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Pilates Imperfect: Teaching Positive Compensation + Self-Regulation $59 Register Now $39 Forever Members enjoy early access, special pricing, and no expiration dates! If you’d like to take advantage of this special price, please add Forever Access here and then come back to this page to make your purchase. (If you have Forever Access - make sure you are logged in to make this pricing available.)

This workshop offers 4 PMA CECs upon completion and passing of the required quiz.

(Please remember, the PMA accepts a maximum of 12 online CECs toward their bi-annual 16 CEC requirement. Details.)

Description

In this online Pilates workshop Chantill Lopez and James Crader team up to explore a powerful new approach to teaching movement based on an understanding of positive compensation and the ability of the student to self-regulate.

Learn to teach movement in a way that promotes the accrual of infinite efficient movement options rather than only a few right strategies, for example, those that keep us held in perfect alignment and good form.

You’ll be exposed to the Polyvagal Theory and learn how the health of the vagus nerve dictates our ability to relate to self, other, and context -- the very heart of teaching -- and how, by linking movement to vagal health, we can deeply improve not only a few ideal movement outcomes but enhance the overall efficacy of all movement while optimizing self-regulation strategies.

Be taken on a journey through teaching philosophy, coaching strategies, and exploratory movement tools that will help you foster endless positive compensation potential in your students. Plus, you’re going to laugh a lot as this duo dives into some super juicy strategies and seemingly silly techniques for returning your teaching to life.

Objectives

  • Understand the concepts of positive compensation and self-regulation, how to identify and promote within the Pilates paradigm.
  • Understand, in brief, the Polyvagal Theory and how it impacts our ability to communicate the body’s potential in any movement teaching/training environment.
  • Develop a basic understanding of the relationship between the vagus nerve, positive compensation, and self-regulation.
  • Learn teaching tools and strategies that help facilitate a feeling body experience instead of a solely thinking mind experience for your students.
  • Discover and examine your role in implementing such tools.


Concepts & Techniques

  • Awareness of Self + Teaching Role
  • Teaching as expert v teacher as co-creator
  • Teaching Strategies: Training v Facilitation
  • The Vagus Nerve
  • What is Neuroceptive Awareness
  • Negative and Positive Compensation
  • Vagal Toning + Diagnostic Tools
  • Teacher Presence - How are you showing up for your job?

Props & Equipment Used

  • Balls
  • Mat
  • 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

About James Crader

James Crader is a Movement and Mind-shift Coach specializing in Pilates and John F. Barnes Myofascial Release Therapy, a CoreAlign Faculty Member, and owner of Evolved Body Studio in Sacramento, CA. ... Find Out More Other Workshops by James Crader

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