Continuing Education

Instructor:  Kristi Quinn

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How can the Reformer be used to address common foundational movement dysfunctions, and how can new training concepts and protocols be integrated with established exercise repertoires? In this workshop, participants review the multi-planar functional assessments explored in Part A, then discuss the application of those findings in a Reformer-based program. Variations and modifications to illicit positive responses are introduced incorporating STOTT PILATES^® Basic Biomechanical Principles, Foundational Movement Patterns, and the Merrithew Fascial Movement Variables along with additional factors. Using the spring tension of the Reformer and the versatility in positioning, enhance a client’s movement quality and address individual movement default strategies. The overall goal is to increase mobility and enhance dynamic stability through all planes of motion restoring more efficient movement to everyday life.

Fee:  $135

Instructor: Michelle Gantz

.2 STOTT PILATES^® CECs

Get down on the Mat for a workout that’s not for the faint-hearted. Welcome to the full-body workout athletes swear by for sports conditioning, cross training and a strong, injury-resistant core. With this workshop, developed by the Merrithew^™ team, every last muscle will feel this challenging routine that uses Toning Balls^™and innovative exercise choices to focus on precision and control.

Instructor:  Rebecca Schroeder

Fee:  $385 (includes manual)

The 7 hour, one-day Total Barre® Foundation Course provides the groundwork for Instructors to produce safe, effective and varied barre programs that address the needs and goals of every client. Participants are introduced to the Total Barre® Principles – six movement awareness fundamentals that provide the structure and biomechanical basis for each exercise. During the course, participants have the opportunity to experience the movements before examining the application of the principles, and learn the essence of each exercise along with the theories of dynamic stability, optimal mobility and movement efficiency.

Instructor:  Shane Belau

Fee: $135

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This fluid dynamic workout, developed by the Merrithew^™ team, includes sequences of movements that transition gracefully from one to the next. The Mini Stability Ball^™ brings awareness to the deep stabilizing muscles of the body throughout this flowing workout and encourages focus on core connection and peripheral suppleness. Combining balance, strength and fluid mindful movement, this routine will bring a sense of composure to any group or personal training environment.

Instructor:  Kristi Quinn

Fee:  $135

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Barre workouts have the potential to be both vigorous and enjoyable. Bring the energy of music to a challenging workout brought to you by the Merrithew^™ team. Participants learn how to build intensity using the structure of the Total Barre^® class template. This workout introduces elements of athletic conditioning and performance training to individual exercise segments for an intense full-body workout. Learn how to modify each of the 11 segments to focus training on specific movements or areas of the body. Explore how muscular endurance, strength, stability and agility can be trained with a fluid, yet-high intensity workout. Powerful music selections propel the intensity-driven routines to amplify the results and energize every participant.

Instructor:  Kristi Quinn

STOTT PILATES^® CECs:  4

Fee:  $250

Props, props, props! Clients love props, and when you incorporate them into a lively, music-inspired barre class, they not only provide a fun and intense challenge, but ensure target muscles are firing effectively, and clients are getting the desired results.

This four-hour workshop, developed by the Merrithew^™ team, follows the 11-Segment, one-hour class template, introduced in the Total Barre Foundation Course. Learn unique, energetic choreography coupled with effective cues to reinforce safe biomechanics for each movement of the workout. The added resistance of a Flex-Band^®, and Ankle Tubing effectively activates stabilizing and mobilizing muscles and the addition of the Mini Stability Ball^™ provides both support and challenge. This workout, choreographed to a great selection of music, is a wonderful addition to your barre program.

Instructor:  Kristi Quinn

STOTT PILATES^® CECs: 2

Fee:  $135

Experience all aspects of functional training – squat, hinge, lunge, pull, push and rotate – in this full-body integrated workout. The 5 lb Soft Kettlebell Plus is unlike any other, it can be configured and utilized in diverse ways to add challenge and enhance awareness to both standing and Matwork-based exercises. The Merrithew^™ Programming Team presents innovative sequences incorporating variations of traditional compound Kettlebell moves along with Pilates repertoire.

