Instructor Education

Become a Pilates Instructor

Pilates Certification Programs

Start your Pilates teaching career or continue your practice with our STOTT PILATES® Certification Programs. These programs are designed to provide you with the knowledge and tools necessary to teach confidently and effectively. As a STOTT PILATES® certified instructor, you will:

• Learn the Five Basic Principles of STOTT PILATES®
• Develop communication and observation skills to deliver effective instruction
• Master verbal cuing and imagery to enhance client motivation and performance
• Understand modifications for different body types, postural issues, and conditions
• Gain expertise in postural analysis and create safe, personalized programs for your clients

Pilates Professional Development & Continuing Education

Enhance your skills and expand your expertise with our Professional Development & Continuing Education workshops. These workshops are available to ALL Pilates and fitness instructors (i.e., these are not limited to STOTT PILATES® certified instructors), and they offer a variety of topics to further your understanding and diversify your offerings, including:

• Pilates Fundamentals for all levels
• Athletic and Golf Conditioning
• Rehabilitation and injury prevention
• Special Populations (e.g., older adults, teenagers, rehab, pre- and post-natal)

With over 150 workshops to choose from, you can select the ones that align with your goals and help you stay at the forefront of the Pilates and fitness fields.

Become a Pilates Specialist

Take your career to the next level by becoming a STOTT PILATES® Specialist in a field that interests you. Whether it's athletic conditioning, post-rehabilitation conditioning, or special populations, this designation sets you apart as an expert. To earn your STOTT PILATES® Specialist designation, you must:

• Complete eight workshops within your chosen specialty
• Be a STOTT PILATES® Certified Instructor to earn the specialist designation (open to all fitness professionals, but certification is required to be recognized as a "Specialist")
• Earn Continuing Education Credits (CECs) along the way

Specializing in a specific area allows you to target a niche clientele and elevate your teaching career to new heights.

Become a Barre Instructor

Total Barre® Foundation Course

The Total Barre® Foundation Course is the essential starting point for those interested in becoming a Total Barre® instructor. This course provides you with the core education you need to design and teach safe, effective, and varied barre classes. You’ll learn:

• Barre Choreography: Learn how to create fluid, effective class sequences.
• Exercise Essence & Biomechanics: Understand the foundational movements and proper technique to ensure safety and efficiency.
• Music as a Motivator: Master the art of using music to enhance movement quality, rhythm, and client engagement.

The Foundation Course includes 11 specially arranged segments, each accompanied by carefully selected music, that serve as templates for creating a balanced and complete barre workout. You’ll also be introduced to the Total Barre® Principles, which form the backbone of every effective barre class you’ll teach.

Total Barre® Professional Development & Continuing Education

Once you’ve completed the Foundation Course, you can continue to grow and refine your skills with Professional Development & Continuing Education workshops. These workshops are designed to:

• Refine Your Cueing and Movement Form: Learn how to improve your instruction, focusing on the efficiency of movement and proper form.
• Barre Exercise Progressions: Dive deeper into advanced barre techniques, understanding how to layer exercises for varying fitness levels.
• Effective Use of Music: Strengthen your ability to cue with music for better movement quality and client experience.

We offer a range of pre-programmed workouts designed to target specific aspects of fitness (e.g., strength, flexibility, stamina) and cater to various populations. Workshops also explore cardio-based intervals, thematic training, and how to tailor programs to specific fitness goals or target groups.

INTENSIVE REFORMER (IR)

This course is intended for those who have a background in movement/teaching OR are already working in the fitness/Rehab/movement field. This includes those in academia who have experience in pilates at their local gym or studio and are looking to change careers, create additional income part-time or someone who is simply passionate about pilates and wants to go deeper personally or learn to teach. The course is conducted over 3-4 weekends. Building on your industry knowledge, it teaches you to design and lead a Level 1 (Essential and Intermediate) STOTT PILATES® Reformer repertoire for personal or group training settings for a range of clients. You will leave with a solid foundation and required skills to develop effective and motivating Pilates Reformer programs.

