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Inner IDEA® Conference 2008
102: Nia®-Moving Meditation (M / Integrative Movement)
Presented By Carlos Rosas and Debbie Rosas
time block A - Thursday, 3:15-5:05pm
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Movement can help you discover the power of stillness. Music, space, the floor, emotions, moving freely without thought, and light come together in a unique body-mind-spirit experience. Simple and adaptable for all levels, participants will experience a deep sense of conscious, mindful appreciation, inner calm and inner connection.
103: STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Plus™ Golf Conditioning (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By John Garey, MS
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time block A - Thursday, 3:15-5:05pm
Fine tune your client's game and gain a better understanding of the conditioning requirements of golfers. We will explore movements that are specifically designed to improve balance and flexibility as well as overall conditioning. Perform exercises using a variety of angles of resistance with the V2 Max Plus reformer's adjustable pulley system. This session is ideal for instructors working with amateur and professional sports enthusiasts.
200: The Labyrinth: A Meditation Walk (M / Mindfulness and Meditation)
Presented By Phyllis Pilgrim
time block B - Friday, 6:30-7:15am
Walk the Chartres labyrinth (on a cloth replica) as a tool for meditation. This session includes a history of labyrinths and its construction in the Chartres Cathedral, along with an explanation of its use as a destination for Christian pilgrims.The labyrinth walk can be used today as a metaphor for a modern-day pilgrimage to your heart and soul center.
210: An Introduction to GYROTONIC® Methodology: "Meet the System" (M / GYROTONIC®)
Presented By Barbara Schwarz
time block C - Friday, 8:15-10:05am
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This class is designed to provide the novice with their first opportunity to move on the GYROTONIC pulley tower unit. Participants will feel and experience moving in a way that is unique to the GYROTONIC equipment and training, giving them an overview of some of the exercise families and movement vocabulary.
211: STOTT PILATES® Athletic Conditioning on the Edge (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By John Garey, MS
time block C - Friday, 8:15-10:05am
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Many athletes, whether professional or amateur, are recognizing the benefits of alternative training methods like Pilates. Utilizing the Pilates Edge(TM) and hand-held toning balls, this high-energy resistance workout strengthens the legs, arms and torso and improves balance and coordination. Always initiating from the core, you'll learn how to retrain muscles that may have become unbalanced and ultimately discover a new level of strength and agility.
217: SHAKTI™ 2008: The Experience (M / Integrative Movement)
Presented By Lawrence Biscontini, MA
time block C - Friday, 8:15-10:05am
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SHAKTI is the Sanskrit word for the energy released throughout the body when one practices particular hatha yogic asanas.This is a non-purist body-mind approach that fuses fitness-choreographed applications of yoga, Feldenkrais(R), GYROTONIC(R) exercise, Nia(R), Pilates and tai chi, all with inspiring (yet non-traditional) body-mind music.This workshop will teach you the power of nonverbal cuing skills (taught in silence) and choreographed body-mind flow so you can feel energized from a fusion blend of body-mind disciplines.
218: Self Mastery Through Raja Yoga (M / Yoga)
Presented By Mehrad Nazari, PhD
time block C - Friday, 8:15-10:05am
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This authentic time-tested classical style of raja yoga is inclusive of all yogas. Beyond the boundaries of many styles of yoga available today, this classic method will connect you to your underlying essence. It combines the flowing physical postures utilizing the breath, the yoga philosophy and the psychological aspects of each pose. For practicing yogis, this session will serve to deepen your practice. For new practitioners, it will provide you with a solid base and time-tested tradition from which to grow.
219: Why Invert? Face Your Fear of Falling (M / Yoga)
Presented By Stacy McCarthy
time block C - Friday, 8:15-10:05am
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This intermediate-level yoga workshop focuses on arm balancing and inversions. It can be a mirror for personal transformation and may deepen your understanding of self. Turning upside down lifts your energy and creates a being of lightness. On the emotional and psychic level, inversions throw new light on old patterns of behavior.
220: Finding Stability in an Unstable Environment (M / Yoga)
Presented By Suzette O'Byrne
time block C - Friday, 8:15-10:05am
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The core is the root of our being, the center of our balance, and in a healthy body, the root of our movements. Many of us know how to train the outer core but are disconnected from our inner core. Discover strengths and weaknesses in the core and how they translate into compensations and movements throughout the body. Develop key methods for retraining these muscles and releasing the tonic muscles, allowing your body to move more freely and assisting in pain or stress reduction.
221: Silver Age Yoga (M / Yoga)
Presented By Frank Iszak and Serpil Iszak
time block C - Friday, 8:15-10:05am
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Founded in geriatric science, this evidence-based senior health enhancement exercise program is supported by measurable results. This mindful exercise program combines breathing techniques, meditation and specially-developed postures called Silver Age Yoga asanas, which help seniors to stretch and strengthen muscles and improve their balance, along with providing a long list of additional physiological and psychological benefits.
