REalEASE Pilates Teacher Training

REalEASE
Pilates Comprehensive Teacher Training

Pilates comprehensively trains the whole movement repertoire needed by our bodies in all of life’s challenges. 
This programme will enable you to teach clients confidently, addressing all their wants, needs, skills and limitations 
 
You will be taught in a small group of 2-4 participants. 1 to 1 training available
 
This comprehensive teacher training programme will take 24-36 months to complete.

The programme consists of:

• A minimum 180 hrs of group training covering the classic repertoire
• 4 hrs of group mentor meetings
• 4 hrs of individual mentor meetings
• 2 case studies à 12 hrs, of which 2 each are observed
• A minimum of 120 observation hours
• A minimum of 250 hrs self-practice
• 5 hrs practical examination
• 2 hrs theory examination
• minimum 20 hrs of Personal Training

Total hours: minimum 609       Contact hours: minimum 227

Pre-requisites:

• “Anatomy Trains in Motion” or equivalent
• Functional Anatomy of the muscular and sceletal system relevant to movement (Main musculature, bones, joints and their function)
• Knowledge of common injuries and diseases of the muscular and sceletal system
• 50 hrs of Pilates personal Training experience on all apparatus including mat work, group classes excluded

 
All Prerequistes offered as workshops or 1to1 prior to start of the programme at additional cost

Total Cost: ca. 20'000.00 to 25'000.00 CHF hourly rate is 140.00 CHF

What to expect:
 
In this comprehensive teacher training programme, you will learn to teach the classical repertoire as developed by Joseph Pilates. 

You will realise that this original approach always was what is now called funtional training, and finds a scientific base in the current research into fascia, fascial movement and bio tensegrity.

This programme is designed to give you an embodied experiential understanding of the repertoire. Teaching Pilates from the basis of this understanding will then come easy.
You will learn the repertoire comprehensively not in modules. 
 
The  Structure and Philosophy of REalEASE Pilates Comprehensive Teacher Training

We use Joseph Pilates’ “Return to life” as foundation.

The mat repertoire and his thoughts about movement are set out in this work.

Joseph Pilates’ main principles for his work were: 

• Whole body movement
• whole body health 
• breathing.

We will use the original mat series as guide for the progression of the programme.

Through this you will experience that these exercises are the high end of the Pilates method. All exercises on the apparatus are means to simplify and explain the mat work

• You will discover how the apparatus was developed by Joseph Pilates to help his clients understand their body 
• You will experience the high functionality of his movements
• You will understand that the method was developed to ground the body and to rehabilitate dis-functional movement patterns.

You will realise that the method is not a stand-alone fitness programme but a means to an end, so that you and your clients can get on with their chosen challenges in life with a fully able and functional body to support you and them.
 
Pilates is fascial training
 
The fascial net in our body is all encompassing and reacts to outer and inner signals. Through attention and awareness are we able to influence the system. Unfortunate movement patterns dissolve and are replaced by highly efficient new patterns. 
You will discover how to connect into your fascial body; how to move elastic and connected in whole body movement.

Through this you will become true to Joseph Pilates’ tenet:
 
“As much as needed as less as possible”
                                                                                                                  
Fascia holds us together and holds us apart

Our Bio-tensegrity (tension + integrity) built allows for high stability with minimum weight of the bones. Our fascial connective tissue holds us together and apart. This allows every structure the space it needs; none becomes overly strained.
You will discover how tensegrity alters the way we approach movement in expansion rather than contraction.
 
Once you have become truly familiar with this approach, and realised your own potential for change, you will be able to teach all your clients enabling them to approach everything with ease, elasticity and resilience. 

Colleagues have been coming to us for years to seek training:

Bridge to REalEASE Pilates

The Bridge Programme is for Pilates Teachers with Pilates Studio Diploma

•  You have at least three years of Pilates personal Training teaching experience on all apparatus
• You want to experience within your own body how the original method is deepened, explained and changed, if the teaching of the repertoire is founded on the insights of fascia research and the concept of bio-tensegrity

You will learn and discover how you can enable every client in every session to find change in body, mind and soul.

You will be taught in a small group of 2-4 participants. 1 to 1 tutoring available.
 
This Bridge programme will take about 12 to 24 months to complete.

The programme consists of

• A minimum 120 hrs of group training covering the classic repertoire
• 4 hrs of group mentor meetings
• 2 case studies à 12 hrs, of which 2 each are observed
• A minimum of 20 observation hours
• A minimum of 150 hrs self-practice
• 2 hrs practical examination
• 2 hrs theory examination
• A minimum of 10 hrs of Personal Training

Total hours: minimum 330

Contact hours: minimum 142

Total cost: ca 10'000.00 to 15'000.00 CHF based on hourly rate of 140.00 CHF

Pre-requisites:

• “Anatomy Trains in Motion” or equivalent
• Functional Anatomy of the muscular and sceletal system relevant to movement (Main musculature, bones, joints and their function)
• Knowledge of common injuries and diseases of the muscular and sceletal system
• Pilates Studio Diploma
• A minimum of 3 years Pilates Personal Training teaching experience

 
All Prerequistes offered as workshops or 1to1 prior to start of the programme at additional cost
Further information you will find under what to expect in the page above

“Pilates training with Joachim does me a lot of good. Joachim’s teaching is precise, sympathetic and thoughtful. I always feel safe and that I am in good hands. Joachim is always able to answer my questions about anatomy and movement and explain the concepts really well. His Pilates training benefits me on both a personal level and as a Pilates instructor. Thank you, Joachim!”

A.K.

“My greatest challenge as a physiotherapist was always feeling my way into my patients’ postural and movement patterns. This has become much easier after encountering the CPM concept and learning about myofascial pathways. What is more, Joachim strives to take a holistic approach to understanding people. First and foremost, the aim is to restore lost movement, to find and expand the space for breath and recognise energy channels as they span the whole of the body. However, this often results in changes on a profound personal level too. This is what I particularly value about working with Joachim. He has a very empathetic, sensitive and motivating approach.”

D.O.