What you will learn:

• The STOTT PILATES® Five Basic Principles
• Essential, Intermediate, Power workouts
• Effective use of the reformer to enhance torso stability and strength, peripheral extremity conditioning, joint stability, flexibility, balance and coordination
• Effective communication and observational skills
• Verbal cueing and imagery for performance enhancement and client motivation
• Theory and practice of postural analysis
• 139 exercises plus modifications for specific body types, postural issues and conditions
• How to incorporate resistance equipment to support and intensify exercises
• Exercise layering related to effective program design
• Workout composition for personal and group training

2025 Session Dates: 

• OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT:
• Fri, May 16, 2025, 1:30 pm – 7:00 pm
• Sat, May 17, 2025, 11:00 am – 4:30 pm
• Sun, May 18, 2025, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
• Fri, May 30, 2025, 1:30 pm – 7:00 pm
• Sat, May 31, 2025, 11:00 am – 4:30 pm
• Sun, Jun 01, 2025, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
• Fri, Jun 20, 2025, 1:30 pm – 7:00 pm
• Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 11:00 am – 4:30 pm
• Sun, Jun 22, 2025, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm
• Mon, Jun 23, 2025, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm

• COMPLETED
• Jan 24, 2025 - Mar 3, 2025

Location:  Evolution Pilates, 293 Oakland Street, South Windsor CT 06074

Total Cost:  Course Cost ($1,750) + IR Manual & Digital Materials ($275) + Support Material Guide ($35) = $2,060

CECs: 5.0 (50 hours)

STOTT PILATES^® Injuries & Special Populations (ISP)

The STOTT PILATES^® Injuries & Special Populations (ISP) course equips you with the skills required to address a broad range of physical challenges among your clients. It is important to note that this course will NOT prepare students to diagnose or treat any specific injuries or conditions or prescribe exercises for these populations without consultation with an appropriate health practitioner (i.e., Physical Therapist, Physiotherapist, or similarly recognized health care professional).

Completion of ISP is required for full STOTT PILATES® certification.

General course objectives:

• Discuss the Pilates instructor’s role in the rehabilitative process
• Examine the industry standards for screening clients and learn how to begin a Pilates program to safely and appropriately work with special populations
• Discuss the three-level muscle classification system
• Develop and be able to apply a rehabilitative approach based on current models of joint stability
• Examine optimal and dysfunctional biomechanical patterns in various regions of the body
• Review the most common injuries and special populations that may be encountered
• Review appropriate exercise progressions for those injuries and special populations
• Practice programming for specific injuries and special populations

2025 Session Dates:

• COMPLETED
• Thu, Mar 13, 2025 12:30 pm – 7:00 pm
• Fri, Mar 14, 2025 12:30 pm – 7:00 pm
• Sat, Mar 15, 2025 11:00 am – 5:30 pm
• Sun, Mar 16, 2025 9:00 am – 3:30 pm

Location:  Evolution Pilates, 293 Oakland Street, South Windsor CT 06074

Total Cost:  Program Cost ($1,300) + Materials ($111) = $1,411

CECs:  2.4 (24 hours)

Intensive Cadillac (ICAD)

Building on your industry knowledge and the material learned in Intensive Mat-Plus™ (IMP) or Intensive Reformer (IR), you learn to design and lead the Level 1 (Essential and Intermediate) STOTT PILATES® Cadillac repertoire for personal or group training settings for a range of clients. 125 exercises on the Cadillac Trapeze Table.

