International Teacher Training Accreditation for Pilates Approved Programs
“We have always believed in the importance of maintaining a community in the Pilates world that helps the industry and protects the practice. For this important reason, we will continue supporting the efforts and good job done by the PMA”. – Mabel Cabrera, Director, MasterPilates, ITTAP-Approved Program 2022 [Comprehensive]
List of 2022 ITTAP Approved Programs
(programs listed alphabetically)
Active Pilates Inc
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Bin Mou
Contact Number: +1 (437) 684 1039
Email: activepilates@outlook.com
Website: activepilatestudio.com
About Us
Active Pilates is a Pilates studio and education organization located in Toronto, Canada. We offer private and group Pilates sessions, rehabilitation sessions, and manual therapy sessions. The education department focus on comprehensive Pilates teacher training as well as continuing education programs for other therapeutic schools such as massage therapy schools, and osteopath schools.
Programs
Active Pilates offers a comprehensive course including Mat, Reformer, Cadillac, Chair, Ladder Barrel, Spine Corrector, Rehab Training for Spinal Pain, etc. We follow the classic Pilates training method and teach the students with precise observation and detailed coaching. We are highly focused on anatomy and posture analysis which makes the students become professionals in Pilates as well as in exercise rehabilitation work. The students who want to learn the application of Pilates in rehab work are recommended to attend our courses.
Body Concept Movement Academy
Program: Mat, Reformer, and Comprehensive
Program Contact: Neng Qing
Contact Number: +1 381 634 4288
Email: training@bodyconceptpilates.com
Website: BodyConceptPilates.com
About Us
The Body Concept Movement Academy was founded in 2013. Our Mission is to provide a holistic approach to movement therapy by combining the body, mind and energetic aspects of the human body with the Pilates Method. As a school, we desire to raise the bar for Pilates Teacher Training courses and continue to provide outstanding ongoing educational opportunities for Pilates teachers to continue to expand their knowledge and grow as exceptional Pilates professionals.
Programs
We implement our courses with the latest Pilates related expertise and insight and encourage creative exploration. We utilize the most progressive information in the fields to spark innovative ideas, and ultimately lay a sturdy foundation for learning and career development for all instructors. BC Training courses cultivate and equip instructors with the necessary skills to support their professional careers to achieve affirmation from their clients in the future.
Carve Life Pilates
Program: Mat
Program Contact: Carrie Yang
Contact Number: +1 892 234 0788
Email: Coming Soon
Website: cltcpilates.com
About Us
Carve Life Pilates was founded in 2016 by Ms. Carrie Yang, who has more than 20 years of industry experience, and is committed to allowing more people to change themselves, change their lives, and have a more relaxed and flexible second career through Pilates. The school’s unique CLTC teaching system focuses on professional training such as Pilates and sports health.
Programs
The college has strong teaching staff and rich teaching experience, and has been certified and authorized by professional institutions at home and abroad many times. Coaches from CLTC have spread to studios and clubs all over the country and have been widely praised.
Catalina Colin Pilates
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Catalina Colin
Contact Number: +(52) 551 830 0099
Email: Pilates@catalinacolin.com
Website: catalinacolin.com/
About Us
Catalina Colin Pilates focuses on training professionals to PMA standards and providing career guidance.
Programs
Our 600 hour training program is divided into four segments; teaching practice, personal practice and self-evaluation, supervised teaching, and observation/guidance with an instructor. Aspiring instructors will gain a thorough and in-depth knowledge of the Pilates method that includes the theory and practice elements required to pass the National Pilates Certification Program exam.
Classical Pilates Education
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Stafanie Ellis
Contact Number: 561 445 6821
Email: info@classicalpilateseducation.com
Website: classicalpilateseducation.com
About Us
Classical Pilates Education, created in 2013, offers Teacher Training Programs that are designed to inspire new Pilates instructors to carry on the legacy of Joseph Pilates’ system of Contrology. Our school is described as “classical” because we adhere to Joseph Pilates methodology that is outlined in his 1945 book, “Return to Life,” as well as Romana Kryzanowski’s method of teaching on the apparatus.
Programs
In our school, we inspire excellence by preparing our graduates for the highest of professional standards in the practice of Pilates. We integrate the study of anatomy with movement as it pertains to the Pilates Method and we teach students to assess each client’s unique needs. We prepare all Classical Pilates Education graduates to successfully pass certification immediately after they complete their final test-out.
Pilates by Dena
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Dena Curtin
Contact Number: +1 813 831 1002
Email: dena@pilatesbydena.com
Website: pilatesbydena.com
About Us
Pilates by Dena, inc. was started by Dena Baggs-Curtin and has been serving the Tampa community for over 20 years. Our focus is primarily traditional or classical Pilates. We are a fully equipped Pilates studio with 7 instructors. We primarily focus on solo sessions and small group. We cater to clients’ individual needs thru the vehicle of Pilates.
