Certification Courses

ANATOMY IN MOTION

The study of human anatomy and movement comes alive in this course and sets the stage for teaching Pilates within a framework for functional movement. You will learn how the musculoskeletal system functions to produce movement at all the major joints. Emphasis on the trunk, the pelvis and hips, and the shoulder complex will prepare you for both the Mat Work Specializations and the Equipment Specializations.

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MAT WORK FOUNDATIONS
Mat Work Foundations is the first part of the Complete Mat Work Repertoire Training. You begin by learning 26 Foundations exercises that focus on correct movement mechanics in the spine and pelvic and shoulder girdles. Next you review key exercises to facilitate core stabilization needed to execute the Classical Pilates repertoire. You will learn to analyze exercises to gain a clear understanding of what each exercise looks like, how to execute each one properly, how to detect improper execution, and how to modify effectively. You learn the historical roots and the nine major principles of The Pilates Method, and a framework for designing Mat Work classes that build toward the Classical repertoire safely and functionally.

Prerequisites
Anatomy for Human Movement
15 hours of Pilates mat classes

MAT WORK CLASSICS AND INNOVATIONS
Mat Work Classics and Innovations is the second part of the Complete Mat Work Training. It is a certificate course that focuses on teaching applications of the Pilates Mat Work Repertoire. You build on the framework presented in Mat Work Foundations and review all Classical Pilates Mat Work exercises so that you know how to use them effectively with any person, in any teaching setting. The weekend includes master classes, lecture, small group labs, practice teaching and observation. Each student will have the opportunity to teach the group and receive personalized feedback on his/her teaching skills. At the completion of the course you leave with a clear understanding of how to design well-rounded, safe, and dynamic Mat Work classes for any level.

Prerequisites

Anatomy for Human Movement
Mat Work Foundation

VERTICAL INTENSIVE
The Vertical Intensive is the standing application of Pilates and the third level in the Complete Mat Work Training. Packed with challenging exercises, this workshop will provide you with a new dimension to movement education and Pilates-based conditioning. We begin with Foundation exercises that focus on leg alignment, balance and the “how to’s” of finding support on one leg. The exercises build in complexity and difficulty that increasingly require a finely tuned sense of counter-balancing throughout the body. We will also explore key movement principles of Rudolf Laban and Hubert Godard so you leave with a rich context within which to introduce your participants to Vertical Pilates.

REFORMER INTENSIVE
In this course you will learn the complete roster of Reformer Foundations, Intermediate and Advanced exercises. You will analyze exercises in detail within the context of functional anatomy and biomechanics so that you learn to cue and see precise and accurate movement. You will apply your learning as you complete the practice teaching and self practice hours. A written examination takes place one month after classroom hours are complete. With successful completion of all required hours and the written examination, practical examinations will be scheduled and completed thereafter.

POSTURE & GAIT 
In this two-day intensive workshop you will analyse posture and gait mechanics from both a structural and functional perspective. We start with an overview of archetypal “ideal” and “faulty” postures and review the structural underpinnings of each. We observe posture in three distinct ways so you leave with a dynamic understanding of how to observe your clients when they stand or sit. We move from there into an analysis of human gait that traces our patterns of ambulation form our feet, up through our legs and hips, into the pelvis and up the length of the spine into the shoulders. Based on the Spinal Engine theory of Gracovetsky, this workshop helps you see gait mechanics as a whole body experience. Your power of observation and your understanding of how movement is integrated as we walk will expand dramatically. You will leave with a completely new way of seeing bodies in motion and a new repertoire of simple exercises that have profound effects on both our postural patterns and gait mechanics.

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NEUROPHYSIOLOGY of PILATES
Our nervous system is a vital underpinning to our daily movement and function and yet it remains the most elusive and least understo od of the bodily systems. The nervous system is our information superhighway that controls all the information that we take from our environment and integrates it into meaningful functional movement. Through the manipulation of sensory input we can effect a change in the structural organization of the nervous system and thus how we move. In this way, the brain’s structure becomes the information that it receives. 

