Please join us for any or all of the Workshops! Call Michelle to register: 941-320-2802
PACKAGE DISCOUNT:
4 WORKSHOPS
/14 HOURS
FOR $770
OR
PURCHASE INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS
Limited hotel rooms available at Aloft Sarasota. Request the special link from Pilates Is A Workout when registering for workshops.
Friday May 4, 2018:
9:00-4:00: Semi-private and Private Sessions by appointment
Semi-Private Session: $80
Private Session: $225
Saturday May 5, 2018:
9:00-1:00: ADVANCED MAT ORDER
Hours/PMA CECs: 4 $230
Learn how to teach a challenging Mat Class! We cover and review in detail all the exercises that were created by both Joe and Romana for the mat.
2:00-6:00: A CADILLAC CHALLENGE
Hours/PMA CECs: 4 $230
A review of all the exercises created on the Cadillac. We progress from a basic vocabulary fit for all students to the more demanding exercises and their variations.
Sunday, May 6, 2018:
9:00-10:00: ADVANCED MAT CLASS: $30
10:00-2:00: A WORKOUT ON THE WUNDA CHAIR
Hours/PMA CECs: 4 $230
Learn to build an hour long workout on what Joe himself called the “Home Reformer”, using a logical sequence to progress from a stable platform to an unstable step.
3:00-5:00: JUMP BOARD
Hours (no PMA CECs): 2 $120
This workshop will have you jumping! A piece of equipment that didn’t come from Joe… when it was first introduced, Romana embraced it’s possibilities and it has been a favorite ever since. Learn the appropriate place for this apparatus within the workout, and how to structure a sequence on it.
*ALL PURCHASES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE
About Bob Liekens
Bob Liekens has been teaching the Pilates Method, and keeping it classical, for over thirty years.
Born and raised in Belgium, Bob received his degree in dance from the Rotterdam Academy of Dance in The Netherlands in 1981. He relocated to New York City to further his dance career in 1983 and that same year was introduced to the classical Pilates Method at Romana Kryzanowska’s Pilates Studio.
At that time, Pilates was still under the public radar, and there was no formal teacher training program. In 1986, after three years of regular practice under her guidance, Bob was honored when Romana personally invited him to start teaching at her studio.
In 1993, he collaborated with Romana in the creation of the first Pilates teacher training program and assisted her in writing the teacher training manual. The process of writing the manual, which took place over two year period, gave Bob the unique opportunity to sit with Romana in her Kitchen and review each exercise. This experience allowed Bob to see the logic behind the structure and the variations in the Method and enables him to articulate this in a way that others can understand.
Since then, he has continued to lead teacher training seminars and continuing education workshops nationally and internationally. A teacher’s teacher, he has earned the respect of students, instructors and teacher trainers worldwide for clarity, depth and precision of his teaching, as well as his dedication to preserving the integrity of the Method as learned from Romana.
Believing that a true teacher remains always a student – and that genuine understanding requires constant questioning, investigation and exploration – Bob has taken the work deeper through parallel studies of dance, anatomy, yoga and his first love, the visual arts of drawing and painting.
Bob still lives and teaches in New York City.
Michelle has been teaching Pilates in Sarasota since 2006, and has trained with many renowned instructors for well over a decade. She received her training and certification in NYC from Power Pilates, the leading educator of classical Pilates worldwide, where she apprenticed under Bob Liekens and Susan Moran.