MJF mat pilates teacher training 10 day intensive in Puglia, Italy.
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What
Our mat Pilates teacher training is designed to deepen your connection to the practice of Pilates and give you tools to share it if you so choose. As with all things Moving Just Fine, this training will prepare you to guide bodies in movement from a place of compassion, curiosity, adaptability, playfulness, and sensitivity.
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Where
Training will take place in Puglia, Italy at Masseria Specula - an ancestral farmhouse that dates back to 1611, perched on a hill overlooking the sea. A location carefully chosen to encourage to slow, integrative learning together. To live with and by the pace of the nature around us, and to lean into enjoyment throughout the process.
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Why
We absolutely love the practice of Pilates and the art of group learning. As the world becomes increasingly fast paced and scattered, we wanted to see how it would feel to learn in an immersive, integrative, and deeply focused way. No distractions, no multi-tasking. We are here to learn, practice, and connect with ourselves and each other.
The details.
Our mat Pilates teacher training is designed to deepen your connection to the practice of Pilates and give you tools to share it if you so choose.
Whether you are brand new to teaching, or an experienced movement teacher, this training will set you up to teach the full Pilates repertoire, dive into cueing and sequencing, and provide you with the anatomical and bio-mechanical knowledge you need to guide bodies in a science-backed and confident way.
As with all things Moving Just Fine, this training will prepare you to guide bodies in movement from a place of compassion, curiosity, adaptability, playfulness, and sensitivity.
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Sunday, November 29th: Arrival dinner & opening circle
Monday, November 30th - Friday December 4th: Training days 10am - 7pm (1 hour lunch)
Saturday, December 5th: Day off with optional group hike.
Sunday, December 6th - Tuesday December 8th: Training days 10am - 7pm (1 hour lunch)
Tuesday December 8th: Closing dinner & campfire circle
Wednesday, December 9th: Group breakfast & departures
December 10th - March 10th: Trainees will submit their personal practice & observation hours and will submit their final exam by video to receive certification.
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Training will take place in Puglia, Italy at Masseria Specula - an ancestral farmhouse that dates back to 1611, perched on a hill overlooking the sea.
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Solidarity pricing: $3280 (for trans & non-binary folks, differently abled folks, people in bigger bodies and BIPOC - limited spots, application required, see below.)
Early Bird pricing: $3480 (available until October 8th, 2025)
Regular pricing: $3696
Supportive pricing $3796 (for those able to support the solidarity pricing options).
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You’ll be guided by Moving Just Fine’s two co-owners Mylène Leclair and Meaghan Frances Kelly.
They each bring more than a decade of teaching experience across multiple modalities including pilates, yoga, mindfulness, and more.
We take a holistic approach to movement, inviting joy, curiosity and challenge into our trainings and teach through a body and gender neutral lens.
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10 nights accommodations at Masseria Specula.
9x breakfasts, 9x lunches, 10x dinners.
8 full training days (60 hours of in-person training).
Unlimited mat classes at our Montreal studio for 3 months post-training.
Written feedback on your final exam (submitted by video within 3 months of training).
Access to observe classes in-person at the studio and online.
Your teacher training manual.
A catalogue of videos demonstrating every posture in the repertoire.
A certificate of completion.
1:1 Mentoriship call with your teachers within the 3 months following the training.
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What’s not included:
Airfare.
Transportation to/from airport (can be booked through our travel agent if needed).
Training.
In our 60 hours of in-person training, we will cover the origins and history of Pilates, the anatomy, bio-mechanics, and movement science required to teach the method inclusively and with confidence, how to sequence a class, and the art of cueing in a body and gender neutral way.
We will learn to teach movements from both the classical and contemporary Pilates repertoire as well as how to teach them progressively and in a way that makes them accessible to as many bodies as possible.
Certification.
Training will be comprehensive, but does not include the 40 hours of personal practice, practice teaching, and class observation required in order to complete certification. In the 3 months following the intensive training, participants will have free access to both in-person and online classes with Moving Just Fine. Practice hours can also be completed at other studios.
Once all documents have been submitted, you’ll be asked to submit a video exam which we will send you written feedback on. Once all criteria are met, certification will be sent by email!
Retreat.
While the primary purpose and bulk of our time together will be spent in training, we also want this experience to be a retreat for participants. All meals are home-cooked at Masseria Specula and are included in the price of the training. The venue itself is minutes away from the sea. We will start our days at 10am and finish at 7pm so you have ample time to explore. We will also have a full day off on Saturday, December 5th with a guided movement practice, and an optional group excursion hike.
Your teachers.
You’ll be guided by Moving Just Fine’s two co-owners Mylène Leclair [she/her] and Meaghan Frances Kelly [she/her].
They each bring more than a decade of teaching experience across multiple modalities including pilates, yoga, mindfulness, and more.
We take a holistic approach to movement, inviting joy, curiosity and challenge into our trainings and teach through a body and gender neutral lens.
Throughout their years of studying Pilates, they have studied at Body Harmonics in Toronto, through Stott Pilates in Montreal, and under Ann McMillan Pilates.
The lineages they are most directly connected to are those of Kathy Grant and Romana Kryzanowska.
Tarif solidaire.
While we are not able to offer scholarships to this training, we do want to remain committed to our mission to democratize the Pilates space by making teacher trainings more accessible to folks who have traditionally been underrepresented and marginalized within the industry and beyond. We are offering a limited number of solidarity rate spots for BIPOC, trans & non binary folks, people in bigger bodies, and differently abled folks. Please apply below to take advantage of this reduced rate.
FAQs
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The training and associated materials (manual) will be given in English by fully bilingual (french and english) teachers who can accommodate all questions in either language. Exams and practice teaching can be done in either language.
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While there are no pre-requisites for this training, we strongly recommend having a personal pilates practice of at least a few months to a year, mostly to ensure you actually like doing pilates. This training is a big undertaking! You don’t need to come into it with any specific level of experience but a felt sense of enjoying the method is pretty important :)
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The short answer is no. The elaboration is: The Pilates industry doesn’t have any one governing body. There is the Pilates Alliance which is an American organization which some people look to for credibility. Our training is not recognized under the Pilates Alliance since we are an independent, boutique studio with no affiliations to any of the big names in the industry.
That being said, most studios audition teachers rather than looking strictly at their qualifications.
All certifications need to be maintained through continuing education credits in order to be considered “valid”.
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Nope! Other than your travel (flights and shuttles) you will be fully taken care of once you arrive at the retreat center. Your manual and any props or training materials are included in the training rate, as are meals, organized activities, guided movement practices, lodging, etc.
Any activities you decide to partake in outside the scope of the training’s itinerary are at your own expense, but you could get away with not even taking out your wallet once while you’re here :)
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10 days worth of outfits that make you feel most like yourself and are comfy enough to move in. We’ll check the weather a little bit before our departure and send an email letting folks know in a little more detail what to pack, but there isn’t anything out of the ordinary. Maybe one cute frilly fancy outfit for our closing dinner!
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You’ll be in shared rooms of 2-4 people within a larger villa. Each room has a private ensuite bathroom and twin beds. The venue is absolutely stunning (in our humble opinion). You can check it out here.
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Let us know in advance and we’ll alert the venue who have said they are able to accommodate most major restrictions and allergies!