Inspire and Energize Your Equipment Work

We at The Pilates Center were talking about what Pilates teachers and clients want and need most at this challenging time. Knowing that most of you are doing a lot of teaching online, we knew that doing and teaching inspired and energized lessons is key.

Sooo, we came up with a series of 2-hour workshops focusing on just that! Each workshop will present ideas to help you be creative and keep yourself and your clients inspired and progressing, healthy and happy. Each workshop will let you practice and feel the results for yourself.  At this difficult time in the world, this is still the path to health and world peace.

February/March Workshop

February 7: 9 – 11am MST- Treat Yourself to a Pilates Massage with Amy

February 14: 9-11am MST- Reformer on the Mat with Rachel

February 21: 9-11am MST- 4 Exercises in 1: Seamless classes at any level with Debora

February 28: 9-11am MST- Take Your Power Back: Looking at extension on the Equipment with Kelli

March 7: 9-11am MST- Finding your “Internal Shower” with Pilates Reformer with Kaile

Take Your Power Back: Looking at extension on the Equipment with Kelli

February 28^th   9 – 11am MST

In this workshop, we will explore Pilates Equipment and how to set yourself up for great extension. Since the majority of Pilates practitioners are woman, it can be harder to access the upper body and back. We will look at ways to address these issues and find more successful extension. Using some of the archival exercises increases more strength in the upper body and the back. We will explore how to better use our upper bodies and how we can focus on increasing strength in these areas while practicing Pilates.

Each will workshop will be from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. MST. The cost for individual workshops is $80. If you buy all 5 then the cost will be $375.

Developing Healthy Hips with Kelli B Hutchins

The hip’s unique anatomy enables it to be both extremely strong and amazingly flexible, so it can bear weight and allow for a wide range of movement.

The hip is located where the head of the femur, or thighbone, fits into a rounded socket of the pelvis. This ball-and-socket construction allows for three distinct types of flexibility:  Hip flexion and extension, hip abduction and adduction, hip rotation (internal and external).

In this workshop, we will explore ways of connecting to the equipment and springs to build strength and full range of mobility in the legs and hip joint.  We will look at different bodies with the same exercise and identify how that body can move from healthier hips and legs.  We will discover that, by having stronger, healthier hip joints, the spine can move more freely and we are able to utilize the whole body for better support.  Learning how to use the equipment to teach healthier hips will decrease knee and hip injuries for our clients.

Join us in person ($145) or via Zoom ($108.75) on Thursday, March 4, 2pm – 5pm EST

Receive 3 NPCP CEC’s for attending this workshop.

Optimize Your Shoulder Girdle with Rachel Taylor Segal

We can most swiftly and succinctly enable our clients to get the most out of each exercise and each workout when we can see joints articulating with balanced effort and in an orderly movement sequence.  This is especially true and vital with the shoulder joint and girdle as it affects so many other parts of the body – especially our breathing mechanism and spine!

By learning to facilitate even a small percentage of optimum movement in our client’s shoulder girdle – whether they are healthy, pregnant or postpartum, or even injured – we can help our clients relieve neck pain, shoulder cuff injuries, carpel tunnel syndrome, and more. Plus enhance and deepen their breathing! We’ll review and practice key Pilates exercises which access and strengthen the shoulder girdle in order to rehabilitate or to prepare for Level IV-V exercises, as well as learn some archival exercises created by Mr. Pilates to specifically balance and bring control and freedom to the shoulder girdle and the arm and hand.

Perfect for today’s clients who sit at computers and make small and tightly held hand movements while in less than optimum posture.

Great for Pilates teachers as well who spend all day bending over their clients and computer screens!

Beginners through Advanced clients and teachers are welcome. This workshop is PMA approved and a Mat Class is included so come prepared to move and practice all you learn!
Join us in person ($195) or via Zoom ($146.25) on Friday, March 5, 9am – 1pm EST

Receive 4 NPCP CEC’s for attending this workshop.