| The Stretch Teacher workshop is presented by Kit Laughlin and is based on Kit’s book Stretching & Flexibility. The workshop is designed for people who want to teach stretching exercise classes, following the techniques detailed in the book Stretching & Flexibility.
Weekend 1: October 14–16, 2011 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
Weekend 2: October 21–23, 2011 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
9:30 am –5:00 pm
Location:
Tru Pilates
310 2nd Street SE Unit H
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Contact:
Robin Truxel
(434) 975‑3800
info@trupilates.com
This workshop will train workshop participants in safe and effective techniques for reducing muscle tension, redressing muscular asymmetries, and improving overall flexibility using a variety of novel solo and partner-based stretches for the whole body. You will learn how to ‘back-’ and ‘forward-engineer’ any pose to suit individuals in your classes and will also learn how to assemble collections of exercises to make exciting and effective classes. We want you to demonstrate that you can teach your clients how to help themselves.
You will be able to apply these techniques, suitable for every body, immediately, from rehabilitation to performance enhancement.
Presenter
Kit Laughlin is a world authority in stretching and strengthening techniques. He is the author of the best-selling books Overcome Neck & Back Pain, Stretching & Flexibility, and Stretching & Pregnancy. Kit has presented workshops to over 3,000 individuals worldwide and is a strength and flexibility consultant to elite teams and athletes. He studied Oriental medicine and Shiatsu for three years in Japan and founded the Shoshin Centre in Canberra, Australia, where he assists clients to overcome pain related to muscular and skeletal asymmetries.
Prerequisites
Participants are expected to read Kit’s book Stretching and Flexibilty, and view the DVD update (these items are the course text), prior to the workshop.
Outline
Principles of the stretching approach
The approach draws on a number of bodywork disciplines and features many novel techniques, including the use of ‘partial poses’ to focus on a single joint, contract-relax (C-R) and other neural techniques to enhance flexibility, and partner-assisted exercises. You will learn techniques to increase your awareness of what is happening in the body and to increase the range of movement of the body’s joints and muscles by effective re-mapping of the brain’s image of its capacities.
Exercises for the back and torso
You will learn solo and practitioner-applied stretches for flexion and extension of the spine, whole spine rotation, lateral flexion and quadratus lumborum. We will cover key torso strengthening exercises and will focus on left-right comparison of muscular function.
Exercises for the middle back, upper back, shoulder and neck
You will learn stretches and strengthening techniques for the middle back, upper back and neck (e.g. paravertebrals, upper and middle trapezius, levator scapulae, scalenes, sub-occipitals). We will cover exercises to correct rotator cuff imbalances and rounded shoulders targeting, for example, biceps brachii and pectoralis minor.
Exercises for the hips and lower limbs
You will learn novel exercises for the hip flexors, piriformis, glutes, hamstrings, calves, quadriceps and feet. The role of the external hip rotators and adductors in ankle pronation will be addressed.
Exercises for the arm, wrist and hand
We will cover a comprehensive series of stretches for the arm, wrist and hand, including exercises for brachioradialis, and flexors and extensors of the hands and fingers.
Accreditations
The Stretch Teacher workshop is accredited with a number of bodywork associations, in Australia and overseas. Click here to view a current list, including educational credits this workshop attracts. Read More…
Location:
Tru Pilates
310 2nd Street SE Unit H
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Contact:
Robin Truxel
(434) 975‑3800
info@trupilates.com
Cost:
Both weekends: $1300
Weekend 1 only: $699
Weekend 2 only: $699– Note: open only to those who have attended Weekend 1 in the past 18 months.
REPEATING BOTH sessions (limited to five/workshop) –$800
Click on the “Register Today” button to sign up. From there select the workshops tab on the upper right hand side of the screen.
Cancellation Policy
- Participants who wish to withdraw more than eight weeks prior to the scheduled date will receive a full refund of money paid, minus a $500 administration charge unless you transfer registration to another participant.
- There will be no refund on withdrawal from a workshop if notification is received less than eight weeks prior to the scheduled commencement date.
- A full refund will be given if the course is canceled.
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