3 ways pursuing a career in Pilates will help you feel fulfilled in your work
Is it important to you to feel appreciated and valued in your job? Could you be more fulfilled and inspired by your to-do list? Do you want to elevate your autonomy in your work, and have more responsibility and control? Whether you want to add to your existing work life by pursuing a side hustle, or take a complete pivot in your career, you can feel excited and fulfilled in your work. And you deserve to.
Creating a Fulfilling Work Environment
If you dread going to work or feel like you’re not finding joy in your job or workplace anymore, it’s time to consider your options. After all, for many of us work makes up a significant chunk of five out of every seven days. You want to feel motivated, inspired and rewarded by your work. If that’s not the case, it’s time to consider a career change.
Enter: Pilates! A career in Pilates may well be the solution to all your problems. If you’re passionate about health – mental and physical – and want to feel fulfilled both personally and financially in your work, Pilates has you covered. Here are three ways in which a career in Pilates will leave you feeling fulfilled, empowered and inspired by your job.
1. You’ll see the impact your skills and guidance have on your clients’ physical health outcomes.
Pilates is one of the very best forms of movement, catering to any ability, body type and level of experience. In fact, all of Unite Health’s APPI Pilates courses equip you with the skills and knowledge required to address any injuries, physical limitations, or individual requirements – so you can provide regressions and progressions for any movement needed. This means you have the potential to work with so many different types of clients and fitness levels.
Supporting Rehabilitation and Strength Improvement
As a Pilates instructor, you’re able to witness first-hand the powerful, transformative effect of Pilates. You’ll be able to support your clients as they work towards rehabilitation of injuries, improving their strength, enhancing their fitness levels and supporting their general physical health. You’ll directly help them to achieve their individual health goals, and in doing so you’re allowing them to feel more energised, sleep better, improve their immune system, feel better in their body, prevent injuries and weaknesses, improve their posture and stability… the list is endless!
Personal Fulfillment in Client Success
As you personally allow your clients to reap the rewards the Pilates promises, you’ll experience such a profound sense of fulfilment and achievement in your career. You’re helping to change people’s lives – people you see and work with consistently all the time. Not only will your clients be hugely grateful to you for helping them achieve the physical benefits and results of Pilates, you’ll feel your own sense of accomplishment in watching your clients grow, improve, and build confidence over time. What better way to find fulfilment in your career than by helping to improve people’s lives and health, and watching them progress over time?
2. You’ll help your clients improve their mental health and wellbeing too.
If anything can match the impact of the physical transformation you can facilitate your clients achieving with your work in the Pilates industry, it’s the mental health and wellbeing benefits you can help them to experience.
Balancing Physical and Mental Transformations
While so much of society focuses on the physical benefits of movement, the mental benefits of Pilates are just as profound and important. In guiding your clients through consistent Pilates practices, and helping them to progress and feel a sense of achievement, you can allow them to experience the many improvements to their mental health Pilates can have.
Pilates can help to reduce stress, anxiety and depression, and allow your clients to feel a sense of wellbeing when done consistently. This is because it helps to produce serotonin and endorphins in your brain, which elevate feelings of happiness, and reduces your production of your stress hormone, cortisol. This means Pilates has a two-pronged effect on improving the mental health of your clients. And you are able to help them experience that, using your skills, expertise and knowledge to guide them through flows that leave them feeling energised, empowered and strong.
Social Connection and Mindfulness in Pilates
Pilates also offers a chance to connect socially with others – whether that be other people in a class you’re teaching, or a connection between teacher and student. Social connection further enhances wellbeing.
Pilates provides an opportunity to be present, and tune into the mind-body connection, enhancing mindfulness and mental health. Again, it’s your teaching and practice allowing people to experience this for themselves. Not only will your clients notice a marked improvement in their mental wellbeing for themselves, they’ll be singing your praises for giving them the chance to feel this change. Another incredibly fulfilling aspect to your role as a Pilates instructor!
3. You’ll feel empowered by the ability to set your own rates and hours.
There’s no two ways about it, when you feel valued for your expertise and superior skill set, and you’re financially rewarded for these, you’ll feel far more fulfilled and motivated by your work. When you complete your Pilates certification with Unite Health, you’re attaining the highest standard of Pilates education available in Australia and beyond – so you’re able to pursue endless career opportunities, and be more selective about the type of work you take on, or the business opportunities you carve out for yourself.
Negotiating Work and Business Opportunities
This means you no longer need to settle for feeling underappreciated in your work. You’re a self-sufficient Pilates instructor, with a highly in-demand qualification and skill set, allowing you to negotiate and pursue only the job prospects that really align with you and your goals. You’ll be able to charge the rates you deserve, and choose jobs and opportunities that help you achieve your long-term career aspirations, and leave you feeling content and happy in your role.
Ready to Begin Your Pilates Career?
You’ll be both financially and personally rewarded when you work as a Pilates instructor, particularly when you complete our APPI Pilates Instructor Certification – as this equips you with the most respected qualification in the industry, opening up as many employment and career opportunities as possible, so you can feel empowered and appreciated in your work. Since you spend so many hours per week working, why not make work a place you want to go, and enjoy being at, rather than somewhere you dread and find a chore?
Your Rewarding Future Awaits
Ready to make the switch? Kickstart your dream career in Pilates today when you sign up for our APPI Pilates Instructor Certification. Or, book a time to chat with our course experts to decide which of our course options best supports you and your goals.