The BASI Pre-and-Post Natal Teacher Training Course will include current information on pre-and-post natal development, care and exercise gathered from scientific research and interviews with doctors, midwifes and physical therapists. This course will provide Pilates professionals with an array of exercises they can do with this population during the various phases (trimesters) of pregnancy and the postpartum period, providing them with thorough explanations of the anatomy of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum body, including how and why each has such a profound effect on exercise selection and modification. The course will give teachers not only the resources and tools to work with pre and post natal women on the mat, Reformer, Cadillac and Wunda Chair, but the ability to create strong programming that is tailored to each woman.

The mission of the BASI Pilates Pre and Post Natal Teacher Training Program is to not only educate Pilates professionals on the anatomical, emotional and mental needs, demands, changes, concerns and abilities of pre-and-post natal women, but to empower Pilates teachers, giving them the knowledge to teach with clarity and confidence, from which they will empower the pre and post natal women they are working with.  Course manual is included and participants receive a certificate of completion.

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Presenter: Rael Isacowitz

This course is the first phase of Ultimate Pilates, Rael’s voyage of discovery to the extreme edges of the Method with the most accomplished of his colleagues and students. This program focuses on refinement of the work and introduces us to the higher principles. Advanced repertoire utilizing all apparatus is introduced. The Mentor Program provides the Pilates professional with the opportunity to work with the mentor himself!

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Presenter: Rael Isacowitz

This course is the second, and final, phase of Ultimate Pilates, Rael’s voyage of discovery to the extremes of the Method with the most accomplished of his colleagues and students. The Master Program introduces a level of the repertoire that Rael has never previously taught. Attention is given to teaching, cueing and methodology, but the main thrust is the in-depth exploration of master-level exercises that have seldom been part of any teacher training curriculum.

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Presenter: Samantha Wood, MPT, MBA, PMA-CPT, RYT

This three-day, advanced education certificate course presents a Physical Therapy approach to working with clients who have injuries, physical limitations, or movement dysfunctions. Specific injuries and pathologies are examined and students learn about precautions and/or contraindications for these conditions, as well as exercise options and modifications to the original BASI Pilates repertoire.  Course participants learn safe ways to work with clients who suffer from some of the most commonly encountered pathologies and injuries. Course manual is included and participants receive a certificate of completion.

This course is approved for 18 CECs by the PMA.

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Presenter: Karen Clippinger

This four-day certificate course presents repertoire that addresses key demands of dance and common imbalances, so that dance performance can be enhanced and injury risk reduced. Participants will learn repertoire on the mat and Pilates apparatus designed to improve upper back extension, turnout, extensions of the legs, arabesques, knee hyperextension, point of the foot (plantar flexion), ankle-foot stability, jumps, and carriage of the arms. In addition to learning individual exercises, participants will participate in a sample mat class with elastic bands, as well as a sample reformer class. A course manual is included and participants will receive a certificate of completion.