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Full-time Salaried Pilates Teacher & International Retreat Leader
Seeking a warm, friendly, professional, reliable team player to join our team as a full-time salaried employee.
Innerstellar Pilates & Yoga is looking for a post-rehab oriented Pilates Teacher (minimum 4 years teaching experience) to join our in-person teaching team here in Berkeley, CA, to teach Reformer Classes and Privates as well as co-lead two international retreats per year starting in 2025. This person will also act as our Facilities Manager, managing our Cleaning Team and helping to maintain a high-functioning, well-kept space for our dear community members to practice in.
The general schedule is 5 days per week, 8 hours per day including an hour-long lunch break: with two possible schedules, Wednesday through Sunday or Tuesdays through Saturday
Regular days are a mix of teaching, connecting before and after class with students, admin, team meeting and facilities maintenance time
Retreat days (14 per year starting in 2025) may include travel time, teaching 2-3 sessions and attending meals and excursions to socialize and build relationships with our retreat guests
ABOUT INNERSTELLAR: Founded in 2011 by longtime Pilates & Yoga Educator and trained hands on healer Kiki Lovelace, we specialize in helping our clients heal chronic pain and injuries so that they can live their lives with joy and comfort, and feel well-resourced to serve their purpose in the world.
Our studio is focused on Private sessions and small group reformer + yoga classes of up to 8 students.
We live into our mission of healing by prioritizing self-care among our team members and building a healthy work culture.
We make decisions based on the following values:
Liberation for All: We are an actively anti-racist, anti-oppression, body-positive business. The business provides paid training on anti-oppression themes to all team members, our CEO works regularly with an anti-racism mentor, and we are committed to continuing to discover how we can make our space more welcoming to folks with marginalized identities.
Clear and Skillful Communication: We practice clear, direct, and compassionate communication amongst team members, and regularly give and receive feedback both to and from our supervisors. Boundaries in the workplace are not only respected but encouraged, and modeled by all members of the leadership team.
Alignment-based work culture: We are skilled at helping our employees discover their areas of genius and preferred ways of working and then setting up their position to help them grow these skills and build their resume.
Learning & Growth: Joining our small, tight-knit and highly collaborative team is an opportunity for mentorship in all aspects of running a mission-driven AND profitable small business. We help our team members master skillsets that interest them and build their resumes in the direction they want to go, including small business ownership. Our employees have gone on to start their own studios, retreat businesses, marketing agencies and coaching companies and we love that part of what gave them the knowledge and courage to do so was their time spent at Innerstellar.
This job is for you if…
You are a comprehensively trained Pilates Instructor with a minimum of 4 years teaching experience (part time and/or Apprentice teaching hours ok)
You are available for the schedule posted above and can make a minimum 2-year commitment to the position
You enjoy keeping your spaces clean and tidy, and understand how important a pleasant space is to the client experience
You are a warm, friendly, out-going people-person who enjoys helping students have a great movement experience
You are adept at working with injuries and helping students modify movements to suit their bodies' needs
You want to work on a team where you are encouraged to be your full self and teach in a way that feels authentic to you
You enjoy building relationships with your students and fostering a sense of community
You take team member feedback as an opportunity for personal and professional growth
You enjoy being supported by a rockstar front desk team who handles all scheduling, client communications, marketing, sales, memberships, and more so that you can focus your energy on teaching
This job is not for you if…
You struggle with direct and timely communication, following up or following through
You struggle with organization or being on time in your work or personal life
You have a hard time adapting sequences to work with students' injuries and needs for modifications
Your schedule is in flux, you’re not available for the listed shifts, or you’re unable to make a 2-year commitment
Skills for success:
Warm, friendly people-person
Loves chatting with people and getting to know them
High capacity for nervous-system regulation
Reliable, professional, and trustworthy
Desire to grow and evolve on a personal and professional level
Desire to learn snd develop new skills while may include leading retreats, staff in-services and teacher trainings (don’t worry, we’ll mentor you if this is a direction you want to take your career in)
Key duties and responsibilities include:
Greet students with confidence, warmth and eye-contact so as to make students feel seen and welcomed
Check in with students about injuries before instructing movement and adapt/offer modifications as needed
Use the provided consent chips and/or ask verbally for consent before delivering any hands-on assists
Teach a safe and intelligent sequence complete with warm-up, core work, hot part, apex poses or moves, and warm/cool down, with options to down-level and up-level
Cue students on how to clean up after themselves so you can leave your teaching room neat and tidy
Attend and participate in regular staff meetings and in-services, or watch recordings so you can stay up-to-date on studio protocols and policies
Request subs in a timely manner so we can ensure all our private clients and class students can be served properly
Direct students to the front desk for any admin, payment or scheduling tasks
Compensation and benefits for this 40 hour/week employee position:
$55K-$65K annual salary DOE plus profit sharing bonus structure
3 weeks per year PTO
2 weeks per year all-expenses paid international trip to co-lead Innerstellar Pilates Retreats (one in the spring; the other in the fall)
Health insurance
Complimentary enrollment in our annual Embodied Reformer 4-Day Pilates Instructor Training and other paid continuing ed opportunities as selected by our Studio Leadership Team
Free drop ins to Reformer and yoga classes when there is space available
To apply, please email your resume and letter of interest. We look forward to hearing from you!