Fee:  $135

Instructor: Kristi Quinn

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This workshop provides instructors tools to incorporate new fascial research concepts within the body of the STOTT PILATES^® Essential Matwork repertoire. Following the Essential Matwork order, participants explore how exercise essences can be enhanced with new fascial research concepts, inspiring a new movement experience. Created by the experts at Merrithew^™, discover seamless movement flowing exercise sequences that take the body through multiple planes of movement. This workshop will spark creativity in programming and allow participants to tap into their innate body wisdom to find alternate variations that best suit their movement potential on any given day.

Instructor:  Michelle Gantz

Fee: $320

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The ZEN•GA^® program is a teaching modality that consciously connects the body and the mind through a fusion of Pilates, yoga, martial arts and meditation. Through intention and imagery, ZEN•GA will unleash the body from tension and bring more clarity to the mind. Using props and equipment, we stimulate the fascial system and build endurance, strength, mobility and stability while cultivating a greater sense of physical awareness.

Our ZEN•GA^® programs provide a balanced and thorough blend of theory, observation and practical experience to help you master the repertoire. Both courses teach you workouts that are functional; combining strength, endurance, flexibility, and dynamic stability of the entire body while increasing awareness and mindfulness through movement. Provide your clients with a mindful workout that encompass the bodies’ natural rhythms developing more ease and proficiency while developing a more youthful, resilient fluid body, stimulating the neuromyofascial web of the body and hydrating the myofascial meridians.

Instructor:  Kristi Quinn

STOTT PILATES^® CECs -2

Fee: $135

This workshop is designed to provide instructors with tools to fine-tune their programs and help their clients’ overall physical condition. By combining traditional and newer training protocols including STOTT PILATES^®Basic Biomechanical Principles, Foundational Movement Patterns, and the Merrithew Fascial Movement Variables along with additional factors, learn to assess your clients’ established movement patterns. Then, starting with self-assessment in standing, encourage subjective evaluations with multi-planar movements within a dynamic warm-up to identify individual movement default strategies that can hinder exercise training goals.

Instructor:  Kristi Quinn

STOTT PILATES^® CECs- 2

Fee: $135

In this workshop, participants experience a dynamic warm-up, combining multi-planar functional movement patterns reinforced by the STOTT PILATES^® Basic Biomechanical Principles and the Merrithew Fascial Movement Variables. Progressing from the STOTT PILATES^® Foundational Movement Assessment learned in Part A of this series. A wide variety of props is introduced, including the Foam Cushion C, Stability Barrel, Flex-Band^® and Toning Balls^™, to enhance a client’s movement quality and address individual movement default strategies. Floor-based exercises follow that include interdisciplinary approaches designed to tackle these common faulty patterns and increase sensory awareness.

Instructor:  Shane Belau

Fee:  $320

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The Equipment program created through the ZEN•GA® approach to movement allow us to utilize the unique quality of spring resistance. The coiling and uncoiling quality of the springs creates a more fluid, resilient body. The ZEN•GA® Equipment Course will help us explore the principles that make up the method and apply them to movement programs designed to reach the desired goals. This is a seven-hour in-class training (plus one-hour break) - and some previous yoga or other mind-body training is highly recommended.

Instructor:  Michelle Gantz

Fee:  $320

STOTT PILATES^® CECs-7

The Halo^® Training program is designed for fitness instructors teaching group classes and individual clients. More than just a prop, the Halo Trainer Plus is featured as the basis for a complete training program that allows instructors to manipulate exercise attributes and intensity in individual training plans. Incorporating the basic science behind core-integrated bodyweight training, the unique design of the Halo^® Trainer Plus and the use of a Stability Ball^™ and additional small props, gives fitness trainers extensive and highly applicable tools.

The Halo Instructor Foundation Course presents the concepts of interval training principles and variables, the theories of both timed and repetition-based programs, and exercise sequences that progress through the beginner, intermediate and advanced levels (Level 1–4 Halo Training).

Note to course or workshop participants, Halo Instructor Training is a unique, high-intensity interval training program that requires a high level of fitness, and is not suitable for those recovering from injury, pre-natal/post-natal participants or those unused to cardio-based exercise. Halo Training workshops are also a great way to get introduced to the program. Intro to Interval Training, Intro to Integrated Bodyweight Training and Building Intensive Interval Programs are all excellent ways to experience Halo Training and the levels of intensity this program offers. For more information on whether Halo Training is right for you, please contact an Education Advisor at educationadvisor@merrithew.com.