Programs
Dena Baggs-Curtin started a Pilates Comprehensive Education Program in 2015. We have had 25 graduates all branching out to serve and teach in the Tampa community.
Evolution Academy
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Alicia Garcia
Contact Number: 58 212 988 1636
Email: agarciaevolution@gmail.com
Website: evolutionenergystudios.com
About Us
Our commitment is to health and healing the world by helping people heal themselves with Pilates. We train Pilates instructor to be intuitive, passionate, and committed to the Pilates method, using our philosophy of body, mind, and energy.
Programs
Our Comprehensive Teacher Training covers mat, reformer, cadillac, barrel, and chair.
Green Motion Pilates
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Eason Chien
Contact Number: +(86) 173 1773 5250
Email: EasonChien@foxmail.com
Website: Coming Soon
About Us
Green Motion Pilates (GM Pilates) is a comprehensive Pilates studio founded in 2020. We adhere to Pilates’ classic training principles to provide clients with scientific and effective training courses.
Programs
GM Pilates’ comprehensive training program consists of three sections, namely ‘The Human Body Manual’, ‘Pilates Three Stage Course’, and ‘Being an Instructor’. In order to enable participants to acquire Pilates-related knowledge and skills as soon as possible, there are no elective courses in this program. All content needs to be studied and practiced throughout the course. Upon completion of the required number of working hours, we will issue you with a Certificate as a Qualified Instructor based on the ITTAP Guidelines.
Harmony Studios Pilates
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Jennifer Tillett
Contact Number: +1 (323) 822 9584
Email: hello@harmonystudiospilates.com
Website: harmonystudiospilates.com/education
About Us
Nestled in the heart of West Hollywood, we are a full-service, private instruction facility specializing in personalized Pilates regimens. We offer a safe, well-balanced, efficient and aesthetically beautiful workout that is uniquely adapted to your needs.
Programs
Harmony Studios Pilates’ mission is to share our knowledge of Joseph and Clara Pilates’ work as it was originally intended, coupled with the passion to explore and integrate the latest developments in movement science. In addition to Pilates Coursework, we offer a comprehensive center where students can continue their learning process, in-house, through self-practice, observation, and practice teaching. We believe in mentorship and guiding each student to find their unique voice throughout the process. Our goal is to nurture thoughtful Pilates professionals who feel confident in their base of knowledge in order to plan and begin a successful career.
Pilates Inside Out
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Marida Sieve
Contact Number: 3 469 147 4468
Email: marida_@hotmail.com
Website: pilatesinsideoutspain.com
About Us
Pilates Inside Out is a professional training school where we teach and transmit the classical Pilates Method. We have become a renowned training school in Spain thanks to the over 10 years of experience, passion, and interest, for Pilates of its founders Marida Sieve and Myriam Arias-Salgado, both PMA certified and graduates of several international schools.
Programs
The Pilates Inside Out offers a Pilates instructor educational program and is staffed with qualified, approved instructors.
Lamar Pilates
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Soojin Lim
Contact Number: +(82) 106 877 5536
Email: Unlisted
Website: Unlisted
About Us
Our program goal is to train professional Pilates instructors through high quality and detailed education. We have been training in compliance with the standards of the PMA for many years. We are proud of our responsible comprehensive training programs.
Programs
Our program focuses on all elements of great Comprehensive Pilates education, including lecture delivery, student observations, practice opportunities, mentorship and guidance, and finally exam preperation and testing, totaling 470 hours of Pilates education.
Lynn Pilates
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Seongyun Lee
Contact Number: +(82) 105 110 2662
Email: gold7531@naver.com
Website: lynnpilates.com/
About Us
The Lynn Pilates School offers a comprehensive Pilates teacher-training certificate program that is taught by NCPT teacher.
Programs
Founded in 2010, Lynn Pilates School operates teacher-training program in Busan(head office), Daegu (branch) and Ulsan (branch). Our school teaches everything students need to know to become a Pilates instructor, from basic theories of Pilates to the proffesional knowledge needed to teach Pilates classes. We teach our graduates to fulfil customers’ needs through continous effort and research.
MasterPilates Formacion
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Mabel Cabrera
Contact Number: +(34) 646 73 06 78
Email: masterpilates.es@gmail.com
Website: masterpilates.center/
About Us
The philosophy of MasterPilates is based on honesty, rigor, quality and passion for Pilates. MasterPilates’s fundamental mission is to provide to our students the necessary skills and abilities to teach Pilates at the highest professional level.
