IBBFA Barre Certification

👁️1.1 Watch: Course Introduction (4 mins)

1.2 Your Journey with IBBFA — What Comes Next

📖 1.3 Read: Skills You'll Walk Away With (3-5 mins)

1.4 How to Get the Most Out of This Course (5-7 mins)

1.5 Your Student Workbook (Optional)

⚡1.6 Activity: Set Your Personal Goals (5-7 mins)

👁️1.7 Watch: How to Get Support (3-5 mins)

⚡1.8 Before we start: Instructor Snapshot (7-10 mins)

1.9 Choose Your Learning Path

Supplemental Reading: Chapter 1 – Introduction

📖 2.0 Read: Module Overview (2–3 minutes)

🧠 2.1 Attitude: Own the Room (3-5 mins)

👁️2.2 Watch: ATTITUDE — Your energy runs the room

💎2.3 Reflect: Attitude (1-2 mins)

👁️2.4 Watch: BALANCE and Symmetry in class programming

💡2.5 Balance: Check your understanding (3 mins)

🧠 2.6 Corrections: Fix It With Kindness (3 mins)

👁️2.7 Watch: CORRECTIONS: verbal, physical, group vs individual

💡2.8 Corrections: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

🧠 2.9 Counting Music: Never Lose Your Place (3 mins)

👁️2.10 Watch: COUNTING — Music is your structure, not just your background

💡2.11 Counting: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

🧠 2.12 Cueing: Talk the Whole Time (3 mins)

👁️2.13 Watch: CUEING & DEMONSTRATION — Silence is confusion

💡2.14 Cueing: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

👁️2.15 Watch: EXPLAIN — Over-explain everything

💡2.16 Explain: Сheck your understanding (2-3 mins)

🧠 2.17 Feedback, Flexibility, Flow: Read the Room (3 mins)

👁️2.18 Watch: FEEDBACK & FLEXIBILITY

👁️2.19 Watch: Class FLOW

💡2.20 Feedack, flexibility, flow: Check your understanding (5-7 mins)

💎2.21 Reflect: Feedback, flexibility, flow (5-7 mins)

👁️2.22 Watch: GOALS, HABITS& INTEREST: Keep Them Coming Back

💡2.23 Goals, Habits & Interest: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

🧠 2.24 Class for Every Level: Modify, Simplify, Get Results (3 mins)

👁️2.25 Watch: MODIFY & SIMPLIFY

👁️2.26 Watch: Using MUSIC Effectively in Your Class

💎2.27 Reflect: Using Music Intentionally (5-7 mins)

💡2.28 Modify, simplify, music: Check your understanding (5-7 mins)

👁️2.29 Watch: get RESULTS

💡2.30 Results: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

💡2.31 Do You Know Your ABCs? — Vocabulary Check (10-12 mins)

🎓2.32 Instructor Essentials – Knowledge Check (8-10 mins)

🚀2.33 Apply: Your ABCs in Action (5-7 mins)

📈2.34 Wrap-up Module 2: You've Got the ABCs. What's Next? (2-3 mins)

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Definitions and Terms (optional)

Definitions and Terms Quick Reference (optional)

Supplemental Reading: Chapter 2 – The ABCs of Teaching Barre

📖 3.0 Read: Module Overview (2–3 minutes)

🧠3.1 Before You Begin: Core Vocabulary Check‑In (3 mins)

📖3.2 Read: Ballet Origins: Why the Terms Matter (3-5 mins)

💎3.3 Reflect: Terms & Definitions (2-3 mins)

🧠3.4 Positions Of The Feet: Pre-test (3 mins)

👁️3.5 Watch: The 6 POSITIONS of the FEET

💡3.6 The 6 Positions of the Feet: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

🧠3.7 Positions Of The Arms (Port De Bras): Pre-test (3 mins)

👁️3.8 Watch: POSITIONS OF THE ARMS (Port De Bras)

💡3.9 Port de Bras: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

👁️3.10 Watch: Using the Barre

🧠3.11 Guess the Ballet Term: Pre-test (3-5 mins)