231: STOTT PILATES® Vertical Frame Workshop (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By John Garey, MS
time block D - Friday, 10:25am-12:15pm
Step up your reformer workout by implementing the vertical frame. See how the roll-down bar, push-through bar and arm and leg springs will add variety to your clients’ workout. Essential exercises normally performed on the cadillac can be replicated with the vertical frame and used to complement any reformer or mat work routine.
232: Pilates, Biomechanics and Reality (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By Rael Isacowitz, MA
time block D - Friday, 10:25am-12:15pm
Science offers new information, or in many instances, substantiates old theories. This allows movement professionals to better their systems, ultimately providing better teaching methods and better outcomes. At times, however, some of this information is implemented either incorrectly or taken to the extreme, creating a new set of problems. This workshop will explore this phenomenon and delve into several examples of common problems that have evolved from good movement concepts.
236: STOTT PILATES® Stability Ball Challenge (M / Pilates MAT)
Presented By PJ O'Clair
time block D - Friday, 10:25am-12:15pm
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Add increased challenge and movement variety to this intermediate- to advanced-level workout with the stability ball. Pick up innovative strategies that will challenge upper- and lower-body strength, core stability, balance and control. By alternating body parts holding or being supported by the ball, the unstable nature of this tool will stimulate dynamic stabilization and proprioception.
237: Yoga Power and Tai Chi Grace (M / Yoga)
Presented By Scott Cole
time block D - Friday, 10:25am-12:15pm
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The ultimate fusion of power and grace, prana and chi, vinyasa and martial flow, moving from one seamless sequence to the next are what distinguish this session from the rest. Strength, flexibility, breath, balance and insight are only a few of the benefits of this delectable blend of martial and healing arts.
239: Yin Yang Yoga (M / Yoga)
Presented By Michele Hebert
time block D - Friday, 10:25am-12:15pm
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The athletic (yang) styles of yoga prevalent today are most effective when balanced by an inner approach to the yoga asanas (yin). Every posture in yoga brings out a different part of the mind. In this thought-provoking yoga workshop, we will explore the benefits of both yin and yang, and experience a yin yoga session in which the postures are held longer, with an emphasis on deep release and mental and emotional centering within the asana.
240: Nia®-The Five Stages of Healing (M / Integrative Movement)
Presented By Carlos Rosas and Debbie Rosas
time block D - Friday, 10:25am-12:15pm
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Experience the power of the five developmental stages and moves that use preverbal wisdom and sensation as a guide to help organically realign the body. Each unique stage is a foundation for reclaiming the body's mobility, flexibility, agility, strength and stability, making it possible to heal one's self and move with greater precision, power and comfort.
250: STOTT PILATES® Essential Pilates on the Edge (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By Kim Kraushar
time block E - Friday, 1:50-3:40pm
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Teach your classes on the edge! This versatile tool will help you increase the intensity level by changing the angles employed in your workout routine. By applying the five basic principles of STOTT PILATES, you'll learn how to modify the essential level exercises to develop a total-body workout. Discover how the Pilates Edge(TM) can be used with supine, prone and standing variations to take advantage of the foam triangle's increased height.
252: Peak Pilates®: MVe™ Reformer Energy (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By Colleen Glenn
time block E - Friday, 1:50-3:40pm
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Use the energy from your body, mind and soul as you transfer it to the reformer to become one. This workout will move you in and out of extraordinary shapes with a focus on deep-core strength and fluid movement. Experience how fabulous it feels to move from the inside out and with a sense of ease. You will love how your body will lengthen as it tones up in a new way that can only be achieved through Pilates.
257: Discover Tai Chi (M / Integrative Movement)
Presented By Scott Cole
time block E - Friday, 1:50-3:40pm
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Feel your body come alive as you reclaim the beauty of natural organic movement as Scott guides you through Taoist principles, philosophy and free-flowing movement in this gorgeous blend of qigong and tai chi.
259: Working From the Inside Out-A Healthy Body and Flexible Back (M / Yoga)
Presented By Stacy McCarthy
time block E - Friday, 1:50-3:40pm
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Explore how overdoing abdominal exercises can lead to a flattening of the lumbar curve, creating a weakened spinal structure. Using back arches, twists and forward bends, reclaim the power of space in the body.
260: Yoga-Movement as a Metaphor (M / Yoga)
Presented By Phyllis Pilgrim
time block E - Friday, 1:50-3:40pm
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Learn to weave together the many variables of life's experiences to the challenges of your yoga practice by integrating all aspects of the human experience: body, mind, spirit, emotion and intention. The weave of life's challenges within the yoga poses include courage, boldness, creativity, holding your ground, compassion, surrender and integrity. Understand how the yoga practice comes alive with the broader picture of your own life as you live it.
