You know your Pilates. Now teach it with confidence.
The Teach Pilates with Confidence Academy is my step-by-step course for Pilates teachers. Thirty-nine videos show you how your clients learn, give you a toolkit of ways to teach them, and help you plan classes that flow. Self-paced, online, about four hours in all, and built on my book Teach Pilates with Confidence.
- 5 chapters
- 47 lessons
- 39 videos
- 3 short quizzes
- About four hours
- Unlimited access
Knowing the method and teaching it well are different skills.
You know the exercises. You know the anatomy. You’ve done the hours and passed the exams, and maybe added a few more courses since. Then you stand in front of a class, and something gets lost between what you know and what your clients actually do.
Teacher training taught you the method. It rarely teaches you how to teach it: how adults learn, why one client gets a cue and the next doesn’t, how to plan a class for a room full of different bodies, or what to try when a movement just isn’t landing.
So many teachers have said the same thing to me: “I have all this knowledge, but I don’t know how to get it out of my head and into my client’s body.” Some had only just qualified. Many had been teaching for six years or more, and still felt like an imposter.
More knowledge isn’t the answer. How you share it is. Teaching is a skill of its own, and like everything in Pilates, you build it in layers. The Teach Pilates with Confidence Academy gives you those layers, in order.
The teaching education Pilates teacher training leaves out.
The Teach Pilates with Confidence Academy is a self-paced online course for Pilates teachers who want to teach with more clarity, more connection and more confidence, whether you qualified last month or have been teaching for years.
I teach every lesson myself, on camera, and many of the tools are shown with a client on the mat so you can see what changes in a real body. It is built on my book and on the teaching tools I have developed and used with my own students for years.
By the end you will have:
- Clarity about who you teach and why, so every exercise choice has a purpose
- A real understanding of your clients: how adults learn, what motivates them, and what keeps them away
- A full teaching toolkit: demonstration, explanation, questioning, touch, imagery and storytelling
- A way to build a cue that lands, step by step, with my Anatomy of a Cue guide to keep
- Class plans that flow, built on six movement blocks, for beginners and mixed-level groups alike
- A kind, honest way to review your own teaching, so you keep improving long after the course
You can only teach like you. This course is designed to help you find the you within your teaching, and to trust it.
Your path, step by step
Four stages take you from “why do I teach?” to classes that run well. Open any stage to see its lessons.
Stage 1. Start with you Chapters 1–2 · 18 lessonsYou finish with: A clear picture of who you love to teach and why, and a positioning statement that keeps you on track.
If you don’t know who you’re serving or why you teach, it’s much harder to structure your classes or reach the people you most want to help. This short mini-course, Grow Your Confidence, works through your values, your why, your niche and your ideal client, then shows you what all of it has to do with teaching.
Lessons
- Welcome to Teach Pilates with Confidence
- About Tania
- How this course works
- Welcome to Grow Your Confidence
- Why is clarity important?
- What is clarity?
- Declutter your mind
- The Pomodoro method
- What are your core values?
- How to identify your core values
- Understanding your why
- Research your market
- What is a niche market?
- How to identify your ideal client
- Identify your positioning statement
- Create your positioning statement
- Your niche statement
- What does this have to do with teaching?
Stage 2. Understand your clients Module 1 · 8 lessonsYou finish with: A clear sense of how your clients learn, what keeps them coming, and how to give feedback that builds their own body awareness.
Adults learn differently from children. They arrive with their own ways of learning, and they need to see the practical value in what you teach. This module covers how adults learn, what motivates them, the barriers that keep people from class, learning styles, and the feedback that helps clients become their own problem solvers.
Lessons
- Introduction to Module 1
- How adults learn
- How to motivate adult learners
- Barriers to class attendance
- Key strategies for learning
- Learning styles
- Giving feedback and teaching body awareness
- Module 1 quiz
Stage 3. Build your teaching toolkit Module 2 · 11 lessonsYou finish with: Six teaching tools you can choose between in the moment, and a step-by-step way to build a cue.
The heart of the course. Demonstration, explanation, questioning, touch, imagery and storytelling, many of them shown with a client so you can see what changes. Then successful cueing, with my Anatomy of a Cue guide, and a way of evaluating your own teaching that is honest without being harsh.
Lessons
- Introduction to Module 2
- Demonstration
- Explanation
- Questioning
- Touch
- Imagery
- Storytelling
- Anatomy of a cue
- Successful cueing
- Evaluating yourself and your classes
- Module 2 quiz
Stage 4. Plan and teach classes that flow Module 3 · 10 lessonsYou finish with: A class-planning structure you can reuse every week, and options for every level in the room.
Setting up your schedule, planning around six movement blocks (warm-up, abdominals, ribcage arms and legs, extension, integration and cool-down), teaching beginners and mixed-level groups, modifying and progressing exercises, and creating flow with transitions that keep a class moving.
