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Running Form and Technique
Radiant Body Class | Advanced Radiant Body Series
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., Janet Runyan, and Art Ives
Run faster and further and have a whole lot more fun! Veterans, novices, and everyone in between can improve.
One-day workshop cost • $95
Dates: Choose any of these dates:
- Saturday, February 25
- Saturday, March 17
- Saturday April 21
Time: 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.
Radiant Body Class
A Ten Week Series: 5 classes devoted to your body's energetics and 5 classes devoted to learning physical exercises to balance your muscles and your structure.
This workshop will help take your running and/or any movement in your life to another level. It will teach you how to release energy so that you can move more freely and tap the potential power that is in your body.
What you will learn:
- The Power of Good Posture
- More Awareness of your Body
- Individualized Exercises to Correct Muscle Imbalances
- How to apply these techniques to improve your running
- Fun and Inspiration!
Dates: 10 consecutive Monday evenings – February 27 – May 7
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location: 4586 North 95th Street, Lafayette, CO.
(1.25 miles north of the intersection of Valmont and 95th).
Workshop Price for the 10 Class Series • $275.
If you register before January 15th: $250, and if you register with a friend $250.
How to Register: To register online go to: janetrunyan.com/radiant-body-workshop/. Or, call Douglas Wisoff at 303-499-2062 or email at douglas@radiantrunning.com.
Description:
Session One: Radiant Body Class: Segments and Bands
• Feb. 27
In this initial session we will define the territory. We will describe the different body segments and define their different
functions and how they interrelate. This will entail part lecture and part experiential awareness exercises. Studying how the
body does and could function can help us direct our attention and explore conceptually and experientially it’s potential.
Session Two: Runner’s Body Clinic
• March 5
This class will begin with a postural assessment; lying down, standing, and walking. There will be exercises to establish
segmental alignment. Each person will develop a keen sense of when that alignment is achieved and how it enables them to
tap the power associated with centered and unified movement.
Session 3: Radiant Body Class: Building the Body From the Ground Up
• March 12
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 4: Runner’s Body Clinic
• March 19
You will learn exercises for the hips, pelvis, and legs that enhance both form and function in walking and running. Exercises
will be specific to the needs of individuals in the class and will increase the repertoire of everyone participating. You will then
be able to sort out what exercises you can use to augment the force production of this important segment.
Session 5 Radiant Body Class: The Power of Now
• March 26
The chest area contains the organs of our immediate experience of life. In one moment food and air is external to us 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 6 Runner’s Body Clinics
• April 2
The chest segment, an important energy booster of the body, is rarely tapped for its full contribution to movement, both with
regards to force of breath and the coordination through the torso and pelvis. On the contrary, because of the number and
complexity of the muscles of this area, tension and holding tend to constrict breathing and motion. The exercises given in this
class will enhance breath and increase range of motion, strength, and the coordination.
Session 7 Radiant Body Class: Integration of Body, Mind and Movement
• April 16
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 8 Runner’s Body Clinic • April 23
This class will focus on improving awareness and coordination of the large multi-segmental muscles of the core. The latissimus dorsi relates the arms, chest, and torso to the pelvis. The abdominals relate the lower chest and torso to the pelvis, and the psoas relates the torso to the thighs and hips. When these muscles are activated and balanced, movement becomes effort-less.
Session 9 Radiant Body Class: Head and Neck • April 30
It is now time to get our heads on straight. 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 our
sense of extension and connection. Exercises given in this class will help with head position, neck suppleness and flexibility
for improved range of motion, and the flow of blood and nerve impulses. This segment contains our command center and
controls the reflexes having to do with awareness of space and balance, the distribution of nerve signals throughout the body,
and our ability to register, process and respond consciously to a wide variety of information.
Session 10 Runner’s Body Clinic • May 7
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:
"Douglas/Janet,
"I just wanted to thank you for your work with me during the
10 week Radiant Body Class. I have been running with an
injury for over 3 years and registered for the class because I
needed help. When I started the class I was running 3 times
a week for total of 10 miles. My runs were hard and painful.
