What does learning mean to you?

What’s the difference between information and knowledge? Do you want to go deeper or just add more? These are the questions I’m always asking myself and they’re the questions I’m asking when I create and deliver new curriculum.

At the heart of all of the Skillful Teaching offerings, whether self-produced, for Fusion Pilates EDU, Moment Fest, or someone else entirely, is my desire to take you deeper, to challenge what you are comfortable with and make you rethink what you’ve taken for granted and build greater dedication to what you have always intuitively known. 

This is not just continuing education. This is knowledge seeking. This is a call to feel into WHY we do what we do and how we can TEACH better.

I’m glad you’re here.

Why Skillful Teaching Online?

All of the online courses that I offer are “real-life” courses, filmed while actually teaching. I’m not teaching to the camera. I’m teaching to YOU. This means you get to hear other teachers ask meaningful, relevant and intelligent questions that you are likely asking yourself. And you can actually interact with me via the online platform.

Every ST online course is hosted by an awesome educational platform called Ruzuku.com. The coolest thing about ALL of the ST online courses is that they are self-directed AND you can interact with me via the discussion boards.

The foundation of teaching is connection.

Without connection we cannot build trust, without trust we cannot lead our students toward progress and potent results, and without those things our students don’t stay, we overwork to draw new students in, and we lose sight of our love for teaching.

Being the most amazing Pilates technician, an expert of repertoire, is not all your students need to fully develop into successful, enthusiastic, self-sufficient movers; movers that can listen well to their bodies, trust what they feel, and make wise choices no matter whether they’re in the studio or walking down the street. Using keen Observation, genuine Empathy, and clear Intuition will help you guide your students beyond their goals to a place of deep relationship with themselves, the work, and with you.

THIS is why students stay! This is how we thrive — financially, passionately, and for the long run.

Learn to evolve and leverage the subtle skills of Observation, Empathy, and Intuition using the strategies provided in this 2-hour course. Doing so will allow you to more fully express yourself as a teacher — bringing forth gifts and talents you may not know you have or have been afraid to use — and more fully engage your students in meaningful and reciprocal interactions.  

If you’ve ever wanted your students to take greater responsibility, be more invested in their movement outside of the studio, orif you’ve ever felt held hostage (even a little bit) by your students, this layer of sophistication and nuance in your teaching will get you closer to alleviating those challenges. 

What else it will do:

• Increase student loyalty leading to increased revenue.
• Help you create and clarify boundariesProvide tools for boundary work so you can go deep, use intuition and empathy, and be open,/ vulnerable, and genuine with your students without the residual energy hangover.
• Create courage to not know and cultivate a willingness to problem-solve and explore without needing to always get it right.
• Invite curiosity into your sessions and help your students feel confident and safe in asking questions when they are not sure. 
• Build intrinsic trust and confidence in yourself that will encourage spontaneity in your sessions and classes whether in real-life or online. *This work is EVEN MORE IMPORTANT now in our online teaching contexts.*
• Finetune your “eye” by noting differences not just in alignment, but also energy, emotional state, movement intention, and most importantly nervous system state.
  • Learn to see beyond the screen and appraise your student’s facial expressions, eyes and eye movement, body language, and LISTEN for their signals of safety or lack thereof.
• Discover ways to better listen and understand your “gut” and foster the keen awareness that will energize you and allow you to be more present in every teaching situation.

Two Enrollment Options:

$47 – Limited Access:

Join us for this live 2-hour interactive workshop via Zoom and recording.

$97 – Full Access + BONUSES:

Get access to the live workshop, the replay and slideshow, support PDF with “What To Do Next”  all hosted on our educational platform, which will allow you to interact, engage, and have rich discussion with Chantill and Melissa.

You’ll also get these BONUSES:

• In-depth article on the Power of The Vagus Nerve and its impact on the nervous system, behavior, learning, and feeling safe.
• Tips and Tricks Worksheet on How to Tune and Tone Your  Nervous System in support of greater intuition, more genuine empathy, and refined observation.

Use the link below to register.

We all carry a baseline of stress that lives in our bodies, shapes our brains, and dictates how we  perceive and interact with the world. Whether through the minor traumas of daily modern life, or the major traumas of painful events, our brains and bodies need constant tuning and integrating. 