Lessons
- Introduction to Module 3
- Setting up your class schedule
- Planning a class: movement blocks
- Teaching beginner classes
- Teaching classes with multiple skill levels
- How to modify exercises
- Progressing movement
- Progressing movement in practice
- Creating flow
- Module 3 quiz
Everything you get
| 39 video lessons | Every topic taught by me, many of them demonstrated with a client |
| A confidence mini-course | Fifteen short lessons on clarity: your values, your why, your niche and your ideal client |
| Three teaching modules | Understanding your clients, your teaching toolkit, and planning and teaching your classes |
| The Anatomy of a Cue guide | My six steps for building a cue that lands, to keep beside you when you plan |
| Three short quizzes | One at the end of each module, to check what has sunk in |
| Self-paced, on any device | About four hours in all. Start today, pause when life gets busy, come back any time |
| Unlimited access | Your enrolment doesn’t expire, so you can come back to any lesson whenever you need it |
| A free 20-minute call with me | If you’d like a personal conversation about your teaching, book a discovery call any time |
All of this for A$197, one payment. No subscription, and no time limit on your access.
This is for you if…
- You’re newly qualified and want to feel confident in front of a class, not just competent
- You’ve been teaching for years and feel you’ve lost your spark, or that you’re teaching on autopilot
- You know far more than your clients ever seem to take in, and want to close that gap
- You teach mixed-level groups and find it hard to give everyone what they need
- You’ve read Teach Pilates with Confidence and want to see the tools in action
It’s probably not for you if…
- You’re looking for a teaching qualification or a certificate. This is professional development for teachers who are already qualified
- You want a library of exercises or choreography. The course is about how to teach, not what to teach
- You want to set up or grow a studio business. That’s the Pilatespreneur Academy, open now
Your teacher: Tania Huddart
I have been teaching Pilates for more than thirty years, in London, New Zealand, Qatar, Bermuda and Australia.
In 2002 I opened my own studio, Hearts and Bones Pilates, built on the idea that a studio exists to serve the people in it. In 2008 I became the first instructor in New Zealand to hold the National Pilates Certification Program credential, and I remain a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher (NCPT).
I have mentored teachers and studio owners for years, and wrote two books for them: Teach Pilates with Confidence, because teacher training so rarely teaches people how to teach, and Pilates & Purpose, a guide to building a studio from the heart.
Today I live on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, where I teach at Balance and Control Pilates in Red Hill and coach Pilates professionals around the world.
“Nobody else can teach like you. You are the only person that can teach like you.”
Why I made this course
Over the years I have spoken to so many teachers whose biggest worry was the same. They didn’t feel confident in the way they teach. They felt they didn’t know enough, or that they shouldn’t really be doing what they were doing.
I understand the pull to learn more. I’m a magpie for knowledge myself. But more knowledge has never, on its own, made me a better teacher for my clients. What matters is whether I can explain something so my client can take ownership of it and carry it into their everyday life.
Every one of those teachers had what it takes. What they needed were the tools to communicate it, and the confidence to teach as themselves. That is what this course gives you.
Your questions, answered
I’m newly qualified. Is it too advanced?
No. It starts with the foundations: who you want to teach, how adults learn and what motivates them. Every tool is explained in plain language, and many are shown with a client, so you can see exactly what to do.
I’ve been teaching for years. Will I learn anything new?
Most experienced teachers find they already use some of these tools without thinking about it. Seeing them named and laid out lets you use them on purpose, and the lessons on cueing, imagery, storytelling and mixed-level classes give you fresh options when the old ones stop working. Skip what you’ve already nailed.
I barely have time to teach. When would I do a course?
Whenever suits you. It’s about four hours in all, in short lessons, and completely self-paced. Watch one between classes and try it in your next session.
Will I get a qualification or a certificate?
No. This is professional development for teachers who are already qualified, not a teacher-training course, and there is no certificate. If you need continuing-education credit, check with your registering body first.
I’ve read the book. Isn’t this the same thing?
The course is built on the book, so the ideas will be familiar. What it adds is seeing them taught: me using each tool, many of them with a client on the mat, plus the confidence mini-course, the Anatomy of a Cue guide and a quiz at the end of each module.
I teach reformer, or another method. Does it still apply?
Yes. The course is about how to teach rather than which exercises to teach, so it works for mat and equipment, groups and one-to-ones. I’ve used these tools across a broad range of movement disciplines.
I’m not in Australia. Does it still apply?
Yes. I have taught in five countries, and the way adults learn doesn’t change at the border. Everything in the course works wherever you teach.
How long do I have access?
As long as you need it. Your enrolment doesn’t expire, so you can come back to any lesson whenever a question comes up in your teaching.
What if it isn’t right for me?
If within 14 days you’ve worked through the Grow Your Confidence mini-course and Module 1 and don’t feel it’s helping, send me a message and I’ll refund you in full.
Can I get personal help?
Yes. Every student can book a free 20-minute discovery call with me. If you want ongoing support, I offer one-to-one coaching for teachers.
What currency is the price in?
Australian dollars. Your card provider converts it at checkout.
Your teaching deserves the same care you give your clients.
You already know your Pilates. The Teach Pilates with Confidence Academy helps you get it out of your head and into your clients’ bodies, in a way that is clear, kind and completely your own.
A$197 · one payment · 47 lessons · unlimited access
Try it with confidence: if within 14 days you’ve worked through the mini-course and Module 1 and don’t feel it’s helping, I’ll refund you in full.
Not sure yet? Book a free 20-minute call with me.
Prefer to listen first? Season 6 of my podcast, Inside Teach Pilates with Confidence, walks through the course lesson by lesson. Start with Episode 1.