Summary

From January 2027, Polestar Pilates Asia qualification courses run an updated structure, aligned to Polestar's current international curriculum. This article explains what is different, how to tell which structure you are on, and — most importantly — what does not change.

The one thing to know

Polestar periodically updates how it teaches. It does not change what a Polestar graduate is.

Students who qualify on the current structure and students who qualify on the 2027 structure hold the same qualification, assessed to the same standard, and are equally fully accredited Polestar practitioners. There is no old qualification and no new qualification. There is one Polestar qualification.

Which structure am I on?

Your course start date decides it, and nothing else:

• Your course starts on or before 31 December 2026 → current structure
• Your course starts on or after 1 January 2027 → 2027 structure

It is your cohort's start date that matters — not the date you enrolled, and not which host studio you train with. No Polestar Pilates Asia host is running the 2027 structure before 1 January 2027.

What is different in the 2027 structure

• Principles of Movement is taught in person, as a full day before your first module, rather than as an online course. This follows Brent Anderson's view that the principles are best taught in a room with an educator. Recorded material remains available to you as a resource, but it is attendance at the day that counts towards completion.
• Your core text is Brent Anderson's book, Principles of Movement, which takes the place of the previous course manual. Students buy their own copy.
• Online content comes first, completed before the Principles day, so that you arrive grounded in the theory.
• The taught modules are re-sequenced and renumbered, and some terminology has changed with them.

These are changes to the shape of the course, the order in which the material is met, and the books you learn from.

If you are studying on the current structure

Nothing is being asked of you, and nothing about your training becomes out of date.

• You complete your qualification on the structure you started, and you receive the same qualification as every other Polestar graduate.
• If you still have modules to complete, complete them on a course starting on or before 31 December 2026. The 2027 modules are a reorganisation rather than a renaming, so they do not map one-to-one onto the current pathway, and a part-completed current pathway cannot simply be continued inside a 2027 cohort. If your remaining modules fall close to that date, please contact us early rather than assuming — we will work out the right route with you and your host.

If you have already qualified

Your qualification stands, permanently. You are a Polestar graduate, your certificate carries no expiry date, and nothing about the 2027 structure changes either of those things.

If you would like to meet the new material, that is what continuing education is for — and Polestar has done this before. When the curriculum was last updated, we offered graduates a short update course. We are looking at doing the same for this update, most likely centred on the Principles of Movement day, which would count towards your Continuing Education Credits. Nothing is confirmed yet, so please do not plan around it — but do tell us if you would like to be notified when it is.

In the meantime, all the usual routes to CECs remain open, including re-taking any module at a 50% discount. See Continuing Education and Requalification.

Why we do it this way

Polestar has always treated qualification as the beginning of a professional education rather than the end of one, which is why graduates earn Continuing Education Credits every two years rather than re-sitting an examination. What comes into the curriculum reaches everyone — through the course if you are studying, through continuing education if you have already qualified.

Fees, dates and your own situation

Course fees, module sets and early-bird dates vary by course and by host, and what applies to you depends on your own record. For anything specific — which modules you still need, what a course costs, what your options are — please ask us rather than working it out from this article.

Questions

Write to info@polestarpilatesasia.com and we will look at your own record with you.