The Pilates Method for Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation
Maybe you are personally challenged by injury or you want to learn how to help your clients rehabilitate successfully. This workshop will help you to explore how to come back from many different types of injuries, old and new through a combination of simple, but effective Pilates exercises.
This informative workshop covers the following essential aspects:
- Why the Method is the #1 physical therapy modality in rehabilitation
- Pilates can be the antidote to chronic and or idiopathic back pain
- Pilates is one of the most effective strength training solutions for pre and post-surgical knee conditions
- Pilates is one of the most effective tools in overcoming shoulder pain, rotator cuff syndromes, bursitis
- The answer to rheumatoid and osteoarthritis
- Specific case study reviews and problem solving for various injuries, the approach to take for both short term and long-term
- Session planning for the rehabilitation of specific injuries
Treating Scoliosis with Pilates
This workshop is open to Pilates instructors, body-workers and anyone wishing to enhance his or her knowledge of the mind
-body connection through the Pilates technique in the treatment of scoliosis. A background in anatomy is helpful, but not required and it is recommended that participants be in a state of reasonable physical fitness in consideration of this weekend workshop, or any other given through Jennifer Kries’s Pilates Method Training program. In this workshop, we will explore the multiplicity of ways to appreciably improve curvature of the spine through a combination of simple, but effective Pilates exercises. Through this comprehensive approach, you will:
- Learn how to diagnose scoliosis
- Familiarize yourself with the complete Pilates syllabus of exercises effective in the treatment and potential reversal of scoliosis
- Understand the psychological component of scoliosis; how to approach your client with tact, professionalism and sensitivity
- Learn strategic hands-on techniques to increase the efficacy of the exercises given to your client
- Come to appreciate the dramatic structural and profound psychological difference Pilates can make in the treatment of varying degrees of scoliosis
Some Pilates training is required if you are a student applying for the workshop. The suggested number of prerequisite hours for this workshop is 40 combined mat-work and equipment sessions.
Magic Circle Solutions for Scoliosis
Whether you are personally challenged by scoliosis or want to strengthen one side of your body and improve your overall balance and strength or if you wish to help your clients with innovative ways to tackle scoliosis head-on, this is the workshop for you! Explore how to appreciably improve curvature of the spine through a combination of simple, but effective Pilates exercises using the Pilates Magic Circle™. Through this comprehensive approach, you will learn how to diagnose scoliosis and familiarize yourself with the complete syllabus of exercises effective in the treatment of scoliosis. You will then go steps beyond and come to appreciate and understand the psychological component of scoliosis and how to approach your client with tact, professionalism and sensitivity. Learn strategic hands-on techniques to increase the efficacy of the exercises given to your client and see how dramatic structural and profound psychological changes can happen in a very short time!
Familiarize yourself with the Pilates mat and standing exercises incorporating the magic circle, effective in the treatment of scoliosis and the balancing of the body, specifically the dominant and under-utilized sides of the body. This workshop will provide an important tool for people dealing with scoliosis personally, those who simply want to strengthen the weaker sides of their bodies, rehabilitate an injury or learn exercises to use for their clients who are challenged by scoliosis or who wish to balance a significant strength discrepancy.
Pilates Modifications Workshop
Learn how to tailor exercises in the mat syllabus to suit bodies with special needs, seniors, the overweight, people who require injury rehabilitation, those seeking relief from chronic back pain, modifications for scoliosis, post-natal strength-training or people with limited flexibility---any body, any level of fitness. This highly specialized workshop emphasizes creative thought and trouble-shooting and will help you to maximize your own Pilates practice and address the needs of any population of exercisers. Beginner students and advanced practitioners alike will benefit! Learn how to do the same wonderfully effective exercises with modifications that recruit different muscles for a refreshing, new take on mat work.
Learn how to modify Pilates mat exercises to meet their personal body-mind requirements and safely perform the mat work so that it is both effective and gentle at the same time. Everyone from people who suffer from chronic back pain, to those with fused vertebrae, scoliosis, various injuries, pregnant women and those coming back from childbirth, as well as the overweight will benefit from this workshop and learn how to tailor the exercises themselves to suit their exact needs and meet the challenges of their unique circumstances.
