If you've been practicing pilates for a while, you may want to become able to teach others. Pilates certification can broadly be divided into two parts – mat certification and comprehensive certification. Past these two basic levels, there are also other levels of advanced certification available for people who want to specialize in different aspects of pilates, such as sport or rehabilitation.
Pilates Certification – Mat Instructor
This kind of training is often available to students of pilates who have shown basic proficiency in classes. You should study for a while before taking a class to train you as a teacher, even as a mat instructor. However, not all certifying bodies actually require pilates experience, meaning that some mat instructors don't have much practical learning before they certify.
If you become trained as a mat instructor, you'll learn all the basic exercises, as well as way to modify them for different people and activity levels. The exam should include a written test and teaching demonstration. This training can be offered as a single-weekend intensive course, or take two weekends. How long your mat instructor pilates certification takes will depend on the facility where you're taking it.
Generally course fees are a hundred dollar and up, though pay attention to what you're getting. Since pilates isn't standardized, you may well receive what you pay for, making more expensive courses worth while. Investigate the certifying body that covers this course and be sure that your needs and standards are met by the pilates certification.
Pilates Certification – Comprehensive
This kind of pilates certification is more elaborate than the one above. If you're interested in this kind of certification, you'll need to have completed a year or more of pilates study, including having taken private lessons. You may also be expected to have a mat instructor certification. Then, you'll undertake basic education on physiology and anatomy, as well as the evolution of the Pilates Method, as developed by Joseph Pilates. In depth instruction in pilates machines and other equipment, and modification of them as needed for different students will also be provided.
The full pilates certification process may be divided into several different levels. Each certification program will have its own method for dividing up the certification. Some examples, however, include levels of study for reformers, cadillacs, and special populations of students. Levels can either be taught as short intensive courses, or over a longer period of time.
Most people who are looking for comprehensive pilates certification will also be required to spend some number of hours in the studio as an apprentice instructor. Amounts vary, but may be as high as nine hundred per year. Costs for this kind of pilates certification varies as much as the programs. However, the baseline for a good comprehensive pilates certification is around two thousand dollars.
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