Core Connections® Pilates
Continuing Education Series

Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle
Master Teacher and Director
Pilates Center of Austin and
Core Connections® Pilates
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

“Deeply Nourishing Ourselves -
The Energetics of Food and Movement”
Sat & Sun, Oct 4th & 5th
Registration: $395.00

With Co-leaders Steve Gagne, one of the most popular and informative teachers of natural health and author of “The Energetics of Food” ”, and Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle, creator of CoreConnections® Pilates and its “3-Core Body Mapping” perspective.

Health and vitality cannot prevail without nourishing food and movement. While our ancestors intuitively knew this, we have, as our civilization marches “forward”, become increasingly disconnected with that which truly nourishes us. We are often unconscious about the daily and seasonal rhythm of eating, the quality of our food, or it’s balancing (or imbalancing) effect on our bodies. We have forgotten how proper breathing nourishes and cleanses the body. We forget that the spine needs to move in multi-directions, the way children and animals move naturally, if we are to create health ongoingly as we age.

Joseph Pilates understood these contradictions, and he knew the values of “nurturing” our bodies with proper movement and nutrition. Built upon the underlying and governing laws of nature, his brilliant system of movement was always a means to a much greater end…living a life full of inspired passion, focused purpose and abundant vitality!

In this workshop we will re-enter this inquiry from a powerful place, exploring the ancient, intuitive wisdom of nutrition and movement, with modern nutritional research, along with new insight into the power of Pilates, as illuminated by modern biomechanical research.

This workshop will put you deeply in tune with the healing, balancing and energizing effects of food and movement. You will come away with:

• A new and powerful awareness of how to nourish yourself, body, mind and emotions, with both food and movement on a daily basis, with the changing seasons and throughout the stages of your life.
• Discover, beyond the never-ending controversy around diets and food, a practical, common sense awareness of a way of eating that’s right for you.
• How to practically incorporate the wisdom of time-honored traditions utilizing the energetics of food and movement into your practice…and your life…with renewed “purpose, passion and vitality”.
  

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Mary Bowen returns for our 6th Annual Weekend Workshop at the PCA!

“The Pilates Method As a State of Continual Evolution”

Sat & Sun, Jun 28th & 29th $395.00
**Each day’s session will be preceded with a special complimentary workout led by Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle

Spend two full days with Pilates Grand Master, Mary Bowen, for an unforgettable, up close and personal experience, with one of our true treasures in the world of Pilates. We have never seen anyone leave Mary’s workshops with anything less than a deep reconnection to their practice and teaching…and always with a huge smile that radiates throughout. In this workshop, Mary will educate, enliven and inspire you in both your own personal practice, and your teaching, as she explores and shares with you:

• The evolvement of the Pilates Method from Joe and Clara’s day to now – and the experience of the Pilates in her own life over 49 years and ongoing
• Your own evolving practice, as either a Teacher or personal practitioner– discovering your “internal” core – with body and psyche. You’ll have the opportunity to share and penetrate the challenges you’ve had or are having with your practice and teaching, and how/where you are being called to change and grow because of them.
• Her powerful and unique work with “Pilates plus Psyche”, how the 4 functions of thinking, feeling, sensing and intuiting can dramatically affect your practice and teaching.
• Discovering Pilates as a philosophy of movement – a commitment to total body health and breath, whether exercising in a Pilates studio, or walking, sitting, eating, feeding your pets, cleaning out kitty litter, working, performing, skiing, shopping, swimming, shoveling snow, typing, climbing stairs, gardening, riding horses or bikes, watching tv, making love, getting in and out of bed, rolling over in bed, sitting on or standing at the toilet or any other activities of life. Pilates principles impact everything we do.
• The importance of embracing the the core essence of all of our practice and teaching: Keeping your own doors ever-opening to new experiences and practice, regarding the Pilates Method and all else.

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On the Road
We are honored by our many requests to present our workshops around the country and internationally. Below is a listing of workshops scheduled in the near future.

April 5 & 6
Pilates Aligned, Denver, Colorado
Sat/Sun: "Domes, Arcs, and Spirals"
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August 13-26th
Olympics in Beijing, China
with Sanya Richards, world record holder, 400 meters

October 18 & 19
Frog Temple Pilates, Chicago, Ill

Sat: "Moving Beyond Technique:
From Exercise to Essence"
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Sun: "Domes, Arcs and Spirals:
The CoreConnections®Pilates’ 3-Core Perspective"
More on this workshop

September
Melbourne, Australia
Workshop to be announced

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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.

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