About MPI
How we started...
After a decade of working full-time in the Pilates industry - as a studio owner and lead instructor - MPI founder Jen realized a void in the Pilates education world.
Seeking to build the teaching team at her own studio, Jen received significant interest from aspiring teachers. Realizing an absence of educational options that would provide the curriculum and mentorship needed to successfully teach at her studio (and the many similar modern studios throughout the world), Jen founded the Modern Pilates Institute. The first teacher training immediately sold out.
The goal of the MPI is simple: to produce top-notch instructors qualified to lead safe, dynamic and successful sessions at today's modern studios.
MPI is based on providing the following training, which we believe is vital to a successful teaching career at a modern Pilates studio:
- Education in the traditional Pilates principles and repertoire
- Education in how to apply the traditional Pilates principles in a modern setting, including exercise variations, contemporary techniques, and the use of props
- Education in current exercise science and anatomy, and study of injuries, special populations and appropriate modifications
- Education in how to successful build class plans, and deliver them in the modern class setting
- One-on-one mentorship with a master instructor
- A structured in-studio model for aspiring teachers to complete observation, practice and apprentice teaching hours
About MPI Founder Jen
MPI Founder Jen is the founder and former owner of PeloDog Pilates & Indoor Cycling, in South Lake Tahoe, CA. PeloDog is a thriving modern Pilates studio with a vibrant and dedicated clientele. Jen has been a full-time Pilates instructor and studio owner for over a decade, and is nationally known as an industry-leading instructor and educator. She currently resides in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl, where she offers in-home private training and consulting services.
Jen holds her primary comprehensive Pilates teaching qualification through Body Arts and Sciences International (BASI). She also holds Advanced Certifications in Pilates for Injuries and Pathologies and Pre- and Post-Natal Pilates through BASI. Jen has completed numerous other courses including Pilates for Athletes, Pilates for Scoliosis, Pilates for Scapular Rhythm, Movement Anatomy, Booty Barre and is a certified Schwinn and Stages cycling instructor.
Jen has worked with a broad range of clientele including high-level and professional athletes, celebrities (including the President and First Lady of the United States), people recovering from major surgeries, teens, seniors, and everyone in between. She has also had the privilege of mentoring many teachers in training and seasoned instructors who have gone on to have highly successful careers and open thriving studios. It is her education combined with this breadth of experience that has crafted her cutting edge teaching methods.
Jen's life passion is helping people cultivate vitality and simply feel great through movement.
