This workshop is designed as a forum for Pilates’ practitioners working with diverse populations & range of clients to bring together knowledge, expertise and insights about this specialised approach to exercise and movement.

The purpose is to explore the conceptual framework and how the underpinnings of this approach constitute the basis for looking at our clients’ physiology in order to gain an understanding of individual need.

There are certain aspects of our work that are nonverbal and we need to develop and sharpen observational skills and learn how to translate nonverbal observations into teaching techniques.

The workshop will serve as a clinic where practitioners can bring personal and/or client injury-related physical/kinetic problems, questions and challenges they wish to explore and discuss.
The 3-session format will be based on the following aspects of the practitioner’s understanding:

The interrelationships between emotion, sensation, perception and memory, (muscular).
The connection between the body and the state of mind/rhythm and movement of 2 extremes: inhalation and exhalation.
The experience of balance/harmony as conveyed through the discipline of instruction and practice.