Current Openings

PILATES INSTRUCTOR

Seeking at least 2 warm, friendly, professional, reliable team players to join our Berkeley, CA team as part-time Pilates Instructors

Innerstellar Pilates & Yoga is looking for 2-3 Pilates Instructors to join our in-person teaching team.

  • The general schedule is 2-3 part-time shifts per week. Currently, we have a need for a Tuesday and Thursday morning Private Session Instructor as well as a weekday evening Private Instructor (any day, your choice) and a Thursday evening and Sunday morning Reformer Class Instructor.

  • Regular duties include greeting the students and showing them our communication tools and machine set-up, teaching Reformer classes and putting away any small props after class. We also have a 1x monthly team meeting that you will be asked to join live if possible (or watch on the replay) so you can be in the know about studio policies, protocols and happenings.

  • In this role, you will not be asked to do any cleaning beyond basic tidying after your shift, nor to have scheduling or sales conversations. Here at Innerstellar, we have a high-functioning administrative and facilities support team to handle all that and more, so you can focus on showing up and doing what you do best: TEACHING!

  • Although most of our teachers start with a 3-4 hour shift, oftentimes after the first 60-90 days there is room to grow your schedule to 5-6 hours of teaching by adding more availability for private sessions, if desired. Your availability to add private sessions and sub other classes on occasion is a plus for us.

ABOUT INNERSTELLAR: Founded in 2011 by longtime Pilates & Yoga Educator and trained hands on healer Kiki Lovelace, Innerstellar is well known in the East Bay as a premium Pilates studio specializing in helping clients heal their 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 primarily on offering Private Sessions and small “semi-private” group classes of up to 8 students to our highly diverse clientele.

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 have completed a comprehensive Pilates teacher training, or our Embodied Reformer 4-Day Continuing Ed Training

  • You are available at the times listed consistently and are excited about getting a part-time Pilates teaching job in a healthy and high-functioning workplace

  • You are interested to learn more about working with injuries through Pilates and helping your students modify movements to suit their bodies' needs

  • You are a warm, friendly, out-going people-person who loves the idea of helping people have a great self-care experience, free of judgment and impossible beauty/youth/ability standards

  • You enjoy building relationships at work and fostering a sense of community

  • You take team member feedback as an opportunity for personal and professional growth

  • You enjoy keeping your spaces clean and tidy, and understand how important a pleasant space is to the client experience.

  • You like the idea of being supported by a rockstar administrative team who handles scheduling, selling, getting subs, cleaning, etc. 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

  • You don’t like the idea of teaching classes to newbies, or to mixed level students

  • Your schedule is in flux, you’re not available for the listed shifts, or you’re unable to make a minimum 1-year commitment

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 how they’re feeling 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 (we will provide continuing education on how to do so in our signature Innercore sequencing style)

  • 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

Skills for success:

  • Warm, friendly people-person

  • Team-player, good communicator

  • 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 and develop new professional skills such as class planning via our signature Innercore Sequencing Method

Compensation, benefits and opportunities for this part-time employee position:

  • Pay is hourly, competitive, DOE. We pay our employees for their teaching time as well as for all  meeting and admin time (including several minutes before and after their teaching hours to greet students and put away props)

  • Sick pay per the City of Berkeley’s requirement of 48 hours per year

  • Other state-sponsored benefits like paid family leave

  • Worker’s comp and liability insurance all provided by the studio

  • Complimentary drop ins to Reformer and yoga classes when there is space available

  • Complimentary enrollment in our in-house mentoring container, The Confident Pilates Instructor Mentorship Program

  • 30% off teacher trainings and special workshops

  • Career development opportunities to build and lead in-services, workshops and teacher trainings, if desired

    To apply, please email us your resume and letter of interest. We look forward to hearing from you!