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HK - DSW Mind & Body
Adult Beginner Ballet Fitness
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HK - DSW:
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DESERT SOUTHWEST FITNESS (DSW) Founded in 1980, Desert Southwest Fitness, Inc is dedicated to the publication and distribution of the highest quality professional development materials for the health, fitness, wellness and clinical professional. We specialize in self-directed distance learning and offer the largest selection of home study courses. Our courses are taught by outstanding industry leaders and use a variety of multimedia formats. The company has been an innovator and leader in the field of continuing education for over 25 years.
At DSW Fitness, we believe that learning is a lifelong process, and the design of our courses make learning, not just studying, the goal for the participant. Our courses allow you to upgrade specific skills that are necessary for job enhancement and give you the tools to produce positive lifestyle change in your clients by linking course offerings to applicable job-related skills, not necessarily degrees or certificates. The strength of DSW Fitness is founded on quality education, student feedback, and personalized customer service
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Adult Beginner Ballet Fitness:
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Get your clients fit with basic ballet and beginner dance exercises and skills. Each a variety of ballet-based fitness protocols that include barre and center exercises, across-the-floor movement sequences, a beginner dance combination and yoga postures for dance conditioning. You will study the theoretical concepts of feminine pedagogy, layered learning and psychological muscle function. Also included is a series of somatic inquiries that will help reconnect the body and self.
Course Objective:
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Explain the general mind-body benefits of participating in a dance-exercise program.
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Identify and describe the two alignment perception strategies.
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Identify and describe the four stages of sensori-motor learning.
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Define feminist pedagogy.
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Identify the body’s three balance strategies and explain why the ankle strategy is optimal.
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Define layered learning.
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Describe psychological muscle function and give two examples.
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To identify and describe the 4 types of feedback, and to use each type appropriately.
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Enlighten Your Body
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HK - DSW:
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DESERT SOUTHWEST FITNESS (DSW) Founded in 1980, Desert Southwest Fitness, Inc is dedicated to the publication and distribution of the highest quality professional development materials for the health, fitness, wellness and clinical professional. We specialize in self-directed distance learning and offer the largest selection of home study courses. Our courses are taught by outstanding industry leaders and use a variety of multimedia formats. The company has been an innovator and leader in the field of continuing education for over 25 years.
At DSW Fitness, we believe that learning is a lifelong process, and the design of our courses make learning, not just studying, the goal for the participant. Our courses allow you to upgrade specific skills that are necessary for job enhancement and give you the tools to produce positive lifestyle change in your clients by linking course offerings to applicable job-related skills, not necessarily degrees or certificates. The strength of DSW Fitness is founded on quality education, student feedback, and personalized customer service
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Enlighten Your Body:
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Identify and improve your clients’ postural habits, misalignments, asymmetries and compensations as you apply the lessons of yoga and mind-body methods to daily movement. This inspirational course combines balanced movement, grace and flow, mind-body techniques and core strength. It features 16 basic Pilates mat exercises and yoga as a form of body-sculpt. Assist your clients to cultivate personal transformation through awareness and self-discovery!
Course Objective:
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Identify the most common asymmetrical pattern in the human body.
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Define the term 'good use' and explain why it becomes more important as we go.
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Identify the primary core musculature that determines the body's basic posture.
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Use twelve key bony landmarks as a cueing strategy.
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Use three key anatomical lines as a cueing strategy.
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Use the base of support as a cueing strategy.
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Create and use imagery (visualization) as a cueing strategy.
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Teach sixteen simplified basic pilates mat work exercises.
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Understand the differences between Classical and Operant Conditioning.
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Identify the most common motivations and barriers facing adult learners.
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Holistic Fitness Specialty
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HK - DSW:
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DESERT SOUTHWEST FITNESS (DSW) Founded in 1980, Desert Southwest Fitness, Inc is dedicated to the publication and distribution of the highest quality professional development materials for the health, fitness, wellness and clinical professional. We specialize in self-directed distance learning and offer the largest selection of home study courses. Our courses are taught by outstanding industry leaders and use a variety of multimedia formats. The company has been an innovator and leader in the field of continuing education for over 25 years.
