Mat + Reformer Teacher Training.
200 hours. The combination studios actually advertise for.
Both repertoires, the anatomy underneath them, and the judgement to move a client between mat and machine inside one session — including 45 live one-to-one sessions with your mentor.
About the credential: Mat + Reformer makes you eligible to sit the NPCP Mat examination and hold the PMC credential, and qualifies you to teach on both mat and reformer. The NCPT is the broader credential and comes with the 450-hour Comprehensive.
What you'll be able to do.
Not what you'll have sat through — what you'll be able to walk into a studio and deliver.
- Teach mat and reformer classes, group or private, start to finish
- Move a client between mat and machine inside a single session
- Set springs correctly for each body, each exercise and each goal
- Build a class plan for a level, a goal and a room of mixed abilities
- Modify or regress any exercise on either apparatus, on the spot
- Correct a client safely, including while the carriage is moving
- Recognise when an exercise is contraindicated and what to offer instead
- Apply for the roles most studios and boutique gyms are hiring for
Two hundred hours, content area by content area.
The curriculum is taught by a Go Pilates Academy instructor. Everything below is identical in both formats — only the location of the hands-on work changes.
Curriculum content areas — taught by a GPA instructor
History and Philosophy of Pilates
Live or live online, and in person on the studio days.
Functional Anatomy
Live or live online, and in person on the studio days.
Special Populations
Live or live online, and in person on the studio days.
Teaching Methodology and Cueing
Live or live online, and in person on the studio days.
Mat Repertoire and Magic Circle
Live or live online, and in person on the studio days.
Reformer RepertoireThe largest content area in the programme
Live or live online, and in person on the studio days.
Safety, Screening and Contraindications
Live or live online, and in person on the studio days.
Business Practices and Professional Conduct
Live or live online, and in person on the studio days.
How your 200 hours are allocated 200 hrs
Coursework — platform modules, workbooks & assessments55 hrs
Your modules taught by GPA instructors, your workbooks and worksheets, and your written and practical assessments.
Guided observation60 hrs
Your learning sessions with your mentor, plus full-length classes you watch online at your own time. No need to find a studio.
Supervised teaching with your mentor45 hrs
You teach while your mentor watches and gives feedback, including sessions where you bring a friend to teach and sessions where you teach your mentor.
Self-practice36 hrs
Your own practice, logged in the Practice Log.
Peer teaching4 hrs
You teach a friend or family member and log it.
Every hour is documented. Observation analyses, practice logs and video check-ins are submitted as you go, so nothing has to be reconstructed at the end.
Two hundred hours, accounted for.
Certification hours are not all the same thing. Here is exactly what yours are made of.
live one-to-one sessions with your mentor are included (22 learning + 23 teaching), plus 22 recorded teaching lessons reviewed personally by Chen. Extra sessions are $50 each.
Same syllabus. Same certificate.
Every content area above is identical in both formats. What changes is where the equipment work happens.
- Instruction delivered live over video
- Practical work guided by your mentor on camera
- Self-practice completed on your own equipment
- Your training kit ships to your door
- Eight studio days, in Los Angeles, New York or Miami
- Hands-on corrections on real equipment, never more than twelve
- Mat repertoire first, then reformer, back to back
- Your mentor continues with you online afterwards
Wondering whether to add Comprehensive instead?
Speak with an advisorHow you actually qualify.
Complete your coursework
All your platform modules, covering the eight content areas above.
Complete and document your hours
Observation analyses, structured practice assignments with a log, and logged practice teaching — submitted as you go.
Teach with your mentor watching
Twenty-three Practice Labs in which your mentor observes you teaching live, one-to-one, and debriefs with you afterwards.
Pass both examinations
A proctored written paper and a live practical teaching assessment scored against weighted criteria.
Nothing here is an add-on.
Personal 1-on-1 mentoring
Twenty-seven hours one-to-one across the programme, with a mentor who knows your name and your progress.
1:1 Practice Labs
You teach your mentor out loud, one-on-one, and get feedback on every cue. The rehearsal room for your practical exam.
Functional anatomy included
Eighteen hours, taught live and recorded, with replays for your full year of access. Many schools bill anatomy separately at $250–$980.
Your training kit
Shipped to your door, so you're not sourcing equipment before you can start.
A full year of access
Every lesson and recording is yours for a full year, including material we add during that time.
The Go Pilates Collective
Our monthly membership for instructors: live workshops, teaching guides and a private community, open to you after you certify.
Comprehensive is 450 hours.
It adds the Wunda chair, Cadillac, barrels and multi-apparatus programming — and it's the certification that makes you eligible to sit the NCPT examination. If you want the full studio floor, it's only fifty hours further on.
Mat + Reformer, answered.
Why take both together instead of one at a time?
Is the NPCP credential different from Mat alone?
Do I need my own reformer?
Do I need experience before enrolling?
How long does it take?
Can I do this while working full-time?
What happens if I don't pass an examination?
Can I upgrade to Comprehensive later?
Are payment plans available?
Is this the right certification for you?
A short conversation about where you want to teach, what equipment you can access, and whether this or Comprehensive serves you better. We'll tell you honestly if a smaller certification is enough.
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