Ergonomics in Motion is a movement system addressing issues arising from workspace set-ups, spending all day at the desk and computer to reduce RMI in the workplace, and increase vitality and productivity.

This is a guided movement session and presentation that is tailored to the workday, done at the desk, no extra equipment, no change of clothes necessary, and for all fitness levels, tailored to countering the day-to-day impacts of sitting in front of the computer. Working with companies around the country, Ergonomics in Motion teaches employees how to reduce pain and stiffness from working all day at home or in the office.

How to teach Pilates to injured clients.

In this workshop:

Chronic vs acute injuries, stages of healing, and appropriate loading methods.

Understanding various pathologies and orthopedic conditions.

Precautions, Contraindications and adjustments to classical or traditional work, adapting the work for injury.

Exercises for specific conditions, appropriate Pilates exercises and functional rehabilitative exercises.

NPCP CECs available

Working with pregnant clients.

How to work with clients who are newly postpartum.

In this workshop:

Stages of pregnancy and physical changes

Exercise during pregnancy- adjustments to classical or traditional work, adapting the work for pregnancy

Corrective Exercise for Prenatal Stages

Postpartum expectations and physiology

NPCP CECs available

Teaching clients with Hypermobility

How to work with clients who are hypermobile, EDS/HSD.

In this workshop:

The spectrum of Hypermobility

Differences in hypermobility spectrum disorder, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and having hyper-mobile joints

Corrective Exercise for hypermobility

Pilates exercises for supporting hypermobility, precautions, and contraindications

NPCP CECs available

How to teach Pilates to injured clients.

In this workshop:

Chronic vs acute injuries, stages of healing, and appropriate loading methods.

Understanding various pathologies and orthopedic conditions.

Precautions, Contraindications and adjustments to classical or traditional work, adapting the work for injury.

Exercises for specific conditions, appropriate Pilates exercises and functional rehabilitative exercises.

NPCP CECs available

How to work with clients who are in chronic pain.

How do we help a client move through a Pilates practice when in chronic or long-lasting pain?

In this workshop:

Pain- the mechanisms of pain, different types of pain, the biopsychosocial model, modern understandings of contributing factors to painful stimuli, pain in the absence of pathology or injury, and differentiation between sensation and pain.

Client’s Experience of pain- fear of movement, kinesiophobia, ideas of bracing/guarding, myths around posture.

Teacher’s Responsibility- scope of practice, appropriate methods of hands-on, encouragement vs enabling.

NPCP CECs available

Simply state what we want the client to do without using memorized and outdated cues.

Learn how the exercises affect the anatomy in movement to more accurately cue what is needing to happen in each exercise.

What are we asking the client to do?

What is anatomically occurring in the exercise: anatomy in motion?

What is the client potentially missing, and what simple direction might help them achieve it?

In this workshop you will learn to :

Simplify the practice of cueing to become more efficient and effective.

Eliminate outdated cues that have become popular jargon.

Understand the purpose of an exercise in order to cue accurately. 

Increase awareness of anatomy in motion, how the body moves throughout an exercise to find cues that are not unintentionally counteracting what is occurring in the movement. (ex looking down in extension)

Increase awareness of common cues that are either inappropriate, ineffective, or harmful.

NPCP CECs available