Love and live Pilates? Always wanted to teach Reformer Pilates? Want to be your own boss with flexible hours? Welcome to the new chapter of your life. We have got you sorted.
Our in-depth, professional teacher training led by our Master Instructors will give you the knowledge and training you need to teach Reformer Pilates to your clients like a pro. Join our graduates to teach locally and globally with our internationally accredited courses.
The SO Academy™
Your most comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training Academy. With more than 15 years combined of Pilates Instructing experience in our teaching team, what differs us to other Pilates Instructor courses is that our courses are designed and taught by our master instructor and head trainer who is a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist with years of clinical experiences. Learn how to teach clients who are injury free but also learn skills to adapt for injuries, pregnancy, movement biomechanics and more.
Our Reformer Pilates course doesn't only teach you a set of Reformer Pilates moves, but how to modify to your class and your clients. Teaching you the 'why' behind each move to allow you to translate it to real world on real bodies.
A handful of things you will learn...
- Anatomy & Physiology
- Functional Movements
- Pilates Terminology.
- How to build and structure a 45-60 minutes class
- 80+ Reformer Pilates Exercises including variations
- How to adapt to injuries or to different fitness levels
- Neutral Posture and Alignment
- Adapted different postures
- Effective teaching skills according to The SO Method
- Effective Hands on corrections
- Verbal correctional cues.
- Cueing guidelines for every movement.
- Creating purposeful class plans and flow.
- Common Musculoskeletal issues and how to adapt them.
- Pre & Post Natal variations
- Using & setting up a Reformer properly.
- Practicing your teaching skills in groups.
- Proper teaching language, intonation and volume.
- Using small apparatus in a Reformer setting.
Course Curriculum
Our Reformer Pilates Course is a 150+ Hour hour course with a combination of online content and 4-day in person to teach you everything you need to teach Reformer Pilates.
ONLINE + SELF DIRECTED LEARNING
- Online Modules with access to 80+ Reformer Pilates Moves, approximately 35 hours.
- 35 Hours Group Classes and Observation at SO studios or others.
- 30 Hours Independent Practice Teaching and Cueing.
- Support from community of graduates, teachers in Facebook community and via email.
IN PERSON DAYS
- 36 Contact Hours in Studio
- 5 Hours Assessment Prep.
- 5-10 Hours Independent Practice Teaching and Cueing.
- Support from community of graduates, teachers in Facebook community and via email.
- Assessment Day at a later time (subjected to completion of online hours).
Why should you learn from The SO Academy?
The SO Academy is the teaching branch of the SO brand delivering Functional Pilates in NZ for the last 5 years, growing from a humble rental apartment floor to the flagship studio in Auckland, New Zealand.
Creating a fully comprehensive teaching programme to cater to the current trends in the industry is a difficult task, it needs time to be trialled and tested, as well as constantly have a pulse in the industry. Our teacher training programme involves not just the moves itself, but modifications and adaptations for all bodies, detailed breakdown of the moves, and how to hands on correct/provide tactile guidance for your clients. For us, everyone and anyone can teach the move, but to truly understand it, its what differentiates you from everyone else.
Our structured teaching courses are designed to provide you with the most comprehensive education and knowledge base, ranging from extras like pre & post natal variations, small apparatus teaching and more. This is why our Teacher Training Programme is 150+ hours. Good education requires time and practice and the in person days are information packed, with knowledge pearls for rehab, for fitness and for every day practice. During our In Person days, you will also learn how to teach sequences, because a Pilates class is not just teaching move after move, but instead how to flow your class. Oh, we also teach you how to class plan.
Sounds like a great deal for your investment? We think so too.
Join our graduates to teach locally and globally, with our internationally accredited Teacher Training Programme.
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