Prerequisites: Principles Online & Polestar Mat Foundations must be completed prior to start date in addition to 25 hours of Pilates participation in classes or sessions.

Start a new career as a Pilates Instructor with the world’s most renowned Pilates teacher education. Our comprehensive teacher training will allow you to become a confident and skilled Pilates Instructor.

• Learn the applications of Pilates exercises

• Develop assessment techniques to help your clients progress in their training

• Understand movement sequences and how to modify exercises and programs for individuals

Polestar will teach you everything you need to know so you can help others transform themselves through Pilates.

• Your path to becoming the best Pilates instructor starts here. With our Hybrid Comprehensive Pilates training you’ll learn to Teach Pilates in group class and private settings using on all the Pilates apparatus (Reformer, Trapeze Table, Chair, Ladder Barrel and Spine Corrector).

• We also provide continuous support throughout by offering a  wide variety of continuous education and webinar courses so you can continue to grow your skillsets and build your client portfolio. 

Define your teaching style

• Teach Pilates movements on all the Pilates apparatus (Reformer, Trapeze Table, Chair, Ladder Barrel and Spine Corrector)

• Understand precautions, contraindications and modifications for injury and special populations

• Utilize tactile cueing to provide hands-on guidance

• Employ neuro-linguistic techniques and imagery to give meaningful cues

• Build confidence through observation and practice teaching

• Assess and develop thoughtful programs for any client

• Prepare meaningful sequences based on Polestar’s sequencing design protocol

Perks of Polestar Pilates Programs

• Amazing global community

• Hybrid in-person and online learning

• Robust online resources

• Outstanding student support

• Bi-Weekly webinars hosted by Polestar Faculty

• Continuing education opportunities

• Access to Polestar’s virtual studio for one year

REQUIRED HOURS

Aside from course hours, there are additional hours required for graduation and qualification of NPCP examination. Observation, apprentice teaching, and self-mastery hours are the responsibility of the student to complete outside of the course. A percentage of these hours can be completed using online support materials.

Course Description:

This course will explore how using a device like the Oov can facilitate overall improvement in Functional Movement. This course will also take traditional pilates exercises and apply them to the Oov.

During this course, participants will explore the concept of creating stability through improving mobility, as well as, the role that Disassociation plays in enhancing stability training.

Balance Training will be utilised as a means to effectively enhance motor learning and improved performance.

Techniques such as Sequential Training, Proper Queuing, Regression/Progression, as well as an understanding of the concept of Tolerance and Effective Loading will be provided as a means to assist instructors in teaching complex multi-plane movements.

The “Four Pillars of Movement” and their relationship to efficient performance will be the corner stone to teaching Functional Movement. Faulty or inefficient Movement Patterns will be identified in regards to postural type.

Strength, speed, power and agility are more effectively achieved if the client can maintain Motor Control, Stability and Endurance, and these will be the basis of all exercises in the Oov Fundamentals Course.

Therefore, the focus of all the exercises presented will be on Eccentric Activation for Greater Strength and Control through Low Threshold, Slow Movement Training

Students will also be give information for the structure, as well as, the queuing techniques to facilitate a group Oov class.

The Oov Fundamentals course is the pre requisite to all other Oov courses, including 3D Assessment, Rehabilitation, Pilates Apparatus, Performance, Sport Specific and Manual Therapy.

This course gives the practitioner the ability to diagnose and address the individual’s movement through Proprioceptive Neuro-Plasticity at an unprecedented level. Students will learn the nuances of adding or removing load and resistance to increase mobility or to increase fine motor control.

This course will start to identify Direct Clinical Deficiencies, such as Axial Control of the Skeleton, Gait Pattern Dysfunction, 3 D Sling Deficiencies and Compromised Articular function. Detailed and Specific Exercises that address the Correction of these deficiencies will be covered.

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Demonstrate correct set up, safety and care of the Oov.

2. Understand how Balance training on the Oov can be a useful tool to identify faulty movement patterns and for enhancing motor learning.

3. Learn how to identify what parts of the body you are going to:

4. Move

5. Activate

6. Control

7. Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of Tolerance and Load in Balance Training.

8. Understand the importance of Sequential Training and demonstrate how to safely modify an exercise by using regression or progression.

9. Understand how the “Four Pillars of Movement – Axial Elongation: Core Control, Hip Mobilization, Shoulder Mobilization play and important role in efficient movement.

10. To demonstrate a knowledge of the various characteristics that identify faulty movement patterns.

11. Understand how the concepts and methods identified in this course can be used with any form of Functional Training.

12. Effectively teach the exercises described in this course to individuals and a large group.

    Nominal Hours of Delivery
    16 hours of practical labs and short lectures

Course Fees

Oov Fundamentals - 2 Day Course
Price $170.00 – $500.00

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Comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training

35000+ movement professionals choose Polestar for the best professional Pilates instructor training and education in the industry.