👁️3.12 Watch: CORE MOVEMENT Terms — Fitness Barre

💡3.13 Core Movement Terms: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

🎓3.14 Instructor Essentials – Knowledge Check (5-7 mins)

🚀3.15 Apply: Your First Vocab-Based Sequence (5-7 mins)

📈3.16 Wrap-up Module 3: You've Got the Terms. What's Next? (2-3 mins)

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Definitions and Terms Quick Reference (optional)

Supplemental Reading: Chapter 3 – Definitions & Terms

📖4.0 Read: Module Overview (2–3 minutes)

🧠4.1 Before You Begin: Quick Reflection & Pre-Test (2-3 mins)

👁️4.2 Watch: POSTURE, FEET, and FORM in Barre

👁️4.3 Watch: Mapping the Body: Movement & Direction

👁️4.4 Watch: Posture, the Spine & Postural Deviations

👁️4.5 Watch: The Tuck: Neutral, Natural & Over-Tucked

💡4.6 Spine & Posture: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

💎4.7 Reflect: Postural Deviations (3-5 mins)

🧠4.8 Foot Anatomy: Pre-Test (2-3 mins)

👁️4.9 Watch: Basic FOOT Anatomy

👁️4.10 Watch: Foot Actions, Arches & Safe Alignment

👁️4.11 Watch: Ballet Foot Positions & Safe Turnout

💡4.12 Foot Positions & Safe Range: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

💎4.13 Reflect: Teaching Posture (3-5 mins)

🎓4.14 Instructor Essentials – Knowledge Check (5-8 mins)

🚀4.15 Apply: Instructor Practice (8-10 mins)

📈4.16 Wrap-up Module: You've Covered Posture. What's Next? (2-3 mins)

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Posture Quick Reference (optional)

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Supplemental Reading: Chapter 4 – Posture, Feet, and Form

📖 5.0 Read: Module Overview (2–3 minutes)

🧠5.1 Before You Begin: Quick Reflection & Pre-Test (2-3 mins)

👁️5.2 Watch: Your Body Has a Map. Ballet terminology, anatomical planes & directions

💡5.3 Ballet terminology, anatomical planes & directions: Check your understanding (3 mins)

🧠5.4 Why Some Exercises Feel Harder: Pre-Test (2-3 mins)

👁️5.5 Watch: Biomechanics Basics + Lever Systems

💡5.6 Biomechanics basics + Lever Systems: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

🧠5.7 Know Your Muscles, Transform Your Cues: Pre-test (2-3 mins)

👁️5.8 Watch: MUSCLE structure, adaptability & exercise-muscle connection

💡5.9 Muscle structure, adaptability & exercise-muscle connection: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

Supplemental Reading: Chapter 5 – Upper Body Anatomy

💎5.10 Reflect: Anatomy, Movement & Muscles. From Theory to Your Teaching (3-5 mins)

📖5.11 Read: Chest & Back. Opening the Upper Body (3-5 mins)

👁️5.12 Watch: PUSHUPS

💡5.13 Pushups: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️5.14 Watch: PLANK

💡5.15 Plank: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️5.16 Watch: Floor DIPS/ Triceps DIPS

💡5.17 Floor Dips / Triceps Dips: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️5.18 Watch: BICEP CURLS WITH TUBING OR WEIGHTS

💡5.19 BICEP CURLS: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

👁️5.20 Watch: BARRE PUSHUPS

💡5.21 Barre Pushups: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️5.22 Watch: Upper Body Stretches

💎5.23 Reflect: From the Mat to Your Class (2-3 mins)

🎓 5.24 Instructor Essentials – Knowledge Check

🚀 5.25 Apply: Instructor Practice

📈5.26 Wrap-up Module : You've Covered Upper Body. What's Next? (2-3 mins)

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Upper Body Quick Reference (optional)

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Supplemental Reading: Chapter 6 – Upper Body Exercises & Stretches

Upper Body – Take Your Training Further (Advanced & PBI)

📖 6.0 Read: Module Overview (2–3 minutes)

