Making Life Your Workout: A Practical Guide to Posture
What you'll learn
- Learn what it means to have good posture and movement with day-to-day tasks to help limit tension, stiffness and soreness in your body
- Learn what it means to be hypermobile, or loose jointed, and how that impacts how you are dealing with gravity throughout the day
- Develop good building blocks of movement and strength to minimize your risk of injury in daily tasks and perform a more efficient workout
- Learn the connection between your posture, your stress, and your movement through explanations, exercises and audiobook clips
- Physiotherapist guides your through 50 progressive exercises while explaining why and how then organizes them into small microbreaks for you to try in your day
- Understand the roles stress, anxiety, and fear play in your posture and movement patterns
Requirements
- No experience needed, just a body and a mind to think about your body
- This course is perfect for loose-jointed, hypermobile individuals, but is applicable to everyone
- If you want to exercise, but are scared of hurting yourself, this course will give you the confidence to move well
Description
Experienced physiotherapist and author Brent Stevenson guides you through the process of creating body awareness in a variety of contexts to help you sit, stand, breath and move more efficiently and with less discomfort. You will learn the building blocks of good movement patterns, understand the role that stress & anxiety play in your posture, and build more confidence in how you physically accomplish day-to-day tasks.
This is not a fitness routine, but it will improve your workouts if that is your goal. This course will challenge you to think about how you are moving and holding yourself in daily life and provides progressive exercises to help you improve your body awareness, posture, and balance. It includes thoughtful explanations from an experienced physiotherapist and a series of movement videos as demonstrated by a tall, loose jointed physiotherapist and an equally hypermobile ex-ballerina turned Pilates instructor. The two demonstrate the nuances of sitting, standing, walking, squatting, taking the stairs, twisting, bending, and much more.
The course starts with basic theory and explanations, but quickly moves into practical movement videos, and ends with a grouping of exercises that you can use in different contexts like at work, when you are stressed, or if you want a workout. You will come away understanding that it is better to try to be more mindful in your movements throughout the day than to ignore your body while you work and compartmentalize exercise to 30-60 minutes at the begging or end of the day.
Brent Stevenson, MScPT, BHKin, CGIMS is the co-owner of Envision Physiotherapy clinics in Vancouver, Canada.
Who this course is for:
- Hypermobile or loose jointed people that want to learn to exercise safely with less pain and risk of injury
- Health conscious people that are looking to improve their body awareness, posture, movement, and balance
- People experiencing persistent or chronic pains that are trying to develop control and awareness of their bodies
- Physiotherapists, Kinesiologists, personal trainers, Pilates instructors that want to improve their skills teaching movement
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 69 Reviews
- 222 Students
- 2 Courses
Brent Stevenson is a physiotherapist based in Vancouver, Canada, the co-owner of Envision Physiotherapy and the author of the books and website Why Things Hurt. He has extensive post-graduate training in dry needling, manual therapy and movement retraining.
He learned IMS directly from Dr Chan Gunn near the end of his career at the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Pain in 2008 and has since mentored many physiotherapists to help improve their dry needling skills. Brent has found that many clinicians are being certified to use dry needling in their practice but aren’t coming away from their courses with great resources and/or don’t have the opportunity for any mentorship.
Learning IMS can be a paradigm shift for most physiotherapists or physicians and can find it challenging to integrate it into their practice. Clinicians can get focussed on learning how to perform a specific point and miss out on how to look at the big picture. In his needling course, Brent demonstrates both how to perform the techniques safely and talks about how to use them all together clinically in order to help establish a video-based mentorship resource online.
Brent's second course, Making Life Your Workout, is a practical guide to helping loose jointed individuals build better body awareness, posture, and movement patterns in day-to-day tasks.
Clinically Brent integrates IMS dry needling with osteopathic manual therapy, postural retraining and empathetic education with his clients. He has written stories and filmed exercise videos to help support both healthcare professionals and the general public on his website and books.
Education:
· Master of Science in Physical Therapy, McMaster University
· Bachelor of Human Kinetics, University of British Columbia
· Diploma of Chan Gunn IMS, Institute of the Study & Treatment of Pain
· 12 courses in Visceral & Neural Manipulation, Barral Institute
· Integrated System’s Model, Diane Lee’s series of courses
· 12+ courses in orthopedic manual therapy, Canadian levels system
· Movement Impairment Syndrome Courses, Shirley Sahrman
· Mobilization with Movement, Mulligan Concept
· Trained Golf Expert, Body Balance for Performance