[You’re welcome to reach out to Kate or Polestar directly for more information. ]

You will learn to:

• Master the versatile uses of Pilates exercises, a crucial skill for any Pilates instructor

• Develop assessment techniques to help your clients make consistent progress on their goals

• Learn to customize workouts for each client’s needs, essential for any Pilates Instructor seeking high client retention

• Learn to teach Pilates in both group and private settings, broadening your instructing capabilities and enabling your teaching to be accessible to more clients

• Understand the physics of the equipment at a deep level, enabling you to manipulate any apparatus to suit your client’s needs

• Learn to safely adapt exercises for injuries and special needs, ensuring responsible and equitable instruction

Program advantages:

• Becoming a part of an elite global community of comprehensive Pilates practitioners

• Engaging in a blended learning experience with in-person and online instruction

• Accessing a rich trove of online resources for a deeper dive into Pilates instruction

• Benefiting from exceptional student support throughout your journey

• Participating in bi-weekly webinars hosted by experienced Polestar Faculty

• Learning from senior instructors with one-year access to Polestar’s virtual studio, a hub of advanced learning and practice

REQUIRED HOURS

Aside from course hours, there are additional hours required for graduation and qualification of NPCP examination. Observation, apprentice teaching, and self-mastery hours are the responsibility of the student to complete outside of the course. A percentage of these hours can be completed using online support materials.

OOV FUNDAMENTALS IS A PREREQUISITE TO THIS COURSE.

THIS COURSE COMBINES OUR PREVIOUS LEVEL 2 AND LEVEL 3 COURSES INTO ONE 3 DAY COURSE.

IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED LEVEL 2, PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A $250 DISCOUNT TO ATTEND THIS COURSE.

Course Description:

This course shows movement professionals and practitioners how to identify and change multiple functional domains in the body using task based, kinaesthetic intelligence upregulating, movement based interventions. This course will build on the foundation of Level 1 and empower practitioners to assess clients and patients in a complete, whole body manner quickly and safely.

This course explains and provides interventions for an Efferent and an Afferent patient and presentation.

Specifically, this course will address the central organisational structures, the peripheral biomechanics and more importantly, their relationship to one another, what needs addressing first for the unique patient/client in front of the practitioner at that time and how to go about making that change.

This course explains the inextricable link between the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), Respiratory mechanics, axial kinaesthetic awareness and inflammatory patterns in the body and brain.

This course includes:

1. A unique philosophical framework for observing the human form.

2. Original diagnostic tests to guide practitioners down a thoughtful path in applying their pre-existing skill set, or the skill set offered and delivered in this course and other courses from OOV Education.

3. A new philosophy based Method to increase information to the body.

4. A new movement gamut and the ability to interpret these movements within the framework of the philosophy provided.

5. A clear and meaningful “map” from the tests/movements to the appropriate interventions to change the body quickly, safely and intelligently.

6. A definition of Hardware vs Software Efferent presentations.

7. An easy to follow general clearance test (as used in Level 2) with accompanying diagnostic tests for: V.O.R (Vestibular Ocular Reflex), The A.O (Atlanto-Occipital joint), Common spinal pathologies (Disc, Spondylolisthesis etc). The organisation of the Costals and lobes of the Diaphragm, the axial loading accuracy of the foot and ankle, the relationship between all the above and the force closure capabilities addressed in earlier course/s.

8. Solutions and movements to change the information ascertained in the above tests.

Course Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

1. Comprehend the body in a new philosophical paradigm – Perfection vs Disfunction.

2. Understand Bio-tensegrity and root of its manifestation: Information and Perception.

3. Understand Allostasis and Allostatic Load, Homeostasis and Form and Force Closure.

4. Demonstrate correct set up, safety and care of the Oov.

5. Demonstrate knowledge, implementation and pertinence of a Clearance Strategy Screen (Vertical Loading).

6. Understand and define Afferent vs Efferent influences.

7. Understand how Balancing on the Oov can be a useful tool to identify AFFERENT vs EFFERENT strategic parameters and suitably describe the significance of that at a diagnostic, intervention and medico-legal level.

8. Implement and INTERPRET a range of movement assessment screens.

9. Use the assessments to thoughtfully guide their direction of intervention on the patient/client.

10. Understand a new definition of Dis-function.

11. Demonstrate a complex understanding of: kinematic pairs and chains, Superficial chain preferences and Myo-fascial slings.

