INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION

Pilates Center of Cedar Rapids is proud to offer the STOTT PILATES™ Continuing Education program. The following courses are designed for qualifying fitness and health professionals. Each course in the program has been carefully developed to prepare you to teach STOTT PILATES™ matwork and equipment repertoire safely, effectively, and with confidence.

After course descriptions below, see also Upcoming Courses, Dates & Prices.

INTENSIVE REPERTOIRE

Intensive Mat Plus (IMP)
3 weekends of intensive training:

• 40 hrs instruction & supervised training
• Minimum 10 hrs observation
• 30 hrs physical review
• 15 hrs practice teaching
  

Workout composition for personal training and group training; essential, intermediate and power workouts; Use of Flex-Band, Fitness Circle, and Arc Barrel.

Intensive Reformer (IR)

4 weekends of intensive training:

• 50 hrs instruction & supervised training
• Minimum 10 hrs observation
• 40 hrs physical review
• 25 hrs practice teaching

Effective use of resistance to materials enhance torso stability and peripheral extremity conditioning; how to develop effective Reformer and combined Matwork and Reformer programs for personal and group plus classes; essential, intermediate and power materials workout; effective communication, visual skills, verbal cuing and imagery for performance enhancement and client motivation.

Intensive Cadillac, Chair and Barrels (ICCB)

3 weeks or 4 weekends of intensive training:

• 50 hrs instruction & supervised training
• Minimum 10 hrs observation
• 40 hrs physical review
• 25 hrs practice teaching
  

Prepares you to teach essential and intermediate level stretch and strength exercises on equipment designed to complement and complete STOTT PILATES™ training: Cadillac/Trapeze Table, Stability Chair, Ladder Barrel, Spine Corrector and Arc Barrel. By the end of this course you are able to fine tune both personal and circuit training programs to meet a variety of your clients' conditioning goals -- from post-rehabilitation to athletic performance enhancement.

Pilates Center of Cedar Rapids will be offering the Intensive Cadillac, Chair & Barrels course in three separate modules so you can choose what specialty you want to take and when. Or sign up for all three and save.

Completion of all three modules is required to be eligible for certification.

• Cost: $1450 plus materials for all modules
• Intensive Cadillac only: $825
• Intensive Chair only: $535
• Intensive Barrels only: $390

Prerequisites: IMP and IR

ADVANCED REPERTOIRE

If you have successfully completed STOTT PILATES™ Intensive or Comprehensive courses and want to expand your repertoire of skills to challenge the fittest of clients, you are encouraged to work towards Level Two STOTT PILATES™ Certification by completing the relevant Advanced Repertoire courses.

Advanced Matwork (AM)

1 day of intensive training: 10 hrs of instruction
AM is a breakdown of 10 advanced level Matwork exercises, in addition to the general course objectives.
Prerequisite: IMP

Advanced Reformer (AR)

3 days of intensive training: 18 hrs of instruction
AR is a breakdown of 35 advanced level Reformer exercises, in addition to the general course objectives.
Prerequisite: IR

WORKSHOPS

Pilates Center of Cedar Rapids introductory and continuing education workshops are a great way to expand your STOTT PILATES knowledge. Workshops are available throughout the year at Pilates Center of Cedar Rapids, or ask us about how to host a workshop at your facility. Most workshops qualify for continuing education credits from STOTT PILATES and other certification organizations.

Each workshop covers the relevant STOTT PILATES repertoire with an emphasis on exercise goals and on applying the STOTT PILATES basic principles.

Depending on the length of the workshop you choose (from 1.5 to 6 hours), increasingly more material is covered and a greater emphasis is placed on exercise modifications, strategies for designing effective programs and development of cueing, eye training and correcting skills.

Upcoming Courses, Dates and Prices

REGISTRATION

To fill out the online application for any of the courses listed above, click here. For for information on Continuing Education courses available in Lincoln or Omaha, Nebraska, or in Des Moines, Iowa contact Victory Pilates.

* Course days typically have these hours: Friday 1-6, Saturday 10-3:30, Sunday 9-2:30