Choosing a Pilates teacher/ Trained vs Certified?
If you are on the road to health and looking for an excellent Pilates method to achieve your goals, this article is for you.
Choosing a Pilates teacher ( yoga teacher, dance teacher) isn't easy for non-professionals. Even for professionals, finding a teacher to guide self-practice is a process of trying and choosing and not an easy process.
So, what is the number one to pay attention to:
- Always choose a person who is not only trained but also certified! ( Note - full Pilates teacher certification, based on Pilates method Alliance guidelines - is a minimum of 500 hundred hours of training, including Matwork and all traditional apparatuses ( Reformer, Cadillac, Barrels, Chair, props) and PASSED the theoretical and practical exam with a good score)
- Pilates schools are: all Lineage (coming from Joseph Pilates directly, such as Lolita's Legacy, Romana Pilates, Basi, Fletchers Pilates, Polestar Pilates, and Balanced body, to name a few - most coming from USA where Joseph was working and developing his method)
- If in your area there are no certified teachers, but optionally the ones in the process of certification/graduation - you can choose them too, considering that the price would be cheaper than the average.
- Note that Pilates teachers of Master level ( more than ten years of teaching with appropriate training) will cost more, and the effectiveness of these specialists is very different too.
- Professional Pilates studio must be fully equipped ( Reformer, Cadillac, Chair, Barrel are the minimum set up)'
- Prepare to try it at least 5-6 times ( 1-2 times is not enough to understand and learn principles and start feeling differences in the body.
Good luck, and I wish you beautiful results with the Pilates method!
Radionycheva Nadya
Pilates Educator
Lolita’s Legacy Vietnam