FOR PILATES TEACHERS WHOSE CLIENTS BRING MORE THAN A BAD BACK
Know what to do when a client’s stress walks into class with them.
Get instant access to 5 hours of online CPD: a lecture on stress, trauma and setting up a trauma-sensitive class, guided relaxation practices for stress, anxiety, low mood and PTSD, breathwork and meditation you can add to your classes, and an IPHM accredited CPD certificate.
Or 3 monthly payments of £33. Start today and work at your own pace.
If any of this sounds like you…
A client tells you before class she hasn’t slept in a week. You nod. Then you count her through the Hundred like normal.
Someone has cried on the mat in the middle of a roll down. You didn’t know whether to stop or keep going.
More of your clients are anxious, burnt out or grieving. Your Pilates training didn’t cover any of it.
You’d love to end class with proper relaxation. But you worry you’ll say the wrong thing to someone who’s been through something.
You see “trauma-informed” everywhere and you’re still not sure what it means for a Pilates teacher.
Some weeks you’re running on empty yourself, and you can feel it in your teaching.
And part of you worries you’re out of your depth with the very people who need you most.
What changes
- You notice what’s going on. You understand how stress and trauma show up in the body, so a tight jaw or a held breath tells you something.
- You know what to do in the moment. When someone gets upset on the mat, you have a calm way through it instead of freezing.
- Your class feels safe. Small changes to your language, set-up and choices make a big difference to someone who’s struggling.
- You finish with relaxation that works. Practices for stress, anxiety, low mood and PTSD you can add to the end of any class.
- Trauma-informed makes sense. It stops being a buzzword and becomes something you actually do.
- You feel steadier too. You practise every technique on yourself first, and your own nervous system gets the benefit.
- You stop feeling out of your depth. You know what’s yours to hold in a Pilates class, and you hold it well.
Introducing Relaxation, the Nervous System & Pilates
A 5-hour online CPD that shows you how stress and trauma show up in the body, and gives you simple, safe relaxation, breath and meditation to bring into your Pilates classes.
Why I built this
I’d been teaching yoga for ten years before I realised I didn’t actually know how to breathe. Not in a way I could safely hand to someone else.
So I went and trained properly. It changed how I teach everything, Pilates included.
In 2011 I ran Northern Ireland’s first Level 3 Pilates instructor training. Pilates training is brilliant on alignment and control. It says almost nothing about the person on the mat whose nervous system is running the show.
And that person is in nearly every class now. Stressed, burnt out, anxious, grieving. They don’t need you to be a therapist. They need you to notice, to keep the room safe, and to give them ten minutes at the end where their body finally lets go.
That’s what this CPD gives you. The bit I wish someone had taught me first.
Victoria Cunningham
Founder, Ordinary People Academy
What’s included
Stress, trauma and the trauma-sensitive class. A lecture on what stress and trauma do to the body and nervous system, and how to set up a class that feels safe, from the words you use to the choices you give.
Relaxation practices. Guided relaxation for stress, anxiety, depression and PTSD, ready to add to the end of your classes.
Breathwork and meditation. Simple, safe suggestions you can bring into Pilates without it turning into a different class.
Your own practice first. You work through everything on yourself, so you teach it from the inside. That embodied self-awareness is what any good mind-body Pilates class runs on.
An IPHM accredited CPD certificate. 5 hours of CPD for your records.
Instant access. Start the day you join and work through it at your own pace.
Or 3 monthly payments of £33
Questions
Is this therapy training?
No. It won’t train you to treat trauma, and it doesn’t ask you to. It helps you teach Pilates in a way that’s safer and kinder for the people who carry it.
I teach fitness, not Pilates. Is it for me?
Yes. It’s built around Pilates, but it works for any fitness or movement professional who leads classes.
Do I need any breathwork or meditation experience?
No. Everything is explained from scratch, and you try it on yourself before you teach it.
How long will it take?
It’s 5 hours, self-paced, and you get access the moment you join. Do it in a weekend or spread it across a few weeks.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes. An IPHM accredited CPD certificate for 5 hours.
Can I pay in instalments?
Yes. £95 in full, or 3 monthly payments of £33.
Why now?
Because your next class will have someone in it who’s had a rough week. Probably more than one. Five hours now means you’ll know what to do when they walk in.
Same Pilates. A safer room.
Or 3 monthly payments of £33. Instant access.