Professional Mentoring and Education Sessions For Pilates Instructors & Physical Therapists

Expand your professional teaching toolbox!

Designed for Pilates Instructors and Pilates-based Physical Therapists, Blossom’s 60-minute professional development sessions build upon your Pilates teaching and/or clinical knowledge base. 

Whether you are a Pilates instructor with all of the equipment at your fingertips or a physical therapist with a single reformer or chair in your clinic, topics can be customized to meet your unique needs. 

How To Book A Session

Email the facilitators directly to schedule your sessions.

With Vera Bullen, NCPT

Handouts and/or online materials provided

Cost (60 minutes)

$150 single session on one topic
$675 five sessions ($135 each)
$1250 ten sessions ($125 each)

Ask about group workshop rates! 

  • Powerhouse 101: Back to Basics – strategies for stability, bracing, mobility and integration with upper & lower quadrants
  • Balance Training for Fall Prevention – explore how to integrate balance training for clients of all ages
  • Reviewing The Repertoire – revisit the mat, reformer, cadillac/tower, chair, barrels or props curricula to refresh your teaching toolbox
  • Client Case Study – bring a client case and we’ll brainstorm strategies for success
  • Myofascial Science for Client Success – how fascial theory can enhance your Pilates & clinical sessions
  • Athletic & Sports Performance – practical strategies for performance enhancement and injury prevention
  • Dancers & Performing Artists – practical strategies for performance enhancement and injury prevention
  • Healthy Aging – delve into the evidence-based strategies that optimize healthy aging
  • Trauma-informed Movement – explore evidence-based techniques for down regulating the nervous system and conditioning the mind, body and spirit through a trauma lens
  • Adding Stretch, Strength or Power Techniques to your Teaching Toolbox – choose one for a deep dive
  • Managing Clients’ Injuries & Conditions in the Studio – choose one that you’ve encountered with clients for a deep dive
  • Unilateral Training Strategies – discover the benefits of incorporating unilateral training into Pilates sessions
  • Going Beyond the Standard Repertoire – creative mat, reformer, cadillac/tower, chair, barrels or props programming to expand your teaching toolbox
  • Creative Class Outlines – learn various ways to effectively program classes or clinic sessions with the help of outline templates, training parameters, session focus and other techniques
  • Choose your own topic – reach out to Vera with your areas of interest

Vera Bullen, NCPT
Email verabullenpilates@gmail.com directly for more information.

Specialties: Athletes, Dancers and Performing Artists, Prehab and Rehab, Trauma-informed Movement, Healthy Aging, Balance Training, Functional Movement, New Clients.

Vera, a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher, has been teaching dance and Pilates for 32+ years. Teaching is her vocation. She delights in the successes of her clients and wants them to feel empowered and strong. Her private lesson and duet sessions are client-focused and provide full-body workouts while managing any chronic injuries and conditions. As a teacher trainer for 12+ years, Vera has a wealth of knowledge to share in professional development sessions with Pilates instructors and Pilates-based physical therapists.

Vera graduated with a Comprehensive Pilates Certificate from Vitality Pilates’ Teacher Training Academy in 2010 and taught at Vitality Pilates for 16+ years before joining the Blossom Pilates & Physical Therapy team in 2023. She is an International Association of Dance Medicine and Science member, and has presented at IADMS and PAMA conferences. Vera is a Pilates Method Alliance member, serves on the PMA research committee, and is a volunteer practitioner for the Seattle Dance and Performing Arts Medicine free injury clinic

With Heidi Marten, PT, DPT, IADN-cert. Specialist, NCPT
CAPP-Pelvic

Cost (60 minutes)
$200 for 60 min. session
Ask about special group rates!

  • Pelvic Floor Conditions treatments through exercise/externally for non-pelvic floor therapists or Pilates instructors
  • Core, bracing, stability, ribs, diaphragam, especially in relation to hip, shoulder, knee, pain or dysfunction
  • Special conditions and Injuries
  • Mindfulness, Meditation, Vagus nerve massage and/or dry needling techniques
  • Choose your own topic, reach out to Dr. Heidi with your interests. 

Heidi Marten, PT, DPT, IADN-cert Specialist, NCPT
CAPP-Pelvic
Email heidi@blossompilatespt.com directly for more information.

Specialties:
Heidi has an integrative approach to physical therapy. She draws from teachings from Postural Restoration Institute (PRI), pelvic floor internal work, Shirley Sahrmann, Sarah Duvall, and various others. It’s not just about performing the exercise, but about getting the right muscles working, and those that should not be working, inhibited. The core is the center of our body and if it is not working appropriately—too little or too much—it can shift and rotate our skeleton and cause us to start using faulty movement patterns which can affect us from our head to our toes.