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MOVEMENT LOGIC

MOVEMENT LOGIC

Movement Teacher Continuing Education

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    • Laurel Beversdorf
    • Sarah Court
    • Jesal Parikh
    • Trina Altman
    • Anula Maiberg-Piper
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    • Hip and SI Joint
    • Neck
    • Foot and Ankle
    • Low Back
    • Shoulders
    • Pelvic Floor
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Access a library of evidenced-based, movement therapy tutorials to help your students who are in pain and looking to you for help.

WHAT IS MOVEMENT LOGIC?

This collaboration came about because we recognized that, for movement teachers, while there’s an overwhelming amount of information out there, there's not a lot of guidance on what to do with it.

What most movement teachers need are critical thinking skills to be able to respond to their students' needs in the moment.

But let’s face it! Whether it’s a private client or a student after class - questions about what to do about pain and discomfort can be challenging to address for a movement teacher.

However, it’s possible to be able to address students’ needs skillfully, using evidence-based reasoning and tools, all while staying within scope of practice!

This happens by becoming anatomically and biomechanically informed, gaining a deeper understanding around pain science, and acquiring a diverse set of teaching tools that you can apply immediately.

With Movement Logic, you will do just that, all while building a foundation of critical thinking skills to reach a broader clientele.

If you are a movement teacher who feels your current knowledge base is lacking in this kind of reasoned application of movement therapy, then our courses are for you!

Each of our comprehensive tutorials focuses on a specific body region and its common injuries and pathologies.

You will build 3 main knowledge bases and skills sets.

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Become Anatomically and Biomechanically Informed
  • Learn musculoskeletal anatomy to better understand how bodies move, adapt, maladapt, get injured, experience pain, and heal
  • Familiarize yourself with common pathologies to better understand the cascade of your body's response to tissue injury, as well as how pain is commonly patterned in response to these injuries
Understand Pain
  • You'll study up-to-date biopsychosocial pain science that breaks down old beliefs in order to paint a more accurate picture of the often complicated and counterintuitive behavior of pain
  • The biopsychosocial model is a holistic perspective to pain that looks at the relationship between your biology, your mind, and society, and how those elements together influence your whole body experience of pain
Acquire Teaching Skills
  • You will acquire corrective exercise techniques for helping private clients who have diagnosed injuries as well as those with unspecified pain
  • You'll learn best practices for presenting these corrective exercises in a group class

Ready for some new movement tools you can use right away?

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CURRENT COURSES:

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The hips and SI Joint get a ton of attention in the yoga world, but maybe not for the reason we would like. Whether or not you're living with sciatica, yoga butt, SI joint pain, or other chronic repetitive irritation, we can all relate to a general feeling of tightness around the hips that never seems to go away.

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The pelvic floor is an area that regularly confuses students and teachers alike. Should I strengthen? Should I stretch? Is my pelvic floor working too hard? Is it not working hard enough?

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Daily modern life, full of texting, computers, and driving - takes a toll on even the healthiest of shoulders. Pain and injury can easily sideline us from the activities we want to do, but in truth, we can maintain healthy shoulders with a little attention and care, and some well thought out exercises. We've got all that for you!

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Are you frustrated by “One Size Fits All” approaches to low back pain, but not sure what else to do for your clients? Learn a movement-based approach to working with clients who have an array of low back pain sources.

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Let’s be honest, our feet and ankles are a pretty complicated bunch of joints that we tend to pay little attention to – until they hurt! In truth, we can recover from injury, or prevent future injury from taking place, with regular care and feeding of our feet and ankles.

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According to recent statistics, at any given time, up to 30% of the population is suffering from neck pain. And get this: roughly 70% of us will have neck pain at some point in our lives. Why are the numbers so high? And what can we do about it? The Movement Logic Neck Tutorial – our most comprehensive tutorial ever – is here to help.

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Meet The Movement Logic Team

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LAUREL BEVERSDORF

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SARAH COURT

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JESAL PARIKH

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TRINA ALTMAN

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ANULA MAIBERG-PIPER

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We’re delighted to share @sarahcourtdpt’s new We’re delighted to share @sarahcourtdpt’s new Cancer Resiliency Program for people going through treatment. Read more below! 
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My Cancer Resiliency Program is here!

This has been a labor of love, and I’m thrilled to finally share it with you.
 
My goal is for as many people as possible to benefit from this program!
 
🔗Learn more at the link in bio

🗣️Share with anyone you think would be interested

📌Save for future use

📫DM me with any questions!
 
 
#breastcancersupport #cancerresearch #yogiswholift #strengthtrainingforcancer #yogaforcancer #pilatesforcancer 
[Video ID: photos of Sarah going through cancer treatment, followed by video clips from her Cancer Resiliency Program. Video is fully captioned.]
Demonizing or evangelizing dosage on social media Demonizing or evangelizing dosage on social media is impossible. You’d need a documentary or book for that.

Dosage is the day-in-and-day-out quantity of loads that almost immediately and simultaneously become an individual’s history of loading and also future capacity for loading.

This history/future determines what they can and cannot, should and should not do next.

But it’s not photographable. It’s not fit for a Reel.

❌ and ✅ hot takes on good/bad form and alignment work much better for eyes on.

This binary communication shapes binary thinking.

Meanwhile, what we’re actually seeing is what someone (often an expert) can demonstrate.

What we’re not seeing is their process to get there.

This hot take advice has nothing to say about the tundra of time we all must trudge across to learn, adapt, and change.