This 2-day workshop is based on the latest research on the brain and how it can adapt and change its structure in response to information. You will gain a basic understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system as well as the system pathways responsible for both perceiving our environment and moving within our environment. 

An appreciation of the neurological underpinnings of movement will help your cuing become more powerful in order to affect the responses you want in your clients. You will also learn how to design exercises that better access the nervous system to facilitate improved motor control and awareness.

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MAGIC CIRCLES & SWIVEL DISK
This workshop combines the old and the new with over ninety exercises to explore. The Magic Circle™ is one of Joseph Pilates’ original pieces of portable equipment and is a marvelous tool for rebalancing and creating both deep and superficial support in the ball and socket joints and up the midline of the body. The Swivel Discs are a modern addition to the Pilates mix of small apparatus and are unsurpassed in terms of refining muscle recruitment and enhancing neuromuscular re-patterning at all the major joints of the body.

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 Dates for 2012 TBA

STABILITY BALLS AND FOAM ROLLERS
Simple, portable and inexpensive, stability balls and foam rollers add challenge and depth to all your Pilates mat classes. You will learn more than fifty exercises that build from simple to complex and from relatively stable to extremely unstable. Equipped with both conceptual and kinesthetic understanding you will leave this workshop ready to teach core stability and balance training in a way that engages the body from every plane and from and every direction. You will leave knowing how to work from centre to periphery and vise versa to create integration in the core of the body.

Dates and Times

  Sun. Nov 13th 2011 11:30 - 6:30

THERABANDS AND WEIGHTED BALLS
Over the course of this workshop you are introduced to more than fifty exercises, each one focused on creating connections through the core of the body via the limbs and then back again. Our theoretical framework focuses on the mechanics of shoulder girdle and hip joints and how to enhance optimal function in these areas using the varied resistance and elasticity of the Therabands™. You will leave with a clear understanding and kinesthetic experience of how to use the Therabands™ to create both support and range of motion in the ball and socket joints so their connection and interdependence with the core of the body is efficient and clear.

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Please call studio for a full list of this year’s scheduled courses 519-829-2928. 

 Caitlin Bovée BA & Sc lives to move.   Athletic from a young age Caitlin has always enjoy team sports, solo activities as well as movement and dance.   She began teaching fitness at the age of 18 through the YMCA/YWCA and ACE and continued to delve deeper into movement therapies throughout her twenties while completing a bachelors of arts and science from the University of McMaster.    In her early twenties she completed her Matwork and Equipment training at Body Harmonics, Toronto.    Caitlin focused on rehabilitation throughout her Pilates and fitness training . She has trained with Margot McKinnon (Toronto),   Marie Jose Blom Lawrence (Long Beach, California),   Eric Franklin , Brent Anderson (Polestar, Miami Florida) and countless others to develop her skills at assessing a clients’ movement  patterns and helping her clients create efficient and pain free movement.  At the age of 25, Caitlin experienced a stroke on her right side.  She received the chance to use her post rehabilitation knowledge on herself.  Those years of recovery gave Caitlin an inside view of the process of rehabilitation.  Though difficult, Caitlin looks upon her stroke as a life changing event which has been a teacher and provided her with an immense education.   After years of practice, Caitlin Bovée works primarily with post rehabilitation clients referred from Guelph chiropractors and physiotherapists.  As well she offers a class specific to Stroke survivors through the Guelph stroke recovery association.    In 2009, Caitlin was nominated for a Women of Distinction award through the YMCA/YWCA of Guelph by her clients and colleagues.   She lives and works by the motto that “our bodies are amazing ” At Pilates in Guelph, Caitlin leads a team of talented and similarly minded instructors that provided leading edge instruction through mat, reformer and rebounding group classes and private sessions.

You can register for Pilates in Guelph Instructor Training by contacting Body Harmonics at

 1-416-537-0714 or 1-877-537-0714