Moving Conversations
by Brian Richey and Nora St John
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TOYS! Our Top 5 Home and Travel Tools
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About this podcast
Welcome to Moving Conversations, a podcast for movement professionals by movement professionals. Join Author and 2025 Personal Trainer of the Year Finalist Brian Richey and Balanced Body Content Creator Nora St John, with their combined 50 years+ of experience in Pilates, fitness and movement covering topics ranging from Pilates, fitness, corrective exercise, pre and post rehab, exercise programming, sports specific training, and of course any and all questions that come from you, the listener.
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Episodes
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- TOYS! Our Top 5 Home and Travel Tools · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 18Brian and Nora travel a lot and having easy to use and portable fitness tools keeps them working out on the go. In this episode we talk about our favorite toys for mobility…
- New Moves with Nico Gonzalez · 1 h 4 min · Season 4 Episode 17On Nico’s app, Pocket Pilates, he has created an endless variety of skill building sequences in the Pilates environment. Today we discuss his excellent framework for creating…
- New Moves- From Theory to Practice · 58 min · Season 4 Episode 16In this episode, Brian and Nora talk about closed chain and open chain and how they impact muscle activation, joint stability and coordination. This conversation is an excellent…
- New Moves! · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 15Everyone sees creative and occasionally provocative exercises on social media. Before teaching the exercise, we ask ourselves the following questions: 1) What is the purpose of…
- Knee Replacements: A Practical Guide · 1 h 0 min · Season 4 Episode 14Brian has worked with many clients pre and post knee replacement surgery and I wanted to hear what his approach is, when personal training and Pilates are most useful and how to…
- Helping Clients in Pain · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 13Working with people in pain is challenging for both instructors and clients. Taking advice from new advances in the science of pain, Brian and Nora discuss ways to redirect…
- Tendonitis - New Research and Training Techniques · 1 h 0 min · Season 4 Episode 12Join us today as we discuss new research on an effective program for healing tendinitis. Whether you’re dealing with tendinitis in the ankle, knee, shoulder, elbow or other…
- Are You Sitting Down? · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 11In this episode we explore sitting, sleeping, working and driving to uncover common sources of discomfort in clients’ daily activities. When a client spends most of their day in…
- Anatomy in Motion · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 10This is essentially a love letter to how anatomy and kinesiology form the foundation of our movement practice and philosophy. Understanding the body in motion makes problem…
- Balancing the Body · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 9Working with clients we often discover imbalances such as differences in strength and mobility between the sides, discoordinated movement patterns or misalignments. Creating a…
- Recovery- Returning to Life · 59 min · Season 4 Episode 8Regaining the ability to do everything one wants to do in life is the ultimate goal of recovery. Helping clients return to their activities with confidence requires guidance to…
- Recovery: From the Beginning · 58 min · Season 4 Episode 7When and how do you start exercising after an injury or a surgery? Physical therapists and surgeons may provide guidelines but as movement professionals, we still have to figure…
- How Reliable is Dr. AI ? · 55 min · Season 4 Episode 6More and more clients are coming into the studio with information they have found using AI and internet searches. Sometimes the information is accurate and sometimes it’s not…
- What Kind of Influencer Are You? · 57 min · Season 4 Episode 5What does it mean to influence someone? Whether you know it or not, if you work with people and help them grow, you are an influencer. Working with clients in your studio…
- Pilates Evolution with Troy McCarty · 1 h 2 min · Season 4 Episode 4Following up on our Educator or Influencer conversation, Troy McCarty joins us to discuss his Pilates history and the evolution of his teaching over the last 40 years. Steeped in…
- Preparing for Hip Replacement Surgery · 58 min · Season 4 Episode 3Preparing a client for hip replacement surgery can have a major influence on how well they recover. In this episode we discuss key principles to focus on for clients who are…
- Hip Replacement Followup · 1 h 2 min · Season 4 Episode 2Following up on our in-depth conversation with Beth Kaplanek in the last episode, Nora and Brian provide more detail on the different kinds of hip replacements and what…
- Pilates and Hip Replacements with Beth Kaplanek · 1 h 1 min · Season 4 Episode 1Hip and knee replacements have been called “the surgery of the century” due to how frequently they are performed. As movement professionals, understanding what happens in a hip…
- GLP1 and Exercise Update! · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 52As more and more people are taking GLP1’s such as Ozempic for weight loss, information on the benefits and downsides is changing at a rapid rate. Today Nora and Brian discuss…
- Menopause Managed with Dr. Diedra Manns DPT · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 51With 30+ years of clinical practice as a DPT, Pilates instructor and educator, Dr. Manns current project is assisting women through menopause with a whole person approach…
