Trent currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors for the Pilates Method Alliance®, www.pilatesmethodalliance.org, the industry’s only non-profit professional association and third party credentialing body. He was honored to be the first Master Teacher in the U.S. for ActivCore (originating in Norway 1991). He holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance from Western Michigan University, where he was named the Presidential Scholar in Dance and earned the Irving S. Gilmore Emerging Artist Grant. His clients include elite athletes, dancers and those that have had their lives restricted by injuries, movement limitations and postural misalignments.

NOTE: Your place is only confirmed when we receive your payment; we cannot hold unpaid places.

Inside the PRIME Post Rehabilitation Course:
• Learn safe, gentle and specific hands-on techniques
• Understand the role of gravity for the client with movement limitations
• Explore how to modify any exercise
• Find success even in the most difficult situations
• Balance effort throughout the body to produce movement integration
• Understand types and causes of injury
• Programme strategies for specific client profiles
• Learn several exercises that emphasize whole body support in a pain-free range of motion

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NOTE: Your place is only confirmed when we receive your payment; we cannot hold unpaid places.

Alan now lectures on Pilates around the world, and he has written several successful books, including The Pilates Directory (2004), The Gaia Busy Person's Guide to Pilates (2003) and Pilates: Creating the Body You Want (1999). He runs a training course for Pilates instructors and, as well as running his own studios, he and his assistants teach in dance schools and designated Pilates studios internationally. Pilates teaching staff at both Champneys Health Resorts and Shrubland Hall Health Clinic are personally trained by Alan Herdman.
Alan is also a top presenter at the Pilates Method Alliance conference every year.

Saturday: Pilates Principles in Action, 10am – 1pm

Saturday: Postural Assessment, 2pm – 5pm

Sunday: Exploring Spine Pathologies, 10am – 1pm

Sunday: Osteoporosis and Pilates, 2pm – 5pm

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Mat Masterclass – Intermediate/Advanced
with Julian Littleford

LONDON:
Friday 27 March 2009, 2:15 – 4:15  
or
Friday 27 March 2009, 4:30 – 6:30  
Cost: £40. Capacity: 20 Participants
Venue: The Light Centre, 9 Eccleston Street, Belgravia, London, SW1W 9LX

LEEDS:
Friday 3 April 2009, 4:30 – 6:30pm
Cost: £35. Capacity: 40 Participants
Venue: Yorkshire Dance Centre, 3 St Peters Buildings, St Peters Square, Leeds LS9 8AH

Pilates Umbrella is proud to present two masterclasses given by master teacher Julian Littleford. A UK native now based in the US, Julian will be giving masterclasses and workshops in London and Leeds in the spring of 2009. Julian is one of the most popular presenters at the annual educational conference of the Pilates Method Alliance®, so much so that the PMA has had to establish special procedures to prevent delegates from crashing his workshops! Julian is not to be missed!

Day 1 Part 1: Classic Mat Variations and Progressions

Day 1 Part 2: Customise for your Client Group

Day 2 Part 1: Essential Props – the Towel, Magic Circle & Ball

Day 2 Part 2 : Scoliosis – Demystifying the Condition and applying the Mat

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