Programs
The philosophy of MasterPilates is based on honesty, rigor, quality and passion for Pilates. MasterPilates’s fundamental mission is to provide to our students the necessary skills and abilities to teach Pilates at the highest professional level.
Medi&Curl Pilates
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: YuGyoung Choe
Contact Number: +(82) 109 596 0711
Email: syjun87@naver.com
Website: medincurl.com/main/main.asp
About Us
Medi&Curl Pilates School offers a comprehensive Pilates teacher-training certificate program that is taught by NCPTs teachers.
Programs
Medi&Curl Pilates School we want to inspire excellence by preparing our graduates for the highest standards of professional practice of Pilates based on Anatomy. We integrate scientific research to provide practical applications to the Pilates Method and we teach students to assess each client’s unique needs.
Motor Control: Beyond Pilates
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Junya Takeda
Contact Number: +(81) 3 6416 1600
Email: info-d@pilates-lab.com
Website: pilates-lab.com/
About Us
Motor Control: Beyond Pilates is operated by a Japanese medical corporation group. Promoting motor control and learning through Pilates and professional education.
Programs
Our medical corporation group, as a pioneer, introduced Pilates into Japan’s medical institutions in 2005. We are headquartered in Fukuoka and Tokyo, Japan. For our students who are orthopedics, physiatrists and physiotherapists, this program helps them learn Pilates as an exercise therapy that can be readily applied in their practice. For our students who are fitness trainers and instructors, this program is ideal to help better understand what they have to bear in mind when addressing clients with medical history and build effective communication with medical professionals
Natural Pilates Co
Program: Mat
Program Contact: Erika Nickless
Contact Number: +1 (310) 926 6544
Email: teachertraining@naturalpilates.com
Website: naturalpilates.com
About Us
Natural Pilates’ founder, Laura Wilson, immigrated to the US from her native Romania in 2002, with only $100 in her pocket. By 2005, she was a successful masseuse and a Stott-certified Pilates Instructor with an elite, private studio, located in the heart of Beverly Hills, California. In 2007, she had become so busy that she hired an additional instructor and began teaching group classes, creating her own signature style that combines the traditional Pilates repertoire with concepts inspired by personal training and other fitness modalities. Natural Pilates now has three locations in the Los Angeles area, teaching training and continuing education programs, and Natural Pilates TV — an online portal with subscribers all over the world.
Programs
The inspiration for and basis of Natural Pilates Mat Teacher Training Program is the human body. From the perspective of anatomy, muscular function and joint motion, we teach our students the Pilates Mat repertoire and how it can be adapted to clients’ individual bodies, needs and goals. Our Mat Training includes 120 total hours of lecture, self-study and practice-teaching. It begins with a 40-hour in-person course combining lecture and supervised practice-teaching, which provides students with the solid foundation necessary to understand the simple motions that occur at each joint, as well as the extensive choreography designed by Joseph Pilates. Each exercise is presented with modifications and variations that teach students how to regress and progress Pilates’ original choreography to design tailored programs. Students also learn when and how to incorporate Pilates props — the Magic Circle, Stability Ball, Flex Band and ankle/free weights — to add assistance or difficulty to an exercise.
Natural Pilates Co
Program: Reformer
Program Contact: Erika Nickless
Contact Number: +1 (310) 926 6544
Email: teachertraining@naturalpilates.com
Website: naturalpilates.com
About Us
Natural Pilates’ founder, Laura Wilson, immigrated to the US from her native Romania in 2002, with only $100 in her pocket. By 2005, she was a successful masseuse and a Stott-certified Pilates Instructor with an elite, private studio, located in the heart of Beverly Hills, California. In 2007, she had become so busy that she hired an additional instructor and began teaching group classes, creating her own signature style that combines the traditional Pilates repertoire with concepts inspired by personal training and other fitness modalities. Natural Pilates now has three locations in the Los Angeles area, teaching training and continuing education programs, and Natural Pilates TV — an online portal with subscribers all over the world.
Programs
Through the lens of anatomy and an understanding of the “physics of Pilates” — line of force, resistance profiles, gravity, friction and compression — Natural Pilates Reformer Teacher Training Program teaches its students to understand more than the classical choreography. Our Reformer Program includes 300 total hours of lecture, self-study and practice-teaching. Our goal is to train students to understand the “why?” behind the repertoire. Students learn the traditional beginner, intermediate, and advanced choreography created by Joseph Pilates, as well as how to break down these exercises, looking at joint motion, muscular participation, and the internal and external forces working in each series. We believe that learning the repertoire in this way helps our students become better instructors who can easily adapt exercises to meet the specific needs and goals of their future clientele. We also explore effective verbal and hands-on cueing techniques and programming for private sessions, group classes and special populations.
