Thank you so much for our session last week. Though I was initially a little anxious at the start of our call, unsure about what I wanted to focus on and how to discuss it, straight away you set me at ease and I found our conversation very helpful. I have come away feeling excited and with a sense of what direction I need to take.

Thanks so much for your time on Monday. I found the call really useful – I hadn’t really known what to expect beforehand… When I’ve had coaching in the past, I’ve sometimes found it very uncomfortable – and while I know that it is helpful to go out of our comfort zone, there’s a fine line between being stretched and finding the process completely off putting! However, you were incredibly supportive and I really appreciated you reminding me that I could change course should I need to at any point, it just took the pressure off. I felt we covered a huge amount of ground in the short time we had together and I had a couple of light bulb moments which have given me some really good food for thought.

Thank you very much for the complimentary session on Wednesday morning. I honestly had no idea what to expect of the session but found it incredibly interesting and thought provoking. I think the thing I have taken away most from this session is that I am worrying about things which are completely out of my control and that I am worrying more about this than what I love doing. I teach my mother on a Thursday morning and she said my class yesterday was really great and that before the half term break I seemed ill and unfocused. So I feel that your session on Wednesday has already helped me so much.

And thank you for your coaching call this week! I found the session interesting and it was good to hear from other teachers. Having studied coaching in the past I think I had a rough understanding of what it would entail and it was definitely as expected. I enjoyed speaking with you and listening to others. Your guidance helped me reframe things which I found really helpful.

Thanks so much Melanie, I LOVED that class. It felt so nourishing for my body.

Before attending the workshop, I did actually feel a lack of confidence in my teaching ability and the course helped to realise that I need to trust myself more.

I think that running the course as a team (between you and Melanie) worked very well, as you came from different perspectives, which made it come to life much better. Running it as a small group was also very useful as we were able to draw support from each other without feeling that we were being left out. The size of the group was just right and gave the sense of camaraderie and helped reinforce the feeling that we’re not alone in how we feel about our teaching.

I certainly would recommend this workshop to a fellow Pilates teacher and my message would be that it would help you realise that you are not alone and that there is support if and when you need it.

I can’t think of anything to improve the actual workshop, but perhaps a little bit of simple instructions sent out to the participants about how to use the technology itself might be useful. I hope that this helps. The fact that we didn’t have to go to London to attend was a massive big plus for me.

Teachers are quite isolated in some places….. so it’s great to have these different people to talk to and talk about your experiences and for them take time out for us. I think it’s been really useful and it’s nice to be able to have something that we don’t have to travel to London for!