Eric Franklin talks about the Franklin Method Teacher Training and what you will have the chance to experience if you attend!

Learning the Franklin Method is much more than just learning about anatomy, imagery and movement. It is really a whole new experience of life. It expands our limits and pushes us to new levels of embodiment and experiences. It takes us to a fresh and dynamic understanding of how the body functions to keep us healthy and strong, and from this place we can share this with others.

The Franklin Method teacher training course provides the tools and know how to transfer this information to others so that they can also make changes in their body and mind. If you already a teacher, this will take your skills to the next level.

We can highly recommend this teacher training to all movers, dancers, lay people, teachers, movement educators, parents, yogis, pilates teachers, alexander teachers, physicists, and anyone with a body and mind!

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Wishing you the most fantastic holiday, and enjoyable experience in your body. Using our Imagery Tree, we have some new, vibrant experiences to share with your body and mind.

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Create a fresh understanding of the way your body is designed in order to liberate your ability to move freely and create health.

This workshop with Eric Franklin, founder of the Franklin Method, will concentrate on the pelvic core and the spine, a masterpiece of design containing more than 100 joints and associated muscles and ligaments. An embodied understanding of the spine will allow you to explore all your daily movements to benefit your spinal health.
Emphasizing ease and efficiency through imagery and simple movements, you will
Experience the power of imagery, touch, and movement exercises to lengthen and balance the shoulder and neck musculature.
~Learn to melt away tension and associated mental anxiety
~Release holding patterns in the upper body by activating the pelvic floor
~Become aware of the organic causes of tightness and muscular rigidity
~Create an embodied understanding of yoga poses and how to cue them efficiently
~Experience the anatomy behind natural breathing and how it relates to yogic practices.
~You will leave with your feet firmly balanced, and your spine long and buoyant.
Note Participants are encouraged to purchase and bring a Textured Franklin Ball™ set (SKU LE9001) and a Franklin Mini Roll™ (SKU LE9002) from www.optp.com; approximate total cost is $50.
CE Credits
This program is eligible for :
8.5 credits for athletic trainers (BOC), $20 additional charge

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Nicole, a yoga teacher, realizes that the words she uses in yoga class can be reshaped to assist her own body and her students’ bodies. With new language, she can help bodies move in more beneficial ways and can empower a mind body connection.

Ilana realizes the capacity of her body and all bodies for movement beyond what she thought there could be!

At Pilates on Tour in Phoenix this April, Eric presented 3 outstanding workshops- pelvis, spine and neck and shoulders where this was obvious in the dramatic transformations and excitement from all who participated.

Most of the participants are Pilates professionals and movement educators and related to Eric’s teaching methods immediately. In most cases this presented a completely new way of looking at the body, it’s function and how you create a change.

Eric’s directness and humorous teaching style created a warm and supportive environment where those present can really re-evaluate the way they themselves understand the body, function, and what they have learned.  When you learn from your own experience, and questioning what you ‘know’ the insights and awareness is profound on many levels.

Here, Eric explains the incredible design of the discs in the spine workshop.

Discs are good at carrying weight- they are designed to convert compressive force into tensile. When this is happening efficiently in our body, we experience a happy, buoyant, supportive spine  What discs don’t like is imbalanced use- or bad posture over a long period of time. For the discs to be nourished they need full movement in all possibilities, and to be used in a balanced way. You become efficient by understanding the function and then more importantly embodying this function and then you become the creator for your spine, body and life :)

This April, I taught two workshops at the Dance Medicine Conference in Monte Carlo. It was part of the Monaco Dance Forum which brings together Dance Companies from all over the world, especially youth ballets, which were brilliant. My students were mostly dancers from Les Ballets de Monte Carlo.

I started with a general introduction to Franklin Method mental imagery. The dancers experienced easeful, expressive port de bras and how relaxed shoulders improves hip flexibility and many techniques to improve alignment without increasing tension. I then introduced the function of the pelvis and worked on the plié with the principal dancer of the company, Asier Uriagereka. He was astonished at how much his plié improved.

Another dancer complained of constant gripping in his thighs, using the Franklin Method bone rhythms he discovered how effortless it can be to perform a plié.

The dancers had many questions and are thrilled to pursue Franklin Method to transform their health and technique. To be continued…!