At DSW Fitness, we believe that learning is a lifelong process, and the design of our courses make learning, not just studying, the goal for the participant. Our courses allow you to upgrade specific skills that are necessary for job enhancement and give you the tools to produce positive lifestyle change in your clients by linking course offerings to applicable job-related skills, not necessarily degrees or certificates. The strength of DSW Fitness is founded on quality education, student feedback, and personalized customer service
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Holistic Fitness Speciality:
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Learn the five essential lessons of somatic competency: strength, flexibility, balance (grounding and centering), ease and vitality, and use holistic fitness protocols to support the process of recovery from eating disorders, traumatic stress, depression and acute grief syndrome. Learning activities focus on gentle yoga for recovery, back care, scoliosis, carpal tunnel syndrome and somatic education.
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Exam
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180 page book Adventure in Embodiment
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295 pages workbook
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DVD
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HK - DSW Mind & Body
New Idea For Today's Yoga Class
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HK - DSW:
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DESERT SOUTHWEST FITNESS (DSW) Founded in 1980, Desert Southwest Fitness, Inc is dedicated to the publication and distribution of the highest quality professional development materials for the health, fitness, wellness and clinical professional. We specialize in self-directed distance learning and offer the largest selection of home study courses. Our courses are taught by outstanding industry leaders and use a variety of multimedia formats. The company has been an innovator and leader in the field of continuing education for over 25 years.
At DSW Fitness, we believe that learning is a lifelong process, and the design of our courses make learning, not just studying, the goal for the participant. Our courses allow you to upgrade specific skills that are necessary for job enhancement and give you the tools to produce positive lifestyle change in your clients by linking course offerings to applicable job-related skills, not necessarily degrees or certificates. The strength of DSW Fitness is founded on quality education, student feedback, and personalized customer service
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New Idea For Today's Yoga Class:
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In this contemporary course, Linda Christy expands on the benefits of yoga, the use of yoga to promote flexibility and strength, pose/counter-pose, yoga for seniors and during pregnancy, yoga using props, office yoga, faith-infused yoga, yoga that teaches life lessons and the use of meditation and affirmations. Complete theory and technique for each area is presented.
Course Objective:
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Site three examples of yoga’s mind-body fitness benefits.
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Identify the primary benefits for 24 yoga postures.
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Explain the theory of the pose/counter-pose technique.
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Identify benefits and contraindications of the pose/counter-pose technique.
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Identify and explain three ‘life lessons’ that we learn from practicing yoga.
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Identify the standard contraindications of yoga for pregnancy.
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HK - DSW Mind & Body
Pro - Active Postural Restriction
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HK - DSW:
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DESERT SOUTHWEST FITNESS (DSW) Founded in 1980, Desert Southwest Fitness, Inc is dedicated to the publication and distribution of the highest quality professional development materials for the health, fitness, wellness and clinical professional. We specialize in self-directed distance learning and offer the largest selection of home study courses. Our courses are taught by outstanding industry leaders and use a variety of multimedia formats. The company has been an innovator and leader in the field of continuing education for over 25 years.
At DSW Fitness, we believe that learning is a lifelong process, and the design of our courses make learning, not just studying, the goal for the participant. Our courses allow you to upgrade specific skills that are necessary for job enhancement and give you the tools to produce positive lifestyle change in your clients by linking course offerings to applicable job-related skills, not necessarily degrees or certificates. The strength of DSW Fitness is founded on quality education, student feedback, and personalized customer service
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Pro - Active Postural Restriction:
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Techniques in this program are designed to affect and change the body gestalt, both in overall appearance and anatomical function. LindaChristy shares with you the seven principles of proactive postural restructuring (PPR) and introduces you to the PPR technique that involves floor, seated and standing preventative and corrective movement patterns. You’ll learn specific positions, movements and movement patterns to help students connect with the somatic sensations associated with basic movements of the hips, ankles and feet as well as identify where they hold habitual and localized tension. A gradual presentation of more complex and difficult patterns will be introduced.
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Exam
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Books
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DVDs
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