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  • About
    • About Tania
    • About Michelle
    • What Is Pilates
      • Joseph Pilates
      • Our approach
    • Our News
  • Classes
  • Pilates teacher training
    • Why train with us
    • Training, timetable, and registration
    • Standard Pilates teacher training courses
      • Before you start and what you need to qualify
      • Mat Instructor
      • Reformer Instructor
      • Group Reformer Instructor
      • Equipment Instructor
      • Comprehensive Instructor
      • Course content descriptions
    • Instructor Bridge programme
    • Instructor training policies
    • Our training graduates
  • Join our team
    • Become one of our Master Instructors
    • Make your studio an instructor training centre
  • Workshops
    • Upcoming workshops
      • Assess your breathing with a breathing expert
      • Teach breathing better using the Buteyko method
      • Help your body breathe better
      • Pilates for feet, pelvic floor, lower back, neck and shoulders
      • Create flow in your movement class
      • Self-myofascial release
    • Special workshops & consultancy
    • Conferences
      • 2012 Pilates Conferences
  • Pilates articles
    • Finding your neutral alignment
    • Pilates breathing
    • Good pain, bad pain
    • Doing Pilates while pregnant
    • Doing Pilates after giving birth
    • Pilates glossary
  • Contact us
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027 510 5220

Pilates Equipment Instructor training

Hearts and Bones Pilates Equipment Instructor course trains you to teach classes using the full range of Pilates equipment.

About the Equipment Instructor course

Hearts and Bones Pilates Equipment Instructor course trains you to teach classes using the full range of Pilates equipment.
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Subjects covered

Subjects covered include:
  • teaching beginner to advanced level Pilates equipment exercises with modifications and variations
  • assessing and addressing postural, muscle strength, and flexibility imbalances using Pilates exercises on equipment
  • using best practice for teaching and structuring classes
  • cueing and  language use for clients of differing ability
  • safe teaching for older adults, pre- and post-natal women, and clients with the most commonly seen back, hip, knee, ankle, wrist, neck, and shoulder conditions.
The course (and modules) also provides comprehensive, fully illustrated manuals.

Course outline

To become a fully qualified Hearts and Bones Pilates Equipment Instructor, students must complete the course content outlined in the table below. You must also do some required reading.​

Visit the Course content description page to find out more about the content below.

Total hours to complete standard course: 355 hours
Total hours to complete the intensive course: 323 hours
Content
Learning Method
Hours
Requirements to qualify
​Introduction to Anatomy

(Exemptions may apply) 
Self-study
20–30
Study; pass written examination
​Essentially Pilates Movement and Teaching Principles
Self-study and class
20-30
Self-study; attend 12 hours of class; pass written examination; practical experience
Reformer 1 
Class
18
Class attendance; completion of observation, self-practice, and student teaching hours; pass written and practical tests; practical experience
Reformer 2 
Class
18
Class attendance; completion of observation, self-practice, and student teaching hours; pass written and practical tests; practical experience
​Reformer 3 
Class
18
Class attendance; completion of observation, self-practice, and student teaching hours; pass written and practical tests; practical experience
Trapeze table
​Class
12
Class attendance; completion of observation, self-practice, and student teaching hours; pass written and practical tests; practical experience
​Wunda Chair
​Class
12
Class attendance; completion of observation, self-practice, and student teaching hours; pass written and practical tests; practical experience
​Barrels
​Class
​12
Class attendance; completion of observation, self-practice, and student teaching hours; pass written and practical tests; practical experience
​​Practical experience
Observing classes
77
Proof of hours
Practical experience
Practising
68 (11 supervised, 57 unsupervised)
Proof of hours
Practical experience
Teaching​​
80 (40 supervised, 40 unsupervised)
Proof of hours
​Final examination
Exam
Value
​Pass written and practical tests

Required reading

  • Return to Life Through Contrology by Joseph H. Pilates and William John Miller
  • Your Health. A corrective system of exercising that revolutionises the entire field of physical education by Joseph H. Pilates
  • Anatomy of Movement by Blandine Calais Germaine

Practical assessments during the programme

We assess your exercise performance and movement teaching ability during the contact course components of each module. This ensures that you're able to make appropriate corrections, communicate well with clients, and use best-practice teaching tools as required to graduate from the programme.

Professionalism topics

You'll also learn as part of your Pilates Mat Instructor training:
  • scope of practice and code of ethics
  • Pilates philosophy and history
  • exercise analysis
  • programme design
  • teaching techniques
  • movement science
  • anatomy and kinesiology
  • special considerations such as pregnancy and osteoporosis, and some precautions and contraindications to movements.
  • Pilates engages touch for cueing and adjustment purposes. The programme will require some level of touch, but sensitivity is respected.
  • Upon completion of the programme you will receive a certificate of completion. This does not guarantee employment or certification.

Register now for training

Training timetable and registration gives our training dates, and how and when to register.
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We look forward to having you on our Equipment Instructor training.

Any questions?

Contact us if you have any questions or need more information about our Equipment Instructor training.
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Tania has great confidence in herself and inspires confidence in me and my abilities. Great passion. The printed material complemented the physical practice really well." Toni
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  • Home
  • About
    • About Tania
    • About Michelle
    • What Is Pilates
      • Joseph Pilates
      • Our approach
    • Our News
  • Classes
  • Pilates teacher training
    • Why train with us
    • Training, timetable, and registration
    • Standard Pilates teacher training courses
      • Before you start and what you need to qualify
      • Mat Instructor
      • Reformer Instructor
      • Group Reformer Instructor
      • Equipment Instructor
      • Comprehensive Instructor
      • Course content descriptions
    • Instructor Bridge programme
    • Instructor training policies
    • Our training graduates
  • Join our team
    • Become one of our Master Instructors
    • Make your studio an instructor training centre
  • Workshops
    • Upcoming workshops
      • Assess your breathing with a breathing expert
      • Teach breathing better using the Buteyko method
      • Help your body breathe better
      • Pilates for feet, pelvic floor, lower back, neck and shoulders
      • Create flow in your movement class
      • Self-myofascial release
    • Special workshops & consultancy
    • Conferences
      • 2012 Pilates Conferences
  • Pilates articles
    • Finding your neutral alignment
    • Pilates breathing
    • Good pain, bad pain
    • Doing Pilates while pregnant
    • Doing Pilates after giving birth
    • Pilates glossary
  • Contact us