Description

Join Elizabeth Larkam for this online Pilates workshop designed to advance your effectiveness as a Pilates professional by learning and understanding skillful verbal and touch cues that enhance the value and safety of reformer movement sequences. Working within your scope of practice as a movement educator in the Pilates environment, learn to convey valuable alignment information using precise words and touch that give directional intent. Learn cues that clarify movement relationships to enhance stability, mobility, coordination, and rhythm. Elizabeth Larkam demonstrates appropriate positioning of yourself with respect to your client in order to cue with respect, clarity, and compassion. She shows that awareness of your own alignment will improve your comfort while contributing to the accuracy of your cues. Elizabeth demonstrates that vocal rhythm and inflection are effective cueing instruments. In addition to learning Pilates-specific skills, in this workshop you will develop awareness of the importance of your intention and the value of maintaining the integrity of your energy field. The order of the exercises shows you how to “Sequence for Success”, integrating lumbo-pelvic stability in all planes with functional rotation of the spine. Part 1 of the reformer class includes eight exercises and the cues that support them. The client progresses safely through supine, quadruped, seated, high-kneeling, and standing. The movement sequences in Part 1 teach the skills required for Part 2, Elastic Recoil training. Reformer Elastic Recoil training includes foot and leg jumping on the jump board in quadruped, side lying and supine. Arm jumps are practiced in quadruped and side-sitting.