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January 9 – 10, 2010 · Long Beach, CA

(Early Registration Deadline: December 19, 2009)

Location: Long Beach Dance Conditioning

 

Registration Fee: $425.00 + $25.00 Late Fee

This enlightening 2-day workshop revolves around the spine, emphasizing the understanding of the more mysterious lateral curves or scoliosis. This in-depth journey will clarify any doubts or hesitations in the application of Pilates Work benefiting the client with scoliosis. The hands-on approach of this workshop emphasizes simplicity, clarity and safety. The work will also address a protocol suggestion for the Harrington Rod population. The use of repertoire with Pilates equipment will enrich your teaching vocabulary, lift your confidence and optimize your expertise. This is considered an intermediate course.

Objectives:

• Gain confidence in the application of Pilates movement repertoire with Scoliotic clientele
• To gain a better understanding of the strategies of spinal rotations
• To integrate Pilates exercise protocol through the existing repertoire
• To apply and customize Pilates repertoire to meet the Scoliosis client's needs
• Introducing the specific Scoliosis corrective and directive cueing technique
• Learn new approaches and modifications to improve movement balance and spinal mobility

Day 1:

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:30 Introduction

9:30-10:30 Different Curves of the Idiopathic Scoliosis

11:30-11:45 BREAK

11:45-1:00 The Role of Breathing as Correction Key

1:00-1:45 LUNCH (On Your Own)

• Breathing in the Width (Space)
• One Lung (Direction Specific)
• Breathing into the Length

3:00-4:00 Principles of Translation/Rotation/Unleveling

Day 2:

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:45 Corrective and Therapeutic Exercises

10:45-11:00 BREAK

11:00-12:00 Corrective and Therapeutic Exercises CONTINUED

12:00-1:00 Work on the Cadillac

1:00-1:45 LUNCH

1:45-3:45 Work on the Reformer Spine Corrector Ladder Barrel

3:45-4:00 Closing Q & A

CEUs/PDUs/Contact Hours:

A certificate of attendance will be presented to each participant for 12.0 contact hours. California Education Connection is recognized by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education for CERTIFIED ATHLETIC TRAINERS. This course also satisfies the requirements to obtain PDUs in the State of California for the Occupational Therapists. California Education Connection is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education.This course is eligible for 1.2 CEUs from the AOTA. The AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures. The Pilates Method Alliance has approved this course (#695) for 12 CECs (Provider Name: Core Dynamics Pilates, #50707).

Speakers:

MICHELE LARSSON, Founder of Core Dynamics, has over thirty years of experience teaching fitness, movement, dance and rehabilitation. She began teaching movement in 1965, instructing children's dance for the New York Public Schools. She was an assistant teacher of Labanotation - a form of movement notation - at the Julliard School of Music.

Larsson continued teaching dance until her retirement at age forty-five. She has taught modern, jazz, ballet, and choreography in professional studios and universities. In 1979, she began teaching Pilates Method floorwork and post-injury classes. She is experienced in teaching all phases of the extensive Pilates Method repertoire on ten pieces of apparatus. She is the individual most responsible for approving individuals to receive Institute for the Pilates Method Certification. She also taught stretch and tone, aerobics (IDEA certified), fitness for the elderly and post injury classes throughout the 1980's.

MARIE-JOSÉ BLOM has been combining Pilates technique and dance medicine for well over twenty years. Alan Herdman, a leading Pilates master in London, England, mainly influenced her teaching methodology and style. Marie-José's mission statement is "the implementation of movement sciences elevating Pilates into the twenty-first century."

Marie-José Blom pioneered and founded her comprehensive Teacher Training courses as a master teacher in 1991 at Long Beach Dance Conditioning. These courses have enjoyed national and international acclaim for their content and presentation. She remains committed to research and continuing education in her specialty subjects of pelvic and lumbar stability and movement techniques. This cutting edge information is always updated and integrated into the Advances in Pilates Certification course.

Marie-José has taught dance conditioning and injury prevention for California summer school for the Arts. She is currently on faculty at Southern California's Loyola Marymount University where she teaches anatomy/Kinesiology and physiology for the department of dance concurrently with her directorship of LBDC and her teacher training courses. Marie-José has established programs at various international facilities and is in demand for lectures both locally and internationally for institutes, physical therapists and movement educators.

The Early Bird Registration deadline for all courses is three weeks prior to the start of the course. All registrations must be postmarked or received three weeks prior to the course date, if received after the registration deadline, a $25.00 Late Fee will be applied to the registration fee.

Refund & Cancellation Policies:

California Education Connection reserves the right to cancel this seminar due to an insufficient number of registrants. Under these circumstances, a full refund in the form of a check will be addressed and mailed to the registered participant. Please note that California Education Connection is not responsible for any hotel, airline or other expenses incurred.

All cancellations by registered participant must be dated and submitted in writing. For cancellations received 14 days or more before the seminar date, the registration fee will be returned less a $50.00 administrative fee. A refund in the form of a check will be mailed to the registered participant.

Within 14 days of the seminar, no refunds will be made. California Education Connection reserves the right to change a course date, location or instructor. If the seminar is either interrupted or cancelled by an act of nature, war, or any issue beyond the control of California Education Connection, no refund will be issued.