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#abstract
In 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 ends
Pilates as rehabilitation, not punishment
Listening to pain instead of dismissing it
Supporting the ageing and menopausal body with intelligence and care
Why clients — not perfection — are what keep the spark alive
Honest, 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.
