Movement Tour®, Las Vegas

Ask your client to activate the pelvic floor and they will often raise their eyebrows both in confusion and hope that what they are feeling is what you are asking. While pelvic floor research is often confusing and contradictory, one thing is certain, movement and exercise are beneficial for maintaining pelvic floor health. In this course you will learn practical and effective exercises designed to address the pelvic floor and to maintain healthy pelvic floor tone. Using the reformer and tower we will explore the pelvic floor through movement and learn how to address many common pelvic floor issues and dysfunctions.

We all know that movement heals, we all experience the connections of the emotional and the physical body, and we all recognize that a physical practice can help support emotional wellbeing. Now feel it. Let Misty take you on a journey designed to support your mind, body, and soul with movements that incorporate flow and promote restoration.

Our world population is skewing older and women are now over 51% of the total population. Yet the vast majority of clients in our studios are women between 30 and 75 years of age. This means we are training women through many life transitions from pregnancy through menopause and all of the other health and fitness needs that occur in between. This is exciting, because through Pilates and movement education we can support women through all of the joy, challenges and changes that is part of living a life.

In the 1800s menopausal women were considered ‘hysterical’. In the 1950s menopause was referred to as ‘the change’. Today, understanding the natural progression of menopause allows us to explore our changing and adapting bodies, without judgement. The key to understanding how to approach training, specifically during these ‘menopausal years,’ is to explore how our physical changes in muscle tone, fat accumulation and energy are tied to hormones and our physiology. You will leave with training strategies and program plans designed to engage a women’s particular needs and to empower our body’s ability to stay strong, healthy and vital.

Women often encounter challenges in connecting and strengthening specific muscle groups, including hamstrings, adductors, lower trapezius, serratus and the deep core muscles. This workshop is designed to teach effective methods for engaging and integrating these “underdog” muscle groups using the dynamic nature of the CoreAlign.

It’s been a tough few years. From the pandemic to the social/political turmoil we’ve been enveloped in, it’s become easier to detach from our hearts and minds in order to “get through.” How can we manage and release stress before it causes us physical and emotional harm? In Free to Feel, Free to Heal, we will reflect upon the experiences that shape who we are today and how we connect to ourselves and others. We’ll also explore the powerful connections between our minds, bodies, and emotions as we embark on a movement journey toward finding wholeness. By taking the focus away from making external shapes and moving “the right way” and directing it inward toward conscious inquiry of our personal felt experiences, we will learn to better understand our needs so that we can be our truest, most illuminated selves – no matter what life throws at us.

Let’s start the day with a specially designed class that will provide you with a joyful space to explore movement and connect with your lymphatic system. Our body relies on your lymph system to remove waste, and every movement in this class will help it do its job. Let’s promote lymph flow and circulation, calm the nervous system, relieve stress, and have fun while working one of the most incredible systems in our body.

Clients find Pilates from a doctor or physical therapists’ recommendation. Joseph Pilates himself is known for returning many injured dancers to the stage and credited for their careers’ longevity. Pilates represents longevity of movement potential which translates to healthy living and better overall health and vitality. However, in the presence of pain, fear and discomfort, movement is often the first casualty. The Pilates environment is uniquely suited to help clients explore safely, privately, and comfortably a renewed relationship with their body. Once this relationship is made, movement curiosity and empowerment follow.

Do you have clients who are about to give birth or just had a baby? Learn how to support new moms, and help them re-integrate their core and pelvic floor in a holistic and measured way that won’t lead to incontinence or faulty patterns and help them strengthen their bodies in ways that support the challenges of newborn care.

This unique course is designed to support the client experience from a diagnosis of breast cancer through to the ‘new’ physical normal. Once a client receives a diagnosis, they find themselves on a roller coaster ride filled with uncertainties, anxieties, and choices. This course walks you, the instructor, through the cancer experience from diagnosis, to treatments and medications, to the emotional toll that is cancer. It will outline, at each stage, movements designed to restore physical strength, flexibility, range of motion, and most importantly a client’s trust in their body’s ability to heal and be well again.

There are more than 100 types of arthritis and related conditions that may be obvious or invisible, mild or severe, occur in old age or in childhood, be stable or progressive, affect joints or even the heart, eyes, lungs and skin. Movement has long been considered the best medicine for most types of arthritis, but moving – let alone exercising – can be difficult when your joints hurt. Mindful movement techniques like Pilates have long been recognized as therapeutic for people living with arthritis. Join us for a workshop to learn more about the most common types of arthritis, how to help clients properly protect their joints from added pain or injury, and instructor/studio best practices to keep sessions as arthritis-friendly as possible.

Setting our individual intention helps us define our goals, purpose, and place in the world and one of the most extraordinary ways to harness the power of intention is through shared movement and experiences. What better way could there be to end an event such as this one than to come together, move joyfully and open our hearts to the future of learning, sharing, and practicing Pilates.