12. Understand how Joint position interacts with local joint complexes, function and global slings.

13. Demonstrate a high degree of comprehension of functional anatomical interrelatedness of multiple structures – fascial, articular, myo-neural and visceral.

14. Understand the METHODS employed in this course.

15. Understand WHY the methods are in the order that they are in.

16. Demonstrate how creative and deliberate use of peripheral holds (hand and foot positions) can influence global slings and strategies.

17. Demonstrate how Load can be utilised to influence different outcomes of Motor Control and explain WHY and HOW.

18. Understand basic concepts of Hormesis vs Compassion for intervention efficacy.

19. Understand how the concepts and methods identified in this course can be used with any form of Functional Training.

20. Understand the anatomy and function of the diaphragm, the AO joint and the efferent processing systems in the brain and spinal cord.

21. Understand respiratory physiology and its effects on muscle function, rigidity strategies and how breath can be a valuable tool in making biomechanical and neurological change in a patient.

22. Understand how to observe and appropriately and SAFELY utilise breath in movement.

23. Be able to integrate multiple systems, from head to toe, in a patient for maximal kinaesthetic up-regulation.

24. Understand Software vs Hardware in pathology and strategy.

25. Effectively teach the exercises described in this course to individuals and a large group.

Nominal Hours of Delivery:
24 hours of practical, workshops and short lectures, Viva Voce Final Assessment

Course Fees

Oov Level 2/3 Afferent/Efferent, 3 Day Course
Price $175.00 – $950.00

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Course Description:

This course will explore how using a device like the Oov can facilitate overall improvement in Functional Movement. This course will also take traditional pilates exercises and apply them to the Oov.

During this course, participants will explore the concept of creating stability through improving mobility, as well as, the role that Disassociation plays in enhancing stability training.

Balance Training will be utilised as a means to effectively enhance motor learning and improved performance.

Techniques such as Sequential Training, Proper Queuing, Regression/Progression, as well as an understanding of the concept of Tolerance and Effective Loading will be provided as a means to assist instructors in teaching complex multi-plane movements.

The “Four Pillars of Movement” and their relationship to efficient performance will be the corner stone to teaching Functional Movement. Faulty or inefficient Movement Patterns will be identified in regards to postural type.

Strength, speed, power and agility are more effectively achieved if the client can maintain Motor Control, Stability and Endurance, and these will be the basis of all exercises in the Oov Fundamentals Course.

Therefore, the focus of all the exercises presented will be on Eccentric Activation for Greater Strength and Control through Low Threshold, Slow Movement Training

Students will also be give information for the structure, as well as, the queuing techniques to facilitate a group Oov class.

The Oov Fundamentals course is the pre requisite to all other Oov courses, including 3D Assessment, Rehabilitation, Pilates Apparatus, Performance, Sport Specific and Manual Therapy.

This course gives the practitioner the ability to diagnose and address the individual’s movement through Proprioceptive Neuro-Plasticity at an unprecedented level. Students will learn the nuances of adding or removing load and resistance to increase mobility or to increase fine motor control.

This course will start to identify Direct Clinical Deficiencies, such as Axial Control of the Skeleton, Gait Pattern Dysfunction, 3 D Sling Deficiencies and Compromised Articular function. Detailed and Specific Exercises that address the Correction of these deficiencies will be covered.

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Demonstrate correct set up, safety and care of the Oov.

2. Understand how Balance training on the Oov can be a useful tool to identify faulty movement patterns and for enhancing motor learning.

3. Learn how to identify what parts of the body you are going to:

4. Move

5. Activate

6. Control

7. Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of Tolerance and Load in Balance Training.

8. Understand the importance of Sequential Training and demonstrate how to safely modify an exercise by using regression or progression.

9. Understand how the “Four Pillars of Movement – Axial Elongation: Core Control, Hip Mobilization, Shoulder Mobilization play and important role in efficient movement.

10. To demonstrate a knowledge of the various characteristics that identify faulty movement patterns.

11. Understand how the concepts and methods identified in this course can be used with any form of Functional Training.

12. Effectively teach the exercises described in this course to individuals and a large group.

    Nominal Hours of Delivery
    16 hours of practical labs and short lectures

Course Fees

Oov Fundamentals - 2 Day Course
Price $170.00 – $500.00

Order online

Prerequisites: Principles Online & Polestar Mat Foundations must be completed prior to start date in addition to 25 hours of Pilates participation in classes or sessions.

Master over 130 Pilates exercises across a full spectrum of apparatuses, including Reformer, Trapeze Table, Chair, Ladder Barrel, Spine Corrector and props. By learning a comprehensive repertoire of movement techniques, you can continuously provide and refresh your clients with goal-oriented movement experiences.