Instead, it focuses on the destination ✅ and paints everything that had to happen before it as ❌.

It tells you nothing about who (within their intended audience) is learning, and what their goal is.

At face value, it’s a teacher performing their preference.
🚩If you haven’t changed your dumbbells since 🚩If you haven’t changed your dumbbells since pre-pandemic, it’s time to bump things up. 

😍Your bones will thank you. 

🐶Love, Pearl
Your nervous system governs everything, even wheth Your nervous system governs everything, even whether or not your bones get stronger.

Since your nervous system really only cares about differences, changing your body’s capability—building stronger bones—is largely about exposing it to something different than it’s used to regularly.

You gotta give your bones a reason to make themselves stronger by sending your body a different kind of a message.

That message is “this is what we do now.  Prepare yourself.”

For bones, that means higher intensity of joint reaction forces (think tendons pulling on bones to move them at joints) or ground reaction forces (think impact you make against the ground with your feet when you land and how that force is transmitted through your whole skeleton.)

Since impact training carries more risk (for some), lifting heavy things should probably come first.

But since lifting heavy weights is a unique skill (it’s not the same capacity OR skill as lifting moderate weights) then logically you should begin by lifting moderate weights. (Light weights won’t make you stronger or increase your bone density.)

Once you are confident with lifting moderate weights, you should lift heavy ones (with the support of a coach, to help you OR just try it.)

Lifting heavy is not dangerous despite what stupid messaging you’ve heard. Yes you should know the basics, but that’s the case for even the most mundane activities like driving and parenting.

What’s dangerous is being afraid of your body. What’s dangerous is protecting it to the point of fragility.

Also, if you think it’s too late to start lifting weights, you’re wrong.

I’m 42. I’ve been lifting weights for about 6 years. In that span of time (where I’m by no means a spring chicken) I’ve gone from feeling like a squat to depth with just my bodyweight (no external load)  was challenging to 5 reps of 140lb barbell back squats.

I’m not even supposed to be good at back squats given my long torso morphology and yet after 6 years of lifting (3 of consistent lifting) I can now squat my bodyweight 5X in a row.

You are capable of more than you think.

But to find out what you are capable of, you often have to do two things.

Begin.

And keep going.
We couldn’t agree more with Movement Logic co-fo We couldn’t agree more with Movement Logic co-founder @sarahcourtdpt:

🗣️If you only ever give your older clients tiny dumbbells, YOU’RE. NOT. HELPING. THEM.
 
Do I need to spell it out for you? Here it is then:
 
❌Weaker = less strong
 
❌Less strong = more likely to lose balance 
 
❌More likely to lose balance = more likely to fall
 
❌More likely to fall = more likely to fracture
 
❌Afraid of fracture = move less, get weaker
 
❌Weaker = less strong
 
And on it goes.
 
➡️You may need to start them at 5lbs, or 3lbs, but they can, and should, progress to heavier loads. The ones that are black. 
 
They need muscle growth and bone density. You know this. So why aren’t you giving it to them?
 
[Video ID: Sarah talking to camera in close up. Video is fully captioned.]
💪Strength training and cancer treatment: do the 💪Strength training and cancer treatment: do they go together?

In the latest episode of the Movement Logic podcast (out now!), Sarah discusses her experience with cancer treatment, and the guidance (or lack thereof) around how and when to exercise. She covers:

✅The current exercise recommendations for people going through cancer treatment

✅The most recent research around strength training and cancer treatment, specifically chemotherapy

✅What going through chemotherapy is like, and how it can be difficult to figure out what to do when in terms of exercise

✅Her personal experience using strength training during treatment and how it changed everything for the better

👂👂👂Click the link in bio or listen on Apple Podcast, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts!

[Video ID: Sarah discusses the latest Movement Logic podcast episode. Video is fully captioned.]
💥LAST DAY💥 to get the @movementlogictutorial 💥LAST DAY💥 to get the @movementlogictutorials Hip and SIJ Tutorial!

✅Are you ready to break free from limiting thoughts and attitudes towards yoga, movement and pain? 
 
✅Do you want to gain critical thinking skills and nuanced language? 
 
✅Want to feel more confident, energized and inspired in your practice and teaching? 
 
✅✅✅Get the tutorial NOW!! (Link in bio)
👆👆Double tap if you’ve dismissed the foam 👆👆Double tap if you’ve dismissed the foam roller before (we sure have!)
 
➡️Yes, it hurts a lot when you roll your IT Band… 

😆Probably because it’s not doing anything useful!
 
➡️But instead of blaming the tool, what if you changed how you use it? 

✅How about angling it to focus on the lateral quad, or the lateral hamstring instead?
 
➡️Want more guidance? 

😁Check out our new Hip and SI Joint Tutorial and get clear, creative and confident when it comes to addressing the most common hip related issues like:
 
🔹 IT Band Syndrome
🔹 Sciatica/Piriformis Syndrome
🔹 Yoga Butt
🔹 ‘Tight’ hips
🔹 SI Joint Pain
🔹 General Hip Weakness
🔹 And More!
 
With this 5-hour tutorial, you’ll get extensive yet accessible anatomy, biomechanics & kinesiology education, up-to-date pain science, guided strategies and underlying movement science principles and fun, creative & challenging exercises.
 
You’ll also get lifetime access to the content as well as 5 hours YA CEUs.
 
🔗🔗🔗Link in bio for more – but it goes away today (that part’s no joke) so let’s carpe that diem!
 
[Video ID: Sarah talks to and hugs a foam roller. Video is fully captioned.]
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