Conducted over a series of three 4-day intensives spanning 6 months, the Pilates Excel curriculum includes
but is not limited to:

Business Development & Management
for the Pilates

Entrepreneur and Intrepreneur:
· Business establishment & development
· Find your niche & successfully teach within it
· Identify your ideal client criteria
· Who to serve, who to avoid and how to tell the difference
· Marketing, advertising & websites
· Client retention through superior teaching skills and stellar customer service
· Customer service beyond the front desk and during the session
· Goal setting, charting progress & celebrating results
· Record keeping; what’s required, what’s desired

Teaching Skills
Enhanced, Expanded & Refined
· Technical and charasmatic styles of teaching
· Technical breakdown of flexion, extension, rotation and side bending exercises
· Understanding Pilates; every principle, every exercise, every session
· Explaining Pilates: How it works and why, what it will do & what it won’t/can’t plus the do’s and don’t’s of explaining Pilates to clients
· Anatomy and physiology of Pilates
· A thorough understanding of Powerhouse muscles, where they are and how they work
· Safety and progression theories
· The process for knowing without doubt when to safely progress & preserving the client’s self

· respect when progression is not safe
· Developing and safeguarding a deep Powerhouse
· Theory of using body weight, springs and gravity as resistance against Powerhouse muscles
· Recognizing & overcoming barriers to the work
· Head & Shoulders Up
· Fair-weather Powerhouse
· The First-Things-First Truth of Pilates
· Affordability
· Teaching for Transfer/Applied Pilates™
· Reaching the masses through for-Profit Mat programs; how to build them & how to keep them fresh.

Ongoing Support
The Pilates Excel Partnership
· By phone and email, receive on-going help with:
· client challenges & business dilemmas
· brainstorming ideas & how to move forward
· figuring out & problem solving
· working through & soaring above

Schedule & Cost
All intensives are held at
Pilates Powerhouse NW in Seattle

Daily Schedule