Earning it: Pilates Mat Cert PART 1

Good morning! I wanted to share my experience on earning my Pilates Mat Certification. Much internet resourch was done just to figure out what certifation I needed and where I could get it. That lead me on a little pilates journey, sampling classes from around Michiana. I'll be writing a post about those wandings soon. Today I want to tell you about where I got my certification from. Let me introduce: Pilates Chicago!

Pilates Chicago is a fabulous pilates studio on Clark Street in Chicago. To get there I took Lake Shore Drive all the way up until it ended and then basically headed left from there a few blocks. It's easy to get to and there are lots of parking oppertunities (love that!).

Before we learned how to teach pilates we needed to go through a movement and anatomy class called Foundations of Movement. Its mandatory and considured their first module. The workshop was 8 hours long over the course of 2 days and it consisted of core anatomy lectures and guided movement practices. The class was a great introduction that holds so much value that after taking it I really don't see how I could take the second module (learning to teach mat pilates) without the first.

There were about 12 of us learning (or like myself relearning) in the first workshop. It was fun to get to know a few of the other students. Everyone was super helpful and it was a great bunch of folks. We were all excited to learn that there was no test for the first module! These were principles we were to work on and anatomy that we should be familar with. We went home with the assignment to finish reading our book, practice the movements in our notebook, go over our notes, look up some of the big names she mentioned and learn more about them, do all of this for a few weeks before we go back for the second module.

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