Continuing Education - Fletcher Pilates

Fletcher Pilates® Continuing Education

Fletcher Intensive Licensing Course

License to Teach Exclusive Fletcher Techniques

This in-depth Fletcher experience is the ideal way to enhance your professional practice. Develop your movement and teaching skills through our exclusive, 5-day Fletcher Intensive licensing course, while learning the following unique Fletcher Pilates® techniques:

•   Fletcher Percussive Breath™
•   Fletcher Fundamentals™
•   Fletcher Towelwork®
•   Fletcher Floorwork®
•   Fletcher Barrework™

These techniques may be applied to private Pilates and movement therapy sessions, group classes, as well as therapeutic settings.

Prerequisite: Pilates Teacher, Fitness Professional or Physical Therapist.
Length of course: 5 days

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Fletcher Pilates® Continuing Education Courses

Continue Your Fletcher Education

Fletcher Pilates® Matwork Course

Fletcher Pilates® Matwork is based on correct alignment, balance and precise initiation and spinal articulation - foundational concepts and principles of the Pilates method. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the Pilates Matwork through an in-depth focus on the Fletcher Fundamentals™ and Percussive Breath™ techniques.

Our Fletcher Pilates® Matwork Course covers the full matwork syllabus, with an emphasis on movement and class progressions, creative transitions and considerations for special populations.

Prerequisite: Pilates Teacher, Fitness professional, Physical Therapist
Length of course: 5 days

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Fletcher Spine Corrector™ Course

This course provides the most innovative and comprehensive exploration of this vital Pilates apparatus. Learn to teach the original spine corrector syllabus, as taught to Ron Fletcher by Clara Pilates, as well as a wide variety of innovations on the spine corrector developed by Fletcher over the course of 5 decades. Designed primarily as a continuing education course for Pilates teachers, this course also provides an excellent continuing education opportunity for Movement and Physical therapists as well as Athletic and Personal Trainers.

Prerequisite: Fletcher Pilates® Intensive Licensing Course.
Length of course: 1 day

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Fletcher Ped-i-Pul Course

The Pedipul was originally designed by Joseph Pilates to stabilize and mobilize the spine and pelvis, while balancing the shoulder girdle. Ron Fletcher expanded on the original body of work and refined the design of the Pedipul to facilitate body placement and safety. The Fletcher Pilates® Pedipul syllabus is the most extensive in existence, ranging from simple stabilization and range of motion exercises to challenging movement patterns. The Pedipul provides the ideal standing assessment tool in both a Pilates studio as well as a Physical Therapy practice.

Prerequisite: Fletcher Pilates® Intensive Licensing Course.
Length of course: 1 day

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Advanced Fletcher Floorwork® Course

Developed over the course of 5 decades, Fletcher Floorwork® is an artistic and challenging alternative to the original Pilates Matwork. Based on Ron Fletcher's studies with Martha Graham, Yeichi Nimura, Agnes De Mille and Joseph and Clara Pilates, Fletcher Floorwork® introduces thoughtful, creative movement patterns that depart from the classic matwork structure.

Fletcher Floorwork® was designed to meet the needs of individual students while keeping the material constantly challenging and original. A good movement program demands the stimulus of change to keep the mind and body "at the ready." The application of Fletcher Floorwork® can be adapted for patient rehabilitation as well as for the intermediate and advanced student.

What are the primary benefits of the Fletcher Floorwork®?

•   Enhances spinal articulation;
•    Strengthens intrinsic musculature;
•    Increases flexibility with control;
•   Enhanced both movement and spatial awareness;
•   Employs a wide variety of movement patterns for cognitive stimulus.

Prerequisite: Qualified Teacher or Fletcher Licensed Provider
Length of course: 5 day

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Advanced Fletcher Towelwork® Course

Developed by Pilates Master Ron Fletcher over the past 4 decades, Fletcher Towelwork® is a signature Fletcher Pilates® technique. This 3-day course will incorporate both the basic Towelwork as well as the Advanced Towelwork. Starting with highly effective stabilizing and range of motion exercises, the course will build to a complete full-body movement program. Learn beautifully artistic movement patterns that challenge advanced students, teachers, therapists and athletes alike.

Prerequisite: Qualified Teacher or Fletcher Licensed Provider.
Length of course: 2 day

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Wise Hands: Hands-on Techniques for Pilates Teachers

There is an art to applying hands-on as a Pilates teacher. It requires a deep understanding of the human body, of the intention of each Pilates movement and of how to apply precise hands-on techniques. It also requires timing, sensitivity, confidence and the ability to establish a safe teaching environment. Before incorporating hands-on cues, there is much to consider in terms of scope of practice, contraindications, appropriate touch and understanding different types of hands-on skills and techniques.

This workshop is designed to establish a basic framework to learn specific and effective hands-on skills to incorporate in a Pilates session or class. Please use this manual as a journal and add to your notes as you deepen your knowledge, skills and teaching practice.

Prerequisite: Pilates Teachers.
Length of course: 1 day

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