Pilates for Dance Instructors Workshop

• Pilates for Dance
  • Pilates training forms an integral part of professional dance conditioning and injury prevention.
  • We believe that professional Pilates is not just for the professional dancer.
  • PilatesWorks Australia would like to offer you the opportunity to experience new ways to utilise Pilates in your dance studio, at the premier Pilates facility in Western Sydney.
  • With our experience we can target the areas that are most beneficial to your specific needs and concerns.
  • We can help you give all of your students a competitive, and performance edge and enhance all aspects of their dance
    experience.
  • Our workshops will give you strategies to help with the prevention of injuries, by ensuring correct muscle engagement, foot stability and core control.
  • You will learn how to maximise flexibility, coordination and balance training, and we will help you to structure conditioning classes with exercises designed for the specific needs of individual students.
  • With our advanced cueing knowledge, you will have some more tools to help students attain correct postural alignment as well as a better understanding of how to maintain technique during movement.

Pilates for Dance Instructors FAQ

• Pilates for Dance Instructors is?
  • Level 1 workshop
  • For Teachers with Minimal Knowledge of the Pilates Method This workshop will include:
    • Basic dance anatomy and physiology
    • Basic understanding of postural alignment, core connection and muscle activation
    • Basic Pilates exercises for stability and control
    • Effective Pilates cuing for maximum results
    • How to use flexibility exercises for specific muscle tightness
    • How to structure your class for the best results
  • Level 2 workshop
  • For Teachers that have Completed Level 1 or have a Better Understanding of the Pilates Method This workshop will build on your knowledge and experience of Pilates and will include:
    • A brief overview of level 1
    • More advanced Pilates exercises
    • Effective Pilates cuing for maximum results
    • Utilizing small apparatus to challenge more advanced students
    • Injury prevention exercise prescription

• What equipment do i need to bring?
  • Only your outfit for doing a workout including foot wear (joggers), a towel and a bottle of water (water can be purchased at the studio).
  • Pilates Works Studio provides any other equipment needed.

Pilates for Dance Instructors Research

• Neurological
  • Exercise and Multiple Sclerosis
  • Multiple Sclerosis is characterised by fatigue, motor weakness, spasticity, poor balance, heat sensitivity and mental depression.
  • These factors impede their ability to participate in an active lifestyle and lead to inactivity compounding the clinical problems.
  • It has been found that an individualised exercise prescription of cardiorespiratory endurance, muscle strengthening and balance exercises has helped in disease management for restoring functional capacity. [Sports Medicine, 2004]