Polestar Pilates
Teacher Training & Education
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If you cannot attend in-person, the launch event will also be made available live via Zoom, and a recording will be provided to those people who registered.
Session Details
📅 Date: 8 May (in-person or online via Zoom)📍Location: Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, Westhaven Marina, Auckland
⏰ Time: 5 – 7 PM
💰 Registration fee: in-person $75, virtual participant $65
👥 Audience: Anyone interested in moving for cancer!
CLICK HERE or on the picture to register.
During the month of May we invite all Pilates professionals throughout New Zealand to host one or more movement-based classes in their own location to fundraise and champion this important cause. For example, donate the fees you receive for that particular class to the PINC & STEEL Foundation, but completely over to you!
Why Should You Get Involved?
Cancer rehabilitation and exercise significantly improve recovery and long-term health outcomes. Exercise post-cancer diagnosis reduces cancer-related mortality by 44% and recurrence risk by up to 35%. Rehabilitation also reduces disability and enhances quality of life.Many people affected by cancer miss out however on the rehabilitation support they need for several key reasons:
- Lack of funding and medical necessity perception: In New Zealand, while we have ACC that funds rehabilitation for accidents, this funding often does not extend to recovery from illnesses like cancer.
- Unreported and untreated side effects: Patients may not always report the various side effects they experience, such as fatigue, pain, weakness, and reduced mobility, to their medical specialists. Consequently, these issues may go undetected and untreated, contributing to a lack of rehabilitation support.
- Focus on acute care: Healthcare systems can be heavily focused on the acute treatment phase of cancer, with less structured support available for the months and years that follow, when rehabilitation is crucial for regaining function and quality of life.
- Socio-economic factors: Access to healthcare and rehabilitation services can be influenced by socio-economic factors, potentially leading to disparities in the support received by different individuals.
Your participation will help fund essential rehabilitation services for Kiwis in need. Every step, stretch, and rep will make a difference.
How Can You Join the Movement?
- Host a Class: Fitness professionals can host a movement-based fundraising event during MOC Week. This includes Pilates, yoga, spin, or any other activity.
- Click here to register if you are indeed organising one or more classes, and we will get your fundraising page set up and sent out to you soon!
- Click here to Donate: Every contribution helps PINC & STEEL support cancer patients.
- Click here to buy a ticket to the Launch Event on 8 May.
- Attend a Class: Join a local MOC event and donate to support the cause.
Let’s Move Over Cancer together, because movement is medicine and changes lives.
IF YOU NEED TO OBTAIN A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, COMPLETE THE POLESTAR ANATOMY COURSE
Polestar Anatomy is one of our most requested courses by our graduates and students. This 8-hour course is specifically designed as an introduction to muscle skeleton anatomy for movers and movement teachers and will prepare you for any of the Polestar certification courses. The Polestar online Anatomy course is the perfect course to prepare you for any of the Polestar curriculum, or to refresh your knowledge of the body and how it moves.
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REFORMER COURSE
The Polestar Pilates Reformer Teacher training course is a comprehensive certification program designed to elevate your teaching skills and enable you to effectively utilise the Pilates Reformer apparatus.
This course covers a wide range of exercises and variations, emphasizing proper alignment, biomechanics, cueing techniques, and progressions.
By mastering the Reformer, you will expand your ability to provide personalized and impactful training sessions to your clients.
Look no further for superior Pilates Instructor Training!
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Over 30 years the Gold Standard for Pilates Instructor Qualification in more than 40 countries – all around the world.
We are a global community of scholars, changing the world of movement by producing the best Pilates instructors and setting the gold standard in Pilates instruction and Pilates Teacher Training.
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My Pilates instructors all told me "You have to do Polestar, in terms just the amount of detail that goes into it the training!”
I was initially going to two different Pilates classes, one was Mat the other was Reformer, with two different instructors. When I mentioned that maybe I’d like to do Pilates Teacher Training, they both said “You have to do Polestar, in terms just the amount of detail that goes into it the training!”.
My highlight of the course was actually the people that I’ve met. In fact it was a massive highlight and I’ve made some really, really good friends.
I’ve got a long history of back problems and I had sort of reached a point where I thought I was going to be quite debilitated by my back problems later in life and so just realising actually Pilates for me has been single most benefit thing I have done for my low back pain. Just learning that actually this body even in its 40s could still learn to move better and find a little bit more freedom with my movement.
I had a very, very good Educator who really knows her stuff, she was always on the end of an email or on the end of a phone. They are a really supportive bunch of people to go through the course with, and I didn’t feel silly asking questions.
My 13 year old daughter says "Mommy you can do these stretches better than I can!” - and I'm in my 50's...
I signed up with Polestar because I was working with physios that were doing a lot of rehab-based Pilates, and their training had been with Polestar.
They just said that they had really enjoyed the experience, had been in a very supportive environment, and that it was really evidence-based. So that really appealed to me.
The Polestar Pilates community is really embraces you and it supports you and you just feel really confident as a consequence of that.
That was a real highlight, as well as the people that we were on the course, as we’ve now got some really amazing friendships.
The people who were part of our mentoring, just the relationships that we developed were really lovely.
It’s an amazing community to be a part of, and having been working in that professional environment as a physio it was really nice to feel very supported: with Maree, she would always you know like she was there for a chat, and would be really just enabling you to develop a little bit further. Emily was there if we needed to have the communication with what we were doing through the course, and then of course we had Abbey and Mel who were both there just how us along the way the whole time so it’s fantastic.
I really embrace Pilates as a profession now, because I’ve really enjoyed the movement-based rehabilitation. It is like you think you’ve reached a level where you feel you’ve really explored how much your body can do, but then you get into Pilates and the amount of stability and the movement that you can do in reality is so much more.
I’m in my 50s and I do my stretches with my 13 year old daughter who really wants to improve her mobility. My daughter is like “Mommy you can do it better than I can!” and I didn’t think I’d ever be able to do that, so it’s been amazing.
Polestar training has changed my life and has opened doors!
I’ve just completed my Polestar comprehensive training (Auckland) and can honestly say it has changed my life.
Polestar training has opened doors… and I’m now working with clients in an environment I love.
Looking forward to continuing my learning journey with Polestar. ❤️
I can really feel being a part of the Polestar community and a part of the Polestar family
I liked Polestar’s philosophy and certainly having gone through the course through the mentor program and now through the educator lines, I can really I really feel a part of the Polestar community and a part of the Polestar family.
Physiotherapists that have been Polestar trained and certified become 10 times the instructor that they were before
I’ve been a Mentor for Polestar on and off since I finished my course in 2005. I ended up in Polestar because when I first came back to New Zealand there was only one Pilates studio and that was Maree’s.
As well as being involved with Polestar as a Mentor, I work in a really large physio clinic and we’ve had lots of physios and lots of instructors that have come to us who’ve had some experience with Pilates, but had not experienced Polestar. We get them to complete a Polestar Pilates Teacher Training course, and we find that they become 10 times the instructor that they were before.
They themselves acknowledge this, we acknowledge it, and the clients see the difference!
That’s what I love about Polestar, the international influence and also the family that it creates.
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