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Pendleton Pilates Teacher Training & Certification Program (PPTTCP)

Pendleton Pilates is pleased to offer a comprehensive Teacher Training and Certification Program in Foundation and Intermediate Mat and Reformer work.

Pendleton Pilates is a nationally recognized education facility and is a member of the Pilates Method Alliance as an educational facility. Pendleton Pilates is recognized as a Preferred Educator by Balanced Body, the California-based company that is the leading manufacturer of Pilates equipment.

PPTTCP is designed for individuals who exhibit a passion for Pilates and come into the training with better than average awareness of the body. Further, we’ve designed the onsite program for those who can take advantage of Pendleton Pilates’ four Cincinnati locations as their ongoing training facility. If you do not live in the Greater Cincinnati area, please ask about how we can tailor our training program to fit your needs.

In four-month training cycles, candidates can begin their training at Pendleton Pilates via private instruction with Studio Owner Stacy Sims and Pendleton Pilates instructors, open group reformer instruction, open mat classes, observation and weekly apprentice workshops. The Certification program culminates in an intensive two-weekend training program where students will test out by teaching a mat class, an hour-long session designed for the first-time student and a group reformer class designed for the intermediate student.

The Pendleton Pilates Teacher Training and Certification Program includes:
- 10 private sessions at Pendleton Pilates studios (at least two with owner Stacy Sims)
- Free mat class
- Free solo workouts (based on studio availability)
- Free access to group reformer classes (based on studio availability)
- Weekly apprentice workshops
- Observation hours
- Teaching Manual
- Intensive two-weekend training program
- Certificate of Completion of Pendleton Pilates Teacher Training and Certification Program after testing out to the standards of Stacy Sims and Pendleton Pilates.

Program Hours and Fees

Our program of study is designed to offer flexibility in scheduling your study time with us. However, if certain minimums are not maintained, the quality of your work will suffer. It is our intention that everyone who enters our program receives our Certification and therefore we require the following program hours:

The way our program is structured, you will do roughly half of your program hours in the Saturday workshops from 8-11 am at our Downtown studio. We will conduct our test-out intensive over one or two weekends (generally we do it over one long weekend) and everyone will teach both a Reformer and a Mat class and will take class with the other trainees as they test out.

The Program Fee is $2,500 and requires a 30% deposit of $750 to commence training with the balance due ten days prior to the Intensive two-weekend training program.

Note: The Program Fee will increase to $2900 in the Summer 2008 program. However, students who register early (by March 1 for Summer, by July 1 for Fall and by November 1 for Winter), will be entitled to receive the $2500 rate.

Schedule
Winter 2008       January – April
Summer 2008    May – August
Fall 2008           September – December

If you would like to reserve your spot in one of our upcoming classes, please call 513.478.3232. Our classes fill up quickly, so please do let us know if you are interested in training with us.

About Certification

There is currently no governing body that decides who can certify teachers or validates certification programs for Pilates instructors. There are weekend certification programs and year-long apprentice programs.

Pendleton Pilates is a nationally recognized education facility and is a member of the Pilates Method Alliance as an educational facility. Pendleton Pilates is recognized as a Preferred Educator by Balanced Body, the California-based company that is the leading manufacturer of Pilates equipment.

We have tried to create a program that bridges the gap between the weekend and the year-long program and allows complete immersion into our studio system for a three-month period. Our certification means that we believe the student is competent to teach a mat class, a group reformer class and to introduce a new student to reformer work. More important, we will not certify someone who we wouldn’t have as a teacher of our own clients.

Who Teaches Us?

We are pleased to offer our own Teacher Training program. But we also continue to study with and learn from other remarkable teachers. A significant amount of our body of knowledge comes from Troy McCarty, Jarvis Wrazen and the staff of White Cloud Studios in Cleveland. In October of 2005 many of our teachers participated in Balanced Body's Pilates on Tour, taking workshops taught by some of the most respected and well-known teachers in the Pilates world, including Julian Littleford, Leslee Bender, and Sheri Betz. We have also participated in workshops in the Ron Fletcher Work, taught by master teacher Pat Guyton.

I take private instruction whenever I travel and have studied at White Cloud Studios, Cleveland, Jennifer Kries’ The Method Studio, NY, Tribeca Body Works, NY, the Dance Center, NY, the Dave Barton Gym, Miami, and the Pilates Center of Paris.

I have also gained tremendous knowledge through my weekly yoga practice with Kevin Flanigan and Joe Barnett. I am also thankful to Carolyn Boulinguez and the Samasthiti Studio, Paris. Not only did they help me to improve my yoga practice, they opened the studio for me to teach a Pilates mat workshop.

Thank you to all of our teachers.
Stacy Sims

Staff

Sarah Eastlake, Director
Sarah Eastlake recently graduated with a BSN/RN in Nursing from the University of Cincinnati. In November she sat for the Pilates Method Alliance Teacher Certification and Examination and has since become our first Pilates Method Alliance Certified Instructor. She is a massage and neuromuscular therapist with experience in physical therapy, chiropractic, and spa setting. Sarah fell in love with Pilates from her first session and received her certification with the Spring, 2003 Pendleton Pilates Teacher Training class. Sarah says, "I am passionate about the human body and the amazing things that are possible in this skin."

Stacy Sims, Studio Owner
Stacy is the founder and owner of Pendleton Pilates and the founder and director of the True Body Project, a non-profit program to help girls and women connect to their bodies and artistic, authentic voice. In 2001, Stacy left a career in marketing and arts management to finish her first novel. Swimming Naked was released by Viking in 2004 to critical acclaim. The Chicago Tribune called a “fresh, edgy … brutally moving first novel” and Border’s Books selected it for its national Original Voices program. She has also been published in national fitness and yoga magazines and had conducted workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Stacy is at work on her second novel and is a sought after speaker and presenter on the topics of addiction, mind and body alignment, and purposeful leadership.

Sheila Cohen, Guest Teacher
Sheila was one of the Pilates method’s early students when she worked with Pilates protégé Carola Trier in New York starting in the 1950s. She has been a dancer with the Lucas Hoving Dance Co., Princeton Ballet Co., and the Meredith Monk Dance Co. Sheila was also a student of Martha Graham, Alexandra Danilova (of the Ballet Russes), Henry Danton (of the Royal Ballet), the Joffrey Ballet School and more. She is currently on the faculty of the Princeton Ballet School, guest teacher for the school of the Cincinnati Ballet, and former head of dance department at SCPA for 22 years. She is also master teacher for national ballet conventions and choreographer for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.