What you will learn

This STOTT PILATES® Intensive Reformer (IR) Course teaches you how to design and lead the Level 1 (Essential and Intermediate) STOTT PILATES® Reformer workouts in a personal training or group setting for a range of clients. Learn a variety of modifications and variations to expand programming options. Learn

• Effective use of the Reformer to enhance torso stability and strength, peripheral extremity conditioning, joint stability, flexibility, balance and coordination

• How to develop programs for personal and group classes

• Essential, Intermediate, Power workouts

• Effective communication and observational skills, verbal cueing and imagery for performance enhancement and client motivation

• Modifications for specific body types, postural issues and conditions

• Theory and practice of postural analysis

• Exercise layering for effective program design

• 122 exercises plus multiple modifications

Pre-requisites

• 30 hours plus of attending any Pilates classes/workouts (please contact us to discuss your fitness & Pilates experience).

• Working knowledge of functional anatomy (please contact us to discuss training options if required). Need confidence in your anatomy knowledge? Enrol on the STOTT PILATES® Matwork/Props or Reformer course & attend the ‘Be Pilates Functional Anatomy Relevant to Pilates Live Zoom 3hr Workshop’ for $250 (RRP $500). Next live online 3hr workshop running on Sunday 10 August, 2.00pm-5.00pm

• Attend this energetic interactive live workshop to familiarise yourself with the necessary anatomy knowledge required for attendance on the STOTT PILATES® Matwork Plus Props Course. Includes basic biomechanics, anatomical terminology, skeletal anatomy, joint actions, muscular contractions, postural types, origins/insertions/actions of major muscle groups. To compliment this workshop, the recommended textbooks to purchase are Trail Guide to the Body and Trail Guide to Movement by Andrew Biel - available in digital or hard copy.

• Communication strength – applicants with a strong history of Pilates participation and/or experience teaching/managing in another occupation will be considered.

• Self-directed and highly motivated people who have strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Ideal candidates include:

• Current health and fitness professionals with prior teaching experience

• Health professionals looking to expand their businesses (i.e. physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, massage therapists, bowen therapists, etc)

• Career changers who would like to begin their Pilates training whilst still working full time

• Entrepreneurs looking to start up an online Reformer Pilates business

Continued education credits

STOTT PILATES 5.0

STOTT PILATES Intensive Reformer Course – Total 50 hours

Location: August 2025 | Be Pilates NZ @ Christchurch | Welder Events Centre, 20 Welles Street, Christchurch Central, New Zealand

Part I

• Day 1/10: Monday 18 August, 1.00pm-6.30pm

• Day 2/10: Tuesday 19 August, 1.00pm-6.30pm

• Day 3/10: Wednesday 20 August, 1.00pm-6.30pm

• Day 4/10: Thursday 21 August, 1.00pm-6.30pm

• Day 5/10: Friday 22 August, 8.30am-2.00pm

Part II

• Day 6/10: Monday 25 August, 1.00pm-6.30pm

• Day 7/10: Tuesday 26 August, 1.00pm-6.30pm

• Day 8/10: Wednesday 27 August, 1.00am-6.30pm

• Day 9/10: Thursday 28 August, 1.00pm-6.30pm

• Day 10/10: Friday 29 August, 8.30am-2.00pm

Note: The STOTT PILATES Advanced Reformer Course will be running in Christchurch on 30 August - 01 September. Promo bundle price applies.

Note: If any group class time is missed due to prior commitments, private make up time can be booked to catch up. 1 hour of group course time is made up by 1/2 an hour of private time. Conditions apply. Please note an additional cost is incurred for private make up time.

Intensive Reformer Course

RRP: NZ$3,700 (incl. GST) + course materials.

August 2025 Bundle Discount: Enrol onto the STOTT PILATES Reformer Level 1 + Level 2 Courses in August 2025 and receive a $450 discount on the combined course cost.

Courses limited to 12 participants.

Terms: 20% deposit of course fee is required at time of registration to secure enrollment (non-refundable). Balance of fee is due 1 month prior to the training commencing.

Payment options: Direct Debit, Credit Card.

Course educational materials

Manuals

• Matwork & Reformer Support Materials Book. *Note, the Matwork & Reformer Support Materials Book is required for IMP, IR courses but only needs to be purchased once.

• Essential Reformer Manual 2nd Ed

• Intermediate Reformer Manual 2nd Ed

Videos

• Reformer Digital Video Links or DVDs are available

Additional languages
A number of required resources are available in languages other than English.

Optional resources
These resources are not compulsory to access, however you may want to purchase these as additional resources for your practice.

• Trail Guide to the Body, Andrew Biel

• Anatomy Flash Cards, Anne Gilroy

• Atlas of Anatomy, Gilroy, MacPherson, Ross

• Anatomy of Movement, Blandine Germain

• Trail Guide to the Body 6th Edition Flash Cards by Andrew Biel

• AnatomyMapp® by Books of Discovery

After training, instructors can begin teaching clients as a ‘STOTT PILATES® Trained Instructor’.  Upon certification instructors can advertise their ‘STOTT PILATES® Certified Instructor’ status.

If you choose to become certified in the STOTT PILATES® method, you have 6 months from the last day of your course to sit your exam. If this time expires, you are required to book at least 1 hour with an Instructor Trainer to reinstate your eligibility.

Note: no additional post course costs are applicable to receive these requirements.

Requirements of certification

• 50 hours of instruction and supervised teaching (completed when attending the STOTT PILATES® Reformer Level 1 Course (IR)

• Minimum of 10 hours of observation

• Minimum of 40 hours of physical review

• Minimum of 25 hours of practice teaching

• Total: 125 hours

Observation hours can be logged by observing a STOTT PILATES® Instructor Trainer or a certified STOTT PILATES® Instructor.  If access to either is not possible due to location challenges, these hours can be logged by observing your course material DVDs supplied.  

Physical review hours can be logged by practicing the course content yourself (or being taught by a STOTT PILATES® Certified Instructor)

Practice teaching hours are logged by teaching clients/friends/fellow students, etc.