00:00I'm Kirsten Ferry. I'm the owner of Pure Pilates in Ilkley and I am the
00:06teacher trainer for Ramana's Pilates. I first started doing Pilates when I was
00:12dancing when I was 16 as part of my training and then from there once I finished dancing quite
00:19early I went on to train in my Pilates to become a teacher. Pilates is a method of movement that
00:27a man called Joseph Pilates created. We here follow that original work so Ramana Karunowska she
00:35took on the studio after Joseph passed away and she ran the studio and continued his work keeping
00:42the method the system of exercises because it's had a massive boom which is amazing it is really
00:49exciting that more people are coming across Pilates that's brilliant but a lot of people are not aware
00:56that Pilates was a man and that there is a system to his exercises and a method and Ramana's Pilates
01:05is very much about safety safety and working within your body within your own ability and that is how
01:14the teachers are trained and you can see a lot on Instagram and you know there's some wild things
01:23happening on those little squares at the moment and some people are using that as an example of how
01:27to move and that's not always safe there is a lot of good pilates out there and but some of
01:33it is not
01:34great and I think we have to really take the responsibility of asking the questions there is
01:40unfortunately no regulation through the government in any country there is no regulation globally
01:47so we have to take that responsibility I think ourselves to promote it to educate it to insist
01:55that the people we go see that we are trusting with our bodies are properly qualified there's you know
02:02online courses that you don't have to have any human contact generally somebody should have trained for
02:10a long time you know at least 12 to 18 months it should be in person because it is a
02:17personal method
02:19you want to have trained with somebody who has more experience getting to help
02:28my apprentices and teachers become a teacher is really quite a beautiful moment it's a journey within
02:34themselves it is hard work it is not easy they have to not only physically be able to accomplish an
02:41awful lot of the work but to then translate that into a language so that they can share it with
02:47the
02:47person and keep that person safe and progress them correctly it's you know it's really amazing and
02:53beautiful to watch when they start to fly that fills me with joy
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