Total Barre® Instructor Training
Hawke’s Bay | Starts 12 April 2026
Register Your Interest for April 2026
Train with Be Pilates NZ and gain the knowledge, confidence, and internationally recognised qualification to teach dynamic, music-inspired barre classes that build strength, flexibility, stamina, and stability - no dance experience required.
Why This Course?
Feel inspired to teach classes your clients will love.
If you’ve been wanting to add something fresh, energetic, and in demand to your teaching toolkit, Total Barre® is the perfect next step.
This one-day instructor training gives you the foundations to design and teach safe, effective, and engaging barre classes in a wide range of settings. You’ll learn the choreography structure, key movement principles, exercise essence, and how to use music intentionally to create a fun and well-balanced class experience.
Whether you already work in fitness or movement, or you’re ready to expand your skill set, this course is designed to leave you feeling confident, capable, and excited to teach.
Key Information:
Foundation Course
Sunday 12 April 2026
10am-6pm
Havelock North, Hawke’s Bay
No prerequisites
What is Total Barre®?
Total Barre® is a dynamic, music-inspired movement system that blends strength, flexibility, stamina, and stability into one complete workout.
The Foundation Course introduces you to a class template built around 11 specially arranged workout segments, each supported by timed music selections and specific movement goals. The result is a balanced, professionally structured barre format you can confidently bring into your studio, clinic, or class offering.
Why train in Total Barre®?
Add a fresh offering to your timetable
Bring an energetic, low-impact format to your clients that feels fun, effective, and professionally structured.
Learn a proven class template
You’ll be taught a complete framework that helps you build well-balanced classes with confidence.
Teach safely and effectively
Develop a strong understanding of cueing, movement quality, modifications, and biomechanics.
Use music with purpose
Learn how music supports pacing, flow, and energy throughout class.
Gain a recognised qualification
Students who complete the Foundation Course receive an internationally certified Total Barre® Instructor qualification, with no exam required.
Who this training is for
No prerequisites are required to attend, and no dance background is needed.
This course is ideal for:
Pilates instructors
Group fitness instructors
Personal trainers
Movement professionals
Studio owners
Anyone wanting to begin teaching barre
What you’ll learn
Course learnings:
Creative choreography for a well-balanced barre workout
A class template to guide future programming and modifications
How to break down movement patterns and understand stabilisation and mobilisation
How to cue, correct, and modify for different populations
The six Total Barre™ Foundational Principles
Suggested beats per minute for each workout segment, plus optional music playlist guidance
By the end of the day, you’ll have the groundwork education needed to teach Total Barre® safely, effectively, and with confidence.
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TOTAL BARRE® INSTRUCTOR FOUNDATION COURSE
7 hr Course (+1 hour break)
Sun 12 10am - 6pm
Investment $875
By the end of the day, you’ll have the groundwork education needed to teach Total Barre® safely, effectively, and with confidence.
Train With New Zealand’s Total Barre® Instructor Trainer
Sharon Currie brings over 32 years of movement, rehabilitation, and Pilates expertise to your ‘Live Online via Zoom’ training experience.
Sharon Currie is a highly respected STOTT PILATES® Instructor Trainer with more than three decades of experience across the fitness, Pilates, and rehabilitation industries. Based in New Zealand, Sharon is deeply passionate about educating and empowering both new and experienced movement professionals through world-class training.
With a foundation in dance and fitness and a strong understanding of functional movement, Sharon brings anatomical clarity and precision to her teaching. She is fully certified across the complete STOTT PILATES® repertoire — Matwork, Reformer, Cadillac, Chair and Barrels, Injuries and Special Populations, Rehab Programming, Fascial Movement, and Total Barre.
As an Instructor Trainer with Merrithew™, Sharon is known for her supportive, clear, and motivating teaching style. She has trained thousands of instructors across New Zealand and Australia, combining technical excellence with real-world application to ensure every student feels confident, capable, and inspired from day one.
Whether she is leading an intensive course, teaching advanced repertoire, delivering specialty workshops, or mentoring instructors through their certification journey, Sharon creates a positive, professional learning environment that fosters lasting success.
Student testimonials who attended the New Zealand TOTAL BARRE® Matwork Course
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“I was privileged to take my training course 1 on 1 with Sharon. As a student, it was clear that Sharon is deeply knowledgeable in the principles of Pilates, human biomechannics and the Merrithew method. In a short time span, she brought awareness and activation to muscles I didn’t know I had. I left this course feeling confident and competent to teach Total Barre to future clients”
Attended Total Barre Instructor Foundation Course, Christchurch, August 2025
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“I recently spent a wonderful day being trained by Sharon in Total Barre. Sharon made the day thoroughly enjoyable with her warm personality and wealth of knowledge. Throughout the day we were provided with lots of valuable information, resources, helpful tips and opportunity to practice what we were learning. I highly recommend training with Be Pilates and you couldn’t ask for a better instructor than Sharon. Well worth the wait for me to participate and gain the qualification to be a Total Barre Instructor”
Attended Total Barre Instructor Foundation Course, Christchurch, May 2024
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“Sharon was patient with us, her passion and energy shining through which energised us through the hardest of exercises. Her deep anatomical knowledge was particularly helpful to me with her encouragement every day spurring us on. Fab Instructor!”
Attended Total Barre Instructor Foundation Course, New Plymouth, Sept 2023
Begin your journey to becoming a TOTAL BARRE® Instructor this April.
Build foundational teaching skills, deepen your understanding of Barre, and take the first step toward an internationally recognised certification.
Apply for our April Intake
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