Building a successful Pilates Teacher Training Studio requires more than students and a curriculum. Consider the other costs of becoming a teacher training studio.

  • Class Time: Students will generally need to spend 10+ hours per week on their training in order to complete their 450 hours in under a year. If you’d like your program to finish faster, that number increases.
  • Cost: Much of the cost of building out your teacher training studio is already included in the costs of running a Pilates studio. This includes renting studio space, maintaining the space, and investing in apparatus.
  • Preparation: A comprehensive teacher training curriculum like PEI will require you to set aside time to prepare your training program. While PEI will provide you with training tools such as teacher training guides and tips for cultivating your training voice, the power of a customizable curriculum is in the way you use it to best meet your particular students’ needs. That means sitting with the content and thinking through how you will teach to ensure all of your students master the material.
  • Commitment: As a teacher of teachers, you will find yourself constantly searching for opportunities to grow yourself as a teacher. The field is filled with experts in the Pilates Method, all of whom can inspire you to create a school that truly delivers a thorough and professional teaching experience. When you come to your role with commitment and dedication, your training program experience will only improve.

For all of the time you spend building your training studio, you’ll reap much more than just financial benefits. There is the incredible feeling of having a career doing what you love, sharing it with others, and guiding people to constantly grow in their practice.

There’s nothing more rewarding than the moment what a student teacher gets it…really gets it. Whether it’s a precise demonstration of a certain exercise, or the smile on a student’s face when they get a near perfect or perfect score on a test or practicum, or when the student teacher truly starts to believe they can and will be a successful Pilates teacher, the rewards of successfully preparing someone to teach Pilates are impossible to measure.