Quote Originally Posted by redrhodie View Post
You've hit the nail on the head with the issue I have with the class I went to this morning. The teacher is really sweet, and a good yoga teacher, but this class was not Pilates. I suspect she's not trained by an accredited studio. Do you think this is common?
It's extremely common. In a gym setting, with the exception of large urban gyms that have a pool of local instructors to draw on, responding to the demand for Pilates classes has meant getting some minimal training for their existing pool of fitness instructors. My "certification" comes from a two-day workshop, the same as the other instructors at my gym in Ohio. The instructor I subbed for today got her certification by a correspondence course. In small towns where there are two or three gyms and no standalone Pilates studios, it's not cost-effective for even one instructor to go to the time and expense of a 100 or 200 hour course. Occasionally you'll find a yoga instructor with 200-hour certification, but I think that's because the spiritual aspects of yoga draw people to do it for love, with no expectation that it will pay for itself.