Do you want to become a Pilates teacher?
The Real Pilates Classical Teacher Training Program is a comprehensive program comprising 30 weeks of training and curriculum. Upon completion, this one of a kind program will have trained you to be a teacher, coach and guide for Pilates students. With over 600 hours of required study, The Real Pilates approach will set you up for success as a professional Pilates instructor.
Program Overview
The Primary Pilates Teacher Training program taught at our Los Altos studio is an international program that consists of 4-weekend seminars and a progressive monthly schedule that includes:
Mentorship meetings
Assessments
Assistant Teaching
Paid Teaching Opportunities
4 seminars
Access to studio for Practice Teaching
Weekly Online Homework
Observation Opportunities
Group Classes
Private and Semi-Private Sessions
All trainees should assume a time commitment of approximately 15–25 hours per week to complete the program within the required 30-week time frame. A separate fee schedule and custom program for bridge trainees are also available.
Program fees
Tuition: Primary Training $5,750USD / Bridge Training $4,200 USD
Tuition for our Pilates Teacher Training Program in Los Altos (which is an international program) includes a full apprenticeship at one of our host locations, all seminars, manuals, exams, learning platform, and more!
Mandatory Training Package: $4,105USD
This Pilates Teacher Training Program package includes 18 private sessions, 37 semi-private sessions and 5 Observed teaching hours, two per week throughout the 30-week program. In these sessions, your mentor will provide workouts and assist in your critical thinking skill-building during your study. Please note this training package is also required for the bridge training track. Observed teaching hours are designed to assess preparedness for each benchmark exam. *Scholarship and work-study opportunities available.
What is a Bridge Student?
A bridge student has already completed a comprehensive pilates program from another training school. The total hours for certificate of completion is 450 hours. At the end of our time together you should be able to say you have developed the following :
A new teaching vocabulary.
Advanced your vocal cueing, alignment and learn new hands on techniques.
To connect to the lineage of Joseph Pilates through the teachings of Romana Kryzanowska
To identify as a 3rd generation teacher
Please note: Bridge students are still required to participate in the mandatory training package to fulfill completion requirements.
Have questions?
Meet the Creator: Alycea Ungaro
It was 1984 when Alycea took her 1st Pilates class, and she never looked back. When she finally walked into Drago’s Gym to meet Romana Kryzanowska in 1993, she knew she had found her home in the Pilates method. Alycea has been a pioneer of the Pilates system, bringing some of the first mat Pilates classes to NYC. Since her early teaching days, she has steadily expanded her original home studio into the Real Pilates company. Spanning 3 NYC studios and an international training program, Alycea focuses daily on a single mission: inspire students to greatness, teachers to excellence, and the industry to evolve and expand.
Meet your Mentor: Nicole Kennedy
Nicole Kennedy, Founder and Owner of Empowered Body Pilates, discovered Pilates while dancing for the internationally acclaimed San Francisco Ballet. It was during her time with SFB that Nicole encountered the Pilates method and quickly began utilizing it as her primary form of cross-training, discovering the ways in which it could enhance her dancing.
After nearly a decade of practicing, teaching, and mentoring, Nicole felt the need to reground herself with the foundational work and went back to being a student. In 2018, Nicole received her second Comprehensive Certificate with Alycea Ungaro's Real Pilates®.
Nicole is the only host studio in California entrusted with the industry’s most rigorous certification program. She is on a mission to uphold the lineage of Classical Pilates while creating livable and sustainable job opportunities for Pilates professionals in the South Bay.
2025/2026 Dates
August 15-17: Beginner
October 3-5 : Intermediate 1
November 21-23: Intermediate 2
January 9-11 : Advanced
All seminar hours are *mandatory* and are scheduled as follows:
Fri–Sat 1pm–7pm PST & Sun 9am–3pm PST
Does this sound like the right program for you?
Please contact us if you are interested in our Real Pilates Teacher Training Program. We are happy to answer any of your questions!
application process
Step #1 : Fill out the application form on the REAL Pilates website or click the APPLY button above .
Step #2 Take a session with Nicole Kennedy. In this 75 session we will identify your current strengths as a practitioner, discuss your goals for the program, and answer any logistical questions about your apprenticeship process. If necessary, we will outline a course of action to best prepare you for the program. Cost : $165
Step #3 : Schedule a phone call with the Real Pilates Program Director in New York. This meeting will outline program logistics and educational expectations.
“I really enjoyed the RP teacher training program—it’s a well designed and thought out curriculum that teaches you the “why” of the method and each exercise. After going through it, I developed a much better sense of how to address individual needs with these exercises which is what drew me to Pilates in the first place.”