🧠6.1 Before You Begin: Quick Reflection & Pre-Test (2-3 mins)

👁️6.2 Watch: Lower Body Muscle Groups. The Foundation

💡6.3 Lower Body Muscle Groups: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️6.4 Watch: Lower Body BONES. The Structural Foundation

💡6.5 Lower Body BONES: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️6.6 Watch: Lower Body Actions. What Movements Actually Happen

💡6.7 Lower Body Actions: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️6.8 Watch: Deep External Rotators

💡6.9 Deep External Rotators: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️6.10 Watch: Gluteal Muscles: Power & Stability

💡6.11 Gluteal Muscles: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️6.12 Watch: Hip Flexors. Lifting the Leg with Control

💡6.13 Hip Flexors: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️6.14 Watch: Quadriceps. Supporting Strength & Knee Control

💡6.15 Quadriceps: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️6.16 Watch: Hamstrings. Control, Support & Balance

💡6.17 Hamstrings: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️6.18 Watch: Inner Thighs (Adductors). Control & Connection

💡6.19 Inner Thighs: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️6.20 Watch: Calf Muscles: Stability, Support & Endurance

💡6.21 Calf Muscles: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

Supplemental Reading: Chapter 7 – Lower Body Anatomy

💎 6.22 Reflect: From Anatomy to Teaching (2-3 mins)

📖 6.23 Read: Movement in Action. Connecting Muscles, Joints & Control (3 mins)

👁️ 6.24 Watch: CALF RAISES

👁️6.25 Watch: CALF RAISES WITH EQUIPMENT

👁️6.26 Watch: HALF-UP CALF RAISES

💡6.27 Calf Raises, Half-Up & With Equipment: Check your understanding (5-7 mins)

👁️6.28 Watch: TURN IN / TURN OUT (Hip Rotation & Control)

💡6.29 Turn In / Turn Out — Hip Rotation & Control: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

👁️6.30 Watch: PLIÉS ON DEMI POINTE (PARALLEL)

👁️6.31 Watch: PLIÉS ON DEMI POINTE with KNEE PULSES (PARALLEL)

👁️6.32 Watch: PLIÉS ON DEMI POINTE (FIRST POSITION)

👁️6.33 Watch: PLIÉS ON DEMI POINTE (FIRST POSITION + PULSE-BACK)

💡6.34 Pliés on Demi Pointe — All Variations: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

👁️6.35 Watch: À LA SEBESQUE TENDU LIFTS

👁️6.36 Watch: À LA SEBESQUE PULSES

👁️6.37 Watch: Plié / Straighten on Standing Leg (à la sebesque)

💡6.38 À La Sebesque — Tendu Lifts & Pulses: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

👁️6.39 Watch: ATTITUDE LEG LIFT

👁️6.40 Watch: ATTITUDE CIRCLES

💡6.41 Attitude Leg Lift & Attitude Circles: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

👁️6.42 Watch: ARABESQUE BATTEMENTS

👁️6.43 Watch: ARABESQUE PULSES

👁️6.44 Watch: BACK ATTITUDE PULSES

👁️6.45 Watch: ALTERNATING ARABESQUE & ATTITUDE PULSES

💡6.46 Arabesque Battements, Pulses & Alternating Arabesque/Attitude: Check your understanding (2-3 mins)

👁️6.47 Watch: WALL SIT

👁️6.48 Watch: STAG POSITION UNDER THE BARRE

👁️6.49 Watch: BRIDGE

💡6.50 Wall Sit, Stag Position & Bridge: Check your understanding (3-5 mins)

📖 6.51 Read: Lower Body Stretching: Release & Reset (3-5 mins)

🎓6.52 Instructor Essentials – Knowledge Check (10-12 mins)

🚀6.53 Apply: Instructor Practice (5-10 mins)

📈 6.54 Wrap-up Module: You've Covered Lower Body. What's Next? (2-3 mins)

Lower Body – Safety, Liability & Special Populations

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Lower Body Quick Reference (optional)

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Supplemental Reading: Chapter 8 – Lower Body Exercises & Stretches