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The Pilates Planning Method™

Plan any Pilates class in ten minutes.

You already know the exercises. This is the part nobody taught you: how to put them in an order that works, every single time.

52 lessons · 50 ready-made class plans · Yours to keep · Normally $197

52Lessons across 6 modules
50Ready-made class plans
700+Instructors trained in 30+ countries
Sound familiar?

Sunday night. A blank page. Five classes to plan.

If you’re teaching every week, at least one of these is true right now.

  • You spend an hour or more planning a single class — and start from scratch again next week
  • You’ve stood in front of a full room and forgotten what comes next, everyone waiting while you cover
  • Your clients keep getting variations of the same class, because you reach for what you know works
  • The exercises work, but the transitions between them still feel awkward or improvised
  • You teach someone else’s sequence because it’s safe — and you’re not sure you could build one yourself
  • You know too much to fit in fifty minutes, and you can’t decide what to cut

None of this means you’re a weak instructor. It means you were trained to know exercises and never trained to build a class.

The actual problem

Your problem isn’t the repertoire.

Think about the last class you planned. How much of that time went into choosing exercises, and how much went into deciding what order they go in, when the springs change, and how you get from one to the next?

That second part is what turns a list of exercises into a class. Yet in most teacher-training programs it gets far less attention than the repertoire itself.

Instructors who plan fast aren’t faster thinkers. They’re reusing decisions they made once.

They have a repeatable framework: a clear class structure, a logical order for moving the body, fewer unnecessary spring changes, and a cueing sequence they don’t rebuild each time. When they sit down to plan, the framework is already there — they only choose the focus and the exercises that support it.

That’s not talent. It’s a system. This course is that system, written down.

What actually changes

Same knowledge. Different Sunday.

Before
After
An hour or two per class, every week
Ten minutes, because the structure is already decided
Constant repositioning and equipment changes
Fewer, smoother transitions planned in advance
Losing your place and trying to cover
A clear sequence and an anchor exercise for every block
Six cues per exercise, none of them landing
Two or three, chosen on purpose
Springs changed whenever the next exercise needs it
A spring order that keeps the class moving
Classes that vary because you got bored
Classes that vary because you chose a theme
Inside the course

Six modules. Fifty-two lessons.

Six to eight minutes each. Watch it through in a weekend, or take one module at a time.

Module 14 lessons

Workout Structure

The shape every class holds — what the warm-up, main body and cool-down are physiologically for, and why the container stays fixed while the content changes.

You leave with your own permanent class structure, written once.

Module 28 lessons

Exercise Selection

Six ways to decide what goes in: body focus, equipment focus, client focus, theme focus, progression focus, and the mixed method — plus how to pick between them.

You stop choosing exercises at random and start choosing them for a reason.

Module 310 lessons

The Classical Method

How to plan with the classical repertoire while preserving its logic, balance and progression. How the 34 classical mat exercises fit together, how to avoid overloading one position, and how to build a complete workout step by step.

You can build a balanced classical mat workout without second-guessing every choice.

Module 412 lessons

The Modern Method

The same planning discipline with more room to adapt. When a variation supports the goal, how to create one that still makes sense, and how to keep creativity from turning into randomness.

You build your own variations instead of borrowing someone else’s.

Module 58 lessons

Creating Flow

The heart of the course. Four principles — position continuity, spring logic, breathing space and energy arc — plus the most common flow breakers and a simple process for repairing a class that feels choppy.

This is the module that fixes your transitions.

Module 69 lessons

Teaching & Cueing

A six-step structure for every exercise you teach: name it, set the position, explain the movement, count and cue, correct, transition. Plus counting rules and the cueing mistakes almost everyone makes.

Your instruction sounds the same in your seventh class as in your first.

Final1 lesson

Summary & Final Project

You build a complete class from scratch using the method — classical or modern, your choice.

Included

And fifty finished class plans.

Every plan shows the method already applied: spring settings and exercises in teaching order, formatted to follow while you teach — not a document you need to study first.

Use one as it is on a week you have nothing left. Or take it apart and watch where each rule shows up, which is how most people end up learning the method fastest.

Class Plan #1
  • Footwork Series
  • Carriage Seated Row
  • Side Splits
  • Short Box
  • Lunge × Scooter

Spring notation includes alternates for different reformer brands.

Everything you get

Four things. One payment.

52 video lessons

Six modules covering structure, selection, classical, modern, flow and cueing.

$197

The Class Plan Library

Fifty complete plans with spring settings, ready to teach.

$97

The course workbook

Where you write the four decisions you’ll never make again.

$47

Planning templates

Fill-in frameworks for both the classical 34 and the modern build.

$47
Total value$388
Chen Leibovich
Why I built this

The same message, over and over.

I’m Chen Leibovich, founder of Go Pilates Academy. After earning 42 professional certifications, running two studios in Tel Aviv and training more than 700 instructors across 30 countries, I kept seeing the same gap.

It arrived from graduates constantly — people who could name every exercise and explain every muscle, sitting on Sunday night with a blank page. It was never a knowledge problem. Nobody had given them a structure, so they rebuilt one from nothing every week.

So I turned the planning system I’d been using for years into a clear, repeatable method. That’s this course.

Chen
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Before you decide

Questions people ask.

Is this mat or reformer?
Both. The principles of structure, exercise selection, flow and cueing apply to mat and reformer classes alike. Spring logic and the 50-class Plan Library are reformer-specific, while the classical module teaches the traditional 34-exercise mat repertoire.
I’ve been teaching for years. Is this too basic?
The exercises may be familiar, but the planning logic is where the value sits. Many experienced instructors already use an intuitive system; this course makes that system clear, repeatable and easier to adapt. If you already plan balanced, flowing classes in ten minutes with complete confidence, this may not be the course you need.
Won’t a fixed structure make all my classes the same?
In practice it does the opposite. Once the framework is decided, you can give more attention to the theme, the exercises and the people in the room. The structure stays reliable; the content inside it keeps changing.
How long will it take me?
About six hours of video in total. You can complete it over a weekend or move through one module at a time. It’s fully self-paced, and you can begin applying the method to your very next class.
Is this a certification?
No. It’s continuing education for instructors who are already certified and teaching. If you need a credential, look at our certification programs instead.
Does it count for CECs?
This is professional development, not an accredited CEC course. If you need credits for a specific credential, check with your certifying body first.
What if it’s not for me?
Email us within 14 days and we’ll refund you in full. No form to fill out.

You have another class to plan this week either way.

Normally $197 · 14-day refund · Lifetime access

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