Reformer Instructor Training
The Reformer, developed by Joseph Pilates, is an extraordinarily flexible piece of exercise equipment. Our Balanced Body Reformer Instructor Training focuses on how to effectively teach the Pilates repertoire on the Reformer, including modifications for special populations and progressions for more advanced clients.
CONSISTS OF THREE COURSES
16 Hours
This course introduces you to what Joseph Pilates called the ‘Universal’ Reformer, which is the centerpiece of the Pilates equipment studio and an invaluable training tool. Reformer 1 teaches you how to safely utilize the Reformer and many of the beginning and intermediate Pilates Reformer exercises. Reformer 1 also reviews common modifications and variations necessary for teaching the client in front of you and gives you the ‘why’ behind the ‘what’, empowering critical reasoning skills from the very start of your training.
Prerequisite Recommendations
16 Hours
Reformer 2 expands the potential of the Reformer with intermediate and advanced exercises and includes associated safety protocols and modifications. Reformer 2 also explores programs designed for specific populations including pre and post–natal clients, clients with osteoporosis, and clients with lower back issues. Class design, dynamic assessment and correcting common dysfunctional movement patterns are also included.
Prerequisites
• Reformer 1
16 Hours
Reformer 3 is the pinnacle of the Reformer work and includes advanced and super advanced exercises. Challenge clients to achieve their best with progressive sequences designed to teach students advanced movement skills. In addition, our principle based programming will guide you in the creation of safe and successful multi-level classes.
Prerequisites
• Reformer 1 and 2, or successful completion of comparable Pilates Reformer program.
Reformer Program Includes
Requirements for
Completion (Reformer Only)
To become a fully qualified Balanced Body Reformer Instructor, students must complete the following:
Absolutely. Balanced Body Education prides itself on teaching the full Pilates Reformer repertoire. While we teach the classic exercises, we do so with a contemporary understanding of movement science and biomechanics as related to individual client abilities. By doing this, you will be able to apply Reformer repertoire to the moving and dynamic body in front of you. Each course also teaches how to reach the potential of each exercise allowing you, as you progress through the curriculum, to design endlessly creative, safe and effective Reformer classes.
With each Reformer course offering, Reformer 1, Reformer 2, and Reformer 3, you will be able to student teach and start working on the Reformer at whatever level you are at. You will not be a fully certified Pilates Reformer instructor until you have completed all the course work and your practice hours and successfully completed your practical and written final exams.
Our Reformer courses are Reformer 1, Reformer 2, and Reformer 3. Each module covers safety, client setup, teaching progressions, modifications, and regressions. To complete the Reformer certification, you will also need to take our signature Balanced Body Movement Principles course, and either our Anatomy in Three Dimensions ™ course or comparable.
