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Victoria Roper Physical Therapist Victoria Roper is a leading expert in Physical Therapy and Pilates rehabilitation Education

12/10/2026

Get them off it.
I know that sounds counterintuitive.

But your client’s Pilates practice shouldn’t begin and end with the carriage.
Mat gives you an entirely different environment in which to explore movement.
No springs.
No carriage.
No straps.
No equipment doing part of the work.

Just the person, gravity, the floor and their ability to organise themselves.

And that can be incredibly useful.

You can take concepts you’ve explored on the Reformer and ask:

Can they find this without the equipment?
Can they control it?
Can they feel it?
Can they transfer what they’ve learned?
Can they use it somewhere completely different?

That’s where having both Mat and Reformer in your teaching toolbox becomes so powerful.
You’re no longer just choosing an exercise.
You’re choosing the best tool for what you’re trying to teach.
And that is a much more interesting way to teach Pilates.

Our Balanced Body Mat courses are coming up.
If you’re a Reformer instructor who hasn’t yet trained in Mat, or if you want to train in mat, we would love to hear from you!

DM me “MAT” for the details.

10/10/2026

And I think we’ve forgotten this.
The Reformer is brilliant.

But if your entire Pilates education stops at the Reformer, you’re missing a huge part of what Pilates can teach.

Because eventually, the springs come off.

The client gets off the carriage.
And they’re left with their body.

That’s where Mat becomes incredibly valuable.

Mat work asks the client to develop control without relying on the equipment to provide resistance, feedback or assistance in the same way.

It gives you another way to challenge movement.

Another way to teach.

Another way to observe.

And another way for your clients to take what they’re learning on the equipment and explore it in a different context.

Reformer + Mat isn’t either/or.

They’re different tools within a much bigger system.
And the more tools you have as an instructor, the more intelligently you can teach.

That’s why I think Mat deserves far more attention than it sometimes gets.

If you’re already teaching Reformer, don’t underestimate what adding a strong Mat foundation can do for your teaching.

Our upcoming Balanced Body Mat courses are open for booking.

DM me MAT for the details.

🎥filmed studio

08/10/2026

That’s where your education shouldn’t stop.

Reformer 2 gives you the opportunity to continue developing your understanding, expand your repertoire and start thinking more deeply about how you use the equipment.

Because the goal isn’t to collect qualifications.

It’s to keep developing your ability to teach.

To look at movement differently.

To understand more.

To make better decisions.

And to become more confident working with the variety of people who actually walk through your studio door.

I’m teaching Reformer 2, 16–18 October in Dubai, and there are still spaces available.

So if you’ve completed the necessary reformer 1 and you’re ready for the next stage of your Reformer training, get in touch.

DM me “REFORMER 2” for the details.

🎥 filmed in studio

06/10/2026

You can memorise a huge number of exercises.
You can know the order.
You can know the springs.
You can know the cues.

But eventually, someone is going to walk into your studio who doesn’t move exactly how you expected
And that’s when your understanding matters.

Can you observe what they’re doing?

Can you work out what needs changing?

Can you adapt the exercise?

Can you communicate it clearly?

Can you understand why you’re making that decision?

That’s the kind of teaching I’m interested in developing.
Because the equipment is a tool.

The real skill is knowing how to use it to teach the person in front of you.

I’ll be teaching Balanced Body Reformer 1 and Reformer 2 in October, and there are still spaces available.

If you’re already teaching Pilates and want to develop your Reformer teaching, send me REFORMER and I’ll send you the details.

30/09/2026

In fact, you never will.

And that’s not a failure.

One of the biggest transitions after teacher training is realising that teaching a real person is very different from practising an exercise in a training room.

You will meet clients who:
→ have pain
→ move differently from what you expected
→ ask questions you don’t know the answer to
→ need something adapted
→ don’t fit neatly into the categories you were taught

Your job isn’t to have an answer for absolutely everything.

Your job is to learn how to think, observe, ask better questions and know when you need to learn more.
That is what allows you to keep growing as an instructor.

And it’s one of the reasons I love teaching teacher training.

Because I’m not interested in producing instructors who can simply demonstrate a lot of exercises.

I want you to understand what you’re doing and why.

My Balanced Body courses are running throughout October.

If you’re considering starting your Pilates teacher training, send me BALANCED BODY and I’ll send you the details.

29/09/2026

Because eventually, you’ll have a client standing in front of you who doesn’t look like the person in your textbook.

They’ll have a history.
They’ll have different movement habits.
They’ll have things they’re nervous about.
They’ll ask questions you weren’t expecting.

And they won’t necessarily respond to the exercise in the way you thought they would.

That’s when teaching actually begins.

Your initial training needs to give you the foundations, repertoire, anatomy, movement principles and teaching skills.

But it should also start developing something else:
Your ability to think.
To observe.
To question.
To adapt.

To understand why you’re teaching something rather than simply remembering that you’re supposed to.
That is a huge part of what I want my students to take away from Balanced Body training.

Not just a bigger exercise repertoire.
A better understanding of how to teach.

My October Balanced Body courses are now open.

DM me BALANCED BODY if you want the details.

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