Upon completion of one or both Instructor Foundation Course(s), participants will be able to teach the Halo Training method of exercise. Only upon the receipt of their certificate will they be entitled to identify themselves as a Halo Qualified Instructor.

The Halo Training System is applicable to all levels of clients and the workouts are designated in levels:

• Level 1 – Entry level to fitness. This client is healthy but new to Halo training and has engaged in some physical activity. Exercises are used for foundational training to build proper biomechanics and begin building muscular strength and endurance
• Level 2 – Moderate fitness level. This client has been working out regularly at least 2–3 times week for 3–6 months with bodyweight training or resistance training or has progressed from the Level 1 Halo training and can apply the principles of core stabilization effectively
• Level 3 – Good fitness level. This client has been working out consistently at least 4–6 times a week for 8–12 months and is ready for additional challenge in a workout. These exercises are very challenging and require greater core stabilization and upper and lower body strength
• Level 4 – Experienced exerciser or competitive athlete. This client has mastered all three previous levels and can perform expert level exercises

Instructor:  Kristi Quinn

STOTT PILATES^® CECs-7

Fee:   $320

The CORE^™ Athletic Conditioning & Performance Training^™ Program is intended for those already working in the fields of fitness or movement with an interest in training their athlete clients more effectively. The focus is on expanding student’s current knowledge while delivering complete instruction in the CORE^™ foundational principles along with the components and theory of various athletic conditioning and performance training methodologies.

Emphasis on cueing, biomechanics, proper form, and modifications are some of major points that separate the CORE^™ program from other training programs.

Upon completion of the Instructor Foundation Course, participants will be able to teach the CORE^™ method of exercise. Only upon the receipt of their certificate will they be entitled to identify themselves as a CORE^™ Qualified Instructor.

Our CORE^™ program provides a balanced and thorough blend of theory, observation and practical experience to help you master the repertoire.

General course objectives:

• Apply the CORE^™ Principles to a variety of exercises on the Mat.
• Learn how simple exercises can be used in a fitness-based workout and understand how the movements can be used for sport-specific training.
• Learn how to cue exercises to maintain safety and effectiveness.
• Discover how to create programs that improve functionality and performance.
• Learn how to add variety and challenge to traditional conditioning moves.

Instructor: Kristi Quinn

Fee:  $320

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Part A:  The Foundation

Statistics show that 1 in 5 men and 1 in 3 women will suffer an Osteoporotic fracture at some point in their lifetime. In this workshop created by the team at Merrithew^™, participants learn crucial information regarding osteoporosis, its diagnosis and treatment. Discover how a FRAX Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX) score is used to determine risk, and identify other risk factors for osteoporosis and fracture. Understand the importance of balance, strength, safe movement transitions in fall prevention and fracture risk reduction when working with osteoporosis clients. Walk away with a framework to create effective and safe programs for any client with any stage of osteoporosis.

Part B Create Effective Mat Workouts

Clients with osteoporosis may be put at risk for injury or fracture when performing certain exercises in traditional exercise programs. This specially designed workshop, developed by the Merrithew^™ team provides programming and guidelines to maximize joint mobility, improve muscular strength and endurance, improve balance and maintain functionality all while reducing movements that may put the spine at risk. Understand how incorporating small props like the Mini Stability Ball^™, Foam Roller, Flex-Band^® and Toning Balls can effectively assist clients and offer myriad modifications and variations to a Matwork routine. Walk away with the knowledge to design safe and effective matwork programs for your clients with osteoporosis. The course uses case studies to apply the information learned in the lecture.

Part C: Create Effective Reformer Workouts

The Reformer can be an excellent tool to create safe and effective exercise programs for clients with osteoporosis. This workshop, created by the Merrithew^™ team, identifies risk levels for osteoporosis and teaches programming options for each level. Take comorbidities and cardiovascular status into consideration to design and modify a program accordingly. Understand how the spring resistance can effectively assist clients and offer myriad programming options for clients with Osteoporosis at any stage.