NYC Pilates Teacher Training Programs

Pilates is a system of exercise that tends to attract intelligent clients. The clients who benefit most dramatically from their Pilates workouts are those clients who bring patience, discipline, and focus to their practice. Learning to fire up the right muscle takes intelligence. Committing to working the deeper, subtler muscles of the body, rather than the largest, most obvious muscles, takes a certain mindset, a certain ability to focus.

Men and women who are interested in teaching Pilates professionally also tend to be quite bright. This is fortunate, since teaching Pilates demands an understanding not only of Pilates technique, but of anatomy, kinesiology, and biomechanics. Understanding Pilates well enough to teach it successfully and safely to diverse populations requires both a depth and breadth of knowledge. This is not one of those "warm them up, work them out, cool them off, and kick them out" exercise systems.

Teaching Pilates is much more complex than, say, putting your personal training client on a treadmill for 20 minutes and then finishing her up with some simple weight training and stretching. Pilates is complicated. But Pilates is also more engaging, more enjoyable, and more dramatically beneficial than simpler forms of exercise. When well taught, Pilates has the power to physically transform clients.

At Pilates Academy International, we want all of our certification students to become brilliant teachers. We are choosy about who we accept into our Academy, because we have a reputation to maintain--a reputation for producing superior Pilates teachers with superior knowledge. Pilates Academy International works with the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, as well as chiropractors and kinesiologists, to help our certification students achieve the deepest possible understanding of Pilates' impact on their clients' anatomy.

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