Blazing the way in education innovation and unique in the educational market in both purpose and scope, Pilates Excel is a secondary educational curriculum specifically designed to fulfill the unmet educational needs of Pilates teachers, regardless of your placement along the education continuum.

As many teachers realize rather quickly after beginning their teaching careers, primary programs -even the biggest and best– are often short on content, meaning & practical application. Traditionally-based and technically updated for today’s marketplace challenges, Pilates Excel fills those educational gaps and rounds out your understanding of the work. Pilates Excel helps you find your passion within the work and teaches you how to successfully position yourself in the market, regardless of your teaching model.
Pilates Excel is also appropriate for certain teachers currently in the process of primary training. Used as a mentoring program, Pilates Excel unfolds concurrently with and dovetailing to a comprehensive primary program and together, form a super-solid foundation.

Of utmost importance and specifically addressing one of the most overlooked aspects of teaching, Pilates Excel includes a business development curriculum geared toward helping you build a secure and dedicated book of business regardless of your teaching model.

Go to http://pilatesexcel.com/curriculum.html for testimonials and further details. Call (206) 525-PPNW email Rebecca@PilatesExcel.com for more information and to register.

Signal Mountain Pilates - Chattanooga, Tennessee
Friday July 10 - Monday, July 13, 2009

Friday, July 10th, 6 hour workshop, Pilates Anatomy & Fundamentals
Saturday, July 11th, 6 hour workshop, Making Mat Meaningful
Sunday, July 12th, 6 hour workshop, The Critical Eye: Mapping Imbalances in the Body
Monday, July 13th, Guest Teaching

This 3-day Pilates education extravaganza begins on Friday with a complete renewal of your Pilates anatomy & fundamentals including how to explain and teach safe movements of the spine, hips and arms, on Saturday we reinvigorate not only your mat teaching but also give you everything you need to ramp up affordable + profitable mat programming and we end on Sunday with a protocol for you to advance your eye for alignment and learn how to interpret and teach to what you see.

Each workshop is 6 contact hours, all carry PMA CECs

$250 each, 2 for $475, all 3 for $600

To register or for more information contact Sydney Craig at signalmountainpilates@gmail.com or 423- 886-7500

PMA Credits? You bet!
$250 per workshop, discounts for multiples

Course descriptions:

Fundamentals of Pilates. Beginning with a multimedia presentation highlighting historical articles, interviews and significant pieces of Joe & Clara’s own original marketing materials, we examine the intent, scope and meaning of the practice of Pilates as envisioned, lived and taught by its creators. Understanding Joe & Clara’s intent helps modern teachers establish and define our role, the goals of the work and our responsibility in teaching it.
Following on from there, we thoroughly deconstruct the muscular engagements and movements within the method that are foundational in nature; in one way or another they exist as the base of virtually each and every exercise.
Do your legs stay quiet and long on the mat for Roll Up? Do they float up and stay up on Teaser? Can you maintain the proper hip flexion angle on Jack Knife and Balance Control? Can you establish and maintain the scoop of your belly and length in your spine during Short Spine, Elephant, Kneeling Knees, Pull the Pedal Up? Do you understand and can you explain to clients the importance of neutral pelvis and neutral spine?
Learn to assess, address and overcome the barriers to the successful performance of these foundational elements and with that, you will be able to safely advance your clients beyond the basics and work toward the idealized aspects of the work – a beautiful Roll Up, a strong Teaser and the inversions.
Balancing the Body Side to Side. Whether subtle or dramatic, built into all bodies are strength imbalances. Achieving Pilates principles of balance, strength and control are especially challenging for clients with significant strength imbalances. An athlete competing in a single-sided sport shows us these biases with every move and, with a trained eye observing, their quiet body. But a new mother, a technology worker or a client with scoliosis may present equally significant biases though caused by very different means.
In any case and lived forward, these imbalances spawn a cycle of increased muscular and structural dysfunction, improper biomechanics leading to further adaptation and sadly, often debilitating pain.

Very few historic Pilates exercises include unilateral patterns but many bilateral Pilates exercises can be safely and effectively broken apart to overcome the bias, working with the weak side more aggressively than the strong.

This workshop focuses on training your eye to assess side-to-side weaknesses wherever they exist and whatever the cause. You’ll learn the safety and progression theories to address those weaknesses and you’ll also practice doing and teaching many bilateral exercises – broken apart – to feature unilateral work. Beyond the applicable historic Mat exercises, we’ll take from Reformer, Wunda Chair and Trap Table as well as smaller props that clients can use on their own away from the studio.

Prepare to see, think and solve problems with new skills, awareness and dedication!

Restoring Order | Historic Reformer. The historic work as a foundation is imperative if the goal of your Pilates studio is to use Joseph Pilates and his work as the ideal. This workshop is especially valuable for teachers who lack an educational base in Classical Pilates and covers how to teach Basic + a Few Intermediate Historic Reformer Exercises, including the purpose of each exercise, Mounts & Dismounts, Equipment settings, Safety & basic modifications, Basic corrections, Number of repetitions, Transitions. Specifically, this workshop will cover the basic historic repertoire which includes the following exercises: Footwork: toes, arches, heels, tendon stretch, Hundred, Leg Circles and Frogs, Short Box: Hug, Flat back, Side to Side, Spine Twist*, Tree, Stomach Massage: Rounded, Reach Back, Reach Up, Twist*, Elephant, Kneeling Knee Stretches: Flexion, Extension, Knees Off, Eve’s Lunge*, Prep for Knees Off*, Running, Pelvic Lift

For more information & to register: Robin L. Truxel, MSPT
tru Pilates
310 Second Street SE, Unit H
Charlottesville,VA 22902
(434) 975-3800
www.trupilates.com

2 Workshops & Guest Teaching
September 5 & 6, 2009
Taught in English with Italian translation by native speaker

Saturday, September 5, 2009
9:30 am - 1:30 pm
Pilates Anatomy & Fundamentals | Problem Solving

Saturday, September 5, 2009
2:30 - 6:30 pm
From Mat to Reformer & Back. Preserving the ease & grace of open chain Mat movement on closed chain Reformer & preserving resistance of closed chain Reformer movement on the Mat.

Sunday, September 6, 2009
10 am - 5 pm
The Critical Eye | Mapping the Body for Alignment & Balance.
What do you see? What do you know about what you see? How does what you see show up in movement? This workshop focuses on taking the time to really see what's in front of you, mapping it, analyzing it for movement and teaching every Pilates exercise to address what you see. We'll review the common alignment concerns including spine, pelvis, knees and feet. Don't teach mystified! This workshop prepares you to teach safely, confidently and with ease, even the most malaligned client.

130 Euro each for Saturday's 2 classes, 150 Euro for Sunday's workshop, 350 Euro for all 3
Contact by email studiopilates38@libero.it to register.

Upcoming Workshops in 2010 -

Specific dates to be announced:
March 2010 - York, England & Ayr, Scotland
April 2010 - Pilates Excel, Cadaver Anatomy, Open Studio Week, in Rebecca's Seattle studio
May/June 2010 - Australia, the Seychelles, Greece, Switzerland & Italy
July 2010 - Pilates Excel, Cadaver Anatomy, Open Studio Week, in Rebecca's Seattle studio
October 2010 - Pilates Excel, Cadaver Anatomy, Open Studio Week, in Rebecca's Seattle studio