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Description

Do you have aging clients who struggle to bend down to tie their own shoes? Have you ever felt unsure about how to modify the exercises from your traditional Pilates training for your older clients? Do you want to learn simple and safe ways to help your clients restore mobility and function to their spine, shoulders, hips, and knees?

If so, this online Pilates workshop by Nikki Naab-Levy is for you!

As Pilates teachers, we know how beneficial Pilates can be. However, many of the traditional exercises can feel inaccessible for our active aging clients, if they struggle with mobility issues and joint stiffness.

If you’ve ever had a client with these challenges, you’ve probably realized that this loss of mobility can have some significant repercussions. However, you may have been unsure of the best way to help these clients regain function and strength.

This online workshop will teach you practical and easy to implement exercises based on the current research to help your clients combat the increased stiffness and immobility associated with aging.

Objectives

  • Learn key considerations, muscle groups, and areas to focus on when working with this population.
  • Learn specific exercises to improve mobility, strength, agility, and balance.
  • Understand how to troubleshoot discomfort and stiffness in the hips, knees, spine, ankles, and shoulders.
  • Understand how to adapt exercises to work with clients who have mobility issues, difficulty transitioning on and off the equipment, or who cannot lay supine, due to medical conditions.


Concepts & Techniques

  • Regressions and progressions for crawling, squatting, and hip hinging to improve gait and prepare your clients for activities of daily life.
  • Strategies to help you client get up and out of chairs or bend over to tie their shoes.
  • Modifications for traditional Pilates exercises to make them more accessible for clients with kyphosis.
  • How to apply the Pilates principles to seated and standing exercises.

Props & Equipment Used

  • Balls
  • Chair
  • Mat
  • Reformer
  • Small Props
  • Stability Sling
  • Trap/Cad
  • Bosu

Workshop Level

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate


Duration & Access

This workshop is  approximately 2.7 hours  long and you have 30 days of access
(No expiration for Forever Access Members)
 
 

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Feedback on Progressions for Active Aging Adults by Nikki Naab-Levy

" Great! Nikki is a wonderful teacher to learn from. "

Paula K

" Thank you very much. Your workshop reminds me how it is useful to dare go simple. How precision counts but how it is important not to demand too much perfection. I can feel my everyday practice is already enriched by this gentle yet effective approach even with students who are not \"active aging \" adults ! "

Caroline B

" Loved the workshop, great exercise for my “bag of tools” where working with my older clients. "

MEAGHAN N

" Very clear delivery of helpful information. Thank you. "

Norma L

" Thank you sp much! This workshop was what I needed to address some go the issues I am seeing with my older clients as well as my younger! "

Adela G

" Wonderful! Can’t wait to try everything with my senior class, especially the ankle mobility and shoulder health exercises. "

Danielle F

" Great workshop! Very informative! I really enjoyed all the progressions and regressions! "

Rebecca M

" Wonderful course! I learned some great exercises to use to help my active aging clients understand the value in pilates and how it relates to every day life movements as well as for bodies that are aging. Excellent cues and instruction step by step. I will be using many of these examples with my clients! "

Jen B

" very helpful instruction on progressions and adaptations for seniors "

Connie W

" Very helpful for much of my clientele. Clear and concise. Thank you so much! "

Caitlin H

" Loved this workshop! My clientele is pretty much all active agers so really appreciated your thoughts behind your sequencing... I can’t wait bring what I learned into my sessions as I feel strength is sooo important for everyone but especially this clientele. Thank you!!! "

Bonnie L

" Very helpful for my active agers. Nikki explained content superbly! "

Kelly I

   

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