I began Pilates when I was in a professional dance school. I was 14 and it helped me to find both mental and physical balance. Since my first Pilates class, I felt that something had changed in my body but also in my way of visualizing my body.Read More
Pilates Career
Polestar Graduate Highlight: Lorna Jarrett MS, LPTA, AIB/VR-CON, NCPT
I am a Polestar Graduate (Rehab track) and NCPT. I am a Physical Therapist Assistant with a corporate business background and wherever my career took me I needed my education and practice to be sound.Read More
Polestar Mentor Highlight: Meech Aspden
The spirit of Polestar is about finding the discipline and passion within to continually practice Pilates and empower others to practice Pilates. It’s not about finding perfection but about sharing and encouraging that passion.Read More
Polestar Student Highlight: Elena Shabelnikova
Forget about “no pain no gain”, stop damaging your body temple, stop punishing yourself with typical fitness: hundreds of knee-ups, thousands of sit-ups, etc… Learn to listen to your body. It’s much wiser than you think.Read More
Polestar Graduate – Now What?
Now that you’ve completed your Pilates teacher training program, it’s time to consider in which environment or context you want to teach. There are many different ways to put your education to use!Read More
Mentor Highlight : Becky A’Hearne – Polestar Pilates UK
I was a freelance group exercise instructor in London in the early 2000’s and Pilates was beginning to come into the health clubs. My mum had done one of the first Polestar trainings in the UK. I thought I would do it to so that I would have another class to offer. Little did I know that through the Polestar approach to Pilates it was so much more than I thought it would be. The approach was refreshing and made sense to me. It also allowed for Pilates to be accessible to everyone through the rehabilitation aspect of the course. From this point I knew that Pilates was so much more than a set of exercises. It worked for people and their fitness goals and would allow for an organic and sustainable career path for me to follow.Read More