Level Up MVMT Classtermind · Watch anytime · Lifetime access
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Flex Appeal: The 5 Spine Shapes
Every Instructor Needs
Your clients' spines want more than just a flex and a curl. Spend 90 minutes with Lesley Logan and learn to teach all five of them: the history behind each shape, the sequencing that makes a session feel complete, and zero dogma.
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A Level Up MVMT Classtermind with Lesley Logan, founder of OnlinePilatesClasses.com
✓ 90-minute workshop recording with Lesley Logan
✓ Watch at your own pace and revisit anytime
Lesley has a few words about your spine, and about all that flexion you've been warned about. Press play.
- 90-minute workshop recording with Lesley Logan
- Watch at your own pace and revisit anytime
Lesley has a few words about your spine, and about all that flexion you've been warned about. Press play.
Get immediate access to the recording and handout
Lesley goes live in
Somewhere along the way,
Somewhere along the way, flexion got a bad name
flexion got a bad name
If you trained contemporary, you were probably taught to be careful with it. So you sequence around rolling, you swap in something safer, and you hope nobody asks why.
Then there's the other side. Post a rolling exercise online and someone shows up to tell you that's not how Joe did it and you clearly don't understand the work.
One voice makes you scared of a spine shape. The other makes you feel like a fraud for teaching it. Both of them shrink your classes.
Most instructors assume Classical Pilates is all flexion. It isn't.
Flexion sits inside the Classical work for a reason, and there's real history behind that reason. Once you know the why, the fear goes away and the choices get easy.
Whether you're Classical OR contemporary, you can honor where the work came from and still teach exactly the way you like to teach.
That's the whole point of this Classtermind. 90 minutes to discuss it, demystify it, and ditch the dogma.
Live · Sunday, September 20
9:00 - 10:30am Pacific · on Zoom
What you'll learn
Yes, all five. Not just your favorite one (you know who you are, you twisted side benders!).
The real story on flexion
Why the Classical work holds so much of it, where that came from, and what it's doing for your client.
A sequence that feels complete
How to balance all five shapes in one session so you stop finishing a class and realizing you skipped extension again.
How many shapes your client needs
The number of spine shapes in a session tells you a lot about how advanced that student is. Lesley shows you how to read it and how to program for it.
What changes when you flip a shape around
A roll up and a roll over are not the same job. Learn what shifts and how to cue it.
Strategies for the room you actually teach in
Group class, private, mat, apparatus. You'll leave with options for all of it.
Exercise recommendations you can use in your next class
Specific picks for each shape, plus a handout with references you can return to whenever you need.
Who is Lesley Logan?
If you've spent any time in the Pilates corner of the internet, you already know her.
Lesley Logan is the founder of OPC (OnlinePilatesClasses.com), the first free online catalogue of Pilates exercise tutorials. She's a 2nd generation certified Classical teacher, she's been teaching since 2008, she's run multiple studios, trained hundreds of teachers, and taught thousands of students. She also hosts the "Be It Till You See It" podcast and runs the Agency mastermind for fitness business owners.
Lesley is Classical to her bones and she has zero interest in making you feel bad about how you teach. She pushes the boundaries of the work while honoring what Mr. Pilates intended, and she does it with joy instead of judgment.
"When in doubt, leave it out!"
That's the energy of this Classtermind. Deep knowledge, no gatekeeping, no one telling you you're doing it wrong.
Who this is for
Every Pilates instructor. Newly certified, or you could teach this in your sleep. Classical, contemporary, or some happy mix of both. Mat, apparatus, or whatever your studio has room for.
No matter who trained you or how you like to teach, you're welcome here.
A few things I hear a lot:
"I don't teach Classical, I'm contemporary trained."
Perfect. This is a modern take on the work with the history left intact. Nobody is asking you to convert, change your certification, or teach anything the way you don't want to teach it. You're getting the reasoning so you can use it however you like.
"I already know how the spine works."
You absolutely do. This isn't an anatomy refresher. It's programming: the five shapes as they were originally intended, how many belong in a session based on who's in front of you, and what changes when the shapes flip around.
"I only teach on the apparatus." (Or only on the mat.)
Lesley covers solutions for both. Whatever equipment is in your room, you'll leave with something to do with it.
What instructors say about our Classterminds
What instructors say about
our Classterminds
★★★★★
"WAYYYYY exceeded expectations... I left feeling like I've got new permission and validation to focus on the joy and rewards of movement, not always 'textbook Pilates'."
Karen A.
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"I wanted to thank you and Lesley so much... It was such a wonderful experience and I've had so many wins and celebrations."
Joanne S.
★★★★★
"Lesley's knowledge and expertise paired with her encouraging vibe and welcoming demeanor made for a LOVELY afternoon of Pilates! I truly wish I could take and learn from her every day!"
Caroline S.
★★★★★
"I've signed up for countless workshops and classes for instructors over the years and they pale in comparison to these. Such value!!"
Lori W.
What you get
Flex Appeal: The 5 Spine Shapes Every Instructor Needs
- 90-minute recorded workshop with Lesley Logan, an expert in Classical Pilates and spine shapes
- The session handout and notes, with references, so you can find things again later.
- The recording and all the materials, with access that doesn't expire.
Questions
This is a recording of the live workshop with Lesley Logan. You’ll get immediate access to the full recording and handout after purchase. Watch at your own pace and revisit whenever you like - your access doesn’t expire.
Nothing fancy. Everything Lesley covers works for mat and for apparatus, so it applies in whatever room you teach in. If you want to move along, have your mat handy and a small ball nearby if you own one.
Neither. Whether you're newly certified or you could teach in your sleep, you'll get something you can use in your next class. Newer teachers get the framework. Seasoned teachers get the programming layer and the history.
Not for a second. This is about understanding why the Classical work uses flexion the way it does, so you can make better choices in your own teaching. No conversion, no dogma, no side to pick.
The spine isn't going to sequence itself
The spine isn't going to
sequence itself
Spend 90 minutes with Lesley, get the history, get the sequencing, get the exercise picks, and walk into your next session knowing exactly what you're doing and why.
Start today and bring what you learn into your next session.
- Live on Zoom
She's ready to bend and extend.
Come get your five shapes.
Watch at your own pace and revisit anytime.
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Flex Appeal · Sunday, Sep 20 · 9:00am Pacific
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