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Description: Breath is the first self-motivated movement that initiates life in this world and also terminates it.  As Pilates and movement professionals, we should strive to enhance the capacity of our clients to breathe with ease and dexterity.  This ease is essential for physical, mental and spiritual health. In this 5 hour workshop we will take a close look at the action of the respiratory mechanism exploring the anatomy and enervation of the diaphragm as well as the intercostals and the accessory muscles of breath.  You will be presented with real tools to facilitate your clients’ capacity to breathe in different ways to ease and alleviate neck pain, support and facilitate pelvic floor and transverses abdominus engagement and calm the nervous system and adrenals.  Our goal will be to cultivate new ways of thinking so that we can expand our proficiency as teachers.
 

In this workshop we will:

Look at the anatomy of the intercostals, the diaphragm, the abdominals, the pelvo-lumbar girdle and the musculature of the cervical spine.

Define the pathway of the phrenic nerve and see how restriction in the neck can affect respiration.

Explore how and why respiration affects an individual’s low back health.

Look at the diaphragms involvement in “Inner Unit” engagement.

Explore the real physiological effects of respiratory freedom on the adrenals, the kidneys and the solar plexus.