Career Opportunities
Graduate comprehensively trained, job-ready, and highly employable.
On completion you’ll be equipped to teach:
- Group Matwork + small apparatus repertoire.
You will be skilled-up to deliver functional, creative and feel-good movement experiences that keep clients coming back for more.
A comprehensive Course adds credibility and value to your professional toolkit and assures employers and industry professionals that you are equipped to excel. It also enhances your employability, making you stand out from the competition: Pilates ITC Students enjoy 100% employment rate on Graduation.
You can work in almost any setting, for others or for yourself:
- Pilates Studios: boutique to large scale.
- Start your own Studio.
- Outdoor fitness.
- Gyms.
- Digital Studios.
- Mobile providers.
- Wellness sector: tourism, resorts, health retreats, holistic centres.
- Corporate events/classes.
What You'll Learn
This Course curriculum honours the Pilates Method as taught by Joseph Pilates, and is strategically informed by modern health and evidence-based movement science, anatomy and physiology to create a comprehensive and balanced learning experience.
- Pilates Method Fundamentals: history, principles, anatomy and physiology, and biomechanics.
- Matwork Repertoire. (51 exercises)
- Matwork Programming for group class: The Pilates International Categorisation™ (PIC) System.
- Small Apparatus Repertoire (65 exercises): Fitball, Magic Circle (Pilates Circle), Weights and Poles, and Theraband.
- Teaching Communications.
- Workplace Health and Safety (WHS).
- HISTORY OF THE METHOD.
- PILATES PRINCIPLES.
- ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOMECHANICS.
What can you do with this Pathway?
Learn how to apply the Pilates repertoire for Introductory, Basic, Progressive and Intermediate levels in for a Matwork group class setting, including small apparatus.
That’s 169 exercises in total:
- MATWORK. (51)
- MATWORK WITH SMALL PROPS: (62)
- FITBALL
- FOAM ROLLER
- WEIGHTS AND POLES
- MAGIC CIRCLE
- THERABAND
The professional edge – our Students learn how to use the Pilates International Categorisation© (PIC) programming system.
The PIC system equips our Students with the skills to develop and deliver smart, creative and body-balanced workouts that clients love, for:
- GROUP MATWORK AT ALL LEVELS.
Communication is the heart of teaching:
- BECOME A VERSATILE, WELL-ROUNDED COMMUNICATOR.
- LEARN HOW TO APPLY BALANCED CUEING STYLES.
- LEARN HOW TO CORRECTLY APPLY ANATOMICAL AND BIOMECHANICAL TERMINOLOGY.
- LEARN ABOUT PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT IN GROUP CLASS AND STUDIO SETTINGS.
Pilates ITC Grads are ready to teach. They have a sound understanding of the operational demands and expectations of the Studio environment, including key safety considerations:
- HOW TO CARE FOR AND MAINTAIN APPARATUS.
- INSTRUCTOR SELF-CARE.
- MANUAL HANDLING TECHNIQUES.
- HYGIENE PROTOCOLS.
- HOW TO SAFELY INSTRUCT CLIENTS.
