Portable Pilates

Home & Travel Workshop

The Home and Travel Workshop will allow you to have a complete body workout at home or on the road when you can’t get to your regular classes. Now you will have no excuse to throw off your Pilates routine if you are on a business trip or vacation!

Included in the cost of the workshop is our ‘Portable Pilates’ booklet which will give you details for a complete body workout along with stretches.

• Dates: to be confirmed
• Cost to attend: $90

Balance and Posture

Presented by: Flo Bongiovanni Russell, Registered Kinesiologist

This workshop is designed to explore, through practical experience, balance and posture in relation to fall prevention.

• The workshop will cover:
• A review of causes for poor balance and posture
• What muscles are needed for postural control (stationary & moving)
• Learning tools for functional assignment of exercises

• Date: to be confirmed
• Cost to attend: to be confirmed

Standing on Two Legs

A workshop dedicated to your Hips and Knees

The hip and knee are essential to move through the world.
Pain is common in both the knee and hip, which infringes on ease of movement and enjoyment of life. Often problems in our backs can be due to weakness in the hips and legs. Understanding how to regain control and utilize strength in these important structures will improve all areas of your movement.

• This workshop will cover:
• A brief overview of special features of the knee and hip that may be contributing to your issues and discomfort
• Functional and postural awareness of hip and knee
• Exercises for home to reduce weakness or injury to the knee and hip

• Dates: to be confirmed
• Cost to attend: $64

Hanging out with the Shoulder

A workshop dedicated to your Shoulders

IsnâÄôt it a wonder all the amazing things we can do with our hands and arms? We wouldn’t be where we are today without the amazing range of motion found in the upper limb. Spend some time increasing your awareness of how the shoulder enables you to enjoy your daily activities and how it can be hindered.

• The workshop will cover:
• Journey through the shoulder joint
• Basic shoulder mechanics
• A discussion of how and why various injuries occur
• Important exercises to do at home

• Dates: to be confirmed
• Cost to attend: $64

Learning to Breathe

A workshop dedicated to your Breathing

Make your Pilates workout that much more successful through improving your breathing. sWithout breath awareness, instruction becomes nearly impossible to create a safe, engaged movement regime. Unless you breathe through the expanding ribcage you cannot engage the abdominals.

• The workshop will cover:
• A brief anatomy to understand Pilates breathing
• Why do Pilates breathing?
• Understand the benefits of using the Pilates breath
• Exercises to learn how to breathe the Pilates way

• Dates: to be confirmed
• Cost to attend: $64

From the Ground Up

A workshop dedicated to your feet

Footwork exercises are important for everyone. Our feet support the whole body, and weak or imbalanced muscles can pull the bones out of place!

• The workshop will cover:
• A brief anatomy of the foot
• Awareness of standing foot placement
• Exercise to help you maintain foot balance
• How to use the exercises daily

• Dates: to be confirmed
• Cost to attend: $64

Back to Basics

A workshop dedicated to your Back

Increase your awareness of what is happening in your back and posture and learn how you can use your Pilates investment daily to transition to pain-free living!

• This workshop will cover:
• A brief anatomy of the spine
• Posture of the spine in seated, standing, and lying positions
• Functional awareness of the spine in daily activities
• A movement regime that you can use at home to stay pain-free

• Date: to be confirmed
• Cost to attend: $64

Functional Balance and Mobility

Presented by: Flo Bongiovanni-Russell, Registered Kinesiologist

This workshop will provide you with a better understanding of Functional Balance & Mobility for older adults. Items to be covered include why older adults fall, internal and external risk factors, functional assessment tools, and practical progressions in exercise prescription. You will also explore through first hand experience how your client deals with their impairments and/or disorders. You will learn how and when to modify when necessary to add quality of life for your clients.

• Date: to be confirmed
• Cost to attend: to be confirmed

Body Logic

Presented by: Mari-Jose Blom

Discover Pilates as a vital and meaningful integration, bridging the gap between the therapeutic and conventional studio environment. The emphasis is on improving the instructional quality and the biomechanical understanding of the Pilates exercises using the Pilates equipment. This workshop aims to deepen the teaching skill of the practitioner to merge wellness and fitness into true vitality for the client/patient.

• What You Will Learn:
• Improving and deepening the teaching skill according to the biomechanics of movement control and Core Ability.
• The understanding of a new model of human movement as the foundation of our teachings (according to Phillip Beach).
• Expanding the repertoire with:
  • Variations and modifications suitable for therapeutic or clinical application.
  • Further using these variations to deepen the body of work.

• Course Curriculum includes:
• In-depth functional anatomy biomechanics: illustrated by 3D presentations and PowerPoint.
• Practical applications of these learnings are applied in the analysis of the movement repertoire.
• The course is taught in a noncompetitive supportive environment where each student will experience the work hands-on and will practice the teaching and cueing in one format.

• Date: to be confirmed
• Cost to attend: to be confirmed

As creator, Partner, & President of SmartSpine Works Company, Marie-Jose Blom has more than twenty years of master teacher training to help your back on track. Marie-Jose specializes in deep core strengthening, pelvic work, and work for the spine. She is widely known for her work in Conditioning Techniques for dance and dance injuries, and is the founder and director of Long Beach Dance Conditioning in Long Beach, CA, and Angel City Body Kinetics in Marina del Rey, CA.