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Location: New Jersey | I've been doing pilates since high school, when I was a dancer, but have only done mat work. I had the benefit of an instructor during high school and college, but currently I'm doing my Pilates workouts alone. I am interested in teaching Pilates, and have a question. Are there Pilates instructors who teach mat work only? The teachers I had taught the equipment as well, I just never took advantage of it. I know it owul benefit me to learn on the equipment. Would I be able to enter a teacher training program with only having mat work experience?
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| I'm no pilates expert. However, I did have a talk with my friend who is a pilates instructor about this the other day. Here is what I learned. You can get certified solely as pilates mat instructor. If you want to get certified as a reformer/machine/equipment instructor it requires lots of additional training.
Whether you can skip the mat work and just do the equipment training, I don't know, but I would guess no. I think that a complete pilates program would require you to do the mat before or during your reformer training.
Yes you can do just a mat training. For training on the equipment you will have to do a lot more training in addition. I say, get yourself some good teachers again and start asking them where they trained. |
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| I have a yoga instructor who is just certified on the matwork. So it's clearly possible. |
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| samantha77 - 2005-02-04 3:53 PM
I've been doing pilates since high school, when I was a dancer, but have only done mat work. I had the benefit of an instructor during high school and college, but currently I'm doing my Pilates workouts alone. I am interested in teaching Pilates, and have a question. Are there Pilates instructors who teach mat work only? The teachers I had taught the equipment as well, I just never took advantage of it. I know it owul benefit me to learn on the equipment. Would I be able to enter a teacher training program with only having mat work experience?
Samantha You absolutely can be certified in just mat, Peak offers Mat 1, Mat II and Mat III, check this page .
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Location: New Jersey | Thanks for that link! I'm definitely going to look into getting certified.
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| samantha77 - 2005-02-06 11:57 AM
Thanks for that link! I'm definitely going to look into getting certified.
Samantha
then, could you please move to japan as i need a certified teacher ! |
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Location: New Jersey | No Problem! |
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| I have been looking into this too . . . Stott Pilates (www.stottpilates.com) and Power Pilates (www.powerpilates.com) also offer Matwork-only certification. I don't know what it's like where you live, but I can't imagine the gyms around here ever buying a reformer! Of course it would be valuable information to know, but a simple matwork course seems like a good place to start.
Another yoga teacher told me about a program called Fitour (www.fitour.com) which offers basically a correspondence course for $99. It kinda sounds like BS to me (especially since they also offer yoga, and I would not dream of taking a yoga class from a teacher trained this way). But, if you already know a lot about Pilates, and want to get started teaching while you save money for a more comprehensive course, it might be an interim measure.
Good luck! Keep us posted on how it goes!!
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Location: New Jersey | Jean,
Thanks for the info. I'm starting Grad School in the fall so I may have to put it off for now. I'm going to try to get going on it though and maybe I can start a certification program before I start school. I let you know what I come up with!
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| i was certified through Power Pilates and think it's fantastic! great instructors! |
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Location: New Jersey | I did look into Power Pilates, and it looks like the one I would go with. They definitely offer what I was looking for. Thanks for telling me about your success with them.
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| jeansyoga - 2005-02-05 9:31 AM
I have been looking into this too . . . Stott Pilates (www.stottpilates.com) and Power Pilates (www.powerpilates.com) also offer Matwork-only certification.
Another yoga teacher told me about a program called Fitour (www.fitour.com) which offers basically a correspondence course for $99. It kinda sounds like BS to me ....
Good luck! Keep us posted on how it goes!!
Jean
At our gym we had an instructor who took a quickie Pilates course, and another who certified through Stott Pilates when she lived in Wisconsin. The one who took the expensive course, is a much better Teacher. She teaches more modifications, and is more precise. |
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| MrD - I presume the more expensive course was also more extensive? We wouldn't want to think that the same amount of time plus more $$ = better teaching
But yes, it would seem to be self-evident that a better training produces a better teacher. Why does the rest of the world not see that? |
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| tourist - 2005-02-07 6:39 PM
MrD - I presume the more expensive course was also more extensive? We wouldn't want to think that the same amount of time plus more $$ = better teaching
But yes, it would seem to be self-evident that a better training produces a better teacher. Why does the rest of the world not see that?
Yes, the more extensive training actually took place over several months. |
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| samantha77 - 2005-02-07 3:54 PMI did look into Power Pilates, and it looks like the one I would go with. They definitely offer what I was looking for. Thanks for telling me about your success with them.Samantha Power Pilates is a good choice, they're very similar to Peak (classical) and you're right, they're less money. A good instructor friend of mind is certified through Power.
Someone posted that expensive doesn't mean better, and that's correct, but a good instructor training program isn't done in a weekend, it takes time, you need observation time, hands on time, real experience teaching before you should be certified. Time equals money, unfortunately.....although I do think the money involved in Pilates is a bit crazy, it keeps many people from coming into the Pilates world, few can afford quality lessons or quality training
Edited by reinbeau 2005-02-08 5:23 AM
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| Yes! ofcourse. Ive been teaching pilates in my hometown in Cebu, Philippines
and yet I dont have pilates machines. Their alot of certfication institution abroad
so i think you dont have any problem with that. Just skip the machine certification
and just get the mat. |
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| Hy, my teacher was taught by both stott and peak, I think peak may suit you because it has more of a dance background, it incorporates rythm and timing amongst other dancy things. I was trained in mat first and have taught it for three years, I have just finished my reformer 1 today, but im glad I did the mat first, some of the girls who decided to go straight into reformers found the course very difficult. |
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