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Description
In this online Pilates workshop Chantill Lopez teaches how to empower yourself and your clients to embrace rather than fear spinal extension. Explore how some of our favorite cues and techniques for ensuring “safe” spinal extension are potentially limiting healthy movement in the pelvis, hip, sacroiliac joints and lumbar spine and how, with a more subtle understanding of where and how extension begins and develops, you can foster greater mobility, stability, and freedom in this beautiful movement.
Objectives
- To shift from a fear-based extension perspective to one that promotes deeper levels of strength and potential in a safe and thoughtful way.
- Learn how to promote healthy function in the sacroiliac joints even when imbalances are present.
- Learn how to ORGANIZE, INITIATE, and SEQUENCE extension so that you are working with the body rather than against it.
- Learn how changing the apex of the curve can make all the difference in accessing and deepening extension.
- Learn the steps to take to help students develop healthy local extension as well as gross overall balanced extension of the spine.
- Learn tools that you can integrate to engage, challenge and motivate your students to LOVE extension.
Concepts & Techniques
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Soft tissue release and integration techniques.
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Bony rhythms and interplay in the hip, SI joints, and lumbar spine.
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The role of sacral nutation in initiating extension.
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The role of the multifidus and other key muscles in sacral nutation.
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The role of the foot and the lower chain in healthy extension -- joint-by-joint analysis based on the work of Gray Cook.
Props & Equipment Used
- Balls
- Small Props
- Trap/Cad
Workshop Level
- Advanced
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Duration & Access
This workshop is approximately 2.5 hours long and you have 30 days of access
(No expiration for Forever Access Members)
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About Chantill Lopez
After more than 20 years of teaching, 15 of which have been spent teaching Pilates, yoga, dance, meditation and other movement modalities to a complex variety of folks, I am proud to be a teacher of t...
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Valerie P--- QuizpageId 23172
Excellent material!
Judy B--- QuizpageId 23172
Informative, the use and teaching techniques for dynamic neutral spine very good.
Kris B--- QuizpageId 23172
New way oto look at extension. It makes complete sense. My extensions were better after this workshop. I can not wait to use these tools with my clients
Marguerite G--- QuizpageId 23172
Lovely workshop. Many thanks
MELISSA F--- QuizpageId 23172
I enjoyed this workshop and helped me to think about extension in a different way. I like the idea and cueing of softening into extension and letting go of the gripping that occurs in extension. Makes so much sense to not tuck the pelvis. I'm hoping to apply some of the methods to myself and my clients.
Tracy M--- QuizpageId 23172
Chantill has a great delivery of the content. I love the pop-ups-especially when they were specific to Doreen and what to look for.
Dawnna W--- QuizpageId 23172
A very interesting and thoughtful approach to this subject matter
Carrie J--- QuizpageId 23172
I found Fearless Extensionwith Chantill Lopez, very helpful and I look forward to implementing the tools with my own work and my clients.
Bz C--- QuizpageId 23172
Great teaching style and the content makes so much sense. Thanks!
Julie B--- QuizpageId 23172
Enjoyed the workshop! It provided a refresher course on the mechanics of dynamic neutral and segmental articulation. Thanks!
Stephanie L--- QuizpageId 23172
Great workshop, thank you!
Jennifer B--- QuizpageId 23172
A very informative and detailed workshop, I appreciated the step-by-step process and seeing how it all came together!
Courtney K--- QuizpageId 23172
Chantill is so calming and a wonderful presenter! I can't wait for another workshop from her! I am completely on board with shifting our current belief about lumbar extension. Lovely workshop.
Julia H--- QuizpageId 23172
This workshop has provided a lot of great tools for me to help clients with tight backs and in general. The information included was layered well, and, although some of the anatomy was a bit over my head, I can understand what to work towards with clients relative to observation and information relay. The way to structure movements and identify patterns was great. It motivates me to learn more and creates a better method for conversing with students about exercises. Thanks!
Judith J--- QuizpageId 23172
Great lecture. I would like to hear mire about the cervical spine in extension. Thank you.
" I enjoyed this workshop and helped me to think about extension in a different way. I like the idea and cueing of softening into extension and letting go of the gripping that occurs in extension. Makes so much sense to not tuck the pelvis. I'm hoping to apply some of the methods to myself and my clients. "
MELISSA F
" A very informative and detailed workshop, I appreciated the step-by-step process and seeing how it all came together! "
Jennifer B
" Chantill is so calming and a wonderful presenter! I can't wait for another workshop from her! I am completely on board with shifting our current belief about lumbar extension. Lovely workshop. "
Courtney K
" Great lecture. I would like to hear mire about the cervical spine in extension. Thank you. "
Judith J