Become a Pilates Instructor
Thank You For Your Interest! The following will provide you with the information needed To become a certified Pilates Instructor.
The true education in Pilates gives the teacher all the tools needed to enable him or her to understand and communicate the principals Joe himself taught; building a strong powerhouse (core), strength and flexibility as well as ease of movement to any client, regardless of the level. To download our TAP Pilates Instructor Information, click here.
Teacher Training
Sabrina Vaz founded Traditional Authentic Pilates (TAP) to offer teacher training and continuing education workshops with respect to the teaching of Joseph H. Pilates and his New York Studio.
TAP is a program that focuses on developing the ability to teach the individual as well as the group. The training participant will receive vital information and exposure to skills that will be critical in teaching a wide variety of clientele. We will offer small class size, lots of individual attention, mentorship and apprenticeship.
You will learn:
- The principals that Joe Pilates taught.
- The archival exercises taught by Mr. Pilates
- The primary goals of each exercise
- How to work with dancers & athletes
- How to work with injury
- How to work with pregnant clients
- Why Mr. Pilates had a specific order to the exercises
- How to find limitations in movement
- How to find and correct posture & alignment faults
- How to adapt exercises to clients with injury
- How to structure a one hour private session
- How to communicate with affective cues
- Hands On for clients
- Proper Pilates form
The TAP teacher training program consists of a two week course that focuses on the entire series of exercises developed by Joseph H. Pilates as well as, the equipment he designed. Once the course is completed there will be a period of apprenticship of 100 hours. The apprenticship will be self study or under supervision. This will be determined after the completion of the two week course. A two day practical & written exam will complete the program.
