• Assessment Requirements

  To successfully complete this qualification, you must complete three (3) assessments. These assessments are designed to progressively build your knowledge and practical teaching skills and should be completed in the order listed below.

  A detailed Assessment Guide is provided within the course outlining the specific requirements for each assessment.

  Assessment 1: Reformer Pilates Presentation

  • Develop and deliver a professional presentation demonstrating your understanding of the history and fundamentals of Reformer Pilates.
  • Includes:
    • Planning a presentation
    • Delivering and recording the presentation to a small group

  Assessment 2: Reformer Pilates Practice Portfolio

  • Demonstrate your practical understanding and analysis of Reformer Pilates exercises through a portfolio of evidence.
  • Includes:
    • Personal practice log and reflective evaluation
    • 60-minute video recording of your personal practice
    • Exercise Analysis Workbook
    • 20-minute professional discussion with an assessor

  Assessment 3: Practical Teaching Assessment

  • Demonstrate your ability to confidently plan, deliver and evaluate a group Studio Reformer class.
  • Includes:
    • Planning two (2) 60-minute group Studio Reformer classes:
      • One Beginner class
      • One Open Level class
    • Delivering and evaluating both classes

  Assessment Progression

  • Complete the course at your own pace.
  • Assessments are designed to progressively build your knowledge and teaching skills.
  • If attending the face-to-face course, it is recommended that you complete all theory assessments and portfolio components before your practical training days.
  • This allows you to maximise your hands-on learning with your educator and focus on developing your teaching skills.
  • Your practical teaching assessment will be completed during the scheduled face-to-face training, where you will plan, deliver and evaluate your group Studio Reformer classes under the guidance of your assessor.
  • Your assessor will provide guidance and support throughout each stage of the assessment process.

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of anatomical principles as they relate to Pilates, covering the muscular and skeletal systems, and the planes of movement.
• Learn about the anatomy of the shoulder complex including the muscles and bones. Then how to apply this knowledge to teach exercises that promote scapular stability.
• Learn about the muscles and bones of the torso, and how to teach exercise that focus on core engagement and spinal alignment safely and effectively.
• Learn about the anatomy of the hip including teaching clients exercises that focus on  proper alignment and joint safety.
• Learn about the bones and muscles of the knee and ankle and how to teach Pilates leg exercises focused on safe alignment and mobility.

• Develop an understanding of proper alignment, starting with a neutral spine and pelvis.
• Learn to instruct clients through targeted mobility exercises by developing  both clear verbal instructions and effective hands-on adjustments (non-verbal cues) to enhance flexibility.

• Develop your understanding of the origins of Pilates and its consequent evolution where we will dive into  exploring original exercises and then adapting them to teaching in a more modern and contemporary way.

• Learn not only the principles of Pilates and breathing but also how to incorporate them into your instructing.

• Develop your understanding of sequencing and class planning so you’re able to create effective, adaptable classes for both group and one-on-one clients.

• Cover Work Place Health and Safety, hygiene issues and risk minimisation by learning how to prep your class space, and effectively communicate with your clients.

Self-Mastery: Complete at least 20 hours of self-mastery practice and evaluation, whereby you would practice the exercises yourself, learning the setup, movement, breathing and muscle focus of each exercise.
Teaching Mastery:
Practice teaching friends and family, and then when you’re ready, complete Assessment 3: Practical Assessment.

If completing the face-to-face delivery, Assessment 3: Practical Assessment will
occur on the final day of the course.

• Learn how to market yourself as a new instructor, find a job, build a client base, and turn your passion for Pilates into any vision you have for yourself.

• Demonstrate your understanding of the online theory by completing an online quiz.

• Master the essential activation exercises to ensure correct activation and alignment to then progress to the Pilates beginner exercises, focusing on verbal cueing then hands on tactile cueing to build your foundation to build your teaching framework upon.
• Learn the stretching repertoire so you can confidently sprinkle stretching and mobility exercises though your class or deliver a focused stretching block at the end of your class that focuses on enhancing flexibility, and releasing tension.

• Master teaching the beginner-level Reformer Pilates repertoire with confidence.
• Learn how to correct alignment, emphasising proper form through clear verbal cues and hands-on adjustments to help clients develop strength and stability in their foundational exercises.

• Develop your teaching skills of the intermediate Pilates repertoire, including using props to adapt the exercises in a more contemporary style class.

• Develop your confidence in teaching advanced dynamic standing Pilates flows.
• Learn how to program creative and contemporary classes with dynamic movements while introducing both progressions or modifications to teach all levels.

• Develop a comprehensive understanding of when and how to modify Reformer exercises safely for prenatal and postnatal populations.

• Demonstrate your teaching skills by programming and instructing a matwork class showcasing all the skills and techniques learned throughout the course.