curriculum

PiPilatesTM: Pilates Incentive Perfect Intention Curriculum and Certification Program is
intended for those seeking to teach pilates as professionals. Teaching, facilitating, and
promoting sound movement practice is the focus of the certification process. It is our
intention to instill and foster principles of holistic well being through optimal functionality,
balance, ease and joy of movment. For all intensive and practical purposes our aspirations
are to embody and encourage the cultivation and development of strong and free, flexible
and whole, healthy, living, vital, bodies, minds, hearts, and souls.

2nd Pillar ~ Embodiment of whole self: Anatomy, physiology, and
kinesiology of the natural organic body and pilates movement

		Kinesthesia and Proprioceptive Elements of Movement
		Planes, Motion, Space, and Direction in the Body
		Energy, Force, Gravity, Leverage, Mass, and Motion
		Laws of Movement and Dynamic Energy Systems
		Neuromuscular Components of Movements
		Muscle, Bone, and Joint Action
		Parameters of Safety and Control

3rd Pillar ~ Transformation through holistic experiential awareness: Posture, alignment, movement, imagery, sensing and pilates practice

		Roots of imagery for movement
		Postural models of alignment
		Energy, movement, and dynamic alignment
		Body mind interplay in motion and stillness
		Reforming through intentional movement patterns
		Resourceful images for pilates practice
		Relationship of imagery to sensing and cuing

1st Pillar ~ Pilates foundation as a somatic movement practice that
has power to transform our lives

		Holistic Somatic Gestalt
		Somatic Elements of Movement
		Alchemical Interplay of body and mind
		The human neural network
		Cellular awareness
		The mind in the body
		The body in the mind
		Senses and perception
		Sensing and the imagination
		Sensing and imagery in awareness
		Imagery and somatic experience
		Imagery, imagination, and pilates practice