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Your Path to Teaching Pilates in Six Easy Steps
From Classical to Contemporary with CLARAS PILATES Teacher Training You love Pilates. Now imagine learning to share it with others through clear instruction, thoughtful sequencing, and a teaching style that feels like your own. CLARAS PILATES 100-hour Pilates Teacher Training (PTT) at SOBIS EDGE brings together personal mentorship, practical experience, and independent study to help you make that transition. Led by Michelle Rae Sobi in Downtown Wheaton, this training welcomes

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Announcing Memberships!
You don't have to choose. You can have it all. Edge understands that sometimes resources vary with the seasons of your life. For this reason, we are offering memberships. No commitment, month-to-month opportunities to keep your practice growing when you have the bandwidth to do so. Keep your rate locked in each month you renew. Limited spaces for each tier available. Get your monthly access code for our events posted on EVENTBRITE and register for the classes, workshops, and

Michelle Rae Sobi
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YACEP Yoga Alliance Continuing Education
Looking for new skills to spice up your classes? Enroll in our yoga styles library for full access! ENROLL IN OUR MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION FOR FULL ACCESS! Choose the yoga style you want to refine, and submit your work directly to Michelle Rae Sobi for your Yoga Alliance Continuing Education credits. Enjoy over ten years of lessons that are sure to serve you well for ongoing monthly access. If one of the yoga styles perks your interest, send Michelle a CHAT here for more inform

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Training - Pilates Mat, Apparatus, Reformer
Pilates Mat, Apparatus, Slackboar, Reformer Training Learn from someone who has been teaching Pilates and yoga for nearly two decades. Did you know Michelle Rae Sobi was trained in Classical Pilates even before yoga? This training is hands-on and includes online components, guided reading assignments, and close mentorship with Michelle Rae Sobi. We will move through Mat Pilates to Apparatus to Reformer. If you have a reformer at home, and would like interactive webinar ac

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Yoga Alliance New Standards Announced
Find out how you can be grandfathered into the old school standards. Yoga Alliance just dropped their much sought after Standards. I know everyone is excited about Pilates at the moment, but now is the time to earn your RYT 500 by taking the 300hr training. Prereq: RYT 200 in good standing. CODE: STANDARDS Let this be the season of refining your skills and pick up some new ones during training. We will develop your portfolio of workshops to aid in offering workshops, special

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Wellness Professionals Wanted
SOBIS EDGE | INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR OPPORTUNITIES SOBIS EDGE | INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR OPPORTUNITIES SOBIS EDGE is a comprehensive wellness suite serving wellness professionals since 2008. As Edge continues to grow, we are seeking teachers, project managers, and vendors in specialized areas to support our programs and services. We have been progressively scaling over the past five years and are ready to unveil the organization as a whole. MICHELLE RAE SOBI ACE, E-RYT 500, YA

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Pilates Mat, Apparatus, Reformer
Let's pick your training up from where you already are in mentorship. Learn from someone who has been teaching Pilates and yoga for nearly two decades. Did you know Michelle Rae Sobi was trained in Classical Pilates even before yoga? This training is hands-on and includes online components, guided reading assignments, and close mentorship with Michelle Rae Sobi. We will move through Mat Pilates to Apparatus to Reformer. If you have a reformer at home, and would like interacti

Michelle Rae Sobi
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We’re Going Old School
Let Michelle Rae Sobi guide you through a complete Classical Pilates teacher training, delivered through personalized private sessions. Classical Pilates High Mat EDGE YOGA SCHOOL. SOBI ART SCHOOL. CLARAS PILATES. Together, they make SOBIS EDGE. This Pilates teacher training is built around private sessions and one-on-one mentoring with Michelle Rae Sobi in our downtown Wheaton studio. No apps. No on-demand lessons. No prerecorded classes. No AI taking notes or recording you.

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Wheaton Pilates Intensive Training
Join us for Mat I or continue on for our full CLARAS PILATES training. Pilates Intensive Weekend Training | Mat I 40-Hour Mat I Certificate Training Send us a CHAT to inquire about the next training intensive. Training will be held in Wheaton, IL and led by Michelle Rae Sobi. Saturday | 12:00–5:00 PM Sunday | 12:00–5:00 PM Plus: 10 Hours On-Demand Learning 10 Hours Live Webinars Additional Guided Practice & Coursework 40 Total Training Hours The Pilates Intensive Weekend Trai

Michelle Rae Sobi
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YACEP Pilates + Yoga Fusion Teacher Training
Earn 30 YACEP Continuing Education hours with Yoga Alliance within this training Thread the Needle by Alisha, Edge Alum Explore ten common postures and movement patterns shared by yoga and Pilates through the lens of anatomy and teaching methodology. Compare how breath, alignment, muscular engagement, and movement intention shape each practice, even when the forms look similar.Designed for yoga and Pilates teachers and practitioners interested in crossing over, this course ex

