developing teachers who can teach to the whole person in a dynamic and powerful way enabling both student and teacher to cultivate new levels of interaction, integration and results.

Otherwise…these days I teach throughout the U.S. and offer online coursework and support to teachers around the world. 

You can learn more about my work here:

My Teaching Philosophy:

Be real. Don’t fake it. Be able to say I don’t know. Laugh at myself. Extend compassion to myself and my students. Enter in fully, every time, ready or not.

The Details:  

I hold Pilates certifications from the PhysicalMind Institute and Body Kinetics with Master Teacher Carol Appel.

I have also extensively studied the work of Dr. Stephen Porges, Deb Dana LCSW, Philip Beach, Feldenkrais, the Franklin Method, Yamuna Body Rolling, the MELT Method, Authentic Movement, and the Halprin Life/Art Process, as well as Vipasana meditation, Buddhist psychology and The Work by Byron Katie.

I am a certified Vinyasa yoga teacher and teacher trainer and a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher.

Currently I offer Functional and Experiential Anatomy courses all over the country and online, and provide anatomy training for Pilates, yoga, and barre teacher training programs.

My path has been laid in part by my amazing mentor, Carol Appel, and the many teachers that have inspired me to not be just a good teacher — but instead an exceptional one: Debora Kolwey, Amy Taylor Alpers, Elizabeth Larkam, Nora St. John, and Tom McCook to name just a few.

My Foundation:

I am supported by my loving family, the most tortured of whom is my amazing parenting partner Carlos, our son Charlie, and daughter Cydney.