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The Pilates Academy

NPCP Verified Program · PAA Approved Course Provider · 700+ graduates across 30+ countries
Certification programs

One academy. Two ways in.

Same method, same mentors, same internationally recognized credential. The only thing you’re choosing is how you want to learn it.

You’re choosing how you learn — not how well you’re taught.

700+ graduates across 30+ countries · NPCP Verified Program · PAA Approved Course Provider

Online certification

Learn from anywhere, on your schedule

A complete self-paced program with live weekly mentoring. You study around your life, wherever you are in the world.

  • Start whenever you’re ready — no fixed cohort date
  • Live 1-on-1 mentor sessions every week
  • Lifetime access to every lesson and recording
  • Your complete training kit, shipped to your door
Starting from $1,935
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Choose this if you can’t put your life on hold for a week, or you don’t live near one of our cities.

In-person certification

Train in the room, hands-on with us

A boutique live cohort capped at twelve, on real equipment, with a mentor correcting you in the room.

  • Los Angeles and New York cohorts
  • Maximum 12 students — you’re never a face in a crowd
  • Full days of supervised teaching practice
  • Continue online with your mentor afterwards
Starting from $2,700
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Choose this if you learn by doing, and you want hands-on corrections you can’t get through a screen.

Side by side

The honest differences.

Neither is the lesser option. They suit different lives.

Online
In-person
Where
Anywhere in the world
Los Angeles · New York
When you start
Any time
Set cohort dates
Pace
Yours — speed up or slow down
Intensive days, then online
Group size
Mentored individually
Capped at 12
Hands-on corrections
Live over video
In the room, on equipment
1-on-1 mentoring
Included
Included
Credential
Identical
Identical
Travel needed
None
Yes, for the intensive

The certificate doesn’t say how you earned it. It says you’re qualified.

Still unsure?

Almost nobody knows which path is right when they first reach out — that’s the normal starting point, not a sign you’re behind. Tell us where you are and what you want to teach, and we’ll point you at the track that actually fits. Sometimes that’s the cheapest one.

Online certification

Three tracks, one standard of support.

Every track includes weekly 1-on-1 mentoring, live teaching practice, and your mentoring workbook. Not add-ons — the program.

Your fastest way to start teaching

Mat

100 hours
$1,935

Group and private mat classes, in studios, gyms and your own practice.

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For a machine-focused career

Reformer

150 hours
$2,100

Teach on the reformer specifically — the equipment boutique studios are built around.

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Most chosen The hire-anywhere combination

Mat + Reformer

250 hours
$3,915

The credential most studios and boutique gyms are actually hiring for.

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The full professional credential

Comprehensive

450 hours
$5,139

All apparatus, and eligibility to sit the NCPT exam (National Certified Pilates Teacher) — the credential US studios recognize.

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In-person certification

Twelve students. One room.

Our intensives run as boutique cohorts in a fully equipped studio. You spend your days on the equipment with a mentor beside you — then continue online with the same mentor until you certify.

Los Angeles
Studio City, California

Mat, Reformer, Mat + Reformer and Comprehensive tracks.

New York
Chelsea, Manhattan

Mat and Reformer intensives, running back to back.

12

Students per cohort, maximum — so every correction is yours

Live

Hands-on days on professional equipment, not slides

After

Your mentor continues with you online until you certify

See dates and cities Cohorts are small and fill early
In every program

What you get either way.

Personal 1-on-1 mentorship

A mentor who knows your name, watches your progress, and is there when you’re stuck. Every week, on every track.

Regular teaching practice

You teach, live, while your mentor watches and corrects you. This is 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.

Support after you certify

The Go Pilates Club stays open to you: workshops, member discounts, and a global network of instructors.

Already certified elsewhere?

Flow Bridge™

A conversion pathway for instructors trained by another school who want our credential without repeating what they already know. We assess what you’ve done and build the route from there.

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Still deciding

Not sure which one is yours?

That’s the most common question we get, and the easiest one to answer in a short conversation. Tell us where you are and what you want to teach, and we’ll be honest about which path fits — even if it’s the cheaper one.

A real person replies, usually within a day. No pressure, no bots.

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