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Pilates Live
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 | Mat with Weights (Hand and Ankle) w/ Anmarie Touloumis
Add variety to your Mat class by utilizing hand and ankle weights. Learn how to use these props to assist, enhance and challenge movement within each Mat exercise. Come prepared to be challenged and get ripped! Pre-requisites: Instructors and clients with intermediate mat experience. |
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 | Assessing Progressions w/ Alexis Dugdale
Power Pilates believes in a classical approach to teaching, in a movement based, systematic, integrative style. Having students learn in a flowing style, with appropriate corrections at the appropriate time will transform their bodies and rid them of compensatory weaknesses that contribute to chronic weaknesses. Pre-requisites: Open to instructors and clients. |
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 | Spine Corrector Challenge w/ Julie Hegge Cordier
The Spine Corrector is that often-forgotten and hardly-ever-used piece of apparatus that spends most of its days sitting on the floor under the Cadillac. This mat-based workout takes the classical Spine Corrector exercises you know and love, and adds more creative exercises borrowing from the Reformer. |
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 | Wunda Chair Progressions w/ Amie Cunha
In this workshop, classical Pilates teachers will deepen their understanding of the Wunda Chair and enhance their teaching repertoire. We'll discuss a variety of progressions tailored for intermediate and advanced clients, with a focus on adapting exercises based on the individual needs of each person. We will explore how to modify movements for different body types, fitness levels, and specific goals, ensuring that you can create effective and safe sessions that challenge and inspire your clients. You will also gain insights into how to use the Wunda Chair to improve stability, strength, and flexibility, while building coordination and control. Come prepared to move, as we will practice these progressions on the chair to experience firsthand how they can transform your teaching and provide greater depth to your sessions. This workshop will empower you with the tools to make your Wunda Chair sessions more dynamic, personalized, and impactful. |
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 | Beginner Mat Class Review w/ Daniel Gaouette
This workshop will focus on reviewing the Beginner Mat exercises and variations. We will work on drills and give you more tools to increase your expertise with the Beginner Mat and also how to begin to layer in a few of the Intermediate Mat exercises. This workshop will be helpful for those teaching mat as well as apparatus sessions. Be prepared to move and practice! Pre-requisites: Instructors and clients with beginner mat experience. |
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 | Foam Roller Workshop w/ Amie Cunha
This workshop will instruct teachers on how to utilize the Foam Roller in a mat class to challenge clients flexibility and stability. Pre-requisites: Open to all instructors and clients. |
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 | Barrel Progressions w/ Andree Khalaf
Joseph Pilates created a beautiful progression on a piece of equipment that is overlooked too often: the Barrel. He created the Barrels to gradually open two very restricted areas of our body: the hips and the shoulders. We will work through this progression from Small Barrel up to the Ladder Barrel in such a way that it will become easier to incorporate the Barrels into almost every workout! Pre-requisites: Open to Instructors and Intermediate/Advanced level clients. |
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 | Teaching Online and Remote Classes w/ Stephanie West
The coronavirus has changed the way we teach our pilates clients - ready or not, studios are now online. Learn how to plan and safely teach mat and private sessions online from a Power Pilates Teacher Trainer experienced in remote teaching. Where can you teach? What technology is needed? How do you keep clients engaged from a distance?
Pre-requisites: Open to all instructors. |
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 | Advanced Mat Class Review (Transitions and Flow) w/ Cheryl Turnquist
This workshop will take you through the classical technique and proper teaching tools for an Advanced Level Mat class. Refine your knowledge of the exercises, develop new and more efficient cues, and learn how to take your client to the next level with efficient flow and transitions from one exercise to the next. Kick it up a notch and give your advanced client a more well rounded and challenging workout on the mat. Pre-requisites: Instructors and clients with advanced mat experience. |
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 | Special Cases: Mat Class w/ Cheryl Turnquist
Nobody's perfect, right? Right! This workshop will cover the beginner/intermediate mat exercises with safe and effective strategies and modifications for clients with special needs. We will review specific modifications for low back pain, knee injuries, shoulder pain, neck issues, osteoporosis and pregnancy. Pre-requisites: Open to instructors and clients with beginner-intermediate Mat teaching experience. |
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 | Jumpboard w/ Bethanie Buckingham
More than the ordinary challenge! In this workshop you will learn or review the Jumpboard exercises suited for advanced clientele. The Jumpboard offers an element of cardio with another challenge for the Powerhouse. Come prepared to move, sweat and have fun! Pre-requisites: Open to all Intermediate instructors and clients with Reformer experience.
