The Center for Womens Fitness
Womens Health and Exercise Certification
Women's Health and Exercise Certification
Join the growing number of Pilates, Fitness and Yoga teachers around the world enjoying the groundbreaking, cutting edge information that is truly making the changes necessary for restorative movement for women’s health.
Upon the completion of this highly experiential certification, you will begin to master the perspective of designing exercise programs for women through every stage of their lives.
This information will deepen your knowledge and understanding of the female anatomy and physiology, allowing you to adapt the exercise program to the changes a woman experiences throughout her life.
Requirements
For Application:
- Basic Pilates, Fitness or Yoga Certification OR at least 5 years of teaching movement.
- Basic knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology
For Completion of Full Certification
(The Women’s Health and Exercise Specialist Certification)
- All 5 modules attended and completed.
All modules are currently available on our site for purchase. They are currently being updated with professionally filmed videos. This process will be completed by the end of February - All activities completed – this includes self practice, teaching hours, quizzes and videos sent in.
- All quizzes passed
- A minimum of 8 mentorship program sessions with a faculty member (not included in the cost of online certification)
Certification Outline
Sequential modalities taught within this program form the foundation and subsequent layering of information, allowing a self-paced schedule that will create deep change in your teaching. Each module contains activities that will enhance the embodiment of the knowledge offered.
Included in the Curriculum:
- The Exercise Foundation
- The Exercise Library (over 300+ videos)
- Eleven downloadable manuals
- Prenatal and Postnatal Preparation and Recovery Program Design
- Menopause Adaptation Program Design
- Diastasis Recti Recovery Program Design
- Integrating the work into your sessions
Included in the Certification:
- Lectures
- Practical Sessions
- Activities
- Practice and Teaching Hours
- Q&A Sessions (Mentorship Program)
- Examinations

The Female Anatomical Standpoint
- A fresh and more perceptive understanding of the female skeletal system.
- That from a different skeletal form comes a different attachment of muscles and hence a different way of creating functional movement.
- The effect of the female hormone system on the musculoskeletal and fascial system and how this affects exercise.

The Female Physiological Standpoint
- How the female hormone system changes during puberty, pregnancy, postpartum, the childbearing years, perimenopause, menopause, and the senior years.
- How the hormonal fluctuations have an effect on the connective tissue at different stages of the female lifespan.
- The impact of stress on the female hormonal system.
- How the effects of these hormones on the muscles and skeleton and fascial system determine the program design through the different stages of her life.

The Female Emotional and Mental Standpoint
- A new vocabulary for teaching women that empowers, listens and educates. This will entail looking at shameful, judgmental, biased vocabulary and replacing it with more empowering, positive and supportive vocabulary.
- The unique role of the female hormones in the emotional and mental bodies and learning a more holistic approach to working with the physical body
- How to integrate the hormonal, musculoskeletal and fascial systems – a whole body solution for ease and function through every stage of life.
The Exercise Foundation
We have chosen to build the programs from the foundation of the pelvis and pelvic floor. This amazing area of the female body is subject to significant changes throughout most of a woman’s life.
Students will learn and understand:
- In detail, the muscles of the pelvis and pelvic floor and the connections to the muscles and fascia through the abdominal wall.
- Breathing patterns and their connection to the pelvic diaphragm and other diaphragms in the body.
- Fascial connections through the pelvic floor and myofascial release techniques sequences that begin a whole body release from the starting point of the pelvis.
- How the pelvic floor muscles function through every stage of a woman’s life.
- Foundational exercises that incorporate breath, muscles, and fascia.
- The Center’s unique cueing and execution of the foundational exercises.
- The changes that take place in this area through every stage of a woman’s life.
- The Center’s unique fascial release techniques used throughout all the programs.
Rocking and Rolling to Release™
Myofascial Release Programs
Requirements
- coursework online or live
- 10 self practice hours
- 1 self practice videos
- 10 teaching hours
- 1 teaching practice video
- Attendance through 8 Mentorship Program sessions in total for Certification
Support Your Floor™
Pelvic Floor Health
Pelvic Floor Health
Requirements
- coursework online or live
- 10 self practice hours
- 1 self practice video
- 10 teaching hours
- 1 teaching practice video
- Attendance through 8 Mentorship Program sessions in total for Certification
The Exercise Library
Once the Exercise Foundation is attended and all practice and teaching hours have been completed, you will then continue onto the next section of program design by learning the library of exercises necessary for designing programs for women through all stages of their lives.

