Teach Pilates - The Pilates Center

Discover your Potential | Explore your Passion | Awaken the Teacher Within

The Pilates Center continues Joseph Pilates legacy directly through elder Romana Kryzanowska with not one but three second generation teachers at the helm, trained by Romana, Kathy Grant and Eve Gentry. Founders Amy and Rachel with Romana started the Pilates Center Teacher Training Program in 1991 and have continued to develop the highest caliber of teachers, with the most comprehensive and in-depth classical teacher program available.

Our goal at TPC is not just to teach you how to do Pilates but how to heal people with Pilates. Our commitment is to health. It’s our mission to heal the world by helping people heal themselves with Pilates – that was Joseph Pilates’ ultimate desire. Almost anyone who wants to can learn how to be a Pilates Instructor. You can get educated in Pilates over a weekend. We believe this is merely the starting point and does little to truly allow the instructor to assess each client’s unique needs and provide them with the life changing possibilities Pilates so powerfully offers – the potential to truly heal and, thereby, “return to life.”

True teaching requires a profound level of both deeper knowledge of the subject matter and a calling to truly care for the unique nature of each client’s personal journey back to full mind-body-spirit health. And that is our approach through our Teacher Training Programs. Explore the deeper theoretical aspects of Pilates, the “what” and “why”; Discover the real meaning and purpose of the movements and how essentially intertwined they are throughout the system, so that these amazing exercises can actually heal the body, mind and spirit. If we as teachers can understand the ultimate intention of the Pilates Method as a whole we can share that knowledge with our clients and empower them to heal themselves with Pilates.

Our passion is to train and nurture our students to become true Pilates teachers, creating a journey where they can discover their own potential, explore their passion and awaken the teacher within themselves.

“To be a great teacher you need to be in open discovery mode, on your own constant personal journey to profound health. There is no other path.” Amy Taylor Alpers

I remember taking classes from Amy when I arrived in Colorado, and being totally blown away
by her passion and commitment. I said to myself, "Wow, I want to teach like that!"
My favorite thing about TPC is the calibre of teaching, the commitment and kindness that
Amy and Rachel show towards anyone who walks in the door.

- Vida Hollander, Fort Collins, CO
I love The Pilates Center. It is a bastion of excellence in a relaxing, welcoming environment
The excellent training and guidance to all of the graduates has reverberated throughout the
world helping countless people move more freely and realize their potential.

- Jonathan Oldham, Boulder, CO
I fell in love with [Amy's] approach and eventually found myself moving to Boulder to finish
the trainee program and complete my TPC Masters all at once. Thank you TPC for always
showing us how to stay alive within our teaching, to look at something with new eyes, and
for creating this beautiful, supportive community.

- Andy MacDonald, London, England
One of the many things I love about TPC is a solid community of inspired individuals who
believe in the possibility of what Pilates can do for everyone! Transform bodies and lives!
What a blessing!

- Christina Fanizzi
Doing the teacher training program [at] TPC felt like Dorothy when she just landed in the
land of Oz – you showed me the yellow brick road and said, "Just follow it!" It turned out to
be such a wonderful, life-changing and interesting road, leading not only to my health but
also to that of the people around me, and one day to world peace.

- Nuria Bahabad, Israel
My favorite thing about TPC is their commitment to always knowing that there is more
to know. No one lets their ego come before the possiblity of new knowledge. I have
always appreciated their openness of trying to understand how another might be seeing
something.

- Lori Payne, Oklahoma City, OK
My favorite thing about TPC is the consistently high caliber of teaching and level of
passion shown by all instructors and trainees who come through the program.

- Maya Christopherson, Salt Lake City, UT
I am constantly blown away by the continual depth there is to explore after all these
years and the fact that Amy and Rachel, magicians that they are, can always, every single
time, help me to feel something new and amazing in my body that I've never felt before.

- Laura Bradley, Grand Junction, CO
Their intrigue and wisdom around the human body with a positive and nurturing guidance
towards full human awesomeness is kind of cool too. I am very grateful for the years of
commitment and hard work you both have put in. I have full faith and respect for what you
do and am always amazed at your generosity with the skills and information you have.

- Lucinda Pepper, London, England
Their intrigue and wisdom around the human body with a positive and nurturing guidance
towards full human awesomeness is kind of cool too. I am very grateful for the years of
commitment and hard work you both have put in. I have full faith and respect for what you
do and am always amazed at your generosity with the skills and information you have.

- Lucinda Pepper, London, England

Boulder or World Wide

We are headquartered in Boulder, CO but have licensed studios and advisors across the world to support you through your program. Our Licensed Teacher Trainers and Host Advisors are graduates of our rigorous Advanced Teacher Training Program, and apprentice trainees in our philosophy and approach to teaching Pilates. Our online Learning Management System, iTPC provides you with all the tools you need to complete our programs wherever you are in the world, at your own pace and schedule. iTPC contains our Formal Lecture Series videos where Amy and Rachel walk you through every exercise in the classical Pilates Method as well as various classes held at our Boulder studio, so even if you don’t make it to Boulder you have a piece with you throughout your journey.

Discover Your Potential

Are you ready to explore your calling as a Pilates teacher?

Whether you are new to teaching Pilates or a teacher looking to grow your expertise we offer several different programs each designed to suit your individual goals and lifestyle. Check them all out in detail here or visit the Become a Teacher links toward the top right of this page.

The Pilates Center is approved and regulated by the Colorado Department of Higher Education, Division of Private Occupational Schools Board. All of our programs meet requirements to take the National Pilates Certification Program exam.