Instructor Training

Business Opportunity

An holistic business: we believe that the wellbeing we represent should begin with our instructors and that a healthy practice leads to a healthy business.

There is an ongoing and increasing need in the market for exercise methods like Method Putkisto and Pilates. We offer you the opportunity to run your business with a supreme, quality brand associated with professionalism and great quality.

Only licensed Method Putkisto Instructors teach Method Putkisto, offering a unique position and selling point in a professional field. Method Putkisto is suitable for all ages and physical backgrounds and can be offered to individuals as well as groups. You can apply the methods to all forms of physical performance, fitness or rehabilitation programs and achieve notable improvements. They are also complementary to other fitness and body techniques.

Being a Method Putkisto instructor gives you an opportunity to run your own business or work on an independent, self-employed basis as a freelancer.

Who can be a Method Putkisto Instructor?

We are looking for creative people of any age who

enjoy movement, bodywork, teaching and working with people.
are aiming to build a holistic and successful business.
are already qualified practitioners who would like to extend their expertise further into ‘main stream’ body-work.
want to broaden their training skills and client base.

Method Putkisto instructors are known for their strong professional skills and results and trust from their clients. Due to these professional skills they achieve business success from their MP work.

Our target is to reach a wider market for Method Putkisto. We wish to see Method Putkisto established as a method in its own right alongside Yoga and Pilates. We are looking for like-minded people, who have a professional approach to their work, for our training courses who wish to share this goal with us. The work is suitable for open-minded, go-ahead individuals who enjoy a challenge.

Instructor Training Programme & Syllabus

During the 6-month teaching schedule, you will cover the following aspects:

1. Targets of the Method Putkisto programme
2. Terminology used when instructing Method Putkisto
3. The elements of Method Putkisto
4. The exercises of Method Putkisto: warm up, stretching, breathing and stabilising
5. How to structure a Method Putkisto class or private session. Use of dynamics.
6. The teaching concept of Method Putkisto
7. Partner work: how to assist the client
8. Use of music in Method Putkisto classes
9. Anatomy: functional movement
10. The role of the instructor
11. Method Putkisto as a business concept

Face-to-face training takes place at the Method Putkisto Institute in SW London.

Interview & Information

Application is by interview only. For those of you who have not yet experienced Method Putkisto first hand, we are pleased to invite you to take part in an introductory training workshop prior to your interview. During our meeting we will discuss in detail the content of the training as well as discover your suitability for the field. Also it offers you an opportunity to assess the programme, and to ascertain what you are professionally or personally looking for.

What do we expect from the applicant?

1. Practical and able to adapt the skills required as an instructor.
2. You are sensitive to read people's needs and get on with different types of people.
3. Are able to perform in front of different groups.
4. Can visualize the position and alignment of the body 3-dimensionally when still and when moving.
5. Are aware of the importance of movement as a base of people's health and well-being and as an element which improves their life-style.
6. You are honest and able to commit to the process.
7. You are willing to invest time and effort to change your own body using the methods.

What next?