PepFest Madrid will host high-calibre, sought after educators delivering diverse, practical and invaluable workshops that will enrich your knowledge and skill base as a Pilates professional.
Workshops
Maria Earle
Advancing on the Reformer
Delve into an exploration of advanced exercises on the Reformer that demand heightened body awareness, control, strength and balance. Often, these exercises are considered challenging to teach and can be overlooked. However, they hold immense potential to deepen your students' practice and understanding of the Pilates method. Throughout the workshop, the primary focus will be on equipping you with a diverse range of targeted teaching strategies and tactile assists. These invaluable tools will empower you to confidently lead your students through complex movement patterns while prioritizing their safety and providing effective guidance. Come away from the workshop with strategies that well-prepare you to help your students overcome challenges, by building their strength and confidence. This workshop encourages active participation; bring your questions and most challenging exercises to the table and receive personalized insights and solutions that address your concerns directly. This interactive platform ensures that you leave not only with enhanced teaching strategies but also with solutions tailored to your individual teaching context.
Kathy Grant’s Before the Hundred and Beyond
Cats, sand tunnels, weathervanes, whistles, and hums — let‘s get creative and playful in this workshop that will illuminate the teachings of Kathy Grant through the lens of long-time student Maria Earle. Kathy Grant studied closely with Joe Pilates in the 1950s and ‘60s. Over the five decades that followed she developed her own sophisticated and unique approach to his method. Grant was supremely skillful in guiding movement with the creative use of props, imagery, and sound - finding subtle nuances to enhance awareness and movement education. During 13 years of mentorship in New York City, Kathy entrusted her deep understanding and creative approach to the classical Pilates method to Maria. Come away from this workshop with movement protocols and ideas that provide a unique approach to the Pilates Method through the use of sound, imagery and props.
Ana Margarida Ferrão
Reformer Fit
Learn how to program fitness classes on the reformer that promote:
Muscle Endurance
High metabolic demand
Rates of Perceived Effort between 4 and 9
Using strength methodologies:
Super sets
Compound sets
Circuits
By music as a tool to determine the speed of muscle contraction maintaining the motivation high.
Cues and Communication
Teaching is a Science rooted in Communication — a skill that can, and must, be learned. The knowledge of a teacher is as useful to the students and members as well it can be communicated and translated to quality movement.
This workshop will helo you understand the power of communication and apply fitness-specific best practices so your knowledge actually lands.
What is teaching and communication
Understand and identify Communication Styles - DISC
The Paradigm Shift - The Receiver
The Message - Instruction, Cues, Analogies and Imagery; when and how to use them to maximize learning and members results
How and when to use External and Internal Cues
How to teach breath as a tool, not a rule
The Fryette's Laws to effectively teach Spinal Movements
Practical application of the concepts in Pilates Exercises
Erina Martins
Programming effective sculpt classes
Software-agnostic guidelines enable universal application across platforms.
Programming effective sculpt classes
Software-agnostic guidelines enable universal application across platforms.
Cian Hughes
Programming effective sculpt classes
Software-agnostic guidelines enable universal application across platforms.
Programming effective sculpt classes
Software-agnostic guidelines enable universal application across platforms.
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