TMRACADEMY

Course Curriculum

Comprehensive course overview


The Work

  • The ‘Return to Life’ Mat
  • The original Reformer list
  • Wunda Chair, Electric Chair and Baby Chair
  • The Cadillac
  • Spine Corrector and Ladder Barrel
  • Auxiliary apparatus: Ped-o-pul, Neck Stretcher, Toe tensometer, Foot corrector, Magic circle

The Body

  • Non-specific low back pain
  • Fighting Frailty
  • Posture and positioning
  • Centering in breath
  • Project: Open up*
  • Pregnancy and Classical Pilates*
  • Pain and staying in your lane*
  • The shoulder complex – a Pilates approach*
  • Bone health and care in the Pilates studio*
  • Pelvic stability …. What do we now know?*

The Craft

  • Reformer mounts and transitions
  • The instructor’s voice
  • First steps: Welcoming a new client into the method*
  • Next steps: Supporting the first year of a Pilates journey*
  • The first ten things: The first exercises to teach a client on each major apparatus*
  • The ‘super-advanced’ work: taking it to the next level*

The Industry

  • Professional Identity – Pilates industry focus
  • Workplace Health and Safety
  • Education and ‘teaching’ in the Pilates studio*

Coming up

  • From the ground up*
  • Sway posture*
  • Vocal physiology for the instructor*
  • The contemporary hip and pelvis*

*In development

 

Detailed curriculum for module approach

The MatThe Work

  • Return to Life Mat
  • Romana’s additions
  • Practical applications: The flexionless mat

The Craft

  • Building blocks to develop the classical exercises
  • Hands on/tactile cueing
  • First ten things to teach on the mat

Bonus course material

  • Centering in breath – Megan Steers
  • Non-specific low back pain – Susan Cottrell
  • Professional Identity – Pilates industry focus – Kirsten Brown

The ReformerThe Work

  • Joe Pilates Reformer list
  • Practical applications: The flexionless Reformer, The Reformer mat

The Craft

  • Building blocks to develop the classical exercises
  • Hands on/tactile cueing
  • First ten things to teach on the Reformer

Bonus course material

  • Professional Identity – Pilates industry focus – Kirsten Brown
  • The instructor’s voice – understanding the vocal mechanism – Jeremy Powell
  • Classical Reformer mounts and transitions – Nicholas Psarros

The ChairsThe Work

  • The Wunda Chair
  • The Electric Chair
  • The Baby Chair

The Craft

  • Building blocks to develop the classical exercises
  • First ten things to teach on the Wunda
  • Bringing the baby chair to life

Bonus course material

  • Posture and positioning – Alex O’Neill King
  • Fighting Frailty – Susan Cottrell

The Cadillac The Work

  • Archival exercises across all bars and springs
  • The neck stretcher*
  • Additional series from Romana such as ‘The Ballet Stretches’

The Craft

  • Building blocks to develop the classical exercises
  • Hands on/tactile cueing
  • First ten things to teach on the Cadillac

Bonus course material

  • Project open up* – Nicholas Psarros
  • The instructor’s voice* – Jeremy Powell

Spine Corrector and Ladder BarrelThe Work

  • Archival and updated exercises from the small barrels
  • The Ladder Barrel

The Craft

  • Building blocks to develop the classical exercises
  • Hands on/tactile cueing
  • First ten things to teach on the Barrels

Auxiliary apparatusThe Work

  • Ped-o-pul, Toe tensometer, Foot corrector, Magic circle
  • Practical applications:  magic circle mat, barrel mat