You made an impact in my journey that helped me to learn, cope, smile, and keep discovering. Thank you for your patience, endless ability to listen, understand and adapt your teaching to the student.
— Sarahelina Vuoristo, Osteopath (Finland)
Pilates-evolved exercise can help to beat back pain
DOES THIS DESCRIBE YOUR CLIENTS?
Do your clients have back or neck pain, but want to get the maximum effect from the most appropriate exercises for them?
Maybe their posture concerns them, and they want to exercise but don’t know where to begin?
Maybe back pain has prevented them from starting an exercise programme for fear of making things worse?
Are they hesitant because they don’t fully understand their specific needs, and need the right guidance from the right person?
Do they need inspiration and motivation to get the most out of your classes, despite having back pain?
Perhaps they have attended classes before but end up in discomfort, so they have given up?
You will
BENEFIT FROM OVER 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN OSTEOPATHY AND corrective exercise
You will be guided by an expert with the knowledge and experience in osteopathy and movement science, to increase your understanding of back pain, develop your teaching skills, and be confident in dealing with clients in pain.
Have the re-assurance that you will be supported every step along the way. You will learn how to modify exercises to suit your clients to enable them to progress successfully. You will be able to identify how pain affects ease or range of movement, and understand why certain exercises may relieve pain, but others may aggravate pain.
Guide your clients onto a new path – a path where they feel more confident in moving whilst learning what to do to cope better with their back or neck pain, and be able to enjoy your classes to the full.
Instructor Mastery
Will help you to understand how to modify movement successfully for your clients that suffer from back or neck pain
Who will guide you?
Alan Williams will share his skills and experience with you, so you can understand how back or neck pain affects your clients.
Benefit from Osteopathic principles blended with movement and exercise science to get the most benefit out of modifying exercise appropriately.
Alan is a very experienced Osteopath, Naturopath, Certified Yoga Teacher, Certified Practitioner of Pilates for Rehabilitation, and Certified CHEK Exercise Coach. Alan has been in clinical osteopathic practice for 30 years, and has lectured Osteopathic Medicine at five different Osteopathic institutions in the UK and Sweden.
Alan also has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Human Movement Studies, Master of Arts Degree in Physical Education, and a PGCE in Physical Education. He has lectured Human Movement Studies and Physical Education, and has taught yoga classes, pilates classes (mat and machine-based), and provided rehabilitation and movement sessions for patients with many musculoskeletal conditions.
A life-long passion for the joy of movement, exercise and wellbeing is behind everything he teaches.
So glad and grateful you are still giving back to our profession. Osteopathy is lucky you chose it.
— Paul Mason, Retired Osteopath (USA)
An exceptional osteopath and educator, Alan’s teaching allowed me to view the body in ways I hadn’t before. Truly grateful for his patience and ability to share his knowledge in such an inspiring way.
— Annie Osborne, Osteopath (UK)
You were the first Osteopath I met who I could explore the energetic shifts in a patients consciousness and elaborate on the outcome potentials beyond the physical b.o.d.y!
— Cammie Osborne, Osteopath (Canada)
One of the best teachers I’ve had.
— Ceymor Forslund, Osteopath (Sweden)
What’s in the programme
INSTRUCTOR MASTERY includes
MOVEMENT MASTERY PLUS
Get all the benefits of Movement Mastery, plus specific guidance for teaching the exercises successfully. You will be able to teach your clients correctly so they can get the most benefit for their specific needs. Knowing how to identify poor movement patterns will inform your choice of exercises for a specific purpose, for example, whether they need stability or mobility, or both.
MOVEMENT MASTERY BEGINNERS PROGRAMME
To build a strong foundation, these movements will help to awaken your client’s awareness of subtle ways to control their spine and limbs, whilst synchronising their breathing patterns. By focusing on various aspects of movement they will learn how different exercises can improve their motor control. Then challenge can be offered to become even more skilful.
MOVEMENT MASTERY ADVANCED PROGRAMME
To focus your client’s awareness to appreciate how skilfully they can move in various positions. Introduce the next level of challenge by involving a different degree of focus, giving your clients the opportunity to experience whole body organisation of strength, flexibility, alignment and coordination.
MODIFYING FOR BACK AND NECK PAIN
Learn how to modify exercises in alignment with the goals of your class session. Identify poor movement patterns to choose the best exercises for a specific purpose, for example, whether they need stability or mobility, or both. You already know so much about about your clients, and further awareness of their specific movement patterns during an exercise can reveal what may be holding them back from moving more skilfully.
teaching vulnerable clients
Increase your knowledge and understanding of back and neck pain to be able to teach vulnerable clients with confidence, by being aware of how pain affects ease and range of movement, and knowing what will aggravate or relieve their pain. This will enable you to decide when to modify, or replace, a particular exercise for these clients.
RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE IN MOVEMENT MASTERY
Attend five, one-day online seminars with a Pre-Study pack for each session to allow you to study the essential teaching points before they are covered in the day’s session. Each day will also cover how to modify exercises from the Movement Mastery programmes for clients with back or neck pain.
PERSONAL CONNECTION
Have the reassurance that you can contact Alan in person to discuss any specific issues so you can get the maximum benefit from exercise prescription to support your classes.
For your clients in pain,
MODIFY exercise WISELY FOR OPTIMAL RESULTS
Some clients may need exercises to improve their spinal stability.
Others may benefit from more mobility and suppleness.
If more strength is needed, or more flexibility, you can select the best exercise.
Further benefit can be provided progressively when the time is right, not by merely adding more exercises, but by increasing the challenge of a exercise.
And if there is need to regress slightly, you will now how to do so correctly.
You teach your clients as individuals, and modifying exercise is no different. By having first-hand direct experience of having performed the movements yourself, you will be able to assist your client’s to move skilfully and more confidently,
the way the body was designed to move
WHAT WE’LL BE EXPLORING
IN OUR MODULES TOGETHER
Module One
On these one-day modules, you will learn how to teach the movements in the Movement Mastery programmes of Pilates-evolved exercise, beginning with Beginners Move Skilfully 1 programme, where your clients can achieve wonderful results, and you can have the confidence that you will be able to support them every step along the way. You will also learn how to modify these exercises for clients with back or neck pain.
Module Two
You will learn how to teach the movements in the Beginners Move Skilfully 2 programme and learn how to identify when a client is struggling with a movement, and how to modify these exercises appropriately. This will enable you to assist them to progress at a pace that suits them, so they get the maximum benefit, with clear explanations on how to perform the movements skilfully, even with back or neck pain.
Module Three
You will learn how to teach the movements in the Beginners Move Skilfully 3 programme and learn how to modify, or even replace, these exercises during your classes for clients with back or neck pain. In this way their condition will not prevent them from reaping the benefits of Pilates as they will be guided confidently regarding how to adapt their movement.
Module Four
Learning how to select and teach the more challenging movements in the Advanced Level 1 programme will help your clients to progress further and take their movement skills to the next level. They will feel empowered that their back or neck pain is not holding them back from moving more skilfully.
Module Five
The movements in the Advanced Level 2 programme will combine elements of moving in a variety of ways to improve strength, suppleness, balance and coordination. Focusing on these components, and on how to modify exercises for clients with back or neck pain, can provide your clients with great results that will benefit them in all areas of their lives.
On completion of these modules
On successful completion of the five modules, you will receive a Certificate in Movement Mastery (Instructor).
Module Dates 2021-2022
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Plus even more
YOU wiLL RECEIVE THESE Bonuses
FREE WEBINAR
Attend the FREE WEBINAR, ‘The Chicken or the Egg’, which will highlight the value of developing STABILITY and MOBILITY, and how to decide which requires priority for your individual clients. Date to be confirmed.
DISCUSS MOVEMENT ISSUES
FREE 30 minute opportunity to discuss with any MOVEMENT ISSUES that your clients may have. If you are concerned about a particular movement habit, then you can discuss this to resolve the issue.
DISCUSS CONDITIONS
FREE 30 minute opportunity to discuss any concerns you may have about teaching clients with back or neck pain. Don’t let back pain stop your clients from reaping the benefits of exercise.
Frequently asked questions
Will it matter that I have no experience of teaching clients with back pain?
No, as you will be taught and guided by an experienced Movement Specialist and Osteopath who has been treating people and prescribing corrective exercise for the individual’s needs for thirty years. You will be in qualified and experienced hands every step along the way, even if you have no experience of dealing with back pain.
Will I need to re-learn how to perform some exercises?
It would be of benefit regarding your own movement ability and for teaching your clients, and the beginner’s routines will cover important aspects of the basics, even if you already know them well. Then you will have the ability to teach the movements from a different perspective.
Some of my clients don’t have time to attend classes, so will they get the same benefit from me teaching them various exercises to do at home?
Yes, as you will be able to modify exercises for their particular dysfunction, whilst also informing them of how to modify certain movements if they can attend your classes.
What is the time commitment?
There are five, one-day online seminars, each with a Pre-study Pack to read before each session to prepare you regarding some of the teaching points. This will lead to a Certificate in Movement Mastery (Instructor).
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