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Description

In this online Pilates workshop Chantill Lopez teaches how to empower yourself and your clients to embrace rather than fear spinal extension. Explore how some of our favorite cues and techniques for ensuring “safe” spinal extension are potentially limiting healthy movement in the pelvis, hip, sacroiliac joints and lumbar spine and how, with a more subtle understanding of where and how extension begins and develops, you can foster greater mobility, stability, and freedom in this beautiful movement.



Objectives

  • To shift from a fear-based extension perspective to one that promotes deeper levels of strength and potential in a safe and thoughtful way.
  • Learn how to promote healthy function in the sacroiliac joints even when imbalances are present.
  • Learn how to ORGANIZE, INITIATE, and SEQUENCE extension so that you are working with the body rather than against it.
  • Learn how changing the apex of the curve can make all the difference in accessing and deepening extension.
  • Learn the steps to take to help students develop healthy local extension as well as gross overall balanced extension of the spine.
  • Learn tools that you can integrate to engage, challenge and motivate your students to LOVE extension.

Concepts & Techniques

  • Soft tissue release and integration techniques.

  • Bony rhythms and interplay in the hip, SI joints, and lumbar spine.

  • The role of sacral nutation in initiating extension.

  • The role of the multifidus and other key muscles in sacral nutation.

  • The role of the foot and the lower chain in healthy extension -- joint-by-joint analysis based on the work of Gray Cook.

Props & Equipment Used

  • Balls
  • Small Props
  • Trap/Cad

Workshop Level

  • Advanced
  • Beginner
  • Intermediate


Duration & Access

This workshop is  approximately 2.5 hours  long and you have 30 days of access
(No expiration for Forever Access Members)
 
 

About Chantill Lopez

After more than 20 years of teaching, 15 of which have been spent teaching Pilates, yoga, dance, meditation and other movement modalities to a complex variety of folks, I am proud to be a teacher of t... Find Out More Other Workshops by Chantill Lopez

Feedback on Fearless Extension by Chantill Lopez

" I enjoyed this workshop and helped me to think about extension in a different way. I like the idea and cueing of softening into extension and letting go of the gripping that occurs in extension. Makes so much sense to not tuck the pelvis. I'm hoping to apply some of the methods to myself and my clients. "

MELISSA F

" A very informative and detailed workshop, I appreciated the step-by-step process and seeing how it all came together! "

Jennifer B

" Chantill is so calming and a wonderful presenter! I can't wait for another workshop from her! I am completely on board with shifting our current belief about lumbar extension. Lovely workshop. "

Courtney K

" Great lecture. I would like to hear mire about the cervical spine in extension. Thank you. "

Judith J

   

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