It’s for any Pilates professional, anyone who’s thinking of becoming a Pilates professional, and anyone who wants to feel confident in their ability to successfully teach Pilates and get better results for themselves and others.

We’ve worked with over 5,000 students from every corner of this industry and all walks of life—from first-time Pilates instructors to seasoned pros, from personal training and yoga to physical therapists, massage practitioners, and beyond.

Many of our students come with little or no professional background in Pilates teaching or fitness. By the time they graduate, they’re equipped with everything they need to help people move more, get stronger and more flexible, and live to their full potential.

Whether you’re already mid-career or just starting out, this certification will give you the knowledge, systems, and tools to make a real, profound difference with anyone you teach Pilates to.

The Breathe Pilates Certification takes 20 weeks.

All the exams and assessments happen during the program. There’s no extra assessment so you’ll be ready to receive your certification and start working the day you complete the program.

Each week in the program you’ll be required to complete all the coursework for that week, as well as attending your tutorial and two practice teaching sessions.

You can expect to spend 7-9 hours per week on the certification materials. That’s 1-2 hours per day, 5 days a week for 20 weeks.
When you study each day is almost entirely up to you. We have trainers in 4 countries, and students in 23+ countries so there are literally tutorials and practice sessions happening around the clock, every day.

But here’s the best part: You don’t need to wait to get certified in order to feel confident and qualified to teach Pilates. Since you’ll be learning and practicing from day one, you’ll be in a perfect position to start helping your clients immediately.

Each week you’ll do 1 or 2 short multiple choice exams as part of your coursework.

In your tutorials you’ll be assessed at multiple points throughout the program. These assessments are practical, where you’ll have to demonstrate the Pilates exercises, or teach them, or both.

The tutorial-based assessments are very informal. We expect you to show up ready for the assessment, but your trainer is there to help you and guide you to success too.

If you are not yet competent in the exercises or teaching skills you need to master, your trainer will give you specific feedback on what you need to improve, and will coach you to improve it and retake the assessment with the next group (usually 6-8 weeks later).

If you need extra help, you can book a free 1:1 coaching session with a trainer to get back on track.

Within a few minutes after you enroll you’ll receive access to the student portal and you can start learning. Your program live sessions start on the advertised start date, and you will graduate 21 weeks after the start of the live sessions.

Short answer – it doesn’t matter. Yes, you DO need to know the proper setup, movement sequence, cueing, refinement and progression for each exercise, but you don’t have to do a perfect split, or a perfect pushup, or anything else perfect.

You’ll learn our Layered Teaching Framework, which makes it easy for you to succeed with the exercises, regardless of your current fitness level, flexibility, age or shape.

The good news is the Layered Teaching Framework will also make it easy for your clients to succeed regardless of their current fitness level, flexibility, age or shape.