2026 comprehensive mentorship
This complete and progressive classical Pilates teacher training offers full apparatus certification plus the tools to take your place as a Pilates change-maker
Ask a gigging Pilates instructor about their purpose … the answer is almost always, ‘helping my clients’.
Primary teacher training usually focusses in tight on one aspect … getting you confident enough to lead classes. Once you have your piece of paper, it’s truly time to stretch your skills and ensure you are equipped to work with anyone who walks through your door.
I am opening my treasure chest (and studio) so you can benefit from the tools I have developed over the last 23 years including contemporary, Classical, archival Pilates as well as my tertiary qualifications in Exercise Science and (soon) Exercise Physiology. The Movement Refinery and The Pilates Teacher Network is ready to offer you a big step forward into the deepest expression of your craft to date with a once-in-a-lifetime 12 month training mentorship.
This programme is extensive and if you put in the work, it will be as transformative for your work and career as Pilates has been for your body and mind. Welcome to Pilates nerd heaven; read on and you’ll realise that no mentorship (especially in Australia) goes this deep - access from Melbourne, Australia or on Zoom if regional/remote.
This is a full classical Pilates immersion
Pilates foundational knowledge:
· Classical and progressive building blocks for the comprehensive original lists
· Mat: Return to Life + Romana’s full list
· Reformer: Original complete list
· Cadillac: Classical and archival
· Chairs (including High Chair, Wunda Chair, Arm Chair)
· Barrels (Ladder Barrel, Spine Corrector and small barrel)
· JHP Accessories: Foot corrector, toe corrector, magic circle, neck stretcher, 2 x 4, arm weight series
We work from a skills-acquisition approach, in addition to the fullest expression of every exercise you’ll see in text books or instagram. This goes beyond the ‘beginner, intermediate and advanced’ model so that you can work work with the general public to give them the satisfying power of the full Pilates system.
The Global Guest Series
You’ll have priority access to this phenomenal series of TEN events at the studio and by zoom featuring some of our favourite collaborators
Benjamin Degenhardt Alex O’Neill King Maggie Macgill
Renee Siljeg Vanessa Killen Lucia Farina
The world has moved on, Classical Pilates must go beyond the ‘private session only’ model.
Develop your craft for positive client journey - days dedicated to bringing the work to the people
The initial consult: When to use a formal assessment or motivational interviewing tools
We will map the first 2-10 private sessions for different client profiles
Utilise and digest our curriculum for group class across three levels including pre-pilates, body conditioning and authentic Pilates conditioning relating the studio equipment across to the Reformer list – week to week class planning for six months. This is a world-first gift to the industry.
Build a culture that prepares clients to. move towards autonomous training
You’ll be able to then offer three price-points to prospective clients and break down some barriers that preclude many from training in the authentic way.
Plus – a mix of live on zoom and IRL topics throughout the course duration
The body / The Craft
Workshop: HAES – health at every size - working with larger bodies – why apply the usual rules? – a new framework to feel good and enjoy movement
Workshop: Effective back-bending and extensor development
Workshop: L-sit, compression and inversion
Workshop: Push-up / handstand
Workshop: Healthy shoulders in 3D
Workshop: Wrists for studio comfort and upper body prowess
Workshop: Exercise Science principles in programming
Workshop: The legacy of Kathy Stanford Grant
The craft
Workshop: The initial client interview – motivational interviewing techniques, onboarding paperwork and communication
Workshop: The initial session – postural assessment when to, when not to, what to include
The Industry
Workshop: Selecting your classical Reformer length and difference in other brands
Workshop: Reformer and equipment maintenance checklist and process
Monthly group practice
Join one of our faculty guests for a monthly group class live or on zoom
Join us for a monthly themed work-in
Maggie Macgill Renee Siljeg Vanessa Killen
Three exceptional teachers each with their own gifts are on hand to offer you an inspiring and thought-provoking session
Develop your understanding of the body and movement
Existing TMRA on-demand workshops to be completed at set milestones
Created by industry experts – Physiotherapists/Pilates instructors and educators
· Non-specific low back pain – Susan Cottrell
· Fighting Frailty – Susan Cottrell
· The pain experience – Alex O’Neill King
· Posture and positioning – Alex O’Neill King
· Centering in Breath – Megan Steers
Industry expert – vocal and singing coach – Jeremy Powell
· The instructor’s voice: understanding the vocal mechanism
Pilates-specific – Nicholas Psarros
· Warm-up protocols for client success
· Reformer transitions
· Reformer hands-on cueing
· Reformer side kneeling arms sequence
· An update on hip flexors – we need them!
· Pilates update on Osteoporosis
Professional position - Industry expert – coaching and leadership – Kirsten Brown
· Professional identity and wellbeing
Plus – Assessments for classical lineage certification
If you would like to call yourself a classical instructor or use the word classical in your studio offering, you will follow through with a full lineage and quality assurance process. By satisfying the certification requirements, you are positioning yourself as one of the few teachers in the country who have connection to the founder and original method, by way of case studies, learning tasks and physical proficiency and teaching assessments you can stand out from the thousands of other instructors now in in our industry so that the public have assurance in your abilities related to the original Pilates method.
Certification is not compulsory but offered at an additional cost within 12 months of our last module. To opt-in, you must make your decision within 30 days of commencement.
What’s included?
What’s included
All listed above
+ access to online library for on-demand lectures, all Classical Pilates material including comprehensive written manuals (online access for 12 months after completion)
+ studio posters, curriculum documents and studio digital assets
Office-hours
The studio will be available to course participants twice a week for up to 2 hours for self-development. This will occur at an off-peak time, free of charge but with the responsibility of care for security of the studio and the equipment. Access will be provided at the director’s discretion.
What’s not included
Additional private sessions for personal development or to prepare physical readiness for assessment opt-in.
