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"Wendy is a composite
of outstanding intelligence, curiosity, humor and a caring heart,
with an appreciation of everything in others and an unending "She is a wonderful teacher, hungry for new learning for herself, honoring each student as an individual. Wendy is a person, teacher, partner, and friend that one can trust. I love her. That comes to mind first and last. Many others if asked would say the same." Mary Bowen, |
Core
Connections® Pilates
Continuing Education Series
Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle
Director of Education, Pilates Center of Austin
PMA Certified Pilates Teacher
Structural Integration Practitioner
Buteyko Breathing Educator
Bio
It's truly a privilege to introduce you to our
Core Connections® Pilates Continuing Education
Programs.
Firmly rooted in the
classical work of Joseph Pilates, Core Connections is the result of
my 35 years of diverse experience in
Pilates, Yoga, holistic health & related movement sciences – far
more than an exercise curriculum, it is a truly integrated
training model.
Likewise,
the Core Connections Continuing Education curriculum is delivered
in a manner that allows teachers to build on
their own natural teaching style. Participants emerge
from the workshops with a more refined way of looking at the
body in motion, and a deeper, more accessible understanding of
the unifying core principles that underlie all great bodymind
systems.
I look forward to the opportunity
of working together.
- Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle
| I. | Mentoring Opportunities |
"Passing the Torch" Mentoring Programs
Personal Study Intensives: (1-5 days) Audio/Video Conferencing - Individual and Group Programs |
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| II. | "On-Site" & "On-the-Road" Workshops |
| III. | On the WEB |
| PMA CEU'S Available for All Workshops |
2010 Mentoring teachers visit with longtime client,
Sanya Richards-Ross, Olympic and current World Champion
in the 400 meters and 4 X 400 relay.
"Passing the Torch" Mentoring Programs
Long Program (One year/3 week-long Intensives)
(Oct. 17, 2011 - Oct. 12, 2012)Much more than a series of workshops, or a prescribed curriculum, this is a rare opportunity to experience an authentic apprenticeship…a mentoring program built around empowering you, your dreams and visions on your journey toward mastery. You will be personally coached and mentored to see beyond the places you normally stop, to meet your edges in movement and to develop an intuitive mastery with teaching and coaching your clients. A year gives us the time to fully nurture and challenge your goals, and awaken your “inner teacher”…your innate wellspring of “passion, purpose and vitality” … infusing your personal practice and teaching with an authentic and intuitive presence. Read more…
Short Program (3 months/1 week-long Intensive)
(August 1 - Oct. 30, 2011)While this is a much shorter program than the full year mentorship, and therefore, not as deep an immersion in my work, you will still challenge your edges, and leave with a much more discerning eye to see what your client needs from a hands-on, whole body perspective.
The Short Program will be offered in the same format as the Long. Building off your week-long Intensive, I will support throughout with conference calls, project development, and personal coaching. So, if time and cost are an issue, but you have a burning desire to apprentice, this may be the program for you – perhaps even a stepping stone to the longer program at a later time.
with Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle,
and the CoreConnections® Pilates Staff
No matter what style of Pilates is your passion, the CoreConnections® Pilates 3-Core perspective can give you a deeper access to your body’s understanding of it’s relationship with gravity, enhancing your enjoyment of life and success with your personal practice and teaching.
Our intensives are designed specifically for you. For not much more than the cost of our per day workshop fees, come join us at our Center for an in-depth exposure to the heart of our work, designed around your specific needs and requests. Each day you would consult and work with Wendy and our staff, in personal and group sessions, and have access to our audio/video studies, session analysis and observation and more. There’s no more powerful way to develop your “inner teacher” – your most powerful coach.
“I've
always felt that Pilates’ gift is its
ability to educate students in self body awareness and to address
many physical and postural issues, so body mechanics has always
been my focus. The CoreConnections Pilates perspective of 3
interrelated cores and unique way of connecting, grounding and
centering the body in any position by accessing the body’s
wisdom, not by muscular effort, has enabled me to describe an
exciting new way to approach my learning and teaching. My body
is so much more open and fluid! With this study, I feel like
I am getting a PhD in Pilates!
– Kaki Simons, Certified Pilates teacher |
Today’s technology has enabled us to reach out and touch one another beyond our physical presence. I have been engaged in coaching people long distance for most of my professional life – and now, with video technology, we can presence our relationship at an even more dynamic level. It would be my honor to mentor you in creating new ways of being within your body, in your practice, and with your clients - from post-rehab to the elite athlete. Bring your questions, challenges, pressing concerns and thirst for inquiry to our discussions and let’s explore new possibilities for reigniting a passion for your work, as we awaken and create a new and powerful access to your own “inner teacher”.
“On the Road”
"Re-defining CORE: Classical Pilates & Embodiment"
Southeast
Louisiana Chapter of the PMA (SELA),
(The flagship local
chapter of the PMA!)
New
Orleans, LA
Saturday, September 10, 2011
6 PMA CEC's
To Register, please contact: Andrea
Jeanfreau or 504-782-8896
This transformational workshop is an inquiry into a timeless way of being in your body. We will look together within the Pilates repertoire at the universal principles that underlie all great bodymind teachings that allow us to fully "embody" ourselves through movement. To discover true spatial and layering core support is to enter into a dance of relationships where stability is no longer static, but an energetic connection (tensegrity) between organs, bones, muscles, joints, fascia and the earth's electromagnetic field. It is within our personal core where we become our own "inner teacher" and connect with life's instinctive wisdom.
"Domes, Arcs & Spirals"
The CoreConnections® Pilates “3-Core Body Mapping” Perspective
of Living Anatomy
Pilates on Tour
New York, New York
September 16th
6 PMA CEC's
To Register, please contact: Balanced
Body University
Using the CoreConnections®Pilates 3-Core perspective, we will explore anatomy dynamically, as an integrated whole, rather than a didactic study of independent muscles. The CoreConnections®Pilates approach to anatomy is a unique and illuminating 3-Dimensional BodyMind Mapping perspective, expanding our understanding of "core" to a synergistic relationship of the domes, arcs and spirals that connect the Lower, Central and Upper Cores, from the feet to the cranial base.
We know that "core control" involves the whole body - CoreConnections® Pilates shows us HOW it happens. Our 3-Core Perspective enables you to clearly see how this understanding of core control innately connects your powerhouse to your extremities and your body in relationship to gravity, expanding your perceptual field, from a developmental, embryological perspective.
"A Conversation
with your IlioPsoas:
Cultivating Abdominal-Psoas-Diaphragm Balance"
Pilates on Tour
September 18th
3 PMA CEC's
To Register, please contact: Balanced Body University
In this workshop we will, through
the CoreConnections®Pilates
3-Core Perspective, create a deeper awareness and access
to the vibrant partnership between the diaphragm, abdominals
and Iliopsoas, and their relationship to full body breathing
and sitting, standing, walking and moving with
a dynamic, flexible spine -and to their immeasurable
contribution to our health, fitness and well-being.
Effortless walking or standing implies a precise balance
between the legs, arms and the torso. Without a
dynamic, supple core support from foot to head, it is
virtually impossible to achieve this potent balance -
a balance that is critical to our human potential.
The Iliopsoas is a critical player here - a shortened
upper psoas compromises the support of the shoulder girdle;
a weak lower psoas creates tension in the groin, limiting
the ability of the leg to freely float (not to mention
exacerbating digestion and elimination problems).
"CoreConnections® Pilates
3-Core Body Mapping Perspective"
Inez Fontoura Studio
San Paolo, Brazil
October 7th - 9th
16 PMA CEC's
To Register, please contact: Studio Inez Fontoura
Using the CoreConnections®Pilates
3-Core perspective, we will explore an expanded perception
of "CORE as RELATIONSHIP:
with gravity and ourselves, one another, and with our environment"
- You will experience how this perspective is contributing to the evolving of Joseph Pilates' vision, and can contribute to any movement or teaching style.
- We will experience the "embodiment" of the Pilates Principles, from a whole body perspective of movement
- We will explore the "power of presence" with intentional listening and speaking
- You will experience how deeply interrelated all the great bodymind systems are, whether it be Pilates, yoga, Alexander, Feldenkrais, etc...and how you can access this unified contextual awareness in both your personal practice and your teaching.
- And, most importantly, you will rediscover a newfound sense joy of movement and teaching - from the body's perspective
CoreConnections®Pilates “3-Core Body Mapping” Perspective
……..Embodied Anatomy and Movement Course"
Pilates Centre South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
November 25th-27th
18 PMA CEC's
To Register, please contact: Nicole Sinoff
CoreConnections®Pilates
is an embodied 3-Core Body Mapping Perspective of sensory
awareness and movement (Lower, Central and Upper Cores
- from the feet to the cranial base/palate). You will
come away from this workshop with an intuitive ability
to analyze and enhance any movement and any teaching
style, allowing you to access the body's mind, and
it's CORE conversations.
In this powerful 3 day course, we will:
- Cultivate an expanded vision of CORE as Relationship: with gravity and ourselves, with one another and with our environment
- Experience how Joseph Pilates' vision can be enhanced through a deeper awareness of our embryology and developmental movement patterns
- Experience an Introduction to Lower Core Awareness - domes of the feet to the pelvis exploring the spiralic workings of the architectural masterpieces that balance and propel the body
- Experience an introduction to Central Core Awareness - domes of the pelvic floor to respiratory diaphragm - exploring the spatial and layering dynamics of our body's center
- Experience an introduction to Upper Core Awareness - domes of the respiratory diaphragm to cranial base/palate - liberating your shoulders, neck and jaw
Please join us in Cape Town...and discover a renewed joy of movement and teaching - from the body's perspective!
- PMA January Newsletter - Wendy speaks about “Critical Conversations for Teachers”
- About.Com - For a full body experience, see our “Embodied Swan/Swim on the Ball at Wall”
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