“Bowing a hat to my Master Lolita and appreciate every day and every lesson I have received from her.”
“Bowing a hat to my Master Lolita and appreciate every day and every lesson I have received from her.”
Relationships Teacher - student. What to consider in a training process and before entering it?
1. Choose a Teacher who’s values and personal attitude is aligned with yours.
Choosing A Master teacher who will train you - it’s important for successful process to choose based on your personal approach of life and your goals.
2. Dynamic of Teacher - student power principle.
Student has to be ready to LEARN and apply information received from the Teacher, and NOT try to argue based on previous (especially if ineffective) knowledge. If someone comes to learn, he must comply with learning process which means ABSORBING information and practicing it. After finishing the training process - one may separate and take what he see works well for his Pilates teaching.
3. Take into consideration personal history of psychological development
Often, when we enter into Teacher-student relationships we are coming (unconsciously) into relationships mother - child. Here some troublesome projection may appear and disappointment is unavoidable - based on level of psychological maturity of the student.
To avoid it - student must be clear on a fact that Teacher is Teacher, not a perfect mother / father.
4. Expect obtaining knowledge, and work towards it.
Every Master teacher brings up his own principles of education and student has comply with it. Real learning - is not what you are just buying, but something what your are also personally responsible for.
5. To maintain good and strong relationships in a training process - it’s good to practice with you Master teacher before / visit her / his workshops to see if you feel inner agreement to learn from this person.
6. Be ready to change.
If you grow-its pain,because you change for better. The most disconfirm you feel - the more deep transformation is coming.
Stay with it and go through.
And all this possible only if one is ready.
7. Remember - Teacher see more than you think.
Master teacher in Pilates usually has extended experience in educational process as well as extended Pilates practice.
You may not understand in the beginning why they do what they do, this you will understand much later😉
Good luck! Every change is for better version of you!
By Radionycheva Nadya
Photo- Pilates Heritage Congress 2022.
Our master teacher mrs Nadya and her Mentor - Mrs. Lolita San Miguel.