Barre Foundation
This opening module lays the groundwork for your journey as a barre teacher. Over three intensive days, you will build the technical, pedagogical, and embodied skills needed to step with confidence into the studio and guide your first class.
What You'll Learn
You will gain a clear understanding of the essential building blocks that make up a well-structured barre class. From Grounding, where students arrive, center, and connect to breath and posture, through Activation, designed to warm up the body and awaken muscular engagement, into Center Barre and Barre Sequences, the heart of the class where strength, balance, and alignment are challenged and refined. The journey concludes with Restore & Release, allowing the body to lengthen, integrate, and recover.
Using our comprehensive exercise library as a framework, you will not only learn the individual components but also how to sequence them effectively.
An in-depth exploration of the core repertoire of barre movements. You will study each foundational exercise with a focus on correct alignment, muscular engagement, and breath integration, ensuring that movements are performed both effectively and safely. Special attention is given to progressions and regressions, helping you adapt exercises to suit beginners, intermediate students, and those with specific needs. You will also develop the ability to introduce modifications and variations that keep classes inclusive, challenging, and inspiring for a wide range of participants.
Throughout the training, you will have the opportunity to step into the role of teacher and apply what you’ve learned in real time. In a supportive and encouraging setting, you will practice cueing, sequencing, and demonstrating exercises while refining your own teaching voice. Constructive feedback from Willemieke and peers will help you strengthen the clarity of your verbal instructions, the effectiveness of your physical demonstrations, and your overall presence and confidence as a teacher.
Who You'll
Learn From
Willemieke will guide you in deepening your understanding of anatomy, alignment, and embodied movement within the context of barre. She emphasizes how anatomy and biomechanics underpin every exercise, ensuring that movement is both effective and safe. By weaving together breath, core engagement, and precise alignment, Willemieke helps you experience the intelligent foundation behind barre practice. Her ability to explain and demonstrate the interplay between posture, breath, and movement patterns will empower you to teach with clarity, while enabling clients to move with greater ease, grace, strength, and awareness.
Jennifer
"What I truly appreciate is how inspiring it is to watch you demonstrate the exercises. You bring them with the elegance of a ballerina and a touch of humor, which makes me feel both challenged and at ease. Your classes are always refreshing and creative – I often find myself wondering: how do you come up with this? Even during the restrictions of corona you found playful solutions, like when ‘our block became our new friend.’
Your energy is contagious and lifts the whole group to a higher level. What may seem simple at first often turns out to be a clever challenge, where one small detail makes all the difference and pushes us to go to our limits – and makes us want to. With your warmth, knowledge, and wisdom, every class becomes a valuable experience. You are an inspiring teacher who leaves a lasting impression through humor, strength, and grace."
Esther
The Barre Teacher Training was such a transformative experience for me. I came in thinking I would ‘just’ learn some exercises, but I left with a deep understanding of how to truly guide others and create my own barre exercises. The combination of technique, class room management and teaching practice gave me exactly what I needed to feel ready to lead my own classes.
Who It's For
A Pilates or Dance background is required to join the training.
Dates
Fri. 6 Mar. | 9:00–16:00
Sat. 7 Mar. | 9:00–16:00
Sun. 8 Mar. | 10:30–16:00
Location
Tribes Studios, Leiden
Doezastraat 2A or Floris Versterlaan 61
Just a 15-minute walk from Leiden Central Station.
Free Parking available.
For your meals: there are plenty of restaurants and shops near the station, or you’re welcome to bring your own, a fridge is available on site.
Price
€525
(no VAT charged)
🐥 Early Bird: €50 off with code BARREBIRD2 until Jan. 6th
⏰ Limited spots available.
Certificate
You will be awarded a certificate upon successful completion when meeting the following criteria: Attendance of all 6 days & successful completion of the practical exam.