What you will learn:

• A variety of exercises performed on the Cadillac Trapeze Table through the full Essential and Intermediate repertoire
• To become better acquainted with the Cadillac as a tool to create complete workouts or as a complement to routines featuring Matwork and other equipment
• To observe and experience a variety of exercises utilizing the Cadillac’s features including the Roll-Down Bar, Push-Thru Bar, Trapeze, Leg, and Arm Springs
• The goals of each exercise, biomechanics, and alignment, as well as cueing and correcting for safety and effectiveness
• How to apply the STOTT PILATES® Five Basic Principles to a variety of exercises, variations, and modifications
• Familiarity with the safety guidelines and application of the equipment for a variety of clients

2025 Session Dates:

• IN PROGRESS
• Fri, Apr 11, 2025 1:30 pm – 6:30 pm
• Sat, Apr 12, 2025 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
• Sun, Apr 13, 2025 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
• Sat, May 03, 2025 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
• Sun, May 04, 2025 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
  

Location:  Evolution Pilates, 293 Oakland Street, South Windsor CT 06074

Total Cost:   Program Cost ($875) + ICAD Materials ($216) = $1,091

CECs:  2.5 (25 hours)

Total Barre® FOUNDATIONS COURSE

The dynamic Total Barre® program is intended for those already working in the fields of fitness or movement. Instructors looking to bring music-inspired movement to their clients will love the 11 specially arranged and selected segments that serve as the template for each session or class.

Segments are accompanied by timed selections of music, each at a designated pace and focus on individual areas of the body or movement type.

Upon completion of the Instructor Foundation Course, participants will be able to teach the Total Barre® method of exercise. Only upon the receipt of their certificate will they be entitled to identify themselves as a Total Barre® Qualified Instructor.

Total Barre® offers a balanced and thorough blend of theory, observation and practical experience to help you master the repertoire.

General course objectives:

• Learn creative choreography of a well-balanced Barre workout
• Receive a template to effectively guide participants to modify and choreograph future workouts
• Break down various movements and explore the stabilization and mobilization required to achieve them
• Learn how to cue, correct and modify effectively for all populations
• Experience and implement six Total Barre® Foundational Principles
• Participants are supplied suggested beats per minute for each segment of the workout they learn with optional music playlist

2025 Dates: 

• TO BE ANNOUNCED

Location:  Evolution Pilates, 293 Oakland Street, South Windsor CT 06074

Cost:  Program Cost ($420) + Materials ($85) = $505

CECs:  0.7 (7 hours)

ZEN•GA® Instructor Foundation Course, Mat

The ZEN•GA® Level 1 Mat Course will help us explore the foundational principles that make up the method and apply them to movement programs designed to help reach the desired goals. This is a 7-hour in-class training (plus 1-hour break). Some yoga or other mind-body training is highly recommended.

What you will learn:

• The four ZEN•GA® Mindful Movement principles
• Experiential exercises on the Mat to reinforce these principles
• The definition of fascia and an introduction to the new model of training termed fascial fitness
• The benefits of training the neuromyofascial web
• An introduction to a new field of study in the human body called biotensegrity
• Exercises on the Mat that explore the Myofascial Meridians

2025 Dates: 

• TO BE ANNOUNCED

 TBA

Location:  Evolution Pilates, 293 Oakland Street, South Windsor CT 06074

Total Cost:  $420

CECs:  0.7 (7 hours)

Intensive Stability Chair™ (ICHR)

Building on your industry knowledge and the material learned in IMP or IR you learn to design and lead the Level 1 (Essential and Intermediate) STOTT PILATES® Stability Chair repertoire for personal or group training settings for a range of clients.

2025 Dates:

• TO BE ANNOUNCED

  TBA
Location:  Evolution Pilates, 293 Oakland Street, South Windsor CT 06074

Total Cost:  Program Cost ($600) + Materials ($115) = $715

CECs:  1.5 (15 hours)

BONUS:  Brand NEW Merrithew® Split-Pedal Stability Chair™ in Jet Black (unassembled; still in box) available for purchase—$1,600 Total (Retails for $2,049 before shipping & handling costs). Must be able to pick up from our Walpole, Massachusetts studio. Reach out to us by email info@c2body.com or fill out the form below if you're interested.