How did you transition that into pilates?

Heather AndersenHA: Simultaneously with dancing I got trained to teach pilates pretty young. I had an injury in my ankle shortly after I moved here to New York, and had to take a break from dancing. So what I did was I got a job working the desk at a pilates studio so I could take free classes. If you're an injured dancer, if you have an injury like that, you can't take dance class, but pilates is great because it accommodates for injuries really well. For a dancer it's a normal thing, it's like cross-training. For dancers [pilates] has been popular for 20 years, probably longer, because I've been doing it for 10. I really loved seeing the interaction between the clients and the teachers, which I hadn't seen before because I had always been a client, and just watching how people transformed and healed from injuries, and just found their strength. All those things, it was a really powerful thing to watch, and I was like whoa this is cool, I think I want to do this.
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