Continuing Education
For Pilates Teachers and Physical Therapists
Polestar Pilates continuing education offers expert-led self-paced and live courses on interventions for various pathologies and client needs. Enhance your skills with special populations, covering assessment, rotational sports, scoliosis, osteoarthritis, and critical reasoning. Many courses provide CEUs/CECs for the National Pilates Certification Program (NPCP).
Upcoming In-Person, and Online Live Courses
The Embodied Anatomy Training
Franklin Method Modular Training, starting in December
Siler City, North Carolina
The Franklin Method® has teamed up with Polestar Pilates for a new, hybrid way to become a Franklin Method® Educator or Trainer. We are offering four unique modules spread across a one-year period, with each module focusing on one key area of the body: the pelvis, the knee, the shoulder and the spine.
4 parts over the course of a year, choose your training!
Educator: Eric Frankin
LEARN MORE ON THE FRANKLIN WEBSITEKonnections® for Mat Workshop
Precision in Movement
Miami, Florida
Explore how the Konnections® Band can transform the original 34 Pilates movements on the mat, creating whole-body integration and fresh programming ideas for your teaching.
6 hours / 6 NPCP Credits
Educator: Viktor Uygan
$325
REGISTER NOWKonnector® Training (Reformer)
Reform, Engage, Elevate
Miami, Florida
This two-day training provides a complete foundation for working with the Konnector® on the Reformer.
16 hours / 16 NPCP Credits
Educator: Viktor Uygan
$600
REGISTER NOWPro Workshop Series
Live, Online workshops featuring past guests from the Pilates Hour • 12-3PM Eastern time
Movement Medicine for Midlife
How Movement Professionals Can Transform Strength, Balance & Vitality During the Menopause Transition
with Dr. Diedra Manns This 3-hour interactive workshop is designed to elevate the knowledge, confidence, and capacity of Pilates instructors, PTs, and movement professionals working with midlife and menopausal women.
3 HOURS / 3 NPCP Credits Pending
Educator: Dr. Diedra Manns
$150
Register NowWhole Body Pelvic Health
A Biotensegrity Approach to Pelvic Organ Prolapse
with Claire Sparrow This workshop is designed to transform the way you understand and teach movement to clients experiencing pelvic organ prolapse (POP).
3 HOURS / 3 NPCP Credits
Educator: Claire Sparrow
$150
Register NowThe Magic of Neuroplasticity and Movement
with Angela Crowley This workshop provides scientific insights, experiential understanding, and practical strategies to harness the nervous system’s capacity for positive change, elevating clients’ well-being and learning outcomes.
3 HOURS / 3 NPCP Credits
Educator: Angela Crowley
$150
Register NowAll Things Fascia
with Dr. Carol Davis This 3-hour workshop explores the science of fascia and biotensegrity, offering practical strategies for therapeutic applications, movement, and fostering connection through fascia’s sensory and relational roles.
3 HOURS / 3 NPCP Credits
Educator: Dr. Carol Davis
$150
Register NowKeeping Realistically Active
Adaptive Exercise When Living with EDS and HSD with Dr. Marcia Perretto
Featured Courses
A Pilates Teacher’s Perspective on Lower Extremity Pathologies
and Joint Replacements with Beth Kaplanek
Learn interventions in the Pilates environment that will help improve stability, alignment and power in the lower extremities, restoring function from impairment through performance.
16 HOURS / 16 NPCP CECs
Educator: Beth Kaplanek
$575
LEARN MOREScoliosis and Spinal Conditions
Pilates Master Course
This 25-hour self-paced course focuses on scoliosis and spinal conditions with a special emphasis on supporting the principles of the Schroth Method.
25 HOURS / 25 NPCP CECs
Educator: Lise Stolze, Hagit Berdishevsky
$795
Learn moreOsteoarthritis of the Hip and Pilates
Help Clients Manage Hip Osteoarthritis
This workshop with Beth Kaplanek will take you through an excursion of anatomy, pathology, and guidelines for movement to create safe and effective programs for your clients with Osteoarthritis of the hip.
3 HOURS / 3 NPCP CECs
Educator: Beth Kaplanek
$150
Learn MoreMovement and Chronic Low Back Pain
Help Clients Move Better and Feel Better
This workshop presents the most up-to-date and evidence-based intervention tools for the management of clients with a history of Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP).
16 HOURS / 16 NPCP CECs
Educator: Juan Nieto
$299
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RUNITY
Painless Running Course
This course will provide participants with exercises to prescribe and techniques to teach your clients to minimize their imbalances and strengthen their body’s natural design to run.
12 HOURS / 12 NPCP Credits
Educator: Juan Nieto, Blas Chamorro, Brent Anderson
$299
Learn MoreThe Down and Dirty 5 Assessment Measures
Quick and effective Assessment Tools
In this workshop by Dr. Brent Anderson, you will learn about the 3 areas that solve 80% of the issues most clients complain about.
1 HOUR
Educator: Dr. Brent Anderson
$49
LEARN MOREHow to Find Customers Online
Pilates Business Digital Marketing
Learn how to authentically market yourself and your studio online through purpose-driven digital marketing.
11 HOURS
Educator: Dan Grech, Andreina Santaella
$397
Learn MoreIntroductory Courses
Polestar Anatomy
Bridge the Gap Between Body and Movement
Deepen your understanding of the body and its movement with Polestar Anatomy! This course offers a movement-based approach to learning about anatomy.
8 HOURS
Educator: Eryn Apanovitch Milian, Brent Anderson, Shelly Power
$249
Learn MoreIntroduction to Pilates for Rehabilitation
A brief history of Pilates to rehabilitation
This online lecture will cover a brief history of Joseph Pilates and its evolution to current research in the field of Pilates rehabilitation.
49 MINUTES
Educator: Dr. Brent Anderson
$49
Learn MoreIntroduction to Pilates for Osteoporosis
Discover Bone-Safe Practices
Learn the most important concepts from Polestar Pilates, contraindicated exercises and the best Pilates exercises for bone health for adults and older adults.
49 MINUTES
Educator: Sherri Betz
$49
Learn MoreEnergy Medicine
Energy Medicine
Movement Strategies for Body-Mind Cleansing
In this course you will learn how you can influence easily and effectively our underlying connectedness through both movement and mindfulness.
2 HOURS
Educator: Alexander Bohlander
$149
Learn MoreSubtle Energy and Pilates
Learn what energy medicine really is and how it relates to the new science of healthcare! Understand the basic tenants of energy medicine in this engaging and entertaining presentation by Complementary Therapies author and physical therapist, Carol Davis.
1.5 HOURS
Educator: Carol Davis
$99
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