BodyMind Fitness

UPPER:July 31- Aug 2: 
Revolution of Hand-Scapula & Shoulders

• Friday:     UPPER Overview and Anatomical Info: Rib cage, Shoulder Girdle and Arms
• Saturday:     Body fitness class and seminar Sat: Ribs, Forearms and Hands
• Sunday:     Scapula Revolution: Hand-scapula Relationship
• Monday:     Assessment, Feedback and more Applications including business and marketing

Each workshop weekend $450

Friday: 5:30-8:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday 9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Monday 9:30 AM-3:00 PM
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SHOULDER WORKSHOP: 
Scapular Revolution

with Lesley Powell
Time:  
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Sunday August 1 9:00 AM- 4 PM $200
PMA Approved

The arms connect to the torso through the shoulder girdle, shoulder blades, clavicles and humerus bones. Each bone moves in different degrees of rotation and timing. The timing and the control of these motions are essential to a healthy shoulder. This “scapular-humeral rhythm” is like a symphony—each bone is an instrument playing a different variation of a melody.
When the shoulder girdle moves correctly, great function is invited.  Each bone of the shoulder girdle; the clavicles, the scapulae and the humerus bone, have a unique rhythm of movement to facilitate the arm moving in space.
A great scapular-humeral rhythm will invite the correct phrasing of the arm and core muscles. When you get a client to better use her shoulder girdle, her arm strength, posture and connection to the core will improve. Learn how this rhythm works and how to help your clients improve theirs.

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Outrageous deal have a Private Pilates sessions with a teacher in training.

Single $32 (Total value $40)
10 sessions/$296 (Total Value $370)

Call 212-904-1399 or email us with your availability.

It is always wonderful to observe great teaching. Lisa Love has such an amazing knowledge about the body.  How she cues through words and touch is so inspiring.  I look forward to having her back to teach teachers again.

Back Extension Exercises from about.com

How to Improve Flexibility and Biomechanics Using Props in the Pilates Mat

With Andrew Carter. Sat 6/19/2010
Time: 12:00PM – 2:00PM
$40 Early Bird Discount (6/5) $35

A prop can easily add a strength challenge to a mat exercise, but can it improve flexibility and decrease tension? Change your alignment? Enable the core muscles to work more effectively and specifically? Can using a prop inhibit improper biomechanics? Reduce the chronic tightness in our hips and shoulders?

Come to this workshop to find out why YES is the answer to all the above.

This will be a detailed look at how students recruit different muscle patterns when being challenged with a prop. Beanbags will be the prop used in this workshop, but the principles are directly translatable to any prop.

Andrew T Carter, GCFT, has been teaching Pilates for 21 years, 10 of which was spent teaching in tandem with physical therapists in a major NYC clinic for orthopedic injuries. He is also a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Teacher – an advanced degree in muscle patterning and biomechanics. Andrew has taught and given workshops in Canada, South America, and the US. He has developed “Pilates Synergy©” – an approach to conditioning that involves proper muscular exertion throughout an entire kinetic chain.

49 W. 27th St. Mezzanine B, New York City 212-904-1399

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New ideas of stabilization can enhance the body without making the body rigid. Past old principles of knitting the ribs together and tucking does not allow proper movement principles of walking, dancing, golf and tennis for example.  The problems of the back being hyperextended may have other reasons than weak upper abdominals.

• How does the legs organize the pelvis?
• Are the legs not doing their correct job and the back is compensating?
• The Back muscles are tight.
• The iliopsoas is tight.

When I feel well organized over my legs, my abdominals naturally engaged.  With full breath and a diaphragm that moves,  the pelvic floor and transverse abdominus can engage.  Knitting the ribs together diminishes the movement of the diaphragm.

Visualizing the multifidus helps me get back my flexion in my ribcage of a neutral spine.  We have a skeleton at the studio that suppose to move.  Seeing the skeleton, its posture is horrible.  When I bring the spinal processes together, you can see the skeleton come back to a neutral spine and the ribs open in the back.

Taking a stand

What makes Pilates Upright different is using the block.  Betweeen a workshop with Liz Koch, Marika Molnar and my studies in yoga, they inspired me to play with the block to explore balance and correct sequencing in standing.  Many are trying to use the gesture side to hold themselves up. The block shows how important the standing leg is.

Disc Risk

With Lisa Love
Date:  Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time:  1-5:30   $150
Early Bird Discount $120 by 5/28

Developing Pilates programs for adults with back pain associated with ruptured, herniated, bulging and/or degenerative discs.

Pilates teachers are often engaged in preventing or improving chronic or intermittent back problems.  Some of the most commonly diagnosed causes of back pain relate to disc pathologies. To be effective and not put clients at risk, it is important for the programs we design to contain relevant, customized exercises with intentional, flexible goals.

This four hour workshop will focus on disc problems and basics of how they might affect the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.  Attendees will review related trunk anatomy and spinal biomechanics. We will then actively apply this focus to specific Pilates repertory, determining whether an exercise is indicated or contraindicated.

Lisa Love, Ed.M., R.M.T., has an Advanced Master of Education in Motor Learning from the Department of Movement Sciences & Education, Teachers College, Columbia University with additional graduate studies in biomechanics and clinical kinesiology at NYU.  She has taught movement reeducation for over 20 years, and maintains a private practice in Pilates in NYC.  She has been researching and working with MS clients for 15 years.

Great article about Sciatic pain and Pilates in about.com

Movements Afoot’s Pilates will teach you new lifetime habits that will improve your posture, how you move and enhance your life.  These new habits can be applied to all of your movement loves.  Changing how you think about your body will take your fitness to a new level.

When you bulge and tighten your abdominals muscles,  this is the habit that you train.  Learn how to use the deeper abdominals that will really enhance your posture.  Learn the importance dance of all your muscles to improve posture, fitness and wellness