Pilates Exercises / Weekend Intensives

PILATES EXERCISES / Weekend Workshops and Intensives (12-18 hours)

Seven Continuing Education workshops for the acquisition, expansion and clarification of Pilates exercise vocabulary on Mat and all pieces of Apparatus. Advanced teacher-training is focused on the underlying patterns and layered skill development in building successful performance of each exercise. Lecture-Demonstration format discusses the nature of each apparatus, demonstrates traditional forms, and provides movement analyses for classical and evolved exercises.

The 7 Pilates Exercise and Equipment-based workshops are:

Foundation & Fundamentals
Classical Mat
Universal Reformer
The Barrels
The Chairs
The Cadillac
Small Apparatus

Weekend workshops (2 days) are designed to review Classical Pilates exercises with tips for better cueing, performance and apparatus use. Weekend Intensives (3 days) are comprehensive investigations of Classical and evolved forms.

Traveling workshops can be tailored to guest studio’s needs and equipment inventory. Exercise lists are provided and participants volunteer for demonstration. This offers a personal physical experience as well as expanded observation and cueing skills. These units are geared for experienced certified professionals and constitute a comprehensive investigation of exercise possibilities on the chosen apparatus.

The 7 equipment-based workshops are designed to be an encyclopedic listing of exercise vocabularies associated with each apparatus supported with demonstration of the skill-building exercises essential to achieve and perform full classical form and advanced variations. Specifics of machine set-up, body position and orientation, and detailed movement analyses are discussed. Each Pilates exercise is analyzed from initiation to conclusion noting the intention and direction of the action and any spatial or level changes required in the performance for resolution and return.

Pilates Workshops include:

FOUNDATIONS & FUNDAMENTALS

Elemental Pre-Pilates exercises that develop the skills required to perform the classical mat regimen with safety and accuracy (3 days). Includes useful exercises for observation and assessment and a review of the 9 Pilates Principles. The roots of movement and foundations of it all.

MAT

Pilates Mat forms, the beauty of the basic regimen in a recounting of classical mat forms and expanded variations to challenge the accomplished practitioner (2 days). Additional (1 day) pedagogy for construction of Group Mat for distinct populations and levels.

REFORMER

Universal Reformer forms, variations and uses (4 days). A new look at tradition and the use of the reformer as a diagnostic tool for structural and functional problems (closed kinetic chain). Expanded and evolved forms are also included for fitness and correctives.

BARRELS

Large/ Ladderback, Step/ Humpback, and Half Barrel forms (3 days). A broad overview of shared forms in the Barrel System as well as exercises and features particular to each piece of equipment. Exercises concentrate on spinal mobilization and stabilization coupled with large joint range appendage movement

CHAIRS

Hihback/ Electric and Backless/ Wunda Chair exercise forms, variations, and uses (2 days). A comprehensive look at these related but not identical pieces with exercises unique to each. Classical and evolved vocabulary plus the specific vocabulary for the Arm Chair may be included upon request (1 day).

CADILLAC

Trapeze Table forms, variations and uses (4 days). Benefits for corrective exercise and performance enhancement including specialty forms for dance. Classical vocabulary and evolved forms are both deconstructed and integrated into fluid movement.This comprehensive look at traditional exercises includes the classical forms for spring-bar, swing-bar, and trapeze on the table as well as standing exercises off both ends, hanging from the top bars and side rails, and standing on the bed.

SMALL APPARATUS

Exposure to the often-underutilized small apparatus including the Magic Circle, Foot Corrector, Wobble Board, Rotation Discs (arms, legs, spine), “Functional Footprints”, the Toe Corrector, Poles and Weighted Bars, Foam Rollers, Straps, and “Therabands” (3 days).

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