Rethinking Core & Pelvic Floor

Rethinking Core and Pelvic Floor – A professional development course for yoga and Pilates teachers (via Zoom)

Saturday 13 & 20 January 2024

1.30 – 5.30pm (UK time)

£135

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This 2 part, online course will offer you a range of tools for supporting clients who have core or pelvic floor dysfunction.

Aimed at health care professionals and movement teachers including yoga, Pilates, and gym instructors, this course will offer you information, useful strategies and a range of movement-based practices to help your students improve core strength and function. We will look in detail at common pathologies including diastasis-recti, pelvic organ prolapse, incontinence and pelvic pain, and explore movement options to promote full body wellness.

We will cover each topic in an accessible way, taking a whole-body, movement-based approach to core wellness.

By the end of the course you will:

– Have a clear understanding of common core pathologies including diastasis-recti, pelvic-organ prolapse, incontinence, back pain, and know how to accommodate these clients safely into your classes;

– Be able to hone your eye to assess postural and gait patterns that may compromise the core, and how to address them through movement;

– Understand the anatomy of the core, pelvis and spine from a bio-tensegrity perspective to fully understand how every connection affects the core and pelvis’s function;

– Identify unhelpful breathing habits like belly breathing, and understand how to improve them for better pelvic health;

– Understand why isolated pelvic floor exercises (Kegels) may be doing your client more harm than good, and how to offer a more holistic, whole-body approach to healing;

– Fully understand intra-abdominal pressure – what is it and how can it be managed;

– Have a range of tools for teaching your students deep core engagement, not just abdominal engagement;

– Know how to identify and improve common movement compensations for better core health;

– Be able to safely and confidently modify a movement class for clients who have core dysfunction.