Letter From Kyria – Pilates Pivot

As we enter each new season, the change in nature encourages a fresh outlook and focus. Lately, it seems the only constant in our world is change. With this installment, I’m excited to share with you how we’ve embraced the changes at hand to undertake a monumental Pilates Pivot to create progressive new offerings.

When pandemic quarantine mandates and business closures were ordered, my initial reaction was a near total breakdown. I felt paralyzed. Then, I woke up to the recitation of my Madeira high school motto:

Function in Disaster, Finish in Style

I asked myself, “What are our options? How can we make the most of this time?” And I was inspired to bring to fruition several projects that we at Fletcher Pilates have had on the back burner for years. With the support of our amazing faculty and staff, along with talented professional contributors, we embarked on the creation of several digital platforms to make the Fletcher Pilates program more accessible and supportive to a worldwide audience of teachers and clients.

The result?
•Fletcher Pilates Online: a comprehensive online learning platform for our continuing education courses and workshops.
•Fletcher Movement Encyclopedia: a video library of our entire comprehensive program – over 1,000 movements!
•FP on Demand: subscription service to 175+ online group classes with new classes added weekly.
•Zoom Room: our main campus classroom is now a virtual “zoom room” with professional AV and lighting to better teach our Comprehensive Programs and support our students around the world.

In tandem with brilliant videographers and technology experts, our faculty and staff have made this pivot over the past 5 months. In this short time, we’ve accomplished what might have otherwise taken at least 3 years to complete. It is with this community of support that we have been able to ‘function in disaster and finish in style’ – though we are far from finished on this exciting journey.

With these projects we truly made lemonade out of this situation. They brought us together as a team and gave us focus to build something, rather than fall apart. Ron Fletcher was known to say, “Gather up the energy!” and “Get a hold of yourselves!” I feel like we’ve done just that and am so proud of what we’ve accomplished together. I hope you’ll enjoy and find benefit from these new offerings.

Wishing you continued and ever-increasing health, safety, and joy!

Kyria