Are you ready to elevate your practice and help your clients achieve faster, more effective rehabilitation?
Our comprehensive course, taught by a physiotherapist and Pilates instructor, is designed specifically for physiotherapists who want to deepen their understanding of movement patterns and enhance their ability to guide patients toward long-lasting recovery.

Understand the core principles of Pilates and how they can be applied to rehabilitate your clients. Learn to incorporate these techniques into your existing practice to enhance client outcomes.

Dive into the biomechanics of movement through the lens of Pilates. Identify dysfunctional movement patterns and learn how to correct them using targeted Pilates exercises.

Explore advanced rehabilitation techniques using mat Pilates and the reformer. Tailor your approach to meet your clients’ specific needs, ensuring they recover faster and build strength and stability.

Learn how to design Pilates-based programs that not only rehabilitate but also protect your clients from future injuries. Empower your clients with the tools they need to maintain their health and wellness.

Jen and Lara have been combining Pilates and Physiotherapy since 2009. Through a series of many synchronistic events, Lara and Jen were brought together at a time when they both searching for solutions to problems in their careers. Lara was trying to figure out why Pilates wasn’t able to get everyone out of pain and into functional movement patterns. Jen was looking for a way to get people to move and strengthen their bodies in a safe way in order to maintain all the work on alignment and activation that was being worked on in treatment sessions. They both held the exact solutions for each other's problems. Lara and Jen found that Pilates and Physiotherapy perfectly complemented each other in a person’s journey to develop, heal and strengthen their own body.

Following a passion to work with injuries and understand the mechanics of the body, Jen began training as a Physiotherapist at the University of Alberta. After graduating with her degree in 2005, Jen went straight into private practice. Her passion to understand how the body works led to her completing a diploma in manual therapy and receive the Fellowship of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapy. She then went on to train in the Integrated Systems Model. Jen loved figuring out how her client’s bodies compensated to support injuries and how to bring their body back to a state of alignment so that it could heal. She found though that while she could show them where their body needed to be supported, she wanted more tools to integrate the new movements into their body on a more permanent basis.

During the same period of time, Lara moved to Vancouver to pursue a completely different path. A career in film took precedence. It was an injury from a rollerblading accident that changed the course of her life. Her doctor encouraged her to attend Pilates classes to rehabilitate her injuries and her posture. While practicing Pilates, Lara found she could achieve a place of calm and connectedness, even if she came into the session in a place of chaos and stress. Lara decided to leave film school and pursue Pilates as a career. Her training began with Stott. Lara completed Mat, Reformer, Cadillac, Chair, Barrels, Fitness Circle and ISP (Injury and Special Populations) under Stott’s program. After an internship with PoleStar, Lara returned to her hometown of Salmon Arm to teach Pilates. After a short start-up period working out of her Mom’s house, she started a small business called, Shuswap Core Pilates. Lara is drawn to teacher training and immediately began mentoring other Pilates instructors.
Lara found that as her experience in Pilates increased, there were still motions in a client’s body that she couldn’t explain or build exercises to suit. Another injury led her to seek out a physiotherapist. Jen. While in her sessions with Jen, Lara found Jen giving her explanations for some of the mechanics of the body that Pilates didn’t explain, and Jen found that Lara could create exercises to complement the manipulation she used as a physiotherapist. Each of Lara and Jen found that the other could explain the body in ways that linked pieces that they were searching to connect.

Jen and Lara began meeting with friends and family and testing how Pilates and Physiotherapy could be combined. These sessions would last hours while Jen and Lara worked out how the methods complemented each and the “clients” were seeing amazing breakthroughs that could not be experienced by Physiotherapy or Pilates alone. Shortly thereafter, both Lara and Jen agreed to take the leap and combine their passions and disciplines and see what they could create. NEUmovement, when it opened, offered a unique service to their clients. They called it the Integration appointment.

They started offering in studio seminars to train their teams in how to integrate Physiotherapy and Pilates. Eventually, they realized that this new method of Pilates could be taught as the first training a person took to become a Pilates instructor rather than only as continuing education. So in 2017, they launched their NEU Pilates Teacher Training Program. Lara and Jen developed and taught live classes at their studios in Vernon and Kelowna for a number of years before the pandemic gave them the opportunity to find other options to reach those who want to learn more about Pilates and Physiotherapy.

They are now incredibly excited to begin to offer these courses online.