I built the planning tool I wished I already had.

In 2015, I created the Online Pilates Lesson Planner because I was spending too much time assembling my own classes from scratch. The teaching was the enjoyable bit. Rebuilding the wheel every week—usually while looking suspiciously at a notebook—was not.

The first goal was simple: make it quicker to find exercises, arrange them into a sensible class and keep useful plans somewhere they could actually be found again. That remains the goal today, even though the Planner has grown to include instant plans from Ask Genie, thousands of exercises and a large shared library created by teachers.

I later created the Pilates Card Decks for the same practical reason. Sometimes you want an editable digital plan; sometimes you want a visual prompt you can shuffle, arrange and put beside the mat without introducing your laptop to a stray foot.