We know applications can be scary, but this interest form is easy! Our interest form is a few questions to ensure that we put the right 12 people in a group together. And it makes sure that everyone who is interested has seen all that eLevate entails.

We have an interest form fee because if you are not one of the 12 invited into the program, you will get feedback directly from Lesley about why, as well as suggestions for how to prepare for when the doors open for our next eLevate. For those invited to eLevate, the application fee goes towards the eLevate program balance.

All candidates will need to go through the application process. After that you will need to pay the deposit to secure your spot.

Yes, we sure do! You have two options for making payments.

OPTION 1 – 2 payments

This option will cost you less overall.

A non-refundable, non-transferable deposit will be required to secure your spot upon acceptance.

Your balance payment is due before January 3, 2025. (We will send an invoice!)

OPTION 2 – Deposit + Financing over 20 weeks

A non-refundable, non-transferable deposit will be required to secure your spot upon acceptance.

20 equal payments starting at $357 per week.

Payments will bill automatically.

This is through a 3rd party. You are signing a contract to pay through them.

This is only going to happen once a year… And as much as I love this program, I can’t guarantee I will host another program in 2025, so don’t wait!

If you are 1000% sure that you can’t join us and you want to know about future eLevate programs, join the waiting list here.

We’ll be going over all the exercises based on the equipment assigned to that weekend. But my goal is to give you time to feel it in your body, see it in others (that’s why virtual is so amazing because you can watch and do as you wish) and time each weekend to teach what you’re learning.

See our timeline outlined on this page above to understand the program flow.

Virtual! Woohoo! No need to travel to make this work! NOTE: All Workshop Weekends are 3 days: Friday, Saturday and Sunday

(If during the program you want to attend a Workshop Weekend in-person, you may submit a request to. A request form will be provided. This is 100% Optional and seats each weekend are limited. You are responsible for your own travel, housing, food, entertainment before and after the workshop hours. All related costs are at your own expense.)

I’d love for you to attend live. It’s best for you!

The dates and times are picked so you can plan ahead. Because anyone in the world can participate I did keep time zones in mind when scheduling in the middle of the day, however time zones are a thing so you will have access to the recordings until the next training weekend.

CECs they can only be given to those who attend live hours for an entire Workshop Weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday).

To give them for those who will miss the live and watch the recording I have to create quizzes (aka pay people on my team) and it makes the whole thing more expensive.

But, if you just attend 1.5 of the weekends live, you’ll have all the CECs you need for 2 years.

There will not be a formal manual. However, you will have access to all the exercise tutorials for free. And, as we go through every exercise you will be able to create the notes that help you remember the exercises and allow you to keep things in a way that helps you grow and learn and come back to. I have found that manuals make it easy to not take the notes you need so that things make sense to you when you review. My best learning was when I studied with Jay Grimes with just a pen and paper.

Again, everyone has different learning styles. From my experience, when you write your own notes, you’ll sound like you. I do not want you to sound like me! You will become the best version of YOUR teaching!

That said, my OPC Flashcard decks are as close to a manual as we will come. Many of my eLevators use these as a study tool.

Nope!

You do not need access to classical equipment or to ALL pieces and props of equipment in the moment of the workshops. However, when your partner is practice teaching on you, you will need to have/find access to at least the main pieces (Mat, Reformer, Cadillac or tower, Wunda Chair, barrels). If you can get access to more things great! And well before each weekend you will be given the road map of what equipment is on what day of the training so you can rent a studio or rent the equipment if you want. You won’t need the access for YOU to teach but for your partner to teach them.

No, as long as you have been teaching this program is designed to bring everyone from any program onto the same page with the method and allow you to understand the Classical method even if you have been Classically trained.

My goal is for this to help teachers feel more confident teaching, understand the freedom in the method, especially a classical method, be in a safe space they can ask these questions, get feedback on their teaching so they have more confidence, and share all the knowledge I have from Jay Grimes that is almost impossible to get nowadays.

In some ways it will be similar because I want to make sure I pass along everything I have learned from Jay Grimes and what I know is important for teachers to understand. In other ways it’s not at all because every person being invited will have to be a teacher so they will have gone through a program. And, there will more discussions vs you just sitting there writing notes. There will not be a manual. You will be creating your own version so you can reflect back on it.

I will not do beginner/intermediate/advanced. But I will teach ‘why’ in the program and help teachers get comfortable with that.

ALL of them.

You do not need access to ALL pieces and props of equipment in the moment of the workshops. However, when your partner is practice teaching on you, you will need to have/find access to at least the main pieces (Mat, Reformer, Cadillac or tower, Wunda Chair, barrels). If you can get access to more things great! And well before each weekend you will be given the road map of what equipment is on what day of the training so you can rent a studio or rent the equipment if you want. You won’t need the access for YOU to teach but for your partner to teach them.

My team has created worksheets for you! Following each Workshop Weekend, you will be provided a worksheet to fill out within a few days. You will fill in your worksheet and submit it to me. I will then review it. Don’t worry! It will be very helpful and inspire you to think about how you will progress your partner in their practice.

Yep! Before each weekend (2, 3, 4, 5 and at the end of 9 months) you’ll teach a partner based off of what you’ve learned. I want to see you progress one person over 9 months, so your partner will be who you teach and film for your Assessments. I will pair you with a partner based on time zones.

That said, you can be a body or practice teach ANY of the other members of eLevate! 

Following each Workshop Weekend, you will record an Assessment (parameters will be provided). An Assessment is you teaching your eLevate partner, which you will then submit to me for review. We will jump on a scheduled call and I will talk to you about what I see.

The final project is just you teaching a final session based on the material you’ve learned in the 5 weekends of training with your partners. An exit interview will follow just like I did with Jay Grimes and I loved this because it was a great time to have one on one with him and for him to tell me what I still needed to work on.

I do not ‘test out’. I don’t love that method because it makes people study for a test.

I don’t like tests or performances. The program requirement is that you must participate in both parts of all 5 Assessments: 1) Submit a video of you teaching your partner and 2) Taking a 20 minute call with me to review your video.

As mentioned, you’ll have to teach someone in the group before each weekend (starting after weekend 1) and then one final teaching session before the end of the program. But it’s all for you and your feedback/learning. I have been in programs where I have to test (perform or memorize) and that isn’t what I want this program to be.

During the program, the recordings will be available in between weekends. I want to make sure people watch them before we go into the next weekend.

At the end of the program, you will have the opportunity to purchase lifetime access to all recordings.

Yes, if you would like to say that you 100% can. However, you can absolutely call yourself a movement professional, a Pilates teacher with a Classical background (add Contemporary if you are trained in it), a master teacher, 3rd generation. The purpose of this program is to elevate your practice, your teaching and your connection to the method.

Yes, we would create a certificate so that you can say you went through a “masters” program. I have done several masters programs myself and what I see is still people trying to be “good enough” to get in and “perfect” at teaching. This causes stress, uncertainty and imposter syndrome.

My goal is that at the end of this not only will you know everything I know but you will feel the freedom and confidence in your practice and in your teaching. That you will trust your gut in your teaching and not worry about people getting bored and feeling like you’re stuck in a box.

Yes, there will be a graduation certificate!

As you know I love to travel! All of that (obviously changed in 2020. Since the world is still not yet open, 2024 is the perfect opportunity for me to host this 9-month program. And, since we’re ready to travel again, I’m honestly not sure if I’m going to have the time to host another program in 2025. So if you’re on the fence, don’t wait – join me now. Questions? Happy to schedule a call.