Welcome to Pilates IQ™
Pilates Courses in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
Pilates Inspired exercise and rehabilitation for intelligent practitioners.
We merge the art of Pilates with the science of physiotherapy and exercise physiology to deliver contemporary rehabilitation and exercise courses for health and fitness practitioners.
We specialise in Training you to train and rehabilitate your clients.
We use a practical “hands on” clinical approach to training that equips you to immediately start working with your clients and improving their physical outcomes, pain and disability.
Our Courses
Pilates Courses for Fitness Professionals
Do you want to deliver a scientifically designed exercise workout created by yourself, an
exercise professional to strengthen and balance your client’s bodies, improve their posture,
enhance their core strength and improve their sporting pursuits by targeted integrated
exercise – all on a Reformer.
Small Apparatus
The Small Apparatus course is combined with our Level 2 Matwork Course to give you a fusion of advanced Matwork – some traditional and some inspired by contemporary research and Pilates exercises using small apparatus.
Large Equipment
This series of courses equips the physiotherapist, exercise physiologist and exercise scientist with the skills necessary to work in an equipment studio/rehabilitation setting/physiotherapy practice with Pilates large equipment.
Preglates
This course covers the use of Pilates based exercises for classes for antenatal and postnatal women. The course includes Matwork and Small Apparatus - Balls, Bands and Ring Exercises. This course covers the use of Pilates based exercises for classes for antenatal and postnatal women. The course includes Matwork and Small Apparatus - Balls, Bands and Ring Exercises.
Dance Masterclass
This course has been designed for physiotherapists and exercise physiologists who work with dancers, by Jenny Birckel APA Sports Physiotherapist. Evidence based exercises to address weaknesses and flexibility issues found in the assessment to assist young dancers to reach their optimum performance capability. Selection of mat work and small equipment exercises to assist the dancer to improve strength deficits including dance specific homework gemsSelection of Large equipment work to assist the dancer to improve strength deficits.
Health fund changes- changes to policy on Pilates
We are still delivering a great exercise system to practitioners but changing our product’s name to manage the health fund changes that have come about due to the Federal Health department’s decision about Pilates exercise. Somehow Clinical Pilates delivered by physiotherapists and exercise physiologists has been put into the same bucket as many scientifically unfounded alternative therapies.
Renaming what we do is now necessary for health fund clients.
History of Joseph Pilates
Joseph Pilates, the founder of “Pilates” was many years ahead of his time in his understanding of movement control and the importance of core stability and how movement needed a strong core. He called the core muscles the Powerhouse in his 1945 publication and was writing of the importance of light engagement of these muscles in functional standing stipulating 25% bracing leaving a 75% reserve in case it is required.
Contemporary research by physiotherapists at UQ in the late 1980s reconfirmed the importance of light constant engagement of deep core muscles when in upright positions. They also recommended 20-25% engagement of these muscles in relaxed standing positions.
Our training is recognised by:
