Are your clients really fit to ride?

Are you-

• a  Pilates teacher who is passionate about teaching and helping clients achieve more?
• A physiotherapist, sports therapist, chiropractor or osteopath with a Pilates teaching qualification who wants to learn how rider alignment, breath flow and core stability impacts on performance?
• Looking for ways to increase your earning potential by tapping into the massive equestrian market?

This course will help you

• learn about rider anatomy and asymmetry- reasons behind postural habits and how to improve them
• offer that ‘something extra’ to your clients
• stand out in your area because you provide specialist coaching for equestrians
• learn effective new ways of solving common riding problems which will enable your client to achieve new levels of performance with their horse
• be part of a team with a established brand in the UK and international equestrian industry

Equipilates Biomechanics Trainer™

NEXT COURSE- 16-19 MARCH 2020;
***ONE PLACE REMAINING***

Would you like to offer something extra to your clients? Stand out in your area and increase your earning potential? 

The Equipilates Biomechanics Trainer™ Course has been developed to meet the high demand around the UK and beyond from riders and health/exercise professionals to improve their own and their clients’ performance using the sports specific approach introduced in the book ‘Pilates for Riders’ and developed in ‘Core Connection for Rider & Horse’. 

The course is structured to improve your skills in postural analysis, sport specific application of Pilates principles and biomechanical diagnostic techniques for the huge number of riders wishing to improve their form and function both in and out of the saddle. 

It is a must for any health or fitness professional looking  for a  real understanding  of  the rider’s needs, how  to assess  rider position, influence and effectiveness with practical, straightforward tools for improving their clients’ performance, poise and partnership with  their horse.

On completion of the course and successful assessments, you will be certified as an Equipilates Biomechanics Trainer™ and benefit from being part of our team. You will be able to access the Equipilates™ Teaching Team forum for support and interaction with other team members, and you’ll be able to connect with other Equipilates™ teachers near you who have complementary skill sets and with whom you’ll be able to cross refer.

Your details will be featured on our website, which attracts significant traffic and especially at peak times when Equipilates™ is featured in the media, promoted at major equestrian events such as ‘Your Horse Live’ and on release of book and DVD publications.  

Please note: the prerequisite qualification for this course is a Pilates teaching diploma to Level 3 (UK national standard) or equivalent. Online Pilates qualifications are not acceptable.  

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Begin your journey...

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You’ll learn how riders need to move and stabilise when in the saddle, and you’ll explore the ‘Rider’s ABC’; alignment, breathing and core sense as featured in the book ‘Pilates for Riders’.  You’ll also discover more about intrinsic biomechanics; how your riding clients (and in fact all clients!) are actually working-or not- on the inside. Horses are extremely sensitive to the differences in rider performance using these analysis and intervention techniques and results can be quite remarkable in a short space of time. 

Based on the latest scientific research in biomechanics and core activation, incorporating these additional skills into your teaching will offer enormous potential to your clients to improve their performance and partnership with their horses. These techniques are introduced in the book ‘Core Connection for Rider & Horse’. 

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Not just what's going on with your riders, but why...

In this course, we dig a little deeper into your rider’s intrinsic biomechanics to advance your knowledge, increase your confidence and help you provide your clients with special techniques to change their movement patterns, help them move more freely and even reduce pain., including: 

• Could stretching be the wrong way to increase the length of their muscles?

• Could the way their pelvis is functioning be influencing their lower back pain?

• Is their pec minor the cause of their poor scapulae placement in the saddle?


Why is a muscle shortened? 

Find out why ‘tightness’ is only one reason why muscles can be short. 
Here we look at the evidence proving to be the most common reason for a muscle being shortened and what this means to your exercise prescription. You will have immediately implementable skills that enable you to screen the intrinsic biomechanics of your clients or potential clients in the studio or on the gym floor. Demonstrate how you can identify easily if they are functioning optimally within seconds and then correct these issues by with very simple release techniques there and then: 


• LLD – Identify a leg length difference
• Downings Sign – then identify if it is functional or structural

• 4 sign test – Does the pelvis function normally?

• Modified Thomas Test – Are the hip flexors inhibited?

• QL Test – Do they have a spinal hinge?

• Spinal mobility tests – Confirm where the lack of spinal mobility is coming from

• Pec minor test – Poor posture? Identify a key biomechanical pillar in shoulder problems

• Upper traps test – Upper back and neck issues

and how to help them improve!

PLUS 

• Explore how to help your clients in dismounted awareness sessions with our ‘Riders’ ABC’
• Contact the psoas/diaphragm complex and releasing tension through breath.
• Coach your riders to engage their riding specific core muscles effectively
• Discover simple techniques to help your clients use their bodies correctly to ride ‘transitions’ ‘half halts’ and ‘sitting trot’
• Emotional/fear response and the effect on rider performance and muscle recruitment
• The rider’s ‘suspension system’; techniques to mobilise and release
• Tension release using small equipment for the muscle groups which tend to be restricted in riders
• Mobilisation and isolation of the ‘boxes’ with the unique Equipilates™ Standing Series, to unwind restricted postural patterns. A supporting DVD will be provided on appropriate selection and teaching of these exercises with verbal/touch cues.
• Cutting edge group class format 6 week Equipilates™ fundamentals programme
• Theory and practice of a selection of matwork exercises considered to be most appropriate for riders
• The Equipilates™ Ball Series; swiss ball exercises to synchronise rider position, movement and breath flow

Assessments

There is a practical assessment of the intrinsic biomechanics skills learnt at the end of day 4.  In case of referral, one free resit will be offered.  You will also be required to submit two case studies comprising four sessions each no later than twelve weeks after the course. ​ 

The four day course is delivered with 32 total face to face learning hours plus approximately two hours of pre course learning.  Approximately twenty hours of post-course study is required to complete case studies and you will be expected to complete additional reading and research at home;  we provide DVD and online resources to support this.​

​Find next course dates and details for booking here. 

Benefits of joining the Equipilates™ Teaching Team

As well as meaning you can offer something extra to your clients, stand out in your area and increase your earning potential, joining the Equipilates™ Teaching Team will mean you will improve your own riding and give you access to a nationwide and international team of colleagues to help you build your business. 

Here at Equipilates™ we are committed to continuous development to ensure our team stay at the forefront of Industry developments. As such our teaching team commit to annual CPD to stay up to date with their Equipilates™ licence. 

Check the dates of our next Teacher Training Courses or contact Lindsay to discuss your individual situation. 
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What will you benefit from?

Upon successful completion of your Level 1 Equipilates™ qualification, you will benefit from: 

• Use of the Equipilates™ branding
• Listing on the Equipilates™ website
• Complete course manuals
• Access to the Equipilates™ online portal where you can download worksheets to print off or email to your clients
• Access to the Teaching Team forum where you can network with other members of the Equipilates™ Teaching Team with complementary skill sets
• Equipilates™ branded clothing (gilet or T shirt depending on your course)
• 12 months mentoring via email, phone or Skype from Lindsay Wilcox-Reid
• Access to further training on annual focus days and level 2 modules
• Course specific Facebook study group access so you can contact the colleagues you studied with, learn and share 

Annual license

The Equipilates™ licence runs from January to December each year, regardless of the date upon which you qualified. 

Those who wish to maintain their licensed status, will have to attend one CPD day workshop or a level 2 course per year*. See Advanced Teacher Training for course details.   
 
*Teachers with the AEBT certification may undertake their CPD externally but will have to submit proof of their CPD and pay a license administration fee of £20 to remain on the website.