Pure Technique Workshops
Therapist Training Workshops
Shen Tao offers specialist training for professional movement therapists from a variety of disciplines.
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Your hands can communicate ideas to your students about where they might want to put their bones, and which muscles to use.
Use your hands to change the shape of your student’s bodies, to reduce their pain, to change their lives!
Come gain greater confidence, and competence in your ability to change people with your touch. Learn powerful techniques for communicating directly to your students bodies.
This experiential training will give you both specific hands-on techniques, as well as larger guiding principles with which to work with your hands, elbows, etc. while teaching.
Learn how to touch safely, and with authority. Learn how to communicate principles of alignment, timing,and dynamics with your hands.
We will draw on exercises from the disciplines of Pilates,Dance, Yoga, Shen Tao, (and a number of other parallel disciplines) in order to further help you develop your skills.
We will show you specific techniques to help you change the shape of their myofascia, release their tendons, communicate with their muscles, and traction their bones.
Our creativity in Bodywork workshop will provide you with coaching, and guidance to help you find your own unique approach to bodywork. You will learn a set of skills which you can apply to opening the body from any angle, in any position.
You will receive individualized coaching on musicality and rhythm, push/pull patterns, effective use of elbows and knees, compression, traction, and so much more!
Video feedback will be an integral part of this workshop.
Equipment Vocabulary Workshops
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This training will deepen your insight into the classical Pilates Mat vocabulary by providing you with additional strength and coordination challenges offered by the Shen Tao Mini.
We will teach you how to cooperate with the added resistance of a weight and pulley system, to create more than 50 variations on the classical Pilates vocabulary.
One of the many benefits of this training will be a deeper understanding of the principles which are common to both equipment and mat based training.
Previous experience with Pilates mat work is helpful, but not required.
Self Training Workshops
Shen Tao offers specialist workshops to introduce you to a number of techniques which you can use to reduce the physical symptoms of stress, discomfort, and pain in your own body.
These techniques are drawn from the fields of Physical Therapy, Deep Tissue Massage, Dance, Martial Arts, and Meditation.
These techniques are powerful, effective and have the advantage that by learning how to practice them on yourself, you can learn to relieve your own symptoms of discomfort.
Workshops we offer
Do you want more power to influence your mind, your Self, and the relationship between the two?
This 2500 year old technique will deepen your ability to “center“ effectively, to calm your mental and emotional agitation, and to access resources and abilities necessary to accomplish what you want in this life.
This workshop will offer coaching in two styles of meditation from the Vipassana tradition.
The first technique offers benefits of increased concentration, and focus.
The second approach involves a practice of kinesthetic body scanning.
These two techniques combined have an extraordinary calming, and regenerative effect on the nervous system.
The “classical” upper-body workshop explores how one can organize the bones of the head and neck, the rib cage, the arm and shoulder, the spine and the sacrum in service of a more lively, functional and healthy body.
The application of the Shen Tao Approach to your upper-body will help you create a more organized and spacious torso that will allow you (after two hours only) to move with more grace, and efficiency.
You will receive individualized instructions, video feedback and hands-on coaching to help you deepen your understanding of the skeletal organization, and get the most out of this two hours workshop.
We believe that when the intelligence of the mind and the intelligence of the body work together in harmony, our creativity as human beings, or artists, is free to express itself into the world or on stage.
The organization of our torso expresses a great deal of who we are.
In 2 hours you can find how to access your elegance and your power. We have the tools you need to change the course of your life!
Come learn how to be even more yourself !
Are you stressed, in pain, or injured?
This experiential workshop will give you tools, skills, and an effective approach to relieve your own muscular discomfort, and pain.
Learn how to apply deep pressure with your ownhands, elbows, and a host of tools, including wooden balls, “Theracane’s”, lacross balls and a Physical Therapy tool, the Morfam electric massager.
Do you want higher legs?
This workshop will give you strengthening exercises, tendon stretches, and a new understanding of how your standing leg, rib cage, and arabesque line must work together in order to have higher extension.
Come learn the training secrets guaranteed to elevate your legs to the back.
This training will deepen your insight into the classical Pilates Mat vocabulary by providing you with additional strength and coordination challenges offered by the Shen Tao MINI.
We will teach you how to cooperate with the added resistance of a weight and pulley system, to create more than 50 variations on the classical Pilates vocabulary.
One of the many benefits of this training will be a deeper understanding of the principles which are common to both equipment and mat based training.
Previous experience with Pilates mat work is helpful, but not required.
Register for current Workshops
To view and register for Shen Tao Workshops that are currently on offer, please visit our Events Schedule.
