Streamline Pilates Bridge Program
~70 hours
The Streamline Pilates Bridge Program is designed for instructors who already hold a mat or equipment certification and are ready to close the gap between "certified" and "exceptional" — the level of teaching most studios are currently struggling to hire for.
This continuing-education program helps already-certified instructors teach with greater depth, confidence, and range.
Across four weekend intensives, spaced three to four weeks apart, instructors receive small-group mentorship with direct, individualized feedback on their teaching, working alongside a guided apprenticeship, an anatomy review, study of Pilates history and philosophy, ongoing teaching evaluations, and a culminating capstone project.
Block I — Foundations Refresh & Cueing Mastery
Review of alignment and anatomy, with focused work on precise cueing language, voice, and pacing.
Block II — Apparatus & Sequencing
An in-depth look at the apparatus and how to sequence exercises with seamless transitions across mat and equipment classes, including strategies for managing mixed-level groups.
Block III — Special Populations & Adaptations
Adaptation strategies for pregnancy, post-rehabilitation, older adults, and athletes, with an emphasis on real-time modification skills.
Block IV — The Business of Teaching
A look at personal brand and client retention, culminating in a live capstone class.
Deepening Your Own Practice
Throughout every block, the program returns to a simple truth: your own practice is inseparable from your teaching. It's easy, once you're the one leading class after class, to let your personal practice quietly slide down the priority list, but the instructors who keep growing are almost always the ones who keep returning to the mat or the reformer as students themselves. Deepening your own movement, your own body awareness, and your own relationship with the method is what gives your cueing its authenticity and your corrections their precision — which is why nurturing your personal practice sits alongside every technical skill this program covers, not as an afterthought, but as the foundation the rest of it stands on.
Tentative 2027 schedule (subject to change):
Block I: Friday, January 22 from 4:30-7:30pm and Saturday, January 23 from 12:30-7:30pm
Block II: Friday, February 26 from 4:30-7:30pm and Saturday, February 27 from 12:30-7:30pm
Block III: Friday, March 26 from 4:30-7:30pm and Saturday, March 27 from 12:30-7:30pm
Block IV: Friday, April 16 from 4:30-7:30pm and Saturday, April 17 from 12:30-7:30pm
Pre-requisites:
1. Intermediate Pilates Program with Streamline or equivalent pre-approved training program, on either mat or reformer (but ideally both)
2. One year’s teaching experience
3. Accomplished at Intermediate Pilates
Course Description:
The Streamline Pilates Bridge Program is the natural next step after completing a preliminary training program. Initial training often feels comprehensive at the time, but most instructors discover — once they begin teaching — that they've only touched the surface, and this program is built to review and extend that original training, using it as a foundation for a lifetime of deepening skill and understanding of the Pilates method.
The program offers new insight into your craft, helping to elevate your teaching to a more advanced, dynamic level. Rooted in the principles of Joseph Pilates, you'll learn to guide clients and classes toward natural, flowing movement patterns, sharpening your verbal cueing and hands-on teaching techniques along the way. By the end, you'll have developed the skill to progress a client or class through the appropriate levels and layers of the Pilates Method with confidence and precision.
The required 70 hours for the bridge program include:
36 Lecture
10 Observation
10 Lessons (must include at least 5 solo sessions, 3 equipment classes and 2 mat classes)
14 Teaching Capstone Project/ Evaluations/Advisor Meetings
other: class attendance, personal workouts, personal study, etc.
Trainees should anticipate dedicating an average of 4-6 hours a week for 4 months to the Bridge Program requirements. All hours may be fulfilled at Streamline Pilates in Salt Lake City.
Cost:
Application: $150 (non-refundable)
Deposit: $500 (non-refundable, applicable to tuition)
Tuition: $2,500
Lessons/Classes (approx.): $700
Books/Materials: (not included)
Sign up and pay in full by November 1 and get an Early Bird Discount of $250.
2027 Calendar for Streamline Pilates Bridge Program:
Trainings are held live at Streamline Pilates in Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City UT. (Dates subject to change)
Block I: Friday, January 22 from 4:30-7:30pm and Saturday, January 23 from 12:30-7:30pm
Block II: Friday, February 26 from 4:30-7:30pm and Saturday, February 27 from 12:30-7:30pm
Block III: Friday, March 26 from 4:30-7:30pm and Saturday, March 27 from 12:30-7:30pm
Block IV: Friday, April 16 from 4:30-7:30pm and Saturday, April 17 from 12:30-7:30pm
Weekends are organized as follows*:
Friday 4:30–7:30pm Orientation/Lab/Lecture.
Saturday 12:30pm–7:30pm Class/Lab/Lecture (includes one-hour break)
*Subject to change