270: STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Plus™ Programming, Workshop 1 (M)
Presented By PJ O'Clair
time block F - Friday, 4:00-5:30pm
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This workshop uses the unique features of the STOTT PILATES V2 Max Plus, an all-in-one system that expands programming options for group classes and private training. Learn how to transform the machine to explore selected essential-level exercises on the mat, reformer and cadillac. This workshop is guaranteed to keep you and your clients challenged, motivated and coming back for more.
271: The Art of Asymmetrical Exercise (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By Kathy Corey
time block F - Friday, 4:00-5:30pm
Muscle imbalances need to be addressed asymmetrically in order to create balance and symmetry. Everything, from the way we stand, lift and carry, affects this asymmetry. This course teaches the assessment of hypermobility and rigidity, as well as how to correct problems from scoliosis to sports-related imbalances.
276: STOTT PILATES® Pilates on the Green, Level 2 (M / Pilates MAT)
Presented By John Garey, MS
time block F - Friday, 4:00-5:30pm
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A movement as complex as a golf swing requires focus, strength, flexibility, balance and power from the ground up. In this interactive Level 2 workshop, instructors will learn how to use specially-designed exercises to help their clients sharpen all these skills. We'll also focus on the key physical components that are necessary for increasing club head speed to send the ball further down the fairway and get that extra advantage on the green.
278: Yoga for the Core (M / Yoga)
Presented By Suzette O'Byrne
time block F - Friday, 4:00-5:30pm
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Over time our bodies can develop many different layers of compensations. By utilizing yoga therapy, you will learn how to identify, release and retrain the body to allow it to move with greater ease and functionality.
279: Utilize Power(ful) Yoga to Connect With the Core and the Breath (M / Yoga)
Presented By Diane Ambrosini, MA
time block F - Friday, 4:00-5:30pm
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The dynamic flow of Power Yoga is based on the ashtanga style of hatha yoga, where each pose is linked together by the breath. The flow of the poses (vinyasa) easily leads to a very active practice. By making simple, creative modifications to traditional yoga poses, you can create classes that target both the arms and core musculature.
280: Nia® Sounding: Blending Voice and Breath (M / Integrative Movement)
Presented By Carlos Rosas and Debbie Rosas
time block F - Friday, 4:00-5:30pm
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Discover the art of blending voice and breath to make sounds, naturally integrating the whole body to cleanse the emotional body and organically strengthen the physical body. Sounding engergetically and intriniscally creates support from the inside out to create a sound resonator that positively affects all systems and levels of consciousness in the body, mind, emotions and spirit.
290: Laughing Yoga (M / Yoga)
Presented By Sebastien Gendry
time block G - Friday, 7:30-8:30pm
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Come to this wonderful experiential session with Laughter Yoga International's worldwide operations director Sebastien Gendry. Learn a physically-oriented technique that uses a perfect blend of playful, empowering and tension-releasing laughter exercises. You do not need to have a sense of humor, be happy or have any reason to laugh. Do not miss this unique opportunity to find out why laughter is truly the BEST medicine!
301: The Labyrinth: A Meditation Walk (M / Mindfulness and Meditation)
Presented By Phyllis Pilgrim
time block H - Saturday, 6:30-7:15am
Walk the Chartres labyrinth (on a cloth replica) as a tool for meditation. This session includes a history of labyrinths and its construction in the Chartres Cathedral, along with an explanation of its use as a destination for Christian pilgrims.The labyrinth walk can be used today as a metaphor for a modern-day pilgrimage to your heart and soul center.
311: STOTT PILATES® Intermediate Pilates on the Edge (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By Kim Kraushar
time block I - Saturday, 8:15-10:05am
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Take your intermediate-level mat work routines to new heights with the Pilates Edge™. This workshop will show you how to continuously add intensity and challenge to your clients’ workouts by taking advantage of the foam triangle’s increasing height. Using a variety of positions--prone, supine, sitting and standing--you’ll discover how this innovative tool can drastically expand your programming options and make you a trainer in demand.
312: Reaching Higher Ground: The Advanced Pilates Repertoire (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By Rael Isacowitz, MA
time block I - Saturday, 8:15-10:05am
As more people do Pilates over an extended period of time, more enthusiasts are reaching the advanced-level repertoire. This milestone is exciting and inspiring, and as long as a good and solid foundation has been built over time, it is a well-deserved reward. Teachers need to be equipped to teach this challenging repertoire with accuracy and safety in mind. This workshop willoffer hands-on guidance in developing systematic and effective instruction. Recommended for accomplished professionals.