The Pilates Advanced Series Workshop
Open to Pilates instructors and advanced Pilates students. This workshop can be tailored to suit the needs of your studio and staff and any one or combination of two apparatus can be chosen on a given weekend as the foundation for the workshop. A superlative review of the advanced exercises on the Pilates apparatus: mat, reformer, cadillac, chair and barrel(s). In this comprehensive workshop, sharpen your skills, review and refine your own work as well as your cuing and imagery in teaching the more challenging advanced level Pilates exercises.
Combination Workshops
The Perfect Balance: Pilates and Yang Vinyasa Yoga
This ground-breaking workshop combines the core series from Joseph Pilates’ classical Mat work syllabus with a strong yoga practice to help you experience the “Perfect balance.” Emphasizing movement initiated from the core, you will be able to experience greater stability, strength and power in your practice. You will learn to move through your asanas with greater strength, grace and effortlessness. In this two hour workshop, you will get a taste of how very important it is to develop a strong center in the quest for greater flexibility, overall strength and range of motion. Jennifer will start the workshop with a full 1 hour Pilates Mat workout and then guide the group through a well-rounded yoga practice, highlighting historical and practical features and applications of Pilates. You will have the opportunity to experience a yoga practice with the added power and benefit or Pilates mat work as a primer. Experience your own transformation! This practice will help you create the shape you were always intended to have and the body you desire: long, lean toned muscles, an extraordinarily high degree of abdominal strength and definition, enhanced overall muscular capacity, increased range of motion and flexibility, improved breathing, proper posture, reduced stress and peace of mind. Whether you have enjoyed the benefits of Pilates for years or are just discovering its genius, bring yourself into perfect balance with this wonderful workshop. Learn not only how to refine your skill, but how to truly enhance your understanding of your own body.
This workshop is appropriate for new students as well as experienced practitioners.
Additional Workshops
The Anatomy Parlor
Kriota Willburg, Professor of Anatomy and Movement Science at Bard College hosts this extraordinary and unique workshop, offering a comprehensive and creative anatomy review for mind-body fitness practitioners, dancers and body-workers. Using a live model wearing a white opaque unitard, the body’s skeletal and muscular systems are literally drawn onto the body. See the body in action-- the muscles’ origins and insertions—how the body works as a connected and integrated whole! An essential supplement to your teacher training program, or simply for increased awareness and knowledge of how your own body works.
The Language of Teaching:
Cueing for Exceptional Results
Do you feel like you wind up saying entirely too much to get your point across when you’re teaching? Wish there was an easier way? There is.
Teaching well is an art, and learning to communicate concisely and effectively so that your students achieve the best desired results and you feel energized and empowered while administering exceptional supervision is possible!
Let Jennifer teach you how to communicate efficiently with your students so that your teaching becomes thoughtful, artful and superb.
- Through the use of potent, concise, descriptive metaphors and simple instruction and phrases, you will be teaching brilliantly in no time at all.
- Learn how to finally lose the superfluous words! Simplify your teaching life and empower yourself and your students.
- Learn how Joseph Pilates theories of “economy of movement” can easily be applied to the “economy of words!” Feel the results of your own energy “conservation” by choosing your words carefully and intelligently
- New phraseology and simple “word formulas” will increase your teaching efficiency immediately and inspire greater creativity in your teaching.
- With your new language skills, you will start to see your clients evolve in new ways almost overnight.
- Learn the secret that only hard-won experience in the field can provide--- THE secret to becoming a truly extraordinary teacher = Language.
Language facilitates. Language empowers. Precise, well-crafted language will make your private sessions and group classes of any size flow effortlessly and help you to conserve your energy so that you can use it to diagnose, plan your lessons and get creative rather than simply putting your clients through their paces. Watch your own transformation in this unique workshop!
Go from good to GREAT just by learning the art of communication—by learning how to choose the right words and the most effective way to say them!
If you are interested in engaging Jennifer to lecture, or for more information on the future calendar of events and fee schedules, please contact us at jennifer@jenniferkries.com.
