SCAM, GREEDY TEACHER AND PLAGIARIZED DATED CONTENT, SELF STUDY PILATES COURSE
This review is for the Teacher Training Course provided in this studio.
Short: SCAM, GREEDY TEACHER AND PLAGIARIZED DATED CONTENT, SELF STUDY PILATES COURSE
Usually, this course is taught in groups of 4-5 people but when I requested private training, the teacher Nancy asked to do a private session with her in order to determine if I am strong enough to take up the course.
Coincidentally, the teacher Nancy also teaches in another studio in Bali and saw my moment in the pilates reformer class. I paid 300,000 rupiah. She still asked me to come for another session so we can talk about the course etc, I paid 500,000 rupiah for it. She basically went over the course with me and quoted 60 million rupiah for full pilates training.
After lot of going negotiating, we decided on 55 million rupiah and the money went straight to the teacher's account. I was told that the money will be split in two between the teacher and the owner. Not sure why the money is going into teacher's account and not sunset pilates account.
Impressed by the teacher's background I paid the money and started the course. I was a given a huge binder with all the random pilates information collected from the internet. It is all pirated copied information without any table of contents or number pages. There is no video reference and the information is older than 30 years ago. I once suggested a better course material to the teacher and instead of taking the feedback, she got offended.
As I was the only one, I was supposed to attend 6 sessions of 3 days of 4 hours each. The teacher will read the information from the pirated binder and show me the pilates exercise for first one hour and expected me do pilates for next 3 hours continuously. This was supposed to go on for 3 days straight.
I heard another Spanish student signed up for Mat Pilates private course and stopped coming after first session. The receptionist gossiped about the girl and told me she is asking for refund and that teacher Nancy is not providing any.
As the course structure is extremely poor and does not make any sense, the teacher suggested me to spend more money and attend her group classes in the morning to get more practice.
I have never in my life given up on a course but this was the first time I gave up after 3 sessions as I was not learning anything and self study course of pilates did not make any sense to me. I asked for half refund, but the teacher refused. I asked to be spoken to the owner, the teacher refused. Instead she blocked me and lied to me that the Spanish girl who left just got sick and will come back, even thought I have written proof of gossip and I know this is a scam that is being run by the company.
I apologize for a long review, but please don't be a fool like me or other students. There are well structured online courses available for 200,000 rupiah or free. They provide how to videos and proper certification. This studio is not even recognized and is just scamming people. I am from Canada and I showed that binder to the Pilates Teachers here and they literally laughed at me for paying so much for a garbage course with poor instructions.
I am pretty sure the owner has no idea about the scam that is being run by the teacher and the receptionist.
Since the content is all plagiarized and none of it belongs to studio, if anyone of you want to see it, I can send you the whole binder link by email. Don't waste you money, in the end you will be asked to look the binder and learn from it.
I am also attaching proof of payment to the teacher and still waiting for my refund.