Can you Teach Pilates without Certification?
Pilates is an industry which is incredibly varied, both in qualifications and teaching style. To teach Pilates you are certainly encouraged to have some sort of certification- particularly if you hope to take out Public Liability or Professional Indemnity insurance for your practice. To be an instructor that is recognised by a professional association such …
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Best Pilates Certification Programs
So, you’re interested in becoming a Pilates Instructor? Here’s what you need to know! It is important to ask as many questions as you can and talk to both the trainer you will be working with as well as previous graduates of the certification program you are researching. So there are basically two types of Pilates …
What is a Wunda Chair?
The “Wunda” or Pilates Chair is a versatile piece of equipment used in many Pilates studios, fitness centres and rehabilitation settings around the globe. Given that Joseph Pilates was born in Germany, it is no wonder that the original name of the chair derives from the German translation of the word “Wonder” which is “Wunder” …
What is Somatics?
Somatics is a sensation-based movement practice relating to and of the body. The Greek work soma originally meant ‘of the body’ and evolved to mean the living body. Soma is a process of doing and being in the body and more recently as movement practitioners we refer to this as ‘embodiment’. Somatics is a living …
What is Pilates Equipment? OR What is a Pilates Wunda Chair?
There are a myriad of ways to do Pilates, on various pieces of equipment. Many people are probably familiar with the most commonly found machine, the universal reformer. The reformer is generally characterized by a bed with springs, a sliding carriage, ropes, pulleys and straps. Reformer Pilates is rapidly gaining in popularity, with many new …
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Who was Joseph Pilates?
We’ve all heard of Pilates in one way or another, however very few people know that the founder, Joseph Pilates was in fact a living, breathing (very deeply) man! Born in Germany in 1883 to Heinrich Friedrich Pilates, a metalworker and prize winning gymnast from Greece, and Helena Pilates, a naturopath whose belief in the …
