Pilates Comprehensive 2023
empowering determined, Ambitious Humans to make a change by learning, developing and creating their most blissful life as a pilates professional!
exercise instruction components
- set up of apparatus
- transitions
- progressions
- modifications
HOW WILL I LEARN? YOU CAN CHOSE TO TAKE PART IN OUR COURSE AS FOLLOWS:
virtual livestream
in studio learning
retreat format
- Lifetime access to all Manuals and Exercise Video content
- Access to all modules
- Online presence for all tutorials held on course days
- Certificate of Achievement*
- Lifetime access to Manuals and Exercise Video content
- Access to all modules
- in house tutorials
- Certificate of Achievement*
- 1 written + practical exam
- Online SLACK community
- Studio practice during tutorials
- WEEKLY GROUP COACHING CALL
- Lifetime access to Manuals and Exercise Video content
- Access to all modules
- in house tutorials
- Certificate of Achievement*
- 1 written + practical exam
- Online SLACK community
- Studio practice during tutorials
- WEEKLY GROUP COACHING CALL
- B&B Accommodation for duration of tutorials
- Opportunity to learn more at Retreat Finca
- Weekly group coaching call with Anita
* The certificate of achievement is rewarded upon completion of all required hours for each level.
the AHA PILATES COMPREHENSIVE IS A FULLY COMPREHENSIVE, 600-HOUR COURSE COMPRISING OF:
- Course Contact hours
- Observation hours
- Self practice
- Practice Teaching
- PLUS FOR 2023, WE HAVE ADDITIONAL WEEKLY zoom MEETINGS TO KEEP YOU ACCOUNTABLE ON YOUR PROGRESS AND ADDITIONAL BUSINESS MODULES TO SET YOU FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS!*
* business programme is available for the in-studio and retreat packages only.
Our Pilates Comprehensive Course will teach you how to:
- Cue effectively
- Apply touch techniques
- Learn workout composition for personal and group training
- Develop dynamic programmes in a studio environment
- Put theory into practice and identify the correct postural analysis during movement
- Learn a fully comprehensive list of exercises plus modifications for specific body types, postural issues and conditions
- Use of specific equipment to enhance, support and intensify strength and flexibility exercises
- Use small props to enhace torso stability and strength and for peripheral extremity contitioning, flexibility, joint stability, balance & co-ordination
- communicate effectively and develop amazing observational skills
- create effective verbal cues and imagery for performance enhancement and client motivation
- create beginner, intermediate and advanced powerful workouts
- layer exercise in order to create an effective programme for the student
- develop dynamic programmes in a pilates studio environment, greet clients and modify exercises for people with injuries
pre-requisites:
- Before accessing our certification programmes, students must have knowledge of basic human anatomy and kinesiology, delivered through our Functional Anatomy Course (or another recognised functional anatomy course) 20 hours of prior Pilates mat training (or Studio training for the Pilates Comprehensive) and current CPR / First Aid certifications preferred. Students must also be reasonably fit and active.
- The Functional Anatomy course must be finished within 2 years prior to the commencement of the certification courses.
Reading material. It is also important that students read the following books:
- The Pilates Primer: Millennium Edition – Return to Life Through Contrology (required)
- Your Health by Joseph Pilates (required)
- Anatomy of Movement (Revised Edition). By Blandine Calais-Germain (recommended)
- Getting to Know Joe Pilates, by Cathy Strack (recommended)
- Joseph Hubertus Pilates, The Biography by Esperanza Aparicio Romero and Javier Pérez Pont (recommended)
say 'yes' and get all these bonuses:
Virtual live stream
in person at studio
retreat format
- Pilates Teacher Success Toolkit (eDownload)
- Pilates Teacher Success Toolkit (eDownload)
- Access to BONUS ‘Magic Circle Workshop’, valued @ €349, essential in any Pilates comprehensive programme.
- special Gift
- Complimentary healthy snacks throughout the tutorials
- FREE Wifi
- Celebratory meal at end of course
- Pilates Teacher Success Toolkit (eDownload)
- Access to BONUS ‘Magic Circle Workshop’, valued @ €349, essential in any Pilates comprehensive program.
- special Gift
- Complimentary healthy snacks throughout the tutorials
- FREE Wifi
- Celebratory meal at end of course
what's all the fuss about the retreat package?
our retreat package includes b&b accommodation at finca amanaya, our Spanish retreat centre where you would breathe, eat, sleep and live pilates for the duration of your course. accommodation is free! you just pay for the course!
for further details about the luxury boutique retreat centre in the spanish mountains on the costa blanca, visit www.amanaya.es and look at the types of accommodation provided. all you need to pay for is airport transportation from valencia or alicante airports. this is a once in a lifetime opportunity!
