The Movement Refinery is an industry-leading boutique studio and teacher training organisation that puts the craft and our clients first. We share our learnings and passion within you over this 6+ month Progressive Classical Cadillac teacher training programme. At 130+ hours, it is one of the only programmes in the region that puts the original work front and centre and has an equal focus on skill acquisition, biomechanics and client care. This approach equips you to work with all ‘apparently healthy’/low-risk clients while developing your critical thinking skills to offer safe and effective tuition in the Pilates studio or fitness environment.

We don’t split our course into the different components or levels, this way you get all of the information for the best results for your clients.

At no extra charge we include the airplane board and neck stretcher apparatus so that you can truly use the Cadillac the way Joe made it.

You can opt-in to three different price-points (Online study only, + face to face delivery days, + certification) but with us, your budget doesn’t dictate how much information we share. This way, you’ll be a Cadillac expert and can understand how the full method fits together like the best jigsaw puzzle you’ve ever done!

• Existing Pilates clients who want to learn more about their favourite movement method

• Career-changers or those looking for a side hustle

• Group fitness instructors

• Allied health professionals who are looking to honour the work and stand out from their colleagues

• Career professional Pilates instructors

• Develop a deep understanding of the complete Cadillac lists including ‘how-to’ and what constitutes genuine Pilates

• Learn to apply a skills-acquisition approach to teaching in the private and group setting to make the original work accessible to all movers

• Understand the movements of the Cadillac such as they may form building blocks and scaffolds for the exercises of other apparatus across the Pilates system

• Expand your teaching skills to promote effective form and technique

• Build the teaching eye and coaching skills

• Prepare for a career as a Pilates professional

If you are a university-qualified allied health care professional, your existing qualification and professional registration will allow you to work with all clients including providing rehabilitation care services.

Otherwise, this course prepares you to work with ‘apparently healthy’/low-risk clients’. While the work is therapeutic, only select tertiary qualifications permit you to diagnose an injury or condition and treat accordingly. A Pilates teacher is a Pilates specialist, someone who is expert in the method and applying this to an ‘apparently healthy’ clientele.

Where this course differs from other Pilates courses is that we offer a skills-acquisition focus to the work. Once you have identified contraindications or concerns of the client in front of you, you will be able to apply our building blocks of each exercise and still work with them in an exercise capacity.

One of the greatest strengths of a movement teacher is to know when to refer to an allied health care professional for manual or exercise therapy.

This course will help you stand out from the many new graduates each year because it is one of a handful of courses globally that puts Pilates unashamedly front and centre. As a graduate of our course, you will be able to deliver a Cadillac/Tower class or coach Cadillac/Tower movements privately knowing the transformative power of the sequence in a variety of applications

• Gym and fitness centres

• Boutique and franchise Pilates studios/health clubs

• Community programmes

• Pilates studios that offer Tower, springboard or Cadillac classes

• Allied health clinics that offer an exercise programme

• Online/digital fitness platforms or live-streamed classes