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MOVEMENT LOGIC

Movement Teacher Continuing Education

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    • Laurel Beversdorf
    • Sarah Court
    • Jesal Parikh
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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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Filed Under: Pain Science, Strength Training, Teaching Movement, Yoga

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

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In this episode, Sarah interviews Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist Stephanie Predergast, co-founder of the Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center, about everything and anything pelvic floor related. Stephanie also answers your questions from Instagram! Here’s what we cover:

  • Understanding the mechanics and function of the pelvic floor and how it’s different than other muscles in the body
  • Why strengthening your pelvic floor is not always the goal and how it might make your incontinence symptoms worse
  • The difference between stress incontinence and urge incontinence
  • Why dyspurnia (painful sex) and vulvodynia (vulvar pain) are treatable but might get misdiagnosed as an ‘incurable disease’
  • When pelvic floor muscular dysfunction gets misdiagnosed as a UTI, depending on which kind of practitioner you see
  • The efficacy and safety of hormone therapy for menopause symptoms according to NAMS (North American Menopause Society) 
  • What is GSM (Genitourinary Symptoms of Menopause) and how is it treatable
  • Pelvic floor concerns for people with male genitalia, a chronically underserved population
  • Why people with low back or hip pain very often have an underlying pelvic floor issue
  • What are some signs that a movement teacher can look out for with their clients to indicate they may need to see a pelvic floor specialist (and a screening questionnaire included below)
  • What is the female pelvic triad and how teenage athletes may need help 

 

Reference links:

As the Pelvis Turns Newsletter

NAMS position paper on hormone therapy

Pique Health  for online care for pelvic floor and sexual health 

Poise Impressa for incontinence support

Speax by Thinx for incontinence support

Quick Screen for pelvic floor PT

PHRC YouTube page

Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center (they’re hiring PTs!)

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Filed Under: Interviews, Menopause

Episode 19: Oh, NO! Nose Breathing and Nitric Oxide

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In this episode,Sarah discusses nose breathing, mouth breathing, taping your mouth shut (only at night), and best practices for breathing while exercising, sleeping, and every time in between

  • What’s the difference impact on our physiology between nose breathing and mouth breathing – and why it might be really important to try and nose breathe
  • Are we breathing too shallowly either way
  • How do you train yourself to nose breathe
  • What is the impact of nitric oxide on our bodies
  • Why it might not be as simple as “get rid of as much CO2 as you can when you exhale” but we don’t have a clear answer for that yet
  • AND a very special breathing practice we can do together at the end of the episode

Reference links:

Breath book by James Nestor

Medical tape

https://www.mrjamesnestor.com/breathing-videos

Sinusology 

Could nasal nitric oxide help to mitigate the severity of COVID-19?

 

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Filed Under: Breathing, Research

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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Filed Under: Pilates, Teaching Movement, Yoga

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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Filed Under: Research, Strength Training, Yoga

Episode 16: Training the Non-Traditional Athlete with Roz the Diva

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In this episode, Laurel is joined by multidisciplinary movement teacher, Rosalyn Mayse aka Roz the Diva. Laurel talks with Roz about how she went from always being picked last in gym class to building a successful career as both a personal trainer and a pole dance instructor, and the often exclusionary industries both pole dancing and strength training occupy. Throughout, Roz shares stories of how she built a successful career (in her words) as a, “dark skin, semi-bald, overweight, outspoken woman running around NYC half naked.” Roz shares her humor and wisdom around what inclusivity actually looks like, as someone who understands firsthand what it feels like to be excluded.

 

Here’s more of what Roz and Laurel discussed:

  • The different yet complementary fitness cultures of pole-dancing and strength-training
  • The positive impression it made on Roz when she got to see female athletes that looked like her
  • The benefits of an artistic focus in a movement practice 
  • How pole dancing helped Roz overcome guilt and shame about her body and exercise agency, self-exploration, and self-expression
  • The fact that people in bigger bodies have to be stronger to overcome more body weight than slender people
  • How Roz defines the term athlete. Spoiler: more broadly than the mainstream
  • How Roz connects with clients who are skeptical about exercise after negative mainstream exercise experiences
  • What the general public thinks pole-dancing and strength training are vs reality 

 

Reference links:

Dangerous Curves New York Times Documentary about Roz

Roz’s website

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😩The one who can squat as much as their arms can lift?
 
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💥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.

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✅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

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🤔Why do we do 3 sets of 10? Is it: a) optimal 🤔Why do we do 3 sets of 10? Is it:

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💥How long held beliefs around effort level and pain created a rehab emphasis on volume over effort
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💥Pros and Cons of using RPE - RIR versus 1RM in your strength training
 
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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
 
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✋🛑😱Isn’t it DANGEROUS to lift with a hip ✋🛑😱Isn’t it DANGEROUS to lift with a hip replacement?!?!?!

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🦿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.
 
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