Discovering Pilates marked a turning point
for Slim Tlili, both personally and professionally.
For a start it boosted an already successful
sporting career that had begun at the tender age of nine. While Slim
had already won national and international titles with his volleyball
team at a semi-professional level, he freely admits that an enhanced
flexibility resulting from his own Pilates regime has markedly boosted
his performance.
Alongside Slim's sporting prowess, he has
also been able to combine his skills as a qualified physiotherapist in
Tunisia with an increased knowledge and understanding of the teaching of
Pilates. This impressive skillset allows Slim to help clients with the
most challenging of injury and rehabilitation cases.
While working abroad Slim kicked off his
training through the UK-based Body Control Pilates Association and in
particular the teachings of the organisation's co-founder Lynn Robinson.
Once himself in charge of classes he soon realised - like his colleage
Teejay that it was vital to use the right rehabilitation and Pilates
exercises to suit a client's injuries or needs:
"My background really enables me to teach
Pilates properly. If I didn't know how the body works, if I hadn't been
practising sport all my life, if I didn't know about rehabilitation,
then I wouldn't be able to choose the right exercise for the right
person."
"I have seen classes of 25 people doing the
same exercises, without any questions being made about people's fitness
levels and past injures. It's so important to know what your client is
capable of doing, what their injuries are, and it's according to that
that you teach them. In the small Applied Pilates groups you know you
can allocate enough attention to the client."
Slim's approach to rehabilitation has been
so effective that practitioners regularly refer patients to him. This
has resulted in him helping clients with a variety of conditions
including prolapsed discs, hip replacements and shoulder injuries. Women
both pre and post pregnancy have also benefited from his teaching.
He believes that Pilates has the potential
to help all people, whatever their age or gender, as he explains:
"People are different so you cannot make a rigid interpretation of
Pilates. It doesn't matter what your fitness level or background is. We
will be able to assess your problem or injury and take you through the
rehabilitation gradually, building up the exercises. The exercises can
be simple things that you are able to do and enjoy."
"In improving his clients' posture and
stability Slim uses his advanced qualifications in mat and equipment
based Pilates exercises to enable them to gain long lasting results as
quickly as possible.
It's so important to gather all the
knowledge you have gleaned as an instructor and apply that to the
individual client or patient, never to copy a set pattern of doing
things."
Facts focus - Slim Tlili
- Qualified at 21 as a physiotherapist in Tunisia
- Trained with Body Control Pilates teachers and gained first mat work qualification in 2002 and then went on to achieve advanced and intermediate mat, reformer.
- Body
Control approved trainer for teachers/students.
- Remains dedicated to continuing education and development through the Body Control Pilates
- Plays semi-professional volleyball with London Malory Club at national and international level
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