Art of Pilates

Author: Louise Taube

I'm Louise - I host the Art of Pilates Podcast. Each episode is a celebration of the diversity of Pilates, interviewing body and movement teachers from Australia, and soon around the world. You will expand your Pilates knowledge, get new hints and tips on creating an awesome Pilates experience, increase your Pilates education, and gain a more positive body image. You will hear new ideas on women's heath, especially pre and postnatal care, Active Ageing and how to create a more youthful body and perspective through Pilates. You will hear from insightful Pilates teachers, authors and thinker
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Pilates Saved my Life
Episode 3
Wednesday, 4 February, 2026

Welcome to Season Two of The Art of Pilates.Here is the link to the article referenced in this podcast: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13697137.2024.2380363#abstractIn this deeply personal opening episode, host Louise Taube shares the journey that shaped her life, her teaching, and her unwavering belief in Pilates as a powerful, life-saving practice.Louise reflects on her early career as a professional dancer, her transition into Pilates almost by accident, and how teaching movement became more nourishing than performance. She takes listeners behind the scenes of the evolving Pilates industry in Australia — from early group reformer classes to studio-based, therapeutic work — and how her own injuries profoundly shaped the way she teaches today.This episode also explores the darker, more vulnerable chapters of Louise’s story: living with chronic pain, navigating serious injury, betrayal of trust within the medical system, and how her clients — simply by showing up — helped her return to life. Through this lived experience, Louise developed a deep respect for pain, trauma-informed teaching, and the responsibility Pilates teachers carry when working with real human bodies.As her practice evolved, so did her focus: posture, balance, bone density, functional strength, nervous system regulation, and supporting women through perimenopause and menopause. Louise shares why she created her Mastering Perimenopause & Menopause with Pilates course, the emerging research around the Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause, and why movement matters now more than ever.This episode is about:Finding a second career when the first one endsPilates as rehabilitation, not punishmentListening to pain instead of dismissing itSupporting the ageing and menopausal body with intelligence and careWhy clients — not perfection — are what keep the spark aliveHonest, raw, hopeful, and deeply human, this episode sets the tone for Season Two and reminds us that Pilates is not just exercise — it’s a relationship with the body, built over time.🎧 Listen now and join Louise as she opens a new chapter of The Art of Pilates.⁠https://www.taubepilates.com/Pilates-for-Perimenopause-and-Menopause-teacher-training-course-online⁠⁠https://www.taubepilates.com/⁠