Stephanie and Virginia can come to you! Armature Education brings any signature or custom workshop (for any time duration) to your studio for staff professional development and team building. Contact us directly to organise.
Empowering Pilates instructors with the knowledge, skills and confidence to excel in their practice.
Armature Education Offers
In Studio Staff Training
Signature Workshops
Armature Education’s signature workshops run throughout the year. Often presented at Armature, they can also travel to studios. Workshops are Push/Pull for Group Reformer, Hip Programming for Group Reformer and Art of the Build – Intelligent Layering.
Specialty Masterclasses
Armature Education runs additional one-off workshops and masterclasses on topics like programming for wrists, integrating scapulae dynamics into mat classes, pre and postnatal programming and coaching strength training.
ARMATURE EDUCATION IS FOR EVERYONE
Pilates instructors and students who are curious to explore how anatomy, strength training, pilates repertoire and sequencing unite. And how to use all those things to create challenging yet achievable sessions for clients. Most participants are instructors-in-training through to those with 4-5 years experience. All are welcome and even highly experienced instructors will walk away with new ways of seeing of things and fresh motivation for their classes.
WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE
Armature Education was born from Stephanie’s love of all things Pilates teacher training/certification/professional development. Basically, anything that brings her in the vicinity of instructors for learning, networking and sharing. She also loves strength training. Recognising the need for more education around intelligent programming of group reformer classes – that provides a “workout” while still maintaining core pilates principles, she set about creating workshops rooted in anatomical principles, Pilates technique and strength training.
WHERE PILATES AND STRENGTH TRAINING RESPECTFULLY MEET
Strength Training is all the rage, but we’ve been doing it way before it was a hashtag. We’re early adopters. And combining it with Pilates doesn’t have to mean doing deadlifts, squats and burpees on a reformer. Or holding heavy barbells while doing a Pilates-type movement.
We use Strength Training principles to inform choreography that very much sits within a Pilates ethos and retains principles like alignment, elongation and control. It’s the best of both worlds – the challenge and increased load/time under tension of strength training with the core/balance/endurance challenge of the reformer.
Stephanie Sibel
Virginia Fric
Brooke Gittings