As I ended the course with you, I ran 6 times during the
week for a total of 41 pain free miles. Working with Douglas
one on one in conjunction with incorporating the exercises
I learned in class, I am able to run pain free. The injury I
have had for 3 years has subsided. The awareness, the
body sensing, and the new distinctions I have about running
allows me to have a more powerful "running pain free"
conversation before, during, and after my runs. I'm looking
forward to my future runs!" — Wayne Rush
“… I finally discovered my hips and their ability to give me
my running form back.”
"The principles I learned are widely applicable to
all parts of my life ..."
"These techniques and quiet exercises have all but
eliminated my shoulder and neck pain ..."
"Suddenly things I’d been struggling with for years
with dancing fell into place ..."
Advanced Radiant Body Series
Loosen up - Lighten up - Delight in Your Radiant Running Body!
Seven Classes: 3 Classes devoted to learning physical and energetic exercises and 4 Running Clinics.
What you will learn:
- Improve the Mind/Body Interplay
- How to Place Your Attention While Running
- Develop a Deeper Experience of "The Zone"
- Vitalize and Heighten Your Experience of Running
- Increase your Energy and Awareness in all Aspects of LIfe
- Fun and Inspiration!
Price for the 7 Class Series: $275.00
Dates: Wednesday Evenings and Saturday mornings, March 21, 2012 thru May 12th (see dates below)
How to Register: Call Douglas at 303-499-2062, or email him at douglas@radiantrunning.com
The Advanced Radiant Body Class is comprised of 7 sessions:
3 Indoor Classes: These classes will be devoted towards reinforcing proper structural alignment and muscle balance, as well as applying these principles into our movement. It will set the stage for the outdoor running classes.
4 Outdoor Classes Running: The Lab. We will be applying all the Radiant Body material to actual running -- running form, performance, and enhancing our enjoyment of running on both the purely physical and the emotional/spiritual level.
Class 1: Wednesday March 21st , 6:00 PM
This class will present an overview of the course and objectives. We will be reviewing experiential and practical exercises to help individuals work with grounding, structural alignment, and muscular balance.
Class 2: Wednesday April 4th, 6:00 PM
We will present the "Movement Principles" and how they relate to both the structural integrity and energetic factors in our body that condition our ability to sustain optimal running form and movement in general. These movement principles applied and practiced over time yield the qualities of grace, ease, fluidity, presence, and beauty in motion---the kind of qualities that captivate us when we watch great athletes in action. We will also review and learn exercises that help in the application of the movement principles and direct our attention to the meditative aspects of running.
Class 3: Saturday April 14th, 8:15 AM
This class will be devoted to individual running form skills and refinement. There will be drills, exercises, and individual form coaching, followed by a short group run.
Class 4: Wednesday April 18th, 6:00 PM
After the initial running session the previous Saturday, the instructors will work with and reinforce the structure and alignment needs of individuals and offer specific exercises to help further the form work. We will also cover
topics related to the energy side of running and refine the exercises needed to be able to tap the innate power of the body and create the best possible state within yourself for your running and your life.
Class 5: Saturday April 28th, 8:15 AM
This running session will consist of learning the "Set Up" for the run and put into practice the exercises designed to create the circuitry needed to enhance the meditative side of running. We will work with the "Movement
Principles" and specifically teach techniques on the run that will help you draw on energies and resources in the environment, another gateway to helping tap your bodies innate power while running.
Class 6: Saturday May 5th, 8:15 AM
This will be a special group track run, working with the TBU exercise and the movement principles to give everyone a taste of how it feels to pick up the pace with a mind/body integrated effort. We will work with pacing skills, momentum, and the power of teamwork to easily push past limitations.
Class 7: Saturday May 12th, 8:15 AM
This run will be on a fun and playful dirt road and trail course in order to teach the specifics of the movement principles on hillier terrain. The environment will be open and spacious so that we can use the mental and energetic focuses we've learned to enhance our experience of running and learn about carrying that into our every day life.
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