Pints & Pilates
Sunday August 24th @ 10am
$25
Quieting the Static
-a Weekend Mentorship with a Master-
September 27th 10am-5:30pm & September 28th 9am-4:30pm
$300/day, or $500 for the entire weekend
This will be a unique opportunity to explore Pilates and the teaching of Pilates on a very personal level. It will be a weekend of mentorship.
The first day we will spend some time learning how Kathy Grant taught the First Lesson and how that not only set clients up for tremendous success in the future, but gave her insight on how to work with that particular client, and how to progress them through the exercises.
The mentorship aspect will come from you personally: where do you struggle or feel uncomfortable?
*This could be either with doing specific exercises, with teaching exercises, or with particular types of clients, or with situations such as car accidents, surgeries or injuries.
Professional Therapists often join a supervision group where each therapist may bring in a challenging client and have the mentor advise different ways to work with the client. Everyone in the group learns from this. We can do this with Pilates this weekend. Bring in your difficult cases or clients with whom you have some questions.
*Where do you lack confidence?
*What do you love about teaching Pilates? What is most challenging or difficult for you?
*If you are in a training program presently, where are you needing support?
Come with your questions, ideas, doubts, curiosities on how to teach Pilates, on the exercises themselves, on teaching skills, on taking your seat as a teacher. As the weekend progresses, Kim will also bring in some biodynamic cranial sacral skills to help you create a more co-regulated field while teaching.
Learn how to allow Pilates to do you instead of you doing Pilates.
This weekend will be fun, interactive, open to flow, new ideas and will be co-creative. Last minute questions of course will be accepted.
About Kim Haroche:
Kim Haroche is a second generation, Master Pilates Teacher. She began her exploration of Pilates in her late teens under the loving and firm hands of Kathy Grant who personally mentored Kim and invited her to be her assistant and substitute teacher. Kim has the great honor of being one of the only people Kathy ever trained in the art of teaching the intricacies of her work as well as the classical Pilates method. One of the main gifts Kathy passed on to Kim was a deep sense of integrity in teaching the method and relating personally and sensitively to each client.
Since 1979 Kim has been teaching Pilates – her teaching credits include Kathy Grant’s Gym at Henri Bendel in New York City and The Pilates Center in Boulder where she was on staff as a Senior Teacher, Presenter and Tester of The Pilates Center Training Program and Masters Program.
She now guest teaches and offers workshops at different studios internationally as well as a Professional Advanced Training in Nervous System Regulation and Trauma as it relates to Pilates. She enjoys spending time in Nepal, India and Boulder, Colorado. She maintains a private therapy practice combining biodynamic cranial sacral therapy, trauma therapy, body centered psychotherapy, as well as couples therapy based on the PACT method. She continues to teach Pilates teachers out of her home studio in Boulder as well as internationally.
Balansit® Workshop
November 15-16
9am-6pm on Saturday & 8am-5pm on Sunday
Course led by Loribeth Cohen, PT
The Balansit is a dynamic and active sitting device, engineered to provide effortless, natural posture in Sitting, and can also be used as an assistive device in Exercise. The Balansit can also be used Kneeling, Side Lying and Prone. The unique design of the device facilitates instability in 2 planes, encouraging the user to maintain control of the pelvis in these planes, whilst sitting, kneeling, prone or side-lying. It can be used to perform Pilates Mat Exercises, and can be used on Pilates and Exercise Equipment to provide feedback to the user whilst moving. Finally its unique multi-planar instability allows it to be used in Functional Pelvic Assessment.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Learn how an unstable device like the Balansit can be used to encourage the user to control the pelvis in particular planes while moving. This course will explore how using a device like the Balansit can facilitate overall improvement in Functional Movement. This course will also take traditional Pilates exercises, both Mat and Apparatus and apply them to the Balansit During this course, participants will explore the concept of creating stability through improving mobility, as well as, the role that Disassociation plays in enhancing stability training. Balance Training will be utilised as a means to effectively enhance motor learning and improved performance. Techniques such as Sequential Training, Proper Queuing, Regression/Progression, as well as an understanding of the concept of Tolerance and Effective Loading will be provided as a means to assist instructors in teaching complex multi-plane movements. The “Four Pillars of Movement” and their relationship to efficient performance will be the corner stone to teaching Functional Movement. Faulty or inefficient Movement Patterns will be identified in regards to postural type. Understand the Anatomy of the Pelvis, understand the Pelvic Rings. Learn to Functionally Assess the Pelvis, and understand how the relationship between the Pelvis and Femurs can affect function. Assess Motor Control, Stability and Endurance of the Pelvis. These will be the basis of all exercises in the Balansit Course. Therefore, the focus of the exercises presented will be on Motor Control, Disassociation and Eccentric Activation for Greater Strength and Control through Low Threshold, Slow Movement Training. Students will also be given information for the structure, as well as, the queuing techniques to facilitate a group Balansit class. This course will also start to identify Direct Clinical Deficiencies, such as Control of the Pelvis, Gait Pattern Dysfunction, 3 D Sling Deficiencies and Compromised Function leading to Pelvic Compensation. Detailed and Specific Exercises that address the Correction of these deficiencies will be covered.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Participants will be able to:
Demonstrate correct set up, safety and care of the Balansit
Understand how Balance training on the Balansit can be a useful tool for Pelvic Function and for enhancing motor learning.
Learn the Anatomy of the Pelvis. Learn about the Pelvic Rings. Learn to functionally assess the Pelvis and its relationships with the Femurs. Assess Pelvic Instability v Pelvic Compensation. Assess and Address Pelvic Rotation
Activate the Pelvic floor in multiple planes. Isometrically Load the Pelvic Floor. Assess Pelvic Instability V Pelvic Compensation. Assess and Address Pelvic Rotation
Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of Tolerance and Load using Pilates Apparatus with the Balansit.
Understand the importance of Sequential Training and demonstrate how to safely modify an exercise by using regression or progression.
To demonstrate a knowledge of the various characteristics that identify compensatory movement patterns.
Understand how the concepts and methods identified in this course can be used with any form of Functional Training.
Effectively teach the exercises described in this course to individuals and a large group.
Nominal Hours of Delivery 16 hours of practical labs and short lectures.
YOU WILL NEED A BALANSIT FOR THIS COURSE.
Please bring one with you or purchase one from our US Distributor BALANCED BODY for delivery to your home, please allow up to two weeks delivery prior to the course: https://www.pilates.com/products/balansit
A size guide is visible when you click on each size.
For more information on the Balansit please see our Australian website: https://www.balansit.com.au/
The 2 Day Balansit Course is registered for 16 NPCP CEC’s.
-About Loribeth Cohen, PT-
Loribeth Cohen, founder of re:fit wellness studio in Glenview, Illinois, feels passionately about Oov training. As a Physical Therapist with certifications in Pilates, Integrative Manual Therapy and Ayurvedic Medicine, Loribeth combines eastern and western practices to create holistic healing for her patients. With over 25 years of experience, Loribeth empowers her patients to listen to their body rhythms to detect acute imbalances so they can be resolved. Oov training is one of the methods used for balance, strength, and mobility work. Loribeth completed all 3 phases of Oov training and feels honored to instruct other wellness practitioners on this revolutionary piece of equipment.