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Twelve students. One room.
The part a screen can’t give you — hands on you, in real time.
A boutique live intensive on professional equipment, with a mentor correcting you in the room — then the same mentor with you online until you certify.
700+ graduates across 30+ countries · NPCP Verified Program
You’ve thought about this before. Something stopped you.
- You don’t have a movement or anatomy background.
- You’re not sure you’d feel ready to teach a real client.
- You can’t disappear into a full-time program for months.
- Online-only never felt hands-on enough for you.
- You want someone who actually knows your name.
Every one of those is why we built it this way.
Four things that only happen in person.
A room, not a crowd
Never more than twelve people in the room. You’re seen, corrected and known by name — never a face at the back.
Corrections you can feel
Spring settings, carriage setup, tactile cueing. A mentor adjusts you as you move, which no recording can do.
You teach real bodies
You lead sessions with real people watching, before you certify — not after, alone, with your first paying client.
It doesn’t end at the door
When the intensive finishes, your mentor continues with you online until you’re certified and teaching.
Want to see which track fits you?
Speak with an advisorThree parts. Only one of them needs a plane ticket.
Our in-person programs are hybrid by design. You arrive at the studio already knowing the theory, so your days in the room are spent moving — not taking notes.
Live anatomy and theory
Functional anatomy taught live by our lead educator, recorded so you can revisit any concept, plus self-paced coursework. Finished before you travel.
Hands-on days on real equipment
Between 3 and 11 studio days depending on your track, around 4.5 hours a day. Mat repertoire first, then Reformer, then full apparatus — each layer building on the last.
Your logged and mentored hours
Practice, observation and supervised teaching, guided by your mentor over video. You teach our instructors on their equipment, so you don’t need a machine at home.
You travel once. The support stays with you the whole way.
Two cities. Both fully equipped.
Studio City, CA 91604
All four tracks run here — Mat, Reformer, Mat + Reformer and Comprehensive — in a fully equipped professional studio.
New York, NY 10011
Mat and Reformer intensives running back to back, in a Chelsea studio a few minutes from the Flatiron. The same curriculum, the same mentors, the same twelve-person room — in Manhattan.
Every cohort is capped at twelve, and applications are reviewed personally. If a date is full, we’ll tell you straight away rather than let you wait.
Four tracks. One standard of support.
Every track includes the same wrapper — live functional anatomy, personal 1-on-1 mentoring, live teaching practice, your mentoring workbook, and the Go Pilates Club after you certify.
Read those two columns together. Total hours is your whole certification — anatomy, theory, self-practice, observation and mentored teaching. Studio days is the only part that needs you in the room. A 450-hour Comprehensive certification asks you for eleven days in Los Angeles, not 450.
Not sure which one?
Almost nobody is, at this stage. Tell us where you want to teach and we’ll point you at the track that actually fits — sometimes that’s the shorter one, and sometimes it’s the online program instead.
What the room actually looks like.
Studio days run about four and a half hours. Long enough to go deep, short enough that you can still think by the end of it.
Move first
You take the work in your own body before you’re asked to teach it. Nothing is taught from a slide.
Break it down
Setup, springs, cueing, modifications. Why each exercise exists and who it isn’t for.
You teach it
You lead your peers while a mentor watches and corrects you as you go — rep by rep, out loud, in the room.
Questions, honestly answered
The part that gets cut when a group is too large. With twelve people, there’s time.
What’s included, always.
Personal 1-on-1 mentorship
A mentor who knows your name and stays with you through the intensive and long after it — every week, on every track.
Regular teaching practice
You teach, live, while your mentor watches and corrects you. The stage most programs skip entirely.
Your mentoring workbook
A dedicated workbook you open together with your mentor during your live sessions, so nothing gets lost between them.
Functional anatomy included
Taught live and recorded for life. Many schools charge $250–$980 for anatomy separately. Here it’s part of the programme.
Retakes without penalty
Our assessment exists to confirm you’re ready to teach safely, not to catch you out. If you need another attempt, you get one.
The Go Pilates Club
Workshops, member discounts and a global instructor network that stays open to you after you certify.
Women who got on a plane for this.
I flew to LA because I wanted more than another certification — I wanted real hands-on training. By the end of the week, I wasn’t just certified. I truly felt ready to teach.
I was nervous about changing careers in my forties, walking into a room full of strangers. By the first morning, it felt like I’d found my people.
I’d never taught before, so I was terrified of making mistakes. Every correction was encouraging, never embarrassing — by graduation I felt genuinely confident with real clients.
The questions that stop people signing up.
Do I need teaching experience to enroll?
Do I need my own equipment at home?
Can I do this while working full-time?
What if I miss a studio day?
Will studios and gyms recognize this certification?
How is this different from your online certification?
Are payment plans available?
Let’s find out if this is yours.
A short conversation to work out which city, which track, and whether in-person is even the right shape for your life. We’ll tell you honestly if it isn’t.
A real person replies, usually within a day. No pressure, no bots.