Body Maestro Classical Pilates Mat Certification
Led by Renee Scott
Go Beyond Learning Exercises. Understand the Complete Classical Pilates Mat System.
Are you a Pilates instructor, fitness professional, yoga teacher, dance teacher, professional dancer or aspiring movement instructor ready to deepen your knowledge and expand your teaching skills?
The Body Maestro Classical Pilates Mat Certification will guide you through the Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Classical Pilates Mat repertoire while helping you understand how the exercises connect as one intelligent, progressive, whole-body system.
The magic of Classical Pilates Mat is not found in one exercise.
It is found in the relationship between every exercise: the traditional order, precise repetitions, breath, rhythm, transitions and continuous connection to the powerhouse.
The exercises are the vocabulary.
The order, rhythm, breath and transitions are the language.
This is not simply a course where you memorise exercises.
You will learn how to understand, embody and confidently teach the original Pilates Mat method within today’s movement environment.
Why Study Classical Pilates Mat?
The Matwork is where the Pilates method began and forms the foundation of the wider Pilates system.
Studying Classical Pilates Mat can help you:
- Develop greater depth, structure and confidence in your teaching
- Understand how one exercise prepares the body for the next
- Improve your sequencing, cueing and observation skills
- Explore the powerhouse, opposition and two-way stretch
- Use breath, rhythm and transitions to create flow
- Better understand strength, mobility, control and alignment
- Expand your skills across Pilates, fitness, yoga, Barre and dance
- Create new teaching and career opportunities
For dancers and dance teachers, the course also provides valuable knowledge in strength, conditioning, body organisation and movement control. It can become an additional teaching skill that works alongside rehearsals, performances, dance teaching and future career transitions.
What You Will Learn
- Joseph Pilates, Contrology and the Pilates principles
- Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Classical Pilates Mat
- Traditional exercise order and progressions
- Classical repetitions, breathwork and rhythm
- Purposeful transitions and class flow
- Powerhouse connection
- Opposition and two-way stretch
- Imagery and sensory cueing
- Teaching, observation and correction skills
- Preparations, modifications and progressions
- Tactile and hands-on cueing
- Classical Pilates Mat programming
- The relationship between the Matwork and the wider Pilates system
Learn with Renee Scott
Renee Scott is the founder of Body Maestro, a Master Trainer and former professional ballet dancer.
She trained and was certified by Romana Kryzanowska, who continued the teachings of Joseph and Clara Pilates through the original New York Pilates studio tradition.
Renee combines this direct Classical Pilates lineage with more than 25 years of studio ownership and over 15 years of mentoring and educating movement instructors.
You will learn not only what to teach, but why you are teaching it, what to observe and how to help the individual body progress.
Live Zoom Training Dates
Saturday 17 October | 1:30 pm–5:30 pm AEST
Pilates Principles and Basic Classical Pilates Mat
Saturday 24 October | 1:30 pm–5:30 pm AEST
Intermediate Classical Pilates Mat
Saturday 31 October | 1:30 pm–5:30 pm AEST
Advanced Classical Pilates Mat
Face-to-face* Saturday 7 November | 1:30 pm–6:30 pm AEST
Tactile Cueing and Programming
Face-to-face* Sunday 8 November | 10:30 am–3:30 pm AEST
Teaching Skills and Examination
*Option of Zoom if face-to-face is not possible.
Optional Live Practice Classes
Three optional Classical Pilates Mat practice classes are included to help you embody the work. All classes will be recorded.
- Wednesday 21 October, 12:30 pm–2:00 pm AEST
- Wednesday 28 October, 12:30 pm–2:00 pm AEST
- Wednesday 4 November, 12:30 pm–2:00 pm AEST
Your Certification Includes
- Three Saturdays of live teacher training via Zoom
- One Weekend of face-to-face teaching (or Zoom)
- Three optional live practice classes
- Recordings of the practice classes
- Structured online learning content
- A printable Classical Pilates Mat manual
- A printable exercise completion and sign-off list
- Basic, Intermediate and Advanced repertoire training
- Tactile cueing and programming education
- Practical teaching feedback and examination
Course Delivery
This structured hybrid course combines live Zoom teacher training with recorded online content.
You will need a reliable internet connection, a working camera, an exercise mat and enough space to safely perform the exercises.
Your camera must remain on during the live sessions so Renee can observe your movement and provide feedback.
Learn the Method. Embody the Sequence. Teach It with Confidence.
Whether you teach Pilates, fitness, yoga, Barre or dance, this certification will give you more than another collection of exercises.
It will give you a deeper understanding of the body, a complete movement system and practical teaching skills you can apply throughout your career.
The sequence is the architecture.
The teacher is the conductor.
The body is the instrument.
Join Renee Scott and Body Maestro for the Body Maestro Classical Pilates Mat Certification.
Make sure you have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions upon purchase.
You'll have access to this course for 12 months.
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