Stretch Teacher Training (TT) workshop

Description

The Stretch Teacher Training workshop is presented by Kit Laughlin and is based on Kit’s book Stretching & Flexibility. The workshop is designed for people who want to teach stretching exercise classes, following the techniques detailed in the book Stretching & Flexibility.

This workshop will train workshop participants in safe and effective techniques for reducing muscle tension, redressing muscular asymmetries, and improving overall flexibility using a variety of novel solo and partner-based stretches for the whole body. You will learn how to ‘back-' and 'forward-engineer’ any pose to suit individuals in your classes and will also learn how to assemble collections of exercises to make exciting and effective classes. We want you to demonstrate that you can teach your clients how to help themselves.

You will be able to apply these techniques, suitable for every body, immediately, from rehabilitation to performance enhancement.

Presenter

Kit Laughlin is a world authority in stretching and strengthening techniques. He is the author of the best-selling books Overcome Neck & Back Pain, Stretching & Flexibility, and Stretching & Pregnancy. Kit has presented workshops to over 3,000 individuals worldwide and is a strength and flexibility consultant to elite teams and athletes. He studied Oriental medicine and Shiatsu for three years in Japan and founded the Shoshin Centre in Canberra, Australia, where he assists clients to overcome pain related to muscular and skeletal asymmetries. Read more ...

Prerequisites

Participants are expected to have read Kit’s book Stretching & Flexibility (this is the course text) prior to the workshop.

Outline

Principles of the stretching approach

The approach draws on a number of bodywork disciplines and features many novel techniques, including the use of ‘partial poses’ to focus on a single joint, contract-relax (C-R) and other neural techniques to enhance flexibility, and partner-assisted exercises. You will learn techniques to increase your awareness of what is happening in the body and to increase the range of movement of the body’s joints and muscles by effective re-mapping of the brain’s image of its capacities.

Exercises for the back and torso

You will learn solo and practitioner-applied stretches for flexion and extension of the spine, whole spine rotation, lateral flexion and quadratus lumborum. We will cover key torso strengthening exercises and will focus on left-right comparison of muscular function.

Exercises for the middle back, upper back, shoulder and neck

You will learn stretches and strengthening techniques for the middle back, upper back and neck (e.g. paravertebrals, upper and middle trapezius, levator scapulae, scalenes, sub-occipitals). We will cover exercises to correct rotator cuff imbalances and rounded shoulders targeting, for example, biceps brachii and pectoralis minor.

Exercises for the hips and lower limbs

You will learn novel exercises for the hip flexors, piriformis, glutes, hamstrings, calves, quadriceps and feet. The role of the external hip rotators and adductors in ankle pronation will be addressed.

Exercises for the arm, wrist and hand

We will cover a comprehensive series of stretches for the arm, wrist and hand, including exercises for brachioradialis, and flexors and extensors of the hands and fingers.

Guide Program

Five-day format (pdf, 87kb)

Six-day format (pdf, 91kb)

Accreditations

The Stretch Teacher Training workshop is accredited with a number of bodywork associations, in Australia and overseas. Click here to view a current list, including educational credits this workshop attracts.

2010 workshops

Vancouver, Canada - May

Randwick, Sydney, Australia - July/August

Chelmer, Brisbane, Australia - October