The Pilates Method | 4-week workshop series with Lana
Pilates is an intelligent and progressive whole-system method. In this comprehensive 4-week workshop series, you receive an opportunity to learn about its context, guiding principles and benefits as well as why and how to apply them to your personal practice of Pilates. Beyond fleeting movement trends, discover why this method has continued to support, move and heal people around the world for over a century, and how you might apply principles and fundamentals of the method even to your everyday life.
Who is this for?
Anyone curious about the why behind the Pilates method
Anyone craving a deeper understanding of the foundational principles of the method, and how to apply them in their practice
Anyone interested in unpacking and deepening their understanding of frequently used cues, such as Pilates breath, deep core, neutral spine / trunk alignment, etc. and what they mean in your body and personal movement practice
What to expect:
Every session will consist of both theoretical and practical aspects as we will move towards establishing a whole system integration of the method into our personal practice:
Session 1 – Physiology of the Breath
Session 2 – Foundations of Pilates
Session 3 – Alignment through experiential anatomy principles
Session 4 – Recapitulation of the method + repertoire
You’ll walk away with
Deeper understanding of the physiology and integration of breath in Pilates practice and everyday life
Knowledge and embodied experience of foundational Pilates principles in practice
Better understanding of your own static and dynamic postural alignment
Progressive experience of moving through the method - foundational Pilates repertoire
Dates and times
Saturdays: 3.00 pm - 4.15 pm
14, 21, 28 November and 5 December
Investment
4-week course and resources - $220
Facilitator bio
Lana Sprajcer is a dance artist, Pilates teacher and movement facilitator who has been working across many established Pilates studios in Naarm and continuously and passionately developing her knowledge and experience in practice and teaching. She has created this offering for all of those whose curiosity moves beyond a 45-min group class setting, and are interested in a deep, intelligent approach to mind-body in movement and practice that is inherent to Pilates Method, but in the fast-paced contemporary studio environment, not so often catered for.
Lana holds a BA in Contemporary Dance from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, as well as a certificate in Mat Pilates and Trauma Informed Pilates Approach. Her approach to mind-body in movement is deeply informed by somatic practices and techniques such as: Body-Mind Centering, Feldenkrais Method, Klein Technique and Alexander Technique, amongst others.