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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
  • SHOP TUTORIALS
    • Hip and SI Joint
    • Neck
    • Foot and Ankle
    • Low Back
    • Shoulders
    • Pelvic Floor
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WHAT IS MOVEMENT LOGIC?

Access a library of evidenced-based, movement therapy tutorials to help your students who are in pain and looking to you for help.

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 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 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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This makes me angry. Can we stop with selling yog This makes me angry.

Can we stop with selling yoga as “all you need?”

Especially when overwhelmingly the people practicing yoga are women and osteopeorosis affects 1 in 5 women over 50?

Ahimsa ring a bell? 

Heavy strength training builds bone. The best tool for that is barbells. If you’ve been curious about barbells, then @sarahcourtdpt and I have a FREE equipment guide for you via the link in our bio. 👀
🤔Who’s gonna get stronger faster? 😩The o 🤔Who’s gonna get stronger faster?
 
😩The one who can squat as much as their arms can lift?
 
😀Or the one who can carry the weight dispersed along their upper back and by doing so, harness the strength of their legs?
 
If you’re ready to make the switch to barbells but need help, we’ve got you. 

✅✅✅The @movementlogictutorials team has made you a Barbell Equipment Guide, with clear and easy suggestions for what to get when, as well as a variety of economic and space sensitive options. 
 
🔗Link in bio to get our free guide PDF!
💥In this fourth BONUS episode about cueing, Sar 💥In this fourth BONUS episode about cueing, Sarah sits down with Trina Altman to discuss the role creativity can and should play in our cues.

You will learn:

✅What are the essential components of creativity
✅How teaching is an inherently creative occupation 
✅Using constraints to develop creativity in movement
✅The freedom of giving yourself permission to use what’s available in novel ways
✅Why simple cueing trumps flowery cueing for students 
✅How your other movement methodologies can refresh your language choices
✅Why the best solution is the simplest solution most of the time
✅Why showing up as yourself is the most creative act you can do as a teacher
✅The value in teaching the same sequence multiple times to the same group
✅How studying a different modality can refresh your creativity in your teaching and cueing

🔗 in bio to give it a listen!
🤔Why do we do 3 sets of 10? Is it: a) optimal 🤔Why do we do 3 sets of 10? Is it:

a) optimal loading for all your body’s needs
b) the most fun amount to do of anything
c) stop asking hard questions I’m almost done
d) none of the above
 
✅If you answered D, congratulations! Now go listen to the @movementlogictutorials podcast and find out the real reason (yes, there actually is one – but it might not be what you think!)

You’ll learn:

💥Where did the 3 x 10 protocol come from
💥How 3 x 10 has changed over time, in a significant departure from what it originally contained: progressive overload
💥How long held beliefs around effort level and pain created a rehab emphasis on volume over effort
💥Where RPE came from
💥The RPE - RIR relationship
💥Pros and Cons of using RPE - RIR versus 1RM in your strength training
 
And more!
 
🔗 in bio and don’t forget to subscribe to the show!
🎡Definitely Go Chasing Plated Windmills… Tr 🎡Definitely Go Chasing Plated Windmills…
 
Try this fun version using your barbell plates. @sarahcourtdpt can usually do this with a 25lb DB or KB no problem, but as soon as the weight was dispersed over the breadth of the plate, sh!t got real!
 
😀 Like it?
🎥 Remix it!
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📣 Subscribe to our podcast Movement Logic: Strong Opinions, Loosely Held
It’s true that full range of motion strength tra It’s true that full range of motion strength training IS mobility training but sometimes it helps to get in there and so some more targeted (purely) mobility-based work.

My top 4 tips for banded ankle flossing are:

Do this *right before* loading your ankles in squat and lunge patterns so that you can build strength into your newfound range of motion. This will shift this temporary change to your nervous system (from the massage of the band) to a more long term one that you build through sufficient and progressive loading. Send your ankles the message that “this is what we do now.”

Use a jump stretch band (rather than a theraband) for more substantial tension and input.

Floss for around a minute (or until you top making a change.)

After doing one side, check sides to feel the difference. You will likely feel a big difference but it’s fleeting so load your ankles to make it stick!

Get flossing!
Laurel’s bone density rap got us 😂😂😂 Laurel’s bone density rap got us 😂😂😂
 
In this week’s @movementlogictutorials episode about bone density, Sarah and Laurel talk all about what kinds of exercise are indicated by research to improve bone density, and almost more importantly: what isn’t (including yoga).

We also discuss:

✅What is bone density and how do we measure it
✅Why women are at more risk for fracture than men, especially following menopause
✅How to interpret DEXA scan results and its relationship to fracture risk
✅What lifestyle and medical factors can contribute to bone density loss (osteopenia and osteoporosis)
✅Why so many people believe that yoga can improve or reverse osteoporosis
✅How an often-repeated yet very flawed study convinced a lot of people that claim about yoga
✅How the media coverage of this study contributed to the problem
✅How heavy weight training and impact training are proven to improve bone density
✅What other exercises may or may not possess the necessary qualities to improve bone density
 
🔗👂Link in bio to give it a listen!
✋🛑😱Isn’t it DANGEROUS to lift with a hip ✋🛑😱Isn’t it DANGEROUS to lift with a hip replacement?!?!?!

Short answer: no. 
 
🦿My )@sarahcourtdpt) hip replacement was in 2012, and since then, I have habitually strengthened it in all the ways, including isometric holds (yoga), resistance (Pilates), and straight up weights (kettlebells, dumbbells, and finally now, barbells). 
 
➡️Real talk: long term, it’s going to be a bigger problem if you don’t expose your joint replacement (progressively, at the right time, etc) to external loads. You’ll be looking down the barrel at bone density and muscle mass loss that will not serve your brand new hip well.
 
✅If you’re in the LA area and want to learn the ABCs of weight training with me, I’m offering a Strength Club series in May on Tuesdays at 6pm at @alignptla. 
 
✅Comment or message me if you’re interested and I’ll get you all the deets!
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