Continuing Education Workshops
For Fitness Instructors
Continuing Education Workshops
Balance Pilates is excited to host Cara Reeser and Jeremy Laverdure and their Movement Science Made Simple Program!
Dates: January 26 & 27, 2019
Times: Saturday 12 noon to 7 pm, Sunday 9am to 4pm
One hour will be given on Sunday for lunch. Small pick-me-up breaks will be spontaneous.
Separate But Connected: Training Selective Control of the
Hips, Pelvis, and Low Back
Freedom and stability in the trunk depend on freedom and stability in the hips. In this course, we will use the model of lumbo-pelvi-femoral rhythm as a means of organizing the legs, pelvis, and low back in whole body movements. This model integrates and improves upon both static models of lumbar stabilization (neutral pelvis/spine) and the Classical Pilates view of spinal mobility (“one vertebra at a time”). As teachers, our tools are demonstration, touch, and language. To be effective teachers our demonstration must be fully embodied, our touch supportive, and our language direct or poetic as needed. Movement Science Made Simple joins current concepts in anatomy, kinesiology, and motor learning with time-tested movement training strategies, giving workshop participants new skills to work with diverse client populations.
To Register Click Here or go to www.movementsciencemadesimple.com
Cara Reeser is the owner and Senior Instructor at Pilates Aligned, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Dance, from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. It was at NYU that Cara began her initial studies in the Pilates Method with first generation Master Teacher, Kathleen Stanford Grant. In 1993, Cara moved to Boulder, Colorado where she continued her Pilates training at The Pilates Center. After certification, Cara taught there for six years before opening her own studio. Cara is a continuing education provider for Pilates instructors offering a variety of workshops and mentoring programs for professionals worldwide as well as online with Pilates Anytime. As a second-generation Pilates instructor and lineage carrier of the Kathy Grant work, Cara is the lead teacher and director of a post graduate training program called The Heritage Training®. Cara was a member of the Department of Dance faculty at Naropa University for 15 years, she danced and choreographed professionally for over 20 years. For the past 10 years has been a dedicated student of the Yoga tradition, all of which has inspired her interest in the science of movement and the body-mind connection.
Jeremy Laverdure, DPT, is a physical therapist and co-owner of Sixth Street Pilates, a boutique Pilates studio in New York City’s East Village. Jeremy’s work is informed by his training at The Pilates Center of Boulder, his many years as a yogi and dancer, and his studies of Klein Technique with Barbara Mahler. While he continues to enjoy working with all types of Pilates clients, Jeremy especially enjoys teaching Pilates and Yoga instructors, bringing a broad-based movement studies approach to these disciplines. As a physical therapist, he has developed an interest in chronic pain, applying the most current research in that area to his work.
Times: Saturday 12 noon to 7 pm, Sunday 9am to 4pm
One hour will be given on Sunday for lunch. Small pick-me-up breaks will be spontaneous.
Separate But Connected: Training Selective Control of the
Hips, Pelvis, and Low Back
Freedom and stability in the trunk depend on freedom and stability in the hips. In this course, we will use the model of lumbo-pelvi-femoral rhythm as a means of organizing the legs, pelvis, and low back in whole body movements. This model integrates and improves upon both static models of lumbar stabilization (neutral pelvis/spine) and the Classical Pilates view of spinal mobility (“one vertebra at a time”). As teachers, our tools are demonstration, touch, and language. To be effective teachers our demonstration must be fully embodied, our touch supportive, and our language direct or poetic as needed. Movement Science Made Simple joins current concepts in anatomy, kinesiology, and motor learning with time-tested movement training strategies, giving workshop participants new skills to work with diverse client populations.
To Register Click Here or go to www.movementsciencemadesimple.com
Cara Reeser is the owner and Senior Instructor at Pilates Aligned, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Dance, from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. It was at NYU that Cara began her initial studies in the Pilates Method with first generation Master Teacher, Kathleen Stanford Grant. In 1993, Cara moved to Boulder, Colorado where she continued her Pilates training at The Pilates Center. After certification, Cara taught there for six years before opening her own studio. Cara is a continuing education provider for Pilates instructors offering a variety of workshops and mentoring programs for professionals worldwide as well as online with Pilates Anytime. As a second-generation Pilates instructor and lineage carrier of the Kathy Grant work, Cara is the lead teacher and director of a post graduate training program called The Heritage Training®. Cara was a member of the Department of Dance faculty at Naropa University for 15 years, she danced and choreographed professionally for over 20 years. For the past 10 years has been a dedicated student of the Yoga tradition, all of which has inspired her interest in the science of movement and the body-mind connection.
Jeremy Laverdure, DPT, is a physical therapist and co-owner of Sixth Street Pilates, a boutique Pilates studio in New York City’s East Village. Jeremy’s work is informed by his training at The Pilates Center of Boulder, his many years as a yogi and dancer, and his studies of Klein Technique with Barbara Mahler. While he continues to enjoy working with all types of Pilates clients, Jeremy especially enjoys teaching Pilates and Yoga instructors, bringing a broad-based movement studies approach to these disciplines. As a physical therapist, he has developed an interest in chronic pain, applying the most current research in that area to his work.