Simplify. Adapt. Sit Down!

                         A 16 hour online training course with Fiona Winter.

The Seated and Adapted Training programme is a 16 hour course for movement and fitness professionals to expand their teaching and their client base. With a small number of students on each course, this is an exclusive opportunity to attend a tailor made training to expand your teaching skills and knowledge and open up new markets for your classes. Learn about the what, why and how of adapting movement to offer a low complexity/intensity, standing, seated or semi seated class.

Learning to adapt your current movement form will allow you to integrate a wide range of people within your classes, and act as a template for creating specific classes for different target groups.

Simplify.....
Are you a new teacher and need to build up choreography patterns for yourself and your students?
Do you teach a lot of beginners?
Do you have people in your class who are challenged by coordinating arms and legs together?
Do you want to offer a slower simpler classes, with the focus on healing?

Learn how to...
•Break existing choreography into bite sized pieces...deconstruct.
•Build up patterns simply…reconstruct.
•Take participants from what they know and develop skill and co-ordination.
•Make your classes accessible to a variety of participants.
•Keep beginners engaged and motivated and getting the 'magic' from their first class.
•Introduce new routines with ease and simplicity.

Adapt.......
Do you need to adapt moves for certain limitations in class, lack of balance, low stamina, injuries, inflexibility, inability to turn?

Learn...
•The principles of adaptation.
•How to apply them to your existing body of work.

Seated Movement......
•Do you want to extend your client group and open up new markets for your work?
•Are you interested in working with specialist groups, older adults, those with limited movement?

Learn how to...
•Apply the principles of simplifying and adapting to a seated or semi seated class.
•Safely and creatively work with chairs and seated participants.
•Keep the focus and integrity of the work you have embodied and share its magic with more
people.
•Bring the Joy of Movement to everyone.

Fiona is a teacher, trainer, dancer, performer, fitness professional, course director, course developer and assessor with over 40 years experience in dance, fitness and health promotion. She was the UK’s first Black Belt Nia teacher, has a Post Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion, a Cert Ed in Adult Education and numerous fitness qualifications. Through her work in many different settings, she has explored what it is that makes people - of any age and ability - move, have fun, play, and find health through movement. Fiona has developed a Seated Energy Moves DVD for class participants, which is also a fantastic resource for those wishing to teach a seated class. She shares her work internationally through trainings, workshops and masterclasses.

Fiona has recently trained as an Embodied Facilitator and offers each participant of the 2 day training an additional 30 minute private coaching session either during the weekend or after the training via Skype.

Participants who have completed the training have gone on to set up specific classes for older adults, those with arthritis and fibromyalgia, Parkinson's, Dementia, those who are recovering from illness and injury, and working with adults with learning difficulties and visual impairments…..

Here's what some teachers had to say about the training……

I now have the confidence and skill to break down the choreography of a Nia Routine for the differing populations that I teach. The groups of adults with learning difficulties, and the 4-7yr olds, cannot always cope with the original, so now I can identify the signature moves of the track and adapt them to the music in a simpler way, without losing the original purpose. This also comes in handy with my regular classes when introducing new tracks with complex patterns. I have much more intimacy with the music and keener observation of my classes as a result. Also, I no longer feel that it has to be exactly the same as the routine DVD to be successful.

Over the last few years I have had the opportunity to run classes for visually impaired, elderly/infirm adults, wheelchair-bound adults and others that need to be almost constantly seated. Without the material presented in this course, I don't think I would have had the courage to teach seated classes for the length of time that I have done. I have really come to learn the value of the classes in the chair and picked up so many gems for varying the movement. Not only that, I have seen remarkable results and improvements in these students that I previously didn't think possible. I feel incredibly lucky to be able to teach such a range of people during the week, and not a day goes by without me using the information I gained from the seated and adapted course it's been a massive springboard to infinite possibilities.
Amanda Franklin, Nia Black Belt, Somatic Exercise Coach, Gentle Somatic Yoga Teacher, Aerial Yoga Teacher trainer. www.radiantstaryoga.com

Where was this information when I started teaching? I'm sure I would have kept some new people if I had been able to simplify what I was teaching. The course was very thorough and enabled me to experientially learn the basics of adapting and simplifying movement. Fiona has a great teaching style which is respectful, inclusive and creative and it was good fun. I now run a seated and adapted movement class in Norwich once a week and look forward to every session. One woman, in particular, who has Parkinson disease commented on the difference the session have made to the quality of her life. She is visibly more relaxed, has much greater range of movement and increased flexibility. I have found watching her improvement a great pleasure.
Anne Francis, Nia Blue Belt. www.dancefitnessnorfolk.co.uk

Cost of Training….…including a comprehensive downloadable manual, £270

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