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 | Magic Circle Madness w/ Stephanie West
This workshop will focus on Joseph Pilates' Magic Circle and how to incorporate it into his traditional mat workouts at every level. There will be a review of technique and teaching formulas which will provide an excellent workout. Learn new ways of utilizing the Magic Circle while increasing efficient, flowing movement. You will have fun and get a good workout! |
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 | Reformer on the Mat w/ Jordana Herman
Create a new challenge for your more advanced classes! This workshop will review the Reformer order, exercise details and their application to the mat. No springs, no straps, just you and gravity. The breakdown of the Setup/Action/Precision of the exercises help achieve greater clarity and will add depth to the cueing. Be prepared to move and sweat! Pre-requisites: Instructors and clients with advanced mat experience. |
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 | Intermediate Cadillac (Flow Through Cadillac) w/ Stephanie West
Learn how to custom design a challenging and enjoyable Cadillac routine incorporating key elements and principles of a Power Pilates session. Come prepared to work out and be creative! Pre-requisites: Open to instructors and clients with minimum beginner apparatus experience. |
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 | Open Mat Class w/ Jordana Herman
Come one, come all - Join us for a Power Pilates Open Mat class. Come ready to move, have fun and be inspired. Experience the "Power Pilates flow." Pre-requisites: Open to all instructors and clients. |
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 | Arm/Baby Chair Basics w/ Stephanie West
The Baby Chair, also known as the Arm Chair can pack a powerful punch. Don't let the name deceive you! In this workshop you'll learn some of the basic exercises of this underused and less familiar apparatus. This workshop will have you feeling your secondary powerhouse and opposition in no time! Pre-requisites: Open to all instructors and clients. |
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 | Intermediate Mat Class Review w/ Daniel Gaouette
This workshop will focus on reviewing the Intermediate Mat exercises and variations. Learn how to challenge an intermediate student by utilizing intermediate and some advanced level exercises. This workshop will be helpful for those teaching mat as well as apparatus sessions. Be prepared to move and practice! Pre-requisites: Instructors and clients with intermediate mat experience. |
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 | Tower Progressions w/ Jordana Herman
The focus of this workshop will be on mastering the Tower Class format and progressions, ensuring your classes are not only safe and effective but also engaging and fun! Together, we'll explore creative ways to structure your progressions while maintaining a seamless flow throughout the session. Whether you're teaching beginners or advanced clients, we’ll cover everything from foundational movements to advanced progressions. Bring your questions, be ready to move, and leave with fresh ideas to enhance your Tower classes and keep your clients challenged and inspired. |
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 | Advanced Reformer Review with Transitions and Variations w/ Jordana Herman
The Reformer is the backbone of the Pilates method; it is the most widely utilized apparatus. The advanced workout is both challenging and inspiring and offers many variations of the traditional exercises that are often "left in the closet." During this workshop we will review the super advanced exercises, including many archival exercises not often seen or used. Pre-requisites: Open to intermediate/advanced level instructors and clients. |
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 | Challenge and Support: How to Teach an Open Level Mat Class w/ Daniel Gaouette
In this workshop we will explore the teaching tools and teaching formulas best utilized when teaching an Open Level Mat Class. Come prepared to teach, move and ask questions! Pre-requisites: Open to all Instructors.
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 | Open Mat Class w/ Daniel Gaouette
Come one, come all - Join us for a Power Pilates Open Mat class. Come ready to move, have fun and be inspired. Experience the "Power Pilates flow." Pre-requisites: Open to all instructors and clients. |
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 | How to Format a One Hour Wunda Chair Session w/ Jordana Herman
Master the art of structuring a balanced and effective Wunda Chair class. In this session, we’ll explore how to sequence exercises that challenge and strengthen the entire body while maintaining flow and rhythm. You’ll learn how to incorporate a variety of exercises—from fundamental movements to more advanced progressions—while ensuring the session remains engaging and accessible for clients of all levels. Additionally, we’ll discuss how to adapt the Wunda Chair for special populations, modifications for different body types, and the best ways to manage pacing and transitions. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have the skills and confidence to create dynamic and well-rounded one-hour sessions that keep your clients challenged and inspired. |
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