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Pilates Deconstructed® & Yoga Deconstructed® Embodied Anatomy Biomechanics

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Movement Logic with Trina Altman, Laurel Beversdorf, and Sarah Court

Want to enhance your problem solving skills, so you can work more effectively with your students who are injured or in pain?

We created Movement Logic, because we recognized that even with all the information out there, there aren’t many resources that teach you how to apply it. What a lot of teachers want are the critical thinking skills to work with students and clients who are in pain and are looking to you for help. If you’ve felt like your current knowledge base is lacking, then Movement Logic for you!

Each tutorial focuses on a specific body region, common injuries and pathologies, and includes techniques that you can put to immediate use.

Movement Logic will also help you:

  • Be anatomically and biomechanically informed.
  • Better understand how bodies move, adapt, maladapt, get injured, experience pain, and heal.
  • Become familiar with common pathologies and how pain is commonly patterned in response to these injuries.

Understand Pain

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  • You’ll study up-to-date, biopsychosocial pain science that breaks down old beliefs in order to paint a more accurate picture of the often complicated and counterintuitive behavior of pain
  • The biopsychosocial model is a holistic perspective to pain that looks at the relationship between your biology, your mind, and society, and how those elements together influence your whole body experience of pain.

Acquire teaching skills

  • You will acquire preparatory exercise techniques for helping private clients who have diagnosed injuries as well as those with unspecified pain.
  • You’ll learn best practices for presenting these preparatory exercises in a group class.

Testimonials

“Movement Logic is a comprehensive look at the human body, how it works, and how best to work with different bodies. As a movement teacher, my clients come to me for a number of issues - and Movement Logic provides me with the science AND the tools to immediately use what I am learning! I highly recommend Movement Logic for any movement teacher who wishes to work with bodies of all shapes, sizes and abilities.”


Alexandra Ellis
RYPT-500

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Movement Educator & Author
Yoga + Pilates + Strength Training
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Hodophile ✈️🏖️ & Dancing Queen 👑

