MOVEMENT LOGIC

Movement Teacher Continuing Education

Episode 27: Our Big A-Has From The First Season

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This is our last episode of the season!

In this episode, Laurel and Sarah reflect on their top three takeaways from season 1 of the Movement Logic Podcast. You’ll have to listen to the episode to hear what they are! We also discuss:

  • How podcasting for the first time went for both of us, what was challenging, specifically.
  • How science asks us to hold ideas loosely and remain a student (rather than fact holder and disseminator of facts).
  • Why the language we use to talk about our bodies or our students’ bodies—and the re-education around using more positive, optimistic language—is so crucial to our ability as teachers to actually help our students feel better.
  • The problem with all-or-nothing type thinking when it comes to better understanding a topic or finding the truth.
  • Why publishing your learning process can be the best way to learn.

 

Reference links:

Episode 19 Oh, NO! Nose Breathing & Nitric Oxide

Episode 20 Pelvic Floor In-Depth with Stephanie Prendergast, MPT

Episode 16 Training the Non-Traditional Athlete with Rosalyn Mayse, AKA Roz the Diva

Episode 12 Movement Fads and Myths: Interview with Jules Mitchell MS, CMT, E-RYT 500

Episode 7 Is Pain Automatically Bad?

Episode 8 A Perimenopause Perspective with Trina Altman PMA, E-RYT 500

Episode 17 Pros & Cons of Using Resistance Bands

 

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Episode 23: Practical Strategies for Injured Students

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In this episode, Sarah outlines five practical steps you can take as a movement teacher when you have a client or student who is injured. She discusses:

 

  • Whether “just don’t do this pose” is a valid and useful answer for some teachers
  • Why memorizing a billion modifications can work, but there’s an easier way
  • What to do with a student when you don’t have any experience with their condition/injury
  • How to think critically in the moment when you are teaching so you can offer the most logical solution to their issue
  • How to relate to someone’s unique anatomy such that it might cause them pain or discomfort in a pose that you don’t experience
  • A logical step-wise approach for any student

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Episode 21: Is the SI Joint Painful Due to Instability?

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In this solo episode, Laurel shares her history with sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain, and how no less than shifting her identity as a teacher, the way she thought of her SIJ, and the way she moved her body on a regular basis is what was required of her to get herself out of pain. 

The SIJ is an area of the body that is surrounded by misinformation and tainted by a rather pessimistic outlook on its stability and robustness. 

These fragilizing, pessimistic attitudes often result in triggering language around the SIJ that can lead people in pain to believe that their SIJ is unstable, out of place, or moving in the wrong ways.

This episode combines some anatomy and biomechanics along with plenty of human psychology and even human evolution to examine the power that words have over shaping our beliefs and identity, and how our beliefs and identity, in turn shape the language we use.

Laurel invites teachers to examine their beliefs about the body and question the words they use as thoughtfully as they choose their sequences, exercises, props, cues, and alignments. Additionally Laurel examines: 

  • Prevailing myths around the SIJ in both the movement and PT world.
  • Non-evidenced based, yet unfortunately, routine assessments PTs use to show causality between SIJ pain and SIJ movement.
  • The problem with ideas around right and wrong alignment or good and bad exercises with regards to SIJ pain.
  • A walk down memory lane to remember all the poses, alignments, and whole approaches to practicing the asanas that we demonized and blamed for our SIJ pain.
  • Four reasons the SIJ is inherently stable, robust, and awesome.
  • What pain science can teach us about SIJ pain and more and less effective ways of addressing it.
  • What human evolution suggests about the SIJ and its stability.
  • Why looking for a specific faultily-functioning mechanism to “fix” the SIJ is often less helpful than casting a wide net and making the body, or a general region of the body, more tolerant to loads.
  • The scope of practice of a movement teacher when helping their students with painful SIJs feel better.

 

Reference links:

Sign up for a FREE mini course about the Hip and SIJ from Movement Logic co-creators Laurel Beversdorf, Dr. Sarah Court DPT, and Jesal Parikh.

Changing the Narrative in Diagnosis and Management of Pain in the Sacroiliac Joint Area

Diagnostic Accuracy of Clusters of Pain Provocation Tests for Detecting Sacroiliac Joint Pain: Systematic Review With Meta-analysis

The Physio-Network

Born to Walk: Myofascial Efficiency and the Body in Movement

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

Explain Pain

Pain is Really Strange

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Episode 18: How To Enjoy Teaching Private Sessions

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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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Episode 17: Pros and Cons of Resistance Bands

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Modern postural yoga utilizes bodyweight as a form of resistance, but within the context of modern postural yoga, is bodyweight sufficient load for building strength? If not, does adding resistance bands to the practice mean we can build strength? Welcome to Episode 17 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel discusses the best kept yoga prop secret—resistance bands and unpacks what she sees are both the pros and the cons of using resistance bands, both for strength training as well as for practicing yoga.

Here’s what this episode covers:

  • How resistance bands lower the barrier for entry for someone to start adding external load to their movement practice.
  • What research has to say about bands effectiveness for building strength and muscle mass, as well as some caveats to consider.
  • What are some of the main limitations resistance bands present when looking to build strength?
  • Why do some people use free weights and bands together in the same exercise? What’s the point of that?
  • What constitutes a heavy weight versus a moderate weight versus a light weight and where do resistance bands and bodyweight tend to fall on this spectrum?
  • The difference between resistance training and strength training and how the goals of both can be very different.
  • How strength endurance and strength are different variables we can train, and why both are important.
  • Why physical therapists might use resistance bands when rehabbing their patients.
  • How resistance bands are like other yoga props, as well as their unique advantage.
  • How resistance bands can help hypermobile yoga practitioners, people in pain, or people who are just bored with their practice and looking to change things up.
  • Why resistance bands might not be necessary and why people might not like adding them to their yoga practice.

Reference links:

 

Chris Beardsley’s article What do you think you are doing by adding bands or chains?

Laurel’s Yoga with Resistance Bands Teacher Training

Laurel’s Virtual Studio

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