Inner IDEA® Conference 2008

Fine tune your client's game and gain a better understanding of the conditioning requirements of golfers. We will explore movements that are specifically designed to improve balance and flexibility as well as overall conditioning. Perform exercises using a variety of angles of resistance with the V2 Max Plus reformer's adjustable pulley system. This session is ideal for instructors working with amateur and professional sports enthusiasts.

Many athletes, whether professional or amateur, are recognizing the benefits of alternative training methods like Pilates. Utilizing the Pilates Edge(TM) and hand-held toning balls, this high-energy resistance workout strengthens the legs, arms and torso and improves balance and coordination. Always initiating from the core, you'll learn how to retrain muscles that may have become unbalanced and ultimately discover a new level of strength and agility.

To become skilled at any task requires being present. Mindfulness elicits integrity for skillful action. Blending meditation and experiential anatomy is a wonderful way to bring depth to a Pilates reformer class. Meditation, imagery and experiential anatomy are blended together in a progression of classical and contempory reformer exercises, intended to release tension and improve efficiency for optimal learning and movement.

Score a perfect 10 with this workout. This total-body workout challenges your core, develops stamina and strengthens and lengthens muscles. Learn to work with concentration, control and will power to get the results you're looking for. It's the perfect introduction to the MVe reformer and chair.

Step up your reformer workout by implementing the vertical frame. See how the roll-down bar, push-through bar and arm and leg springs will add variety to your clients’ workout. Essential exercises normally performed on the cadillac can be replicated with the vertical frame and used to complement any reformer or mat work routine.

Science offers new information, or in many instances, substantiates old theories. This allows movement professionals to better their systems, ultimately providing better teaching methods and better outcomes. At times, however, some of this information is implemented either incorrectly or taken to the extreme, creating a new set of problems. This workshop will explore this phenomenon and delve into several examples of common problems that have evolved from good movement concepts.

Feeling unbalanced? When chakras are out of balance, so are you.Utilizing the reformer, learn how to realign the meridians of your body through unique exercises and movements. You will feel energized and alive after this special session.

Teach your classes on the edge! This versatile tool will help you increase the intensity level by changing the angles employed in your workout routine. By applying the five basic principles of STOTT PILATES, you'll learn how to modify the essential level exercises to develop a total-body workout. Discover how the Pilates Edge(TM) can be used with supine, prone and standing variations to take advantage of the foam triangle's increased height.

Together, the Pilates Arc and Allegro create an environment that gently supports mobility of the spine in forward flexion, lateral flexion, extension and rotation. As you move beyond familiar reformer material, feel how the lungs cradle the heart and learn how the myofascial meridians functionally integrate the whole body. Knowledge of the myofascial meridians can lead to an appreciation of whole-body patterns of movement, compensation and strain distribution.

Use the energy from your body, mind and soul as you transfer it to the reformer to become one. This workout will move you in and out of extraordinary shapes with a focus on deep-core strength and fluid movement. Experience how fabulous it feels to move from the inside out and with a sense of ease. You will love how your body will lengthen as it tones up in a new way that can only be achieved through Pilates.

Muscle imbalances need to be addressed asymmetrically in order to create balance and symmetry. Everything, from the way we stand, lift and carry, affects this asymmetry. This course teaches the assessment of hypermobility and rigidity, as well as how to correct problems from scoliosis to sports-related imbalances.

Every day we twist, bend and move in a standing position, and not on our backs! Learn to use the reformer in a completely new way and create exercises that are functionally safe. Experience new exercises for the athletic client and the beginner. By utilizing props with the reformer, you will see how to move a client from instability to stability. This is a course for innovative thinkers.

Take your intermediate-level mat work routines to new heights with the Pilates Edge™. This workshop will show you how to continuously add intensity and challenge to your clients’ workouts by taking advantage of the foam triangle’s increasing height. Using a variety of positions--prone, supine, sitting and standing--you’ll discover how this innovative tool can drastically expand your programming options and make you a trainer in demand.

As more people do Pilates over an extended period of time, more enthusiasts are reaching the advanced-level repertoire. This milestone is exciting and inspiring, and as long as a good and solid foundation has been built over time, it is a well-deserved reward. Teachers need to be equipped to teach this challenging repertoire with accuracy and safety in mind. This workshop willoffer hands-on guidance in developing systematic and effective instruction. Recommended for accomplished professionals.

Get your energy in motion and balance with this workout. From the moment the music begins and you start moving on the reformer, you can experience the synergy of your body working from its core. Let the springs provide the resistance and focus on centering your body and mind as you experience a totally new workout.

Diversify your programming on the V2 Max Plus. Experience a multitude of exercises and modifications that will provide you with an array of programming choices. Explore exercises from the reformer, mat and Cadillac repertoire and see how you can enhance your clients' program by utilizing the vertical frame and reformer at the same time for increased challenge.

Blending meditation and experiential anatomy is a wonderful way to bring more mindfulness to the Pilates mat work for enhanced health benefits. We will use experiential anatomy and imagery to promote body mechanics, tension release and efficiency for an optimal learning and movement experience. We will blend these approaches with a progression of classical and contemporary Pilates mat exercises.

This innovative workshop will help you employ the reformer when working with moms-to-be. Drawing on the latest medical information and ACOG guidelines, we will discuss anatomical and physiological changes, risk factors and movement considerations with emphasis placed on creating a safe and effective workout for your expectant clients.

Join us for a reformer program with world-renowned teachers. From their diverse backgrounds and extensive knowledge of the reformer repertoire, they present a program that is innovative, exploratory and informative. The message is unity. This special program suggests that there is not just one right version of an exercise, only the right version for the individual body. Your teachers have pooled their knowledge to create an interactive class with openness to tradition and change.

Discover the abundant vocabulary of small to large stretching and strengthening movements traditionally taught at the end of the reformer. This series is designed to progressively open the hips and give mobility to the entire lower body while challenging balance and control. Appropriate progression and programming for your students and classes are introduced.Your students will feel both accomplished and confident with the instruction tools obtained from this workshop.

Athletes and trainers alike recognize the benefits of Pilates training for performance enhancement. This Level 2 reformer session builds on the first full-body routine by placing even more emphasis and instruction on core stability. Instructors will learn new variations on familiar exercises and unique moves that challenge unilateral movement, weight transference and torso rotation. This high-caliber program is perfect for your very fit clients and accomplished sports enthusiasts.

When done correctly, the reformer does exactly what it says... it reforms the body. There will be a review of the basics, which is an imperative foundation to moving into intermediate and advanced reformer work. Being in control of the equipment, finding the powerhouse, developing rhythm and flow, smooth transitions and safety are a must in any studio. Participants will experience an intermediate to advanced workout, as well as discuss how students will benefit from the work and why.