Welcome to Episode 18 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss teaching privates, why we didn’t use to like teaching privates, and why we like it now. This episode is full of awkward, funny, and frustrating stories from our past as private yoga teachers. We end with helpful tips that will help you enjoy teaching privates more.

Where to meet with one-on-one clients/patients
Charging differently based on how much commuting is involved
The big reason we didn’t like teaching privates: no clear understanding of the goal.
Students who talk too much and aren’t focused on the movement
Students who have expectations but you don’t like teaching that way.
Students with persistent pain and questioning your scope of practice.
The game changer for Laurel: training strength clients with clear, trackable goals.
The benefits of talking less and observing more.
Admin is a bummer. How we avoid back-and-forth emailing and tracking clients down.
Our top 6 pet peeves about teaching privates, and tips we share to avoid these and love teaching privates!

Reference links:

Work one-on-one with Doctor Sarah Court, DPT

Work one-on-one with Laurel Beversdorf, E-RYT 500

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In this episode, Laurel discusses whether it’s within a movement teacher’s scope of practice to help people with their posture. Here’s what this episode digs into:  

• How Laurel formerly identified as an alignment-based teacher and why she no longer does
• The difference between “default-mode” alignment versus deliberate alignment
• Why Laurel views alignment less in binary terms of  good v. bad and more as a neutral tool for helping to restore variability as well as influence adaptations toward specific capacities.
• A 1947 definition of posture from the Posture Committee of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and why it might need an update.
• How our beliefs about posture can produce a nocebic effect in our students.
• How Laurel sees posture and alignment instruction as being something well within a yoga teacher’s scope of practice to offer, but how she also sees movement teachers stepping outside of their scope of practice in providing this instruction, as well. 

 

Reference links:

SITE WIDE SALE

Research Paper: Therapists Perceptions of Optimal Sitting and Standing Posture

Estrogen Matters 

Research paper: To flex or not to flex? Is there a relationship between lumbar spine flexion during lifting and low back pain? A systematic review with meta-analysis

Research paper: Posture and time spent using a smartphone are not correlated with neck pain and disability in young adults: a cross-sectional study

Research paper: Is neck posture subgroup in late adolescence a risk factor for persistent neck pain in young adults? A prospective study

Research paper: Clinical measures of foot posture and ankle joint dorsiflexion do not differ in adults with and without plantar heel pain

Article about cortical maps and smudging by Todd Hardgrove: Great New Paper on Targeting the Brain for Treatment of Pain

 

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