OMG Inside the Pilates Studio: Vblog Edition
with your host, Alisa Wyatt!
Cynthia Lochard is one of the topmost Teacher Trainers for Romana’s Pilates. She continues to travel for months at a time to conduct their Continuing Professional Education seminars around the globe.
Based in Sydney, Australia and with just a hint of an Aussie accent – I love to wait for it on certain words – Cynthia’s teaching is steadfast, pragmatic and masterful.
She encourages teachers to to be confident, independent thinkers and to trust in ourselves as well as our beloved Pilates Method. She has a calm and commanding presence that you want to must soak up and inject into your own teaching.
There is a lovely quote from Cynthia in one of my most-viewed posts (7 Spot-On Pilates Quotes to Keep you Honest). She was speaking on the proliferance of clients who stop and chat during their workouts and how to combat that in a nice way. Welcome to California!
“Today let’s focus on NOT stopping.”
In this manner you give your clients the gift of stamina and endurance that maybe they thought they didn’t have. A perfect lesson. How very Clara-esque to lead your student to the brink of discovery without giving it all away. Look what they can do!
Thank you so much Cynthia for your participation in my blog series. It is a true pleasure to have you and this awesome vblog courtesy of Pilatesology.
Enjoy the show!
The transcript of Cynthia’s interview:
Alisa Wyatt: So these are the 10 questions that Andrea asks of every instructor that she interviews for this [Inside the Pilates Studio] and for Cynthia Lochard the first question is:
1. What is your favorite Pilates exercise and why?
Cynthia Lochard: The ones I could do well (smiles, laughs). Because I looked good doing it (laughter).
AW: Is there any one?
CL: The arabesques of course…
AW: Oh, lovely! The arabesques, I love it.
CL: They come after the Elephant.
2. What exercise is your least favorite? Pick only one.
CL: Oh, but you see, now I was trying to think about that, and I can’t… It changes.
AW: Mmm…I like that. Okay, that’s a great answer.
3. What turns you on creatively, mentally or physically about the Pilates method?
CL: The movement. The simplicity and his genius in how – you know, we’re all over-complicating it – and it’s just so simple. And every time you realize how simple it is…that really turns me on.
AW: I love it.
4. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
CL: A king-size bed with fabulous sheets and those fluffy things over the mattress and lots of feathered pillows and that: a great bed.
AW: You must have the time to spend in it as well. I love that idea.
5. What to your mind would be the greatest misfortune?
CL: Oh, gosh. What’s happening – our insensitivity to the planet and what we’re doing to it. What’s happening, what you can see happening to everything around us.
AW: Yeah, it is a great, great misfortune.
Romana’s Pilates CPE 2013 with Cynthia Lochard
6. What is your favorite Pilates word?
CL: Reach.
7. What is your least favorite Pilates word?
CL: (with rapid-fire delivery) Wrap.
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
CL: Singing. I always wanted to be a singer.
AW: Are you a good singer?
CL: No. I thought I was when I was younger, I think, maybe…
AW: In the car?
CL: Yeah, the car’s a good one… (laughs)
9. If Heaven exists, and by some chance when you arrive at the pearly gates Joseph Pilates is also there, what would you like to hear him say to you?
CL: “Let’s go.”
AW: Nice!
CL: “Get on the Reformer.” (laughs)
10. What did you learn today?
CL: I learned, what I was saying before, that what a great medium this [pilatesology] is for really shedding some light on the Pilates Method and sort of hoping to inspire people to come to it and to really have the experience for real.
AW: Thank you, that’s wonderful to hear. Thanks everyone!