Without integration we are: 

unable to rest and restore; unable to heal; unable to accurately perceive safety and experience vulnerability; unable to learn and retain motor skills and new knowledge; less likely to healthfully respond to stress and interact with other humans.

With integration we:

learn better; maintain new motor skills more easily; move more efficiently and with greater variability; respond more accurately to stress, challenge, fear, and change; interact with others more responsively and with greater care, calm, and compassion; and most importantly build and sustain resilience to the future stress our lives guarantee.

The gateway to this kind of mental, emotional, and physical resilience is the vagus nerve.

In this exciting exploration teachers will take away:

• An understanding of what the vagus nerve is and how it communicates between body and brain

• An understanding of how the vagus nerve regulates function and translates environmental and social contexts

• A basic understanding of the polyvagal theory and its role in trauma-informed therapy

• A deep understanding of how our brain assess risk via neuroception

• How to assess vagal health, tone the vagus nerve, and self-regulate for optimized social engagement, learning, stress management

• An understanding and experience of the movement strategies that facilitate vagal health

• An understanding of positive compensation, integrative movement, movement variability and how these ideas create resilience in the nervous system

$197 (name your own price – email me, chantill@skillfulteaching.com)

What is fuzz? Fuzz is the nickname for your sticky, tricky, and beautiful fascia (connective tissue) that allows you to move, breath, your heart to beat, and your body to slide and glide (or not) through your day to day life. 

Body rolling is the equally beautiful technique that helps you hydrate and make healthy the fuzz that holds you together (fuzz or connective tissue is the most pervasive tissue in your entire body!!!).

When you sleep your fuzz gets fuzzier. When you walk or sit or move with a habitual pattern your fuzz get’s fuzzier in the areas that aren’t moving. Healthy fuzz is juicy and highly hydrated. Unhealthy fuzz is sticky, stuck, and prevents your body from being adaptable and able to resist injury.

In this introductory course to “freeing the fuzz” here’s how you’ll benefit:

• Relaxation – Create immediate and long term changes in your nervous system.
• Decrease muscle tension – Begin to change long held patterns of tension and pain in your body.
• Increased range of motion – Improve circulation to all of your tissue and promote healthy range of motion in shoulders, hips, feet, ankles, and your spine.
• Promotion of overall health – Breathe deeper and help align your spine for better posture and core support. Walk tall and fear nothing 😉
• FEEL GREAT FAST!

You’ll learn and be guided through multiple routines that you can do on a daily basis. Gain access to downloadable instructions for each routine so you won’t forget and be exposed to a sweet and potent mindfulness practice to support your growing awareness of your body and how the fuzz can either work for you or not.

Body rolling is a beautiful compliment to any Pilates, yoga or movement practice and a simple way to regain and maintain physical, mental, and emotional vitality.

$47

Research shows that we can communicate more with our hands, and more quickly, than we can with our words.

Preview the course HERE.

If you are among the many, many Pilates teachers who left your teacher training feeling less than qualified — let alone comfortable — putting your hands on your students, you ABSOLUTELY need this course. For many of us, it’s not just a matter of comfort, but primarily a matter of skill. No one really taught us how, when, and most importantly WHY, to touch.

Co-created by myself, Chantill Lopez, and my fellow master teachers Mercy Sidbury and Anne Bishop, the Manual Cueing Series is a unique education tool specifically for Pilates teachers. We dive more deeply than any other program intoScope of Practice and the intention behind applying touch to teaching.

In this series you will learn a framework for analyzing and applying touch in a variety of situations using:

• your own hands,
• students using their own hands, and
• using props.

You will also discover the subtle yet powerful effects of different kinds of touch — on different pieces of equipment as well as on the mat – and when and WHY you might use them.

These are very practical manual cueing tools that range from fundamental to intermediate application. You will be able to use them tomorrow, next year, and 10 years from now.

Equip yourself with this knowledge and propel your teaching and confidence forward! Knowing how to touch effectively and simply is one skill that will help set you apart and draw students to you. And we ALL WANT THAT!

• The course includes 22 DOWNLOADABLE videos
• 19 of which are instructional videos on specific hands on cues and assists using mat, reformer and trapeze table exercises
• The 3 additional videos include an exploration of why and how to touch and why it’s crucial in the Pilates practice
• Get an in-depth course outline that includes Scope of Practice
• Guidelines for applying touch handout and worksheet
• Instructions, insights and tips on how to best apply your new knowledge
• And an article on “How Much To Touch”

Preview the course HERE.

