Join us as we rewrite the rules of Tactile Cueing

If your go-to hands-on cueing is designed to place a client’s position or stop a client from doing something, it’s time for a reframe.

This Fall, join us for a deep dive into tactile cueing that prioritizes movement over restriction. In this workshop, we are moving away from the "fix-it" mentality. Instead, we’ll explore how to use touch as a roadmap, showing the client’s body where it can go and how it can get there.

You’ll learn how to deliver tactile cues that a client’s nervous system can actually absorb, process, and learn from. Help your clients feel the movement from the inside out, creating lasting neuromuscular changes rather than temporary, forced alignment.

You will learn how less "holding them in place," and more letting them move can change your clients movement and your teaching in a profound way. Feel more confident in how and when you use tactile touch.

Learn exercises to use with clients when they need assistance before being able to do traditional Pilates, “pre-Pilates”, to work through injuries, or complement a traditional practice.

In this workshop:

• Exercises to use with clients who are currently unable to do much of a classic repertoire

• Beneficial exercises that work alongside a Pilates session

• Building blocks to connect functional movement exercises to Pilates sessions

4 NPCP CEC’s available

$225

“Simple Teaching Makes Clients Work Harder”

When your teaching is clear and simple, clients don’t disengage—they step up.

In this group mentoring workshop, we’ll explore how simplifying your cueing actually creates more work, more ownership, and deeper understanding for your clients. When cues aren’t layered with excess information, clients have the space to feel, process, and connect the dots for themselves.

You’ll learn how to:

• Strip cues down to what truly matters

• Empower clients to problem-solve within their own bodies

• Give clients time to figure it out instead of asking,
  “Why am I doing this?” or “Where should I feel this?”

• Cue in a way that speaks directly to clients—clearly, confidently, and in language they understand

This workshop is about teaching smarter, not louder.
It’s about trusting the work, trusting the client, and trusting yourself as the teacher.

Walk away with more confidence, more clarity, and cueing that lands—every time.

This month’s Group Mentoring Program topic is Key Concepts- What does it take to get your client to a certain movement? Something as simple as understanding Elephant to having the tools/connections in their body to do inversions?

Every exercise in the work of Joseph Pilates is full body but each has 3 main key concepts that show a movement pattern for your client. How do you see where you need to go based on this?

This workshop will change how you look at your session with your client!

This month’s Group Mentoring Program topic is Key Concepts- What does it take to get your client to a certain movement? Something as simple as understanding Elephant to having the tools/connections in their body to do inversions?

Every exercise in the work of Joseph Pilates is full body but each has 3 main key concepts that show a movement pattern for your client. How do you see where you need to go based on this?

This workshop will change how you look at your session with your client!

This month we have our HOLIDAY SPECIAL! Come join us for our yearly Q&A for FREE!

Answering questions that each participant has regarding anything!

This is a Full open discussion on things hat can range from teaching, scheduling, clients, mentoring, workshops, how to, burnout etc.

Join us in the studio (limited spots) or LIVE on Zoom for a full mat class! We will move and flow through the full work of Joseph Pilates. Whatever level you are, whatever struggles or challenges in your mat work we will build the blocks to where you want to go and can go. Keeping the class moving together at your pace and level.

Leave feeling inspired, more mobile, stronger and challenged in ways you learned something about your body and your movement!

Price:

$35 for class

$25 discounted price for grads of the Hilary Opheim Pilates teacher training program

Those currently in the teacher training program it is free

Venmo @Hilary-Opheim or Zelle 310-923-8040 to book your spot!

A little peek inside our year-long program, The Study of the System in terms of digging deeper into connections throughout the work of Joseph Pilates. How can one make the other happen. Guided by the group we will explore different movement patterns that we struggle with helping client connecting with and explore the studio to see if we can find the thread and connection. Discovering how one thing can make another happen even if the exercise is completely different.

Handling Challenging Moments: A session for discussing and troubleshooting difficult teaching situations. We'll explore how to guide clients dealing with specific issues like herniated discs, shoulder injuries, or osteoarthritis, and learn how to adapt our teaching effectively.

Join us on Zoom or get the Recording. Link will be sent that morning to join and recording sent that evening

September 18th from 1:00 - 3:00 pm PST is this month’s Group Mentoring Program discussion.

Join us on Zoom

Common Struggles in Teaching Certain Exercises - Do you struggle with certain Pilates movements and getting your clients to understand what you want them to do, feel, and connect with?

Zoom link will be sent the morning of group meet

Learn the archival Pilates exercises, the traditional work of Joseph Pilates.

Headstand front and back, Wrestling Bridge, High Bridge, Squirrel, Control Balance Off, Piano Head, and more.

In this workshop:

• How to do the exercise, setup, safety considerations

• Why the exercise might be chosen for a specific client

• Key concepts of these exercises and connections throughout the work

• Building blocks for each movement and how to build them for the individual

In May 2025, we will host a workshop with CECs at our studio on “Guiding Clients in Pain.”

We will cover how to navigate working with clients when they are experiencing pain, what pain is, different types of pain, what to focus on in a Pilates session, and when to refer out. How do you get client to understand pain and move forward in their movement?

This workshop will also be available online recording if you can’t make it to LA.

Saturday May 17th 10am - 2 pm

4 CECs available

Cost is $175 and include handouts

We want to help teachers come back to the basics, thinking about what we are asking the client to do. Simply state what we want the client to do without using memorized and outdated cues. Learn how the exercises affect the anatomy in movement to more accurately cue what is needing to happen in each exercise.

What are we asking the client to do?

What is anatomically occurring in the exercise: anatomy in motion?

What is the client potentially missing, and what simple direction might help them achieve it?

In this workshop you will learn to :

• Simplify the practice of cueing to become more efficient and effective.

• Eliminate outdated cues that have become popular jargon.

• Understand the purpose of an exercise in order to cue accurately. 

• Increase awareness of anatomy in motion, how the body moves throughout an exercise to find cues that are not unintentionally counteracting what is occurring in the movement. (ex looking down in extension)

• Increase awareness of common cues that are either inappropriate, ineffective, or harmful.

Prerequisites: Open to all Pilates teachers who have completed 450 hours of Pilates teacher training. Students still in a Teacher Training Program can attend workshop with written approval from the Director of their Training Program.

A Zoom link will be sent and the recording available for 30 days

4 CEC’s available

Cost: $150

Venmo and Zelle payments are accepted please contact

We want to help teachers come back to the basics, thinking about what we are asking the client to do. Simply state what we want the client to do without using memorized and outdated cues. Learn how the exercises affect the anatomy in movement to more accurately cue what is needing to happen in each exercise.

What are we asking the client to do?

What is anatomically occurring in the exercise: anatomy in motion?

What is the client potentially missing, and what simple direction might help them achieve it?

In this workshop you will learn to :

• Simplify the practice of cueing to become more efficient and effective.

• Eliminate outdated cues that have become popular jargon.

• Understand the purpose of an exercise in order to cue accurately. 

• Increase awareness of anatomy in motion, how the body moves throughout an exercise to find cues that are not unintentionally counteracting what is occurring in the movement. (ex looking down in extension)

• Increase awareness of common cues that are either inappropriate, ineffective, or harmful.

Prerequisites: Open to all Pilates teachers who have completed 450 hours of Pilates teacher training. Students still in a Teacher Training Program can attend workshop with written approval from the Director of their Training Program.

4 CEC’s available

Cost: $150

Venmo and Zelle payments are accepted please contact