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Official sounding Pilates Organisations are Confusing Students – is this their intention?

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The confusion around Pilates Instructor training is increasingly made more chaotic by official sounding and competing interest groups, and organisations implying (but not saying) that they set obligatory government training standards which when fact checked are not official in terms of National Standards or required accreditation. In recent months, there has been growing confusion among prospective and existing Pilates instructors regarding the accreditation of Pilates apparatus training courses.  This confusion is largely driven by targeted social media campaigns and email blasts suggesting the establishment of new national standards and accreditation bodies for Pilates in the UK.  Here are some key points to consider: 1.  Frequent Inquiries I receive weekly emails from various sources, stating the writer’s confusion about the accreditation of Pilates apparatus training.  Recent communications, such as those from the "National Pilates Certification Program" (NPCP), Pil