Sunday is my day to be creative with myself. Today was also the day the Pilates Sisters Squad was scheduled for our third #2ndGenMasterTeacher session with Brett Howard.  April was being setup for Cynthia Shipley and May was set for Cary Regan.  Alas, #CancelEverthing and #Covid19 has changed a lot.

Typically on Sunday, I get up early – 6am – to do the laundry, trying to beat the weekend crowd in my building and drink coffee while I muse about stuff.  These were the thoughts this morning, before 9am.

Generally, I have a 10am Open Mat class — it has been a welcome highlight of week for my small community of students, since getting started in January. Now we are, like everyone else, using Zoom to have our sweatfest together.

So very bummed that the other plans that got started for #Pilates2020 have been postponed, delayed and canceled… yet proud to be in a squad of #PilatesTeachers and #PilatesSisters that can still hold it down together despite this messy situation.

Zoom Reformer Monday
Zoom Wunda Wednesday

Just for the hell of it…. while still keeping small group connections… I mused this week with #PilatesSisters, @jasminegannam, @grasshopperpilates and @maria_earle about trying to hook up using Zoom to share our audio feeds while working out together on our home apparatus.  I am not going to tell a lie, Pilates Mat is not my favorite method of training. I teach it. I do it, but I prefer using the apparatus.  #justsayin’

As some of you know, @chachipilates and I did just that… for the first time virtually… with @bretthoward using the Wunda Chair in a virtual session. We have since scheduled another session using #SmallBarrels.

So, let’s see how this goes!

Doing what we do…. being cheerleaders to each other…. while maintaining our personal work and sanity…. with a few of #PilatesSisters.  Cause, hell, moving together with giggles and bitching out loud is what we need right now.

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#PilatesSistersZoomSquad

We can share our workout together… by switching the ‘audio leader’ of each session, every 10-15 minutes.

The Proposed Set Up

In other words, one #PilatesSister starts out the sequence, number of reps and setting the tempo on the apparatus, after 10-15 minutes, passes the lead to the next #PilatesSister without stopping the flow of movement.

We can aim the camera at the apparatus, plug in wirelessly to the phone audio and just workout together.  No one is stuck sitting, cueing or teaching. We are simply sharing our workout together in a virtual studio.  No more than 2-5 people per Zoom session.

We don’t need to see, we need to hear

Zoom Reformer Monday
Zoom Wunda Workout

Holla at your girl if you want in, while we wait to get back to touching each other IRL. 😎
My laundry is done, gotta go empty the dryer. 😷

#PilatesSistersZoomSquad