314: Laughter is the Best Medicine (M / Yoga)
Presented By Sebastien Gendry
time block I - Saturday, 8:15-10:05am
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Experience a unique workshop that will introduce you to a most refreshing and innovative approach to stress management as well as physical and mental well-being. Get ready to exercise your laughter muscles and enjoy the liberating and empowering effect that proves laughter is the best medicine! This workshop is of special interest to you if you are stressed, depressed, have low self-confidence, little or no sense of humor, or experience physical challenges. Please bring a big smile!
318: Yoga Power and Tai Chi Grace (M / Yoga)
Presented By Scott Cole
time block I - Saturday, 8:15-10:05am
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The ultimate fusion of power and grace, prana and chi, vinyasa and martial flow, moving from one seamless sequence to the next are what distinguish this session from the rest. Strength, flexibility, breath, balance and insight are only a few of the benefits of this delectable blend of martial and healing arts.
319: Unlocking Your Personal Power (M / Yoga)
Presented By Stacy McCarthy
time block I - Saturday, 8:15-10:05am
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Do you feel stiff and tight in the hips? Standing for extended periods drives stress up your legs and into the hips. If you sit for long periods of time, the tension builds in the back and travels down the sacrum where it is then stored in the hips. Tight hips also affect other parts of your body, including the health of your back, knees and feet. Explore yoga postures designed to target the hips, glutes and pelvis. Balance between strength and flexibility and learn how yoga is a practice of opposites.
320: Nia®-Awakening the Sacred Athlete Within (M / Integrative Movement)
Presented By Carlos Rosas and Debbie Rosas
time block I - Saturday, 8:15-10:05am
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Challenging your body, testing your boundaries and becoming the coach of your own body and self are all part of the process of awakening your sacred athlete-the one inside you who is responsible for helping you reach high levels of mechanical and organic skill. For the advanced student, practice is over and the game has begun!
332: STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Plus™ Programming, Workshop 2 (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By PJ O'Clair
time block J - Saturday, 10:25am-12:15pm
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Diversify your programming on the V2 Max Plus. Experience a multitude of exercises and modifications that will provide you with an array of programming choices. Explore exercises from the reformer, mat and Cadillac repertoire and see how you can enhance your clients' program by utilizing the vertical frame and reformer at the same time for increased challenge.
333: Balanced Body University: Mindfulness in Pilates (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By Tom McCook
time block J - Saturday, 10:25am-12:15pm
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Blending meditation and experiential anatomy is a wonderful way to bring more mindfulness to the Pilates mat work for enhanced health benefits. We will use experiential anatomy and imagery to promote body mechanics, tension release and efficiency for an optimal learning and movement experience. We will blend these approaches with a progression of classical and contemporary Pilates mat exercises.
336: TRIADBALL™ Excel! 2008 (M / Pilates MAT)
Presented By Michael Fritzke and Ton Voogt
time block J - Saturday, 10:25am-12:15pm
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This advanced Pilates workout with the TRIADBALL will challenge you to the core! This unique program fuses the structure of classical mat exercises with Pilates equipment exercises in a seamless and flowing fashion.
338: Yoga Therapy: Free Your Body, Open Your Mind (M / Yoga)
Presented By Megan Scott, PhD
time block J - Saturday, 10:25am-12:15pm
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The Anusara Yoga(R) universal principles of alignment is a powerful and therapeutic hatha yoga system that effectively provides tremendous therapeutic relief to a wide variety of biomechanical limitations and injuries. By incorporating the concept of the "three A's," attitude, alignment and action, we learn to holistically address physical injuries. This course is open to all and is especially suitable for body workers and yoga teachers who want to learn how to help themselves and others.
340: Sound Healing and Yoga (M / Yoga)
Presented By Michele Hebert
time block J - Saturday, 10:25am-12:15pm
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From ancient times to the present, the use of sound can be found in all wisdom traditions to balance and heal both the physical and energetic bodies. Learn to bring a variety of sounds and instruments to create entrainment and healing during your yoga practice using chanting, toning, chakra tones and instruments designed to enhance a meditative state.
350: STOTT PILATES® Prenatal Pilates on the Reformer (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By Kim Kraushar
time block K - Saturday, 1:50-3:40pm
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This innovative workshop will help you employ the reformer when working with moms-to-be. Drawing on the latest medical information and ACOG guidelines, we will discuss anatomical and physiological changes, risk factors and movement considerations with emphasis placed on creating a safe and effective workout for your expectant clients.
351: Embracing the Differences on the Reformer (M / Pilates Reformer)
Presented By Kathy Corey, Michael Fritzke and Ton Voogt
time block K - Saturday, 1:50-3:40pm
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Join us for a reformer program with world-renowned teachers. From their diverse backgrounds and extensive knowledge of the reformer repertoire, they present a program that is innovative, exploratory and informative. The message is unity. This special program suggests that there is not just one right version of an exercise, only the right version for the individual body. Your teachers have pooled their knowledge to create an interactive class with openness to tradition and change.