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Pilates Apprenticeship
August 2023
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The Pilates Apprentice
This is an 8 week online Pilates Mat based apprenticeship program
with 2nd Generation Pilates Master, Cecilia Pulido, PMA-NCPT, MS-AES.
This program fills a great divide between finishing a teacher training program and finesse-ing one's teaching style into a confident and effective instructor. It will help any participant find their "teaching and educator voice" and impart an understanding of the Method from a personal experience bridged into a teacher's perspective. It's important that instructors have experiential learning and understand the "why" and "how" of instructing rather than deliver formulaic instruction for a general public. The ability to observe, analyze, and then construct safe and effective programming lies at the crux of the Pilates Method, whether for private or small group instruction.
Total length of program: 8 weeks meeting 1x/week
In this 8 week program participants will:
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Learn how to observe, interpret, assimilate and recreate Pilates programming
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Understand how to create progressions and regressions based on the neural continuum
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When? Why? Which? How? To use props
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Experience and learn “doing and cueing” simultaneously online, and how to cue from a deeper understanding of the movements
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Understand and develop their own personal proprioceptive refinement & kinesthetic acuity
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Gain a better understanding of the Mat repertoire, including muscular focus
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Develop fluid transitions between exercise series and within exercises
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Create a proprietary class series - Infuse your own knowledge, experience and skill set into programming, creating your own style
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PHASE 1 - Experiential, Observation, Interpretation
To understand Pilates better, it is important to have an understanding of kinematics and basic movement science.
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PHASE 2 - Didactic, Converging, Experimentation
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PHASE 3 - Create, Develop, Practical Application of Knowledge in Programming
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For more information and details on the program please contact us: pilatesaura@yahoo.com
TESTIMONIALS
"I learned so much during the weekly breakdowns, teaching online and completing the final project and my own class series. Weeks 1-4 really helped me to internalize the Mat work and understand what each exercise should look and feel like. In addition,I learned so much about progressions and regressions during week 5’s lecture and watching and completing the forms. The lecture complemented the homework well. ...I really enjoyed the teaching part but loved the feedback on my teaching. It enabled me to improve my cuing.. Now when I teach, I feel comfortable creating a frame in my mind of what I’d like to focus on, then seeing where my clients are that day and taking it from there. This apprenticeship gave me the confidence and skills to achieve that. ...The experience of the program was well worth my time and effort. I have moved ahead as a Pilates instructor and feel more comfortable in my PIlates teaching skin."
PAM OKI, Pilates Teacher
"The heart of this supplemental teacher training program and what makes it so incredibly rewarding, is the star educator and the solid curriculum that Cecilia Pulido has carefully cultivated to meet the needs of different types of teachers. The program is structured very intelligently and helped me fill in the gaps between the parameters of my teaching foundation and also having to creatively meet the individual needs of clients. I felt inspired and encouraged by Cecilia to complete the coursework that stretched my imagination for programming.
At the end of the course, I had a fuller toolbox and teaching vocabulary with which to back up my exercise choices. The program really *makes sense* and serves my best interests as an instructor-student. It absolutely refined the quality of my teaching. Cecilia is very artful about helping to untangle old habits or complex concepts and turning them into cogent, easy to understand flows of thought. Most importantly, she creates a safe space for instructors to ask questions that may have never been answered in spite of how long they have been teaching....
Most remarkably, I gained a wave of diverse clients within the space of a month, and the one, single variable was my decision to commit a few months of my time to invest in this program. With some self-motivation and extra encouragement, I was able to reap tangible rewards and results even before I handed in my final! Graduating from a proper Pilates teacher training program is important. But so is creativity and imagination, and I found that in this course with Cecilia Pulido. Highly recommend! You’ll make no better investment than to place your trust in this nurturing teaching environment."
STEPHANIE NOELANI LUI, Pilates Teacher