Part 1: STOTT PILATES Essential Pilates on the Edge

Bring a new level of excitement to your workout and teach your classes on the edge! This versatile tool will help you ramp up the intensity level by changing the angle of your routine. Applying the Five Basic Principles of STOTT PILATES, you’ll explore how to modify the essential level exercises to develop a total-body workout. Discover how the Pilates Edge can be used in supine, prone and standing variations to take advantage of the foam triangle’s increasing height.

Part 2: STOTT PILATES Athletic Conditioning on the Edge

Many athletes, whether professional or amateur, are recognizing the benefits alternative training methods like Pilates can provide. Utilizing the Pilates Edge and hand-held toning balls, this high-energy resistance workout strengthens the legs, arms and torso and improves balance and coordination, using powerful tools that add a new dimension to your programming. Always initiating from the core, you’ll learn how this complete-body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and be able to take your clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Get in the group groove with a class that will make your students feel fit and fabulous. Explore a choreographed, rhythmic reformer workout infused with dance dynamics. Learn how to choreograph extra stretches, balances and embellishments that marry movement and music to make your classes extra special.

Do you ever feel like there's not enough time in the day for your Pilates workout as well as cardio? Experience this high-energy and challenging class that incorporates traditional Pilates mat with cardio. This class utilizes the JumpSnap(TM)"ropeless jumprope," kickin' tunes and a strong powerhouse. Come prepared to move! Prerequisite: Open to anyone with mat experience.

This workshop utilizes the unique features of the STOTT PILATES V2 Max, an all-in-one equipment system that expands programming for group classes and private training. Learn how to transform the machine to explore selected essential-level exercises on the mat, reformer and Cadillac. Discover how to cue, correct and modify for individuals and groups to make the most of each workout.

If you love to move to music, then you'll love this class that will teach you the ins and outs of creating choreographed reformer classes using a variety of musical styles. Whether you are a group exercise instructor looking to use your love of music and choreography in your reformer classes, or a Pilates instructor who is considering ways to add a new twist, this practical class will get you started.

Performed on equipment, this class is an introduction for people with no GYROTONIC experience. This participatory class will introduce key GYROTONIC fundamentals and how they enhance the physical body to perform more optimally. The focus of this class is to convey why GYROTONIC principles can enhance or complement a wide array of physical activity. The spiraling and circular motion patterns are key elements in increasing fluidity, flexibility, endurance and strength, as well as improving rhythm and coordination. Repeated as sessions 178, 238, 269, 288, 318 and 350.

Obesity is a growing health concern. Discover how to work with obese clients using a Pilates protocol that will support their bodies and let them rediscover the joy of movement. Explore how to select, adapt and guide Pilates exercises on the mat and apparatus to provide a full hour of movement that empowers your clients and fuels their desire to do more. Unlock the door to your heart and open yourself to this rewarding work.

The action of running is predominantly flexion, and many runners complain of stiff ankles, tight hip flexors and pain in the lower back. This workshop will guide you through a range of yoga postures that specifically target these areas of discomfort so you can gain release, improved running technique and performance. This is an excellent session for personal trainers, runners, yoga teachers and group fitness instructors. No previous yoga experience is required and you do not need to be a runner to attend.

This session incorporates a foam roller into exercises adapted from both the matwork and reformer repertoire. Participants will experience how the roller targets core stabilizers, cues alignment and challenges strength through the periphery and core.

Get the best of both worlds: strength moves combined with traditional Pilates chair moves. Together, they give you a total-body workout guaranteed to make you sweat. Even if you have never seen the MVe Fitness Chair, you'll experience eccentric training in a new way.

Experience this new Pilates workout that will sculpt your booty AND strengthen your core. It consists of 50% standing Pilates work that integrates Pilates principles into lower-body work, and 50% Pilates mat work to strengthen the core. Learn how to create your own standing work by discovering the four base movements, intensifiers and mood-makers, as well as effective cuing techniques. This class is a sell-out, "booty-lifting-ab-sculpting" class that will top the list at YOUR club!

This lecture/demonstration will explain the science behind yoga as it relates to range of motion. You will experience yoga techniques that explain biomechanical principles through isometric resistance training, and explore how range of motion is different for every person due to their given structure, neuromuscular function, genetics and history. Common adjusting techniques will also be addressed.

Experience an intense circuit training workout featuring the MVe Fitness Chair and the brand-new MVe Reformer. Clare Dunphy will lead you through an energized, music-driven cross-training workout of Pilates fitness fusion exercises on the most versatile line of Pilates equipment available. Bring a towel and get ready to MVe!

Utilizing three traditional sun salutations as a foundation, this workshop introduces creative sequencing that fuses core methods with the traditional wisdom of many popular hatha yoga styles. Learn inspiring ways to design well-rounded classes that meet the needs of various student populations by simply blending essential ideals, poses and breathing techniques.

Adding these specially-designed STOTT PILATES reformer exercises to your client's routine will boost athletic performance and strengthen the core to minimize the risk of injury. Participants will learn how to tackle this total-body workout for optimum strength, endurance, agility and conditioning.

Learn simple self-massage techniques using the foam roller and small balls to release tension, improve joint function and decrease pain. You will love the relaxation and release that comes from these simple exercises. This workshop introduces the concept of self-myofascial release and its appropriate application for Pilates teachers, personal trainers and group exercise instructors. None of the exercises taught require contact between the client and the trainer.

See description on page 24 of this brochure. Repeated as sessions 151, 178, 238, 288, 318 and 350.

Learn the essentials of hatha yoga biomechanics and related anatomy to keep the body safe during your yoga practice. This workshop will teach you about YogaFit's Seven Principles of Alignment (SPA) principles and teach you how to build strength and flexibility safely.

To extend in dimension or scope, REACH is an evolving and fluid mix of ballet-inspired, fitness-infused training for total-body strength, flexibility and control. From standing to floor, turned-out and parallel, the body and mind will be challenged with exercises to help improve body awareness, stability and control. This popular hybrid workout focuses on using the ultimate fitness tools: body, floor and space for an intense release of energy all its own.

A combination of two distinctive energizing workouts, the first uses a weighted toning ball to sculpt and define the arms and upper body. Then get sleek and strong from head to toe with a seamless combination of toning ball resistance and STOTT PILATES precision using exercises adapted from the matwork repertoire.

Ever wonder how to help students connect more deeply to Pilates exercises? Explore how to use small props like bands, power circles and small balls to deepen the experience of the intermediate mat exercises. Have fun and learn how to approach these exercises in new ways.

Wake up your body with this ultra-challenging workout using the magic circle. New and innovative exercises will have you standing, sitting and lying down, while reaping the benefits of a well-rounded workout in the process.

Pick up the pace in this dynamic, new Pilates session and give your clients a taste of intensity that isn't standard fare for most Pilates workouts. Try innovative movement patterns that will inspire participant success at any fitness level while challenging greater stability, strength and control. Reach beyond traditional Pilates movements and experience a faster paced workout by blending familiar and new exercises.