Pilates Online Workshop - Standing Pilates

Pilates works without a mat too. The online workshop Standing Pilates shows you how to carry the Pilates principles over into standing work: what the alignment looks like on your feet, which exercises can be performed cleanly there and how you build whole sequences for your class out of them. You work with a manual and four training videos in which the exercises are demonstrated step by step – and at the end you train along with a complete Masterclass.

What you will learn

• Pilates Stand Alignment – what to look out for when you align on your feet
• The Pilates Stand as the starting position for exercises without a mat
• Do and Don’t for standing classes: what works on your feet and what is better left out
• Exercise sequences that you assemble into a whole class
• The principles of Standing Pilates in the first training video
• Footwork, standing alignment and Breathing, forward bend and circles in a wide stance, Standing Lat Pull, Standing Chest Lift
• Wide Squat and variations, Lunges and variations, Five Count Squat, Side Lunges and Inner Thighs, balance on one leg
• Rolldown, rotations in the Forward Fold (Saw), Jumps, Squats with rotation and Leglift, Inner Thighs standing

Who the workshop is for

For Pilates instructors who want to extend their repertoire beyond mat work – whether because there is little room for mats in your studio, because you need variety in your classes or because you want to build individual standing sequences into existing lessons. Even if you come from a different group fitness discipline and are looking for cleanly cued exercises on your feet, you will find concrete material here. The workshop is designed as continuing education: you get exercises, sequences and coaching points that you can put to use in your very next class.

How the workshop runs

• After registering you receive your login details for the learning platform, where all the materials and videos are held.
• Self-study: you work through the manual on Standing Pilates.
• Training videos: four videos take you through the principles and the individual exercise sequences.
• Masterclass: 45 minutes of Standing Pilates to train along with. You need a mat and comfortable training clothes; you train barefoot or in Pilates socks.
• Questions: you can write to info@update-akademie.ch at any time.
• Completion: you fill in the feedback form and then receive your workshop confirmation.

The workshop is independent of time and place. You start whenever it suits you and work at your own pace. The content stays available to you after you finish, so you can look up individual exercises later on.

Where it leads next

If working on your feet suits you, the Pilates Online Workshop Barre is the logical next step – it builds on the same Pilates Stand Alignment and adds footwork and combinations at the bar. All the other short formats in the series are listed in the overview of group fitness workshops. If you want to teach Pilates from the ground up, the route runs through the Pilates Instructor training; the teaching fundamentals behind every group class come from Group Fitness Fundamentals.