Michelle Rae Sobi
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From Child’s Pose
A New Reading Series Begins I have been thinking for some time about how I wanted to share the books I have written, particularly now that so much of what we see online has become polished, automated, edited, and increasingly removed from the person who created it. For a moment, I considered doing exactly that. I could upload a script, use an avatar, clean up every pause, remove every background sound, and create something that looked almost perfect. Michelle Rae Sobi Instead

Michelle Rae Sobi
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CLARAS EDGE
Clara Pilates: A Teacher Worth Remembering I first trained in Pilates in 2008. Over the years, I have offered training, continued exploring the work, and been a member of Power Pilates. As I return to my Pilates offerings during another season of growing interest, I want to bring Clara Pilates into the conversation. Her contributions to the development, teaching, and continuation of the method deserve a place in how we introduce it to our students. The history of Pilates ofte

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Pilates or Yoga?
What's the difference? Pilates + Yoga Thank you for joining me today. Michelle Rae Sobi here to talk a little bit about our ever-changing industry. You may have noticed or have heard that Pilates is certainly having a minute. That’s a wonderful thing. Pilates is a really beautiful discipline and actually doesn’t compete at all when approached the right way, or when approached in a way where yoga and Pilates can complement one another. So, if you think about it in that way, Pi

Michelle Rae Sobi
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A Career Bridge for Yoga Teachers
You May Already Be Further Along Than You Think Recently, my application to sit for the PMI Project Management Office Certified Professional examination was accepted by the Project Management Institute. As I began preparing for this next step, I found myself looking at nearly two decades of work through a new lens. Developing teacher trainings, coordinating retreats, launching websites and bringing programs through credential approval had involved far more than teaching yoga.

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Labor Day Savings
Be sure the labor you give feeds your soul. Do you find yourself thinking about what labor earns your time? This year, choose a pathway that makes your heart sing, your dreams come true, and brings you to the places you want to go. USE CODE: LABOR26 to $AVE 30% on any of our programs. Not sure which one is right for you? Send Michelle a CHAT on the website to begin a conversation. RYT 200 - Become a Yoga Teacher (200 hours) RYT 500 - Teach Classes, Workshops, Retreats (300

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Edge Yoga School Graduate to SOBIS EDGE PMO
Are you ready to bring your career to the next level? Yoga Studio Managers are the ultimate Project Managers. If you are Edge Alum of our 300-hour program, come see me. EDGE YOGA SCHOOL GRADUATE TO SOBIS EDGE PMO Are you an Edge Yoga School Alum that took our 300-hour yoga teacher training? Did you know your manual was a series of workshops, and within those workshops, we worked on Projects? If your career has since changed from "I want to share my yoga practice and become a

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Ayurvedic Studio
Ayurvedic Learning Atelier Ayurvedic Studio is a private learning atelier centered on Ayurveda, with 75-minute experiences designed to create time for learning, exploration, practice, and integration. Tea is always part of the experience, and sessions are private, personal, and fully clothed. Ayurveda remains at the heart of the studio. The offerings provide several ways to explore traditional ideas and practices through conversation, movement, meditation, self-care, rest, an

Michelle Rae Sobi
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What do those letters mean?
Yoga Alliance acronyms unpacked for you. What Do All Those Yoga Alliance Letters Mean? 🧘♀️ If you have ever looked at a yoga teacher’s credentials and wondered what RYT, E-RYT, RCYT, RPYT, or YACEP actually mean, here is the breakdown. Yoga teacher training can be the beginning of a much larger educational path. 👇🏼 RYT 200 | Registered Yoga Teacher, 200 Hours This is the foundational Yoga Alliance teacher credential. It begins with completion of a 200-hour teacher trainin

Michelle Rae Sobi
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The Best Way to Make Yoga Teacher Training Accessible Is to Make It Accessible
It is simply access. The Best Way to Make Yoga Teacher Training Accessible Is to Make It Accessible Yesterday, one of our graduates thanked me for making yoga teacher training accessible to her. My response was simple: “The best way to make training accessible is to make it accessible.” It sounds almost too obvious, but accessibility has to be more than something written into a mission statement. It has to show up in the actual structure of a program. That can mean flexible p

Michelle Rae Sobi
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Sobi Art School Introduces Crown Pathway
Earn your CYP in a year-long mentorship with Michelle Rae Sobi A self-paced, mentor-supported journey for yoga teachers and experienced practitioners exploring personal practice through creativity and reflection. Sobi Art School is pleased to introduce Crown Pathway, a self-paced, mentor-supported journey through seven centers of personal practice. Crown Pathway was created for yoga teachers who want to explore visual storytelling as a way of sharing their craft, as well as e

Michelle Rae Sobi
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