MVP is a working studio and a home for movement education. Train in Markham through Polestar’s comprehensive approach, with internationally connected faculty and local support.
Polestar’s comprehensive pathway brings movement principles, assessment, teaching practice, and the full Pilates apparatus together in one 450-hour program, hosted at MVP from September 2026 through July 2027.
You do not need to stop being a student before you begin to teach. Instructor training turns curiosity about your own movement into practical skills for guiding someone else: observation, assessment, clear cueing, and thoughtful adaptation.
Start by understanding movement in your own body. Then learn how to make that understanding useful to others.
Movement methods
Teaching can become an ongoing professional path. With experience, mentorship, and continued study, an instructor can grow into an educator who supports colleagues and helps shape the next generation of movement teachers.
Gary’s journey shows what that progression can look like: not a finish line, but a commitment to keep learning and to pass that learning forward.
My life changed after learning Pilates through Polestar.
After years of fitness, martial arts, and accumulated injuries, Gary found a way to understand his own rehabilitation. Teaching lets him pass that understanding forward.
Polestar Educator
Currently teaching at MVP
Reconnecting with movement through Pilates in midlife transformed not only her physical well-being but her purpose.
Dorothy reinvested in herself through comprehensive training and now helps others build the strength, mobility, and resilience to stay active for decades to come.
Pilates Instructor
Currently teaching at MVP
MVP has already welcomed educators and movement professionals for intensive training, shared practice, and connection.
Shelly Power
Polestar Vice President & Senior Faculty
2025
Canada’s first-ever Polestar Transition program, hosted on our own studio floor. Certified teachers from across the country bridged into Polestar’s internationally recognized framework over two intensive weekends.
Jane Gotch
Invited GYROKINESIS® Specialized Master Trainer
2025
MVP welcomed international educator Jane Gotch to lead a full GYROKINESIS® teacher-training cohort at the studio. The courses brought the flowing, spiraling method to a new generation of movement teachers in Markham.
Jane Gotch
Across three decades of teaching and learning, Gary credits the educators and mentors who shared their knowledge, inspiration, and guidance with him. After a career in fitness and martial arts left him with injuries, it was Polestar training and rehabilitation that brought him back to full, pain-free movement.
Polestar's holistic approach blends contemporary research with established practice across orthopedics, sports medicine, and movement science, and its global faculty network builds a community where educators and mentors support one another's growth. As a Polestar Educator and Mentor, Gary carries that same lineage of guidance into his own teaching.
Their influence connects MVP to a wider movement community built on collaboration, apprenticeship, humility, and continued professional growth.
“Learn to Move. Move to Learn.”
Tracey Mallett
Fitness Expert & Creator of bodybarre