The Pilates Center
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Kelli Hutchins
Contact Number: +1 (303) 494 3400
Email: kelli@thepilatescenter.com
Website: thepilatescenter.com/
About Us
The Pilates Center in Boulder, Colorado is an internationally renowned studio and teaching school providing unparalleled classical Pilates. Established in 1990 by “second-generation” sisters, Amy Taylor Alpers and Rachel Taylor Segel, The Pilates Center offers workshops and seminars for Pilates professionals, private lessons and group classes for the general public, as well as the world’s foremost teacher training programs for Pilates teachers.
Programs
The Pilates Center’s renowned Advanced Teacher Training Program has been recognized as the most respected, comprehensive and intensive program of its kind for over 31 years. Over the course of 12-18 months, our students are challenged to master the entire classical Pilates repertoire and its foundational principles in order to deepen and broaden their Pilates practice and teaching abilities. The Pilates Center Advanced Teacher Training Program is offered all over the world utilizing our handpicked Licensed Teacher Trainers and Host Advisors.
The Pilates Rehab Education Association
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Yun Byung Gwan
Contact Number: +(82) 109 251 2260
Email: chojin098@gmail.com
Website: Unlisted
About Us
The Pilates Rehabilitation Education Association that keeps and inherits the original techniques of classical pilates, can accommodate contemporary methods and rehabilitation pilates through functional anatomical interpretation for modern chronic and granular pilates teaching programs. The goal is not to provide short-term attribute training, but to train with sufficient time to produce properly learned instructors.
Programs
Yoon Byeong-kwan, a 2022 PMA presenter with 18 years of experience in Pilates, qualified in both classical and contemporary Pilates techniques created a complete program based on their experience as a physical therapy professor. The Pilates Rehab Association is a versatile association that protects and inherits the original method of classical pilates without damaging it, and can accommodate both contemporary chronic diseases and detailed pilates teaching programs, as well as rehabilitation pilates through functional anatomical interpretation.
Real Pilates
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Ruogu Yang
Contact Number: +(86) 1 866 985 8866
Email: iamruogu@163.com
Website: realpilates.mysxl.cn/
About Us
Following the essence of Joseph Pilates’s Philosophy, Real Pilates was established in 2016, aiming to popularize the Pilates Method in China. Pilates method allows us to achieve the control of our body through activating different working muscles, correcting the sequence and building the mind and body connection, to further develop the balance of mind and body and to live pleasantly with accomplishment.Currently, we operate 5 studios in Beijing (Capital City) and Hangzhou (East China), offering group and private sessions, comprehensive Pilates teacher-training program as well as hosting international training. Our goal is to have everyone enjoy the happiness of physical fitness.
Programs
The comprehensive program is designed to satisfy and empower those who has the willingness to be a professional Pilates instructor. The program contains 16 modules of total 451 hours. In this program, you will learn principles of Pilates, anatomy, exercises of all the apparatus and with small props (i.e.，Mat, Reformer, Cadillac, Wunda Chair, Ladder Barrel, Spinal Corrector, Magic Circle etc.). We also provided an in-depth illustration of all the exercises with modifications and assistance, precaution, and prohibitions. The uniqueness of this program is that we focused on how to teach. We developed an integrated teaching method called ‘Sensational Teaching System’. Whether you are a teacher with great teaching experiences or a beginner teacher, you will be able to generate the best workout experiences with great achievements for your client. We also provided online learning materials and videos for remote learning. No matter where you are, you will be able to get the updated information to assist your learning.
Real Pilates
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Alycea Ungaro
Contact Number: 212 625 077
Email: alycea@realpilatesnyc.com
Website: realpilates.com
About Us
Real Pilates Teacher Training offers comprehensive primary and bridge training in the classical lineage of Romana Kryzanowska. Developed by Alycea Ungaro in 2001 and re-imagined in 2013 the program delivers the classical method across all the Pilates apparatuses with both live and online deliverables.
Programs
A team of educators with extensive experience teach the Real Pilates program at our network of Host studios both domestically and globally.
Return to Life and Health
Program: Comprehensive
Program Contact: Eun Ju Lim
Contact Number: +(82) 109 112 6021
Email: returnto_life@naver.com
Website: returntolife.org
About Us
Return to Life & Health is an organization proud to uphold the standard of education for programs based on the PMA code of ethics and scope of practice. By cooperating with many Pilates studios and peers, the aim is to collaborate and cowork together to develop Pilates research and further the reach of the Pilates industry.
Programs
Staffed by only professional instructors, our organization is proud to present our own specialty and post-rehab program. Our goal is to grow together and create a united professional Pilates community in Korea.