Our 497-Hour curriculum honors the tradition of classical Pilates movements while equipping students with the tools to adapt the Pilates method to any and all clients. Polestar Teacher Trainings empower critical thinking through concepts rather than repertoire. Our delivery is a hybrid of online lectures and in-person modules that give support throughout the entirety of the training.

REQUIRED HOURS

Aside from course hours, there are additional hours required for graduation and qualification of NPCP examination. Observation, apprentice teaching, and self-mastery hours are the responsibility of the student to complete outside of the course. A percentage of these hours can be completed using online support materials.

Class Schedule

Module 1
Mar 13, 2022, 7:30-1pm

Module 2
Apr 9, 2022, 7:30-3pm

Module 3
May 15, 2022, 7:30-3pm

Module 4
Jun 11, 2022, 7:30-3pm

Module 5
July 16, 2022, 7:30-3pm

Module 6
Aug 13, 2022, 7:30-3pm

Module 6 Checkoff
Sept 10, 2022, 7:30-9:30am

Prerequisites: Principles Online & Polestar Mat Foundations must be completed prior to start date in addition to 25 hours of Pilates participation in classes or sessions.

Master over 130 Pilates exercises across a full spectrum of apparatuses, including Reformer, Trapeze Table, Chair, Ladder Barrel, Spine Corrector and props. By learning a comprehensive repertoire of movement techniques, you can continuously provide and refresh your clients with goal-oriented movement experiences.

Our 497-Hour curriculum honors the tradition of classical Pilates movements while equipping students with the tools to adapt the Pilates method to any and all clients. Polestar Teacher Trainings empower critical thinking through concepts rather than repertoire. Our delivery is a hybrid of online lectures and in-person modules that give support throughout the entirety of the training.

REQUIRED HOURS

Aside from course hours, there are additional hours required for graduation and qualification of NPCP examination. Observation, apprentice teaching, and self-mastery hours are the responsibility of the student to complete outside of the course. A percentage of these hours can be completed using online support materials.

Class Schedule

Module 1
Mar 6, 2022, 7-1pm

Module 2
Apr 2, 2022, 2-4pm
Apr 3, 2022, 7-1pm

Module 3
May 15, 2022, 7-4pm

Module 4
Jun 4, 2022, 2-4pm
Jun 5, 2022, 7-1pm

Module 5
July 10, 2022, 7-4pm

Module 6
Aug 6, 2022, 2-4pm
Aug 7, 2022, 7-1pm

Module 6 Checkoff
Sept 14, 2022, 6-8pm

Prerequisites: Principles Online MUST be completed prior to start date

Master over 130 Pilates exercises across a full spectrum of apparatuses, including Reformer, Trapeze Table, Chair, Ladder Barrel, Spine Corrector and props. By learning a comprehensive repertoire of movement techniques, you can continuously provide and refresh your clients with goal-oriented movement experiences.

The series consists of six, two-day modules that allow you to evaluate the practical applications of Pilates exercises, develop assessment techniques, understand movement sequences, and modify exercises and programs for individuals. Completion of the Polestar Pilates Comprehensive Program qualifies you to sit for the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA®) Certification exam. Sit for our Polestar Pilates Centralized Exam to become a Polestar Practitioner.

REQUIRED HOURS

Aside from course hours, there are additional hours required for graduation and qualification of PMA Certification examination. Observation, apprentice teaching, and self-mastery hours are the responsibility of the student to complete outside of the course. A percentage of these hours can be completed using online support materials.

Class Schedule

Module 1
Mar. 21, 2020, 11a to 7p
Mar. 22, 2020, 9a to 5p

Module 2
Apr. 25, 2020, 11a to 7p
Apr. 26, 2020, 9a to 5p

Module 3
May 30, 2020, 11a to 7p
May 31, 2020, 9a to 5p

Module 4
Jul. 18, 2020, 11a to 7p
Jul. 19, 2020, 9a to 5p

Module 5
Aug. 29, 2021, 11a to 7p
Aug. 30, 2021, 9a to 5p

Module 6
Sept. 26, 2021, 11a to 7p
Sept. 27, 2021, 9a to 5p

Saturday, June 1st

8:00am to 9:00am Master Mat Class
9:15am to 11:15am Intro to Runity
12:45pm to 1:45pm Case Study
2:00pm to 4:00pm Liberated Extension
Learn new approaches to help improve thoracic extension with ease and enjoyment

Sunday, June 2nd

8:00am to 9:00am Master Mat class
9:15am to 11:15am Intro to the Oov

Register

Pricing

$25 per class or case study
$50 per workshop
$140 for full day Saturday
$195 for full day Saturday and Sunday.