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Movement Strategies for an Efficient Birth

April 4, 2021 from 8am - 10am SGT

Movement strategies for a smooth and efficient birth including having an integrated core for childbirth and the best positions for laboring and pushing.

Join us for a two-hour journey into how to utilize the pilates studio and equipment and your skill as a movement educator to prepare your pregnant clients for labor and birth. The anatomy of the pelvis, the uterus, and its ligaments and how to create a more easeful environment here during pregnancy will be emphasized throughout. We will open the lens and also look at the whole body relationship and movement in pregnancy by focusing on the symbiotic relationship of the throat/mouth, respiratory diaphragm / Rib Cage, and the pelvis. It will be further understood by sequences that balance the psoas which lives behind the uterus and the fascial web that surrounds the pelvis and its attachments into the legs and up into the ribcage and greatly impacts the position of the uterus and fetus. Also, learn 4 essential preparations for labor that doulas and midwives use time and time again and then see how we can support and layer onto those skills with movement in the Pilates studio.

These exercises and sequences are things your clients can do throughout pregnancy to keep their body, mind, and spirit primed and ready for the challenges of labor and birth. Because we practice these multidimensional movements throughout pregnancy they also serve the pregnant body throughout the 9 months to keep it balanced and therefore mitigating aches and pains. This workshop will mostly be utilizing mat and small props but will incorporate a bit of reformer and barrel.

DRA with a Rib Cage & Pelvic Focus

Sunday, May 23, 2021 from from 8am - 10am SGT

Solve the puzzle of a dysfunctional ab wall and DRA by considering the pelvic & ribcage relationships. 

In this two-hour workshop, you will gain knowledge about what a DRA is and how to implement healing through movement in the Pilates studio, guided by science and intuition. Learn how to help your clients gain a functional diastasis and regain fascial tensioning in the area by using Pilates foundational techniques and the Pilates equipment.

There are many roads to unwinding this mystery for each client and all should be explored. In the short time we have together we will take a deep dive into the rib cage and pelvic relationship. Speaking to skeletal alignment and the soft tissues that influence the rib cage and pelvic relationship can go a long way in finding a more balanced Ab wall and deep system.

Learn specific protocols for better thoracic and pelvic motion, shoulder flexion and extension, upper back awareness and head placement, cervical motion, and hip socket motion all of which will create roads to how we use our ribs and pelvis. This will all be related back to its impact on the functioning of our ab wall and our deep system.