The Movement Refinery is an industry-leading boutique studio and teacher training organisation that puts the craft and our clients first. We share our learnings and passion within you over this 6+ month Progressive Classical Chairs teacher training programme. At 110+ hours, it is one of the only programmes in the region that puts the original work front and centre and has an equal focus on skill acquisition, biomechanics and client care.

This approach equips you to work with all ‘apparently healthy’/low-risk clients while developing your critical thinking skills to offer safe and effective tuition in the Pilates studio or fitness environment.

We believe that the original apparatus can be a powerful element in your professional toolkit … so our mission to stop the gatekeeping means that we include the full Baby/Arm chair in your training as well as a complete High/Electric list and the Wunda … even in ‘chair mode’.

As a Pilates professional, we need to be able to support and work with any client that enters the studio and not all clients are comfortable lying down or on a moving surface. The Chairs are stable and promote alternate positions and postures that may cater to your clients needs while empowering them.

The Chairs are well-regarded tools for pregnant clients. They are also the ideas environment for

Strength and power development

Standing integration control

Building the limb to torso connection

Teaching ‘how-to’ Roll-up without straining the neck

…. honestly, the list goes on. Learning the deep details of the Chairs and the system is a must if you plan on having clients long-term and through the life-cycle.

• Existing Pilates clients who want to learn more about their favourite movement method

• Career-changers or those looking for a side hustle

• Group fitness instructors

• Allied health professionals who are looking to honour the work and stand out from their colleagues

• Career professional Pilates instructors

• Develop a deep understanding of the Original Chairs movements including ‘how-to’ and what constitutes genuine Pilates

• Learn to apply a skills-acquisition approach to teaching in the private and group setting to make the original work accessible to all movers

• Understand the Chairs offer a unique sense of lift and centering and how this links with other movements across the Pilates method framework/system

• Expand your teaching skills to promote effective form and technique

• Build the teaching eye and coaching skills

• Prepare for a career as a Pilates professional

If you are a university-qualified allied health care professional, your existing qualification and professional registration will allow you to work with all clients including providing rehabilitation care services.

Otherwise, this course prepares you to work with ‘apparently healthy’/low-risk clients’. While the work is therapeutic, only select tertiary qualifications permit you to diagnose an injury or condition and treat accordingly. A Pilates teacher is a Pilates specialist, someone who is expert in the method and applying this to an ‘apparently healthy’ clientele.

Where this course differs from other Pilates courses is that we offer a skills-acquisition focus to the work. Once you have identified contraindications or concerns of the client in front of you, you will be able to apply our building blocks of each exercise and still work with them in an exercise capacity.

One of the greatest strengths of a movement teacher is to know when to refer to an allied health care professional for manual or exercise therapy.

This course will help you stand out from the many new graduates each year because it is one of a handful of courses globally that puts Pilates unashamedly front and centre. As a graduate of our course, you will be able to deliver a Chairs class or coach any of the movements privately knowing the transformative power of the sequence in a variety of applications

• Gym and fitness centres

• Boutique and franchise Pilates studios/health clubs

• Community programmes

• Pilates studios that offer mat classes

• Allied health clinics that offer an exercise programme

• Online/digital fitness platforms or live-streamed classes