Pilates Principles: Pilates Foundation Course

Course overview

This course combines the most current research around core stabilization with six fundamental Pilates principles to offer simple, easy-to-use strategies for helping you help yourself and your clients relieve discomfort and improve pain-free movement. The course video tutorials and 160-page illustrated e-book provide a comprehensive understanding of how the core functions, and how stabilization helps promote health and proper movement patterns through the development of balanced muscles, joint alignment, and core control. Objectives: At the conclusion of this course the participant should be able to: State how the 6 Pilates Principles can restore functional balance and promote optimal movement patterns. Discuss the functional core and ways it should operate for proper function. Explain how to balance the deep and superficial myofascial systems with breathing techniques. Demonstrate the Self Myofascial Release Technique to help promote the parasympathetic nervous system. Determine what habituation from daily routines may be causing dysfunctional postural and movement patterns.