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Running Form and Technique | Running Mini-Clinic | Radiant Body Workshop
Douglas Wisoff, P.T., leading a Running Clinic.
If you have any questions about any of these workshops, please contact
Douglas and he will be
happy to clarify. Note: Douglas offers a FREE running form evaluation or injury evaluation – contact him to schedule.
Running Form and Technique:
Improve Performance – Stay Injury Free
Douglas Wisoff, P.T., and Janet Runyan
Run faster and further and have a whole lot more fun! Veterans, novices, and everyone in between can improve.
One-day workshop only • $95
Special package price: Workshop plus three one-on-one sessions • $220
Date and Time: Saturday, July 10, 11:30am – 5:00pm
To register / more information:
Call Douglas at 303-499-2062 or email at douglas@radiantrunning.com.
What You Get! • Video Taping and Gait Analysis • Individualized Form and Technique Correction • Conceptual Material with Experiential Exercises • An Understanding of Proper Body Alignment and Body Usage • Fun and Inspiration!
Workshop content
Video Taping and Gait Analysis
First we will film, view and study your running form and biomechanics. This indispensable tool affords you a great opportunity to see yourself in action and receive expert feedback that both reinforces the things you are doing right in your form and movement and helps you to correct the habits and inefficiencies that hold you back from feeling and performing your best. It sets the stage for change and improvement.
Proper Body Alignment and Principles of Movement
Next we will present and reinforce, with body-based exercises, "Proper Body Alignment and Principles of Movement." These concepts will be your guide for how to run efficiently as well as enabling you to contact your source of strength and power. We will help you apply the basic principles of movement that include: the absence of unnecessary effort, circularity, grounding, moving from your center or core, momentum and rhythm. These principles will help you identify and manifest the basic qualities of good running form such as directed arm swing, optimal body lean, integration of upper and lower body and utilization of the powerful core muscles of the hips and pelvis. Skillful use of these principles is central to fluid efficient movement and provides the foundation for continued improvement.
Individualized Critique of Your Running Form
Everyone will receive individual instruction so that you will leave with a basic understanding and the essential tools you need so that you can successfully work with your running form. This will include videotaping again, so that you can see the changes and improvements made during the day. Everyone will have an opportunity to observe improvements others make, giving you a wide range of impressions that facilitate the learning process.
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Running Mini-Clinic
Douglas Wisoff, P.T
Date and Time: Saturday June 12, 2010 • 9:30 – 11:30 am.
Cost: $35
Location: Douglas's office: 1295 S. Broadway, Suite B, Boulder, CO 80303 (Directions)
I am offering a two-hour Running Mini-Clinic on Saturday morning June 12th from 9:30 to 11:30, at my office in south Boulder. In this clinic, I will video tape each individual so that each person gets an understanding of what form improvements can be made, and teach the basics of "how to improve your running form." This is an intro class to get people started with these techniques. I am limiting this to 8 people, so if you are interested please contact me as soon as possible.
Radiant Body Workshop
Dates: Six Tuesday evenings, Spring 2011 – Exact dates to be announced in early 2011.
Time: 5:45 – 7:30 pm
Location: 4586 North 95th Street, Lafayette, CO.
(1.25 miles north of the intersection of Valmont and 95th).
How to Register: Call Douglas at 303-499-2062 or email at douglas@radiantrunning.com.
Description:
The Radiant Body Workshop blends western knowledge of anatomy and physiology with an understanding that views the body as a living interaction with the environment. In this model sensation, feeling, thought, posture, how we hold ourselves and how we move, are parts of a single whole.
Participants of the class will be able to expand their body-sense both internally and in relation to the external world through a series of sequential exercises that help sharpen and improve observational, postural and movement skills. Each individual will experience how small qualitative changes in the way they hold themselves creates the possibility to move with more relaxation and freedom.
The Radiant Body Class lays a foundation for continued positive change. In each of the six sessions we will reference information and material offered in the class back to walking, running, and daily activities. We will also be suggesting “homework assignments” that are used to integrate the understanding gained in class to very active work with posture and how we move.
Session One: Segments and Bands
• Tuesday, April 6
Studying how the body does and could function can help us direct our attention and explore conceptually and experientially it’s potential. In this initial session we will define the territory. Breaking the body down into the different segments, understanding their functions and how they interrelate brings us awareness and guidance when working to improve our posture and movement. This will entail part lecture and part experiential awareness exercises.
Session Two: Building the Body From the Ground Up
• Tuesday April 13
Emphasis will be on pelvis, hips, legs, and feet. You will be taken through a series of exercises that helps develop your relationship to the ground. Learning how to relax and release this part of the body is crucial to more fluid and powerful movement throughout the body.
Session Three: The Power of Now • Tuesday April 20
The chest area contains the organs of our immediate experience of life. In one moment food and air is out there and the next it is in our bodies (the chest area), providing a great source of energy, inspiration and motivation. With the chest we appreciate the mystery first hand. This session will address the chest segment with dynamic exercises to enhance its function.
Session Four: Integration of Body, Mind and Movement
• Tuesday April 27
Important Exercises that integrate the upper and lower segments of the body will establish your body's relationship to the ground, to the space around you, and to graceful movement through that space.
Session Five: Head and Neck
• Tuesday May 4
It is now time to get our heads on straight. This segment contains our command center and the powerful organs and reflexes having to do with awareness of space, balance, the distribution of nerve signals throughout the body, and our ability to register, process and respond consciously to a wide variety of information. Our orientation to, perceptions of, and attitudes about the environment we live in is affected by the way we hold our heads. Our head and neck position plays a huge role in the integration of the body and sense of extension and connection.
Session Six: Grande Finale
• Tuesday May 11
This class will be devoted to unanswered questions and individual concerns. We will have covered the general issues around posture and body use that affects all of us and ones specific to each individual. This will be a time to make final assessments, suggestions, and recommendations. Also we will be making to final adjustments to the exercises that people have been working with to best accomplish their goals.
Saturday Morning Focus Run and Breakfast
• Saturday, May 15th
A short and enjoyable run in which we will apply the practices and principles learned over the previous six sessions.
What people are saying about the Radiant Body Workshop:
The biggest benefit I saw from the Radiant Body workshop was how the corrections to my posture have improved my dancing. My dance instructor has always taught me to lead from my core, which is the region between my sternum and hips. Though I understood what she wanted I could never integrate my body to achieve what she was describing. The simple exercises I learned in the Radiant Body workshop gave me the tools to adjust my posture and suddenly things I’d been struggling with for years with dancing fell into place. Dancing has became much easier and I finally feel that I’m moving from my core as my instructor has always coached.
— Hal Yoder 3/25/08
Just wanted to send you a comment or two about the powerful effect the Radiant Body Classes that you and Janet conducted have had on my life. I really enjoyed learning new ways to body sense, that included taking time out of my day to relax using constructive rest, posturing with the head and neck alignment and proper body carriage. These techniques and quiet exercises have all but eliminated my shoulder and neck pain and most importantly, taught me how to identify situations and postures that may invite the reoccurrence of the pain. I would whole heartedly recommend this class to anyone. Happy Spring!
—Terri Pankey
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