Mat Exercises
The Mat exercises will be divided into:
- The Fundamental Exercise
- Modification
- Rehabilitation
- Strengthening
- Releasing
- Restoration
Props Included In The Exercises
Once these exercises are embodied you will feel confident adding props to the exercises.
These props will include
- The Stability Ball – for both strength and stability
- Therabands for increased resistance
- Green and white myofascial balls for release and support

Reformer Exercises
The Reformer exercises will be divided into:
- The Fundamental Exercise
- Modification
- Rehabilitation
- Strengthening
- Releasing
- Restoration
Props Included In The Exercises
Once these exercises are embodied you will feel confident adding props to the exercises.
These props will include
- White myofascial release ball

Cadillac Exercises
The Cadillac exercises will be divided into:
- The Fundamental Exercise
- Modification
- Rehabilitation
- Strengthening
- Releasing
- Restoration
Props Included In The Exercises
Once these exercises are embodied you will feel confident adding props to the exercises.
These props will include
- White myofascial release ball
- Pilates Arc

Chair Exercises
The Chair exercises will be divided into:
- The Fundamental Exercise
- Modification
- Rehabilitation
- Strengthening
- Releasing
- Restoration
Props Included In The Exercises
Once these exercises are embodied you will feel confident adding props to the exercises.
These props will include
- Green and white myofascial release balls
Modules
Rocking and Rolling to Release™
Myofascial Release Programs
Requirements
- coursework online or live
- 10 self practice hours
- 1 self practice videos
- 10 teaching hours
- 1 teaching practice video
- Attendance through 8 Mentorship Program sessions in total for Certification
Support Your Floor™
Pelvic Floor Health
Pelvic Floor Health
Requirements
- coursework online or live
- 10 self practice hours
- 1 self practice video
- 10 teaching hours
- 1 teaching practice video
- Attendance through 8 Mentorship Program sessions in total for Certification
Prenatal and Postnatal Preparation and Recovery Program Design
Specialty Pilates-based programs for the childbearing years
Requirements
- coursework online or live
- 10 self practice hours
- 1 self practice videos
- 10 teaching hours
- 1 teaching practice video
- Attendance at Q&A sessions
Menopause Adaptation Program Design
Symptoms of menopause and the effects on the female physical, mental and emotional body
Requirements
- coursework online or live
- 10 self practice hours
- 1 self practice videos
- 10 teaching hours
- 1 teaching practice video
- Attendance at Q&A sessions
The Center Method for Diastasis Recti Recovery™ Program Design
The whole body solution behind the gap
Requirements
- coursework online or live
- 10 self practice hours
- 1 self practice videos
- 10 teaching hours
- 1 teaching practice video
- Attendance at Q&A sessions
How To Register for the Women’s Health and Exercise Certification
Women’s Health and Exercise Specialist Certification can be completed in-person/livestream or as an on-demand online course. Each module of the certification can be taken separately at your own pace.

When you Register:
- You have access to your course for 2 years
- Never have to re-certify
- Learn at your own pace
- Have access to a “live” person of your choice through weekly Q&A sessions
- Access to a growing exercise library for easy client session design
- The cost of the online certification gives you 15% savings as opposed to the cost of taking each module individually
The certifications is suitable for Fitness, Yoga and Pilates instructors. The Pilates track certification includes practical exercises on the Reformer, Cadillac and Chair.
The Women’s Health and Exercise Certification™
Mat only modules
Modules included:
- Rocking and Rolling to Release™
- Support Your Floor™
- Pre and Postnatal Mat Theory and Practical
- Menopause Mat Theory and Practical
- The Center Method for Diastasis Recti Recovery™
Cost For Enrolment: TBA
Women’s Health and Exercise Pilates Specialist Certification™
Mat and Equipment modules
Modules included:
- Rocking and Rolling to Release™
- Support Your Floor™
- Pre and Postnatal Mat Theory and Practical
- Pre and Postnatal Pilates Equipment
- Pilates/Health and Exercise for Menopause Mat Theory and Practical
- Pilates for Menopause Equipment
- The Center Method for Diastasis Recti Recovery™
Cost For Enrolment: TBA
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