$97

A Body of Spirals – The Innermost Connections of Efficient and Easeful Movement

• A 6-hour workshop exploring the beautiful dynamics of spiral movement within the body and how our teaching might be taken to a new level with the spiral at its heart. Learn more and enroll.

Fearless Extension – Full Length

• A new way of teaching extension that will change everything. Never be afraid to promote and develop spinal extension in students with low back and neck pain again! Learn more and enroll.

Pure Potential – Advanced Repertoire Workshop

• Pure Potential is an incredibly UNIQUE and POWERFUL format for learning, creative and in-depth discussion, and immediate integration. Working with and applying the material to real students each week gives teachers an opportunity to test the waters, get direct feedback from the students and workshop leader, and to ask questions and get answers while they are learning. This as opposed to the standard workshop format where you are left to work everything out on your own with marginal success and minimal retention. Learn more and enroll.

You buy it. You keep it.

And, not to mention you can download almost 100% of the material to keep forEVER! So many online courses these days you have to access within a certain period of time. Not mine! From the video to the printed material, you get to keep almost all of it (there are exceptions). In my opinion that makes it WORTH EVERY PENNY!

Check out the offerings below.

Read all about our Online Course 60-Day Guarantee. (No refunds on any workshops purchased with a discount code.)

Are you a rule breaker? A rebel? Do you have this little voice in your head that’s asking: “Hmm…is this really what I want to have happen in the body?”

In this workshop we look at all the things we’ve taken for granted as our Method has been passed down, added to, and evolved; all the “rules” we’ve set for ourselves when teaching that either don’t serve us or only serve a very small percentage of our student population for a very short period of time. In this workshop we’ll look at some the cues we ALWAYS use in an attempt to help students correct specific and gross movement patterns, that work for a little while, but ultimately hold them hostage to limited mobility and strength. As we deconstruct old beliefs and strategies we’ll dive into the biomechanics behind cues that are more anatomically sound and promote our students ever-growing potential. This workshop is all about learning how to discern, how to question, experiment, and stay open to what’s in front of you.

Workshop Objectives:

• Explore and identify our most common Pilates “rules” and their original intent
• Learn to apply sound biomechanic questioning to any cue to make it appropriate for the individual body in front of you
• Learn alternative cues and tools to promote your student’s continued and progressive potential
• Identify when a Pilates “rule” is appropriate and when it can be detrimental, hold students back, and foster poor biomechanics

Concepts + Techniques:

• The root of rules through the lens of teacher development and progressive discernment
• Why making “rules” about the body via cueing is problematic
• Sound biomechanics of the most common postural and alignment challenges that make up our Pilates “rules”
• Bony arthrokinematics and osteokinematics
• Muscle recruitment and activation
• Discernment and questioning at different stages of learning

$39 ($29 for Forever Members)

A big THANKS to Fusion Pilates EDU for working with me to create this succinct version of Fearless Extension through their wonderful platform!

In this online Pilates workshop I teach you how to empower yourself and your clients to embrace rather than fear spinal extension. Explore how some of our favorite cues and techniques for ensuring “safe” spinal extension are potentially limiting healthy movement in the pelvis, hip, sacroiliac joints and lumbar spine and how, with a more subtle understanding of where and how extension begins and develops, you can foster greater mobility, stability, and freedom in this beautiful movement.

Workshop Objectives:

• To shift from a fear-based extension perspective to one that promotes deeper levels of strength and potential in a safe and thoughtful way.
• Learn how to promote healthy function in the sacroiliac joints even when imbalances are present.
• Learn how to ORGANIZE, INITIATE, and SEQUENCE extension so that you are working with the body rather than against it.
• Learn how changing the apex of the curve can make all the difference in accessing and deepening extension.
• Learn the steps to take to help students develop healthy local extension as well as gross overall balanced extension of the spine.
• Learn tools that you can integrate to engage, challenge and motivate your students to LOVE extension.

Concepts + Techniques:

• Soft tissue release and integration techniques.
• Bony rhythms and interplay in the hip, SI joints, and lumbar spine.
• The role of sacral nutation in initiating extension.
• The role of the multifidus and other key muscles in sacral nutation.
• The role of the foot and the lower chain in healthy extension — joint-by-joint analysis based on the work of Gray Cook.

$59 ($39 for Forever Members)