Life lately…💃🏼dancing @bayclubs with @m Life lately…💃🏼dancing @bayclubs with @marraj7 @nupeir_g , @coniseafood with @goose_face_killah , @groov3dance with @zackyindigo summit in Vegas💪🏼 weightlifting with @julesyoga & @amberkarnesofficial in LV and monkeying around in my garage gym on the squat rack
@chappellroan was pure magic last night 🪄 💕🧜🏽‍♀️🌈I’ve been waiting for her to come to LA for sooo long and it finally happened!🎉
Life lately…🐶Taking Rocky out for a walk on Life lately…🐶Taking Rocky out for a walk on a beautiful sunny day in Potomac ☀️🎉 Flying trapeze class in DC with my niece Stella. Check out her layout! 🤩⚾️ Daddy (my brother) and Dad (Jerry) saw a baseball game down the street while Stella and I were in class.🎉 Night # 6 of celebrating Stella’s 12th birthday 🎂. Stella and Uncle Farzad both know how to stretch out their August birthday celebrations 😆📚Farzad’s first day of school so I made a sign for him. He’s taking a Shakespeare and Calculus for fun this semester.🪽Stella’s layout catch and splits catch at camp this summer.
True confessions …as a child I wanted to be in t True confessions …as a child I wanted to be in the circus so I could fly 🪽I first tried a trapeze class in 2010 when we moved to Los Angeles, but it hurt my shoulders and hands because they weren’t strong enough.I was 38 years old.15 years later at the age of 53, I decided to try it again for two reasons:1. I visited my 12 y/o niece Stella for her birthday and wanted to take a trapeze class with her. She spent lots of time at summer camp learning trapeze skills.2. I knew it would be different this time because of all the strength training that I do.I was confident that my shoulders and hands were completely capable of supporting my entire body weight for a two hour flying trapeze class.You know how they talk about being strong enough to play with your kids and grandkids?I think this is a perfect example of that 😉TLDR1. Progressively overload your Deadlifts, Lat Pulls/Band Assisted Pull-ups and Rows alongside your vertical and horizontal pushing lifts and you’ll be good to go in a flying trapeze class.2. My weekly 4x5 Toes to Bar drills are no doubt the reason why I could do the knee hang / hocks knee hang on the first try3. Sometimes when you THINK you can’t do something, it’s because you simply haven’t trained for it. It’s not because you are too “old”.Strength is specific.When you train for the thing you THINK you can’t do, you WILL prove yourself wrong.What can you do now that you couldn’t do when you were younger?#flyingtrapeze #trapezeartist
Did you know that progressive overload doesn’t a Did you know that progressive overload doesn’t always mean increasing the amount of weight?It can be increasing your range of motion, doing a more advanced version of an exercise, progressing to not using grips on a deadlift etc.When you increase the range of motion, you’ll need to decrease the weight.That doesn’t mean that you aren’t implementing progressive overload because by increasing the range of motion and doing a more complicated version of a squat, you increase the time under tension and the mechanical work the muscles perform, forcing them to adapt and grow stronger.What are some of the ways you implement progressive overload into your programming?
When I have friends visit LA from out of town my f When I have friends visit LA from out of town my favorite thing to do is to take them to 2 @bayclubs back to back dance classes followed by the recovery room and end with lunch @cafevidala@lizzymulkey and I danced our hearts out in the cardio dance class at 10am with @ambersusa then got our hip hop groove on at 11am with @nupeir_gIt was Lizzy’s first time in the Recovery Room so we did the trifecta of Normatec boots, the Hydromassage Lounge Chair and the Cryo/Heat Lounge Chair…so relaxing 😎Then we caught up on everything over lunch before Lizzy biked back home to Venice.It was what I would call a perfect Thursday 💃🏼👯
Paris part 2 plus a couple of delicious food memor Paris part 2 plus a couple of delicious food memories from Prague 🇫🇷🇨🇿🍦🍰
Our first time in Prague! Our first time in Prague!
Last photo dump from the second part of our @seabo Last photo dump from the second part of our @seabourncruise 🛳️We went to Çeşme and Kusadasi in Turkey and spent the last day at sea before heading back to Athens.The whole experience was magical 💫
Some Greek islands on the @seabourncruise : Mykono Some Greek islands on the @seabourncruise :
Mykonos, Crete and Symi
July photo dump: Paris and Athens July photo dump: Paris and Athens
A perfect start to my weekend always includes @gro A perfect start to my weekend always includes @groov3dance classes with @azmanawi followed by the recovery room trifecta: NormaTec Compression Boots, CryoLounge+, and HydroMassage.I joined the Bay Club El Segundo in the fall of 2023 because I wanted to challenge my brain and my body to move QUICKLY and this specific location has 3 dance classes per day to choose from.While I love yoga, Pilates, strength training and plyometrics, my motor control/coordination skills needed a new challenge.My dancing skills were at about a zero-2 on a scale from one to 10 when I started so while each class I took was fun, it was also frustrating.However, just like learning a new language, I started to build a library in my mindbody of the commonly used hip hop moves and as I progressed the frustration levels lessened.I learned how to track the rhythm/tempo while saying the eight counts in my mind while dancing, which has been a game changer!Azman teaches on Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 AM. One of the reasons I love it so much is because we do the same choreography on both days which means that Saturday is the “rehearsal“ and Sunday is the “performance.”This video is actually the third time we did this choreography because he took a vote to see if we wanted to do it again (it is a challenging phrase IMO).We voted yes, which made it easier to remember the choreography and more precisely execute the level changes.I still forgot a transition or two, but overall, when I compare where I started in 2023 to where I am now I feel very accomplished!Thank you, Azman for filling our weekend with your expert dance instruction and community 🫶🏼🙏🏼.You are loved and appreciated!#Groove3 #weekend #hiphopdance #bayclub
Happy Obama Appreciation Day!#NoKingsDay Happy Obama Appreciation Day!#NoKingsDay
Life lately photo dump:- Celebrating @luxerecess Life lately photo dump:- Celebrating @luxerecess birthday AND 44 years of friendship in Playa del Carmen- Gym time 💪🏼- Nature time 🌴- New dress 👗- Delicious food 🥘
Repost from @honestclareIt’s never too late t Repost from @honestclareIt’s never too late to start strength training !
Celebrating all the things this month!🎂 my 53 Celebrating all the things this month!🎂 my 53rd birthday in Tulsa
👯‍♀️ seeing my friend Brandy from HS IRL
🎓 Ava & Darya’s HS graduation in Denver
💐 Mother’s Day for Vidajoonam in Long Beach
💍 Aranzasu & Andrew’s engagement in Venice#celebration #graduation #birthday #engagement #friendship
My birthday isn’t until May 20 but Farzad and I My birthday isn’t until May 20 but Farzad and I will be in Tulsa visiting my parents so yesterday my dear friend Sarita aka @goose_face_killah and I did an early celebration 🎉We saw the @jeffrune exhibit called “the space in which to place me” at @thebroadmuseum and got to meet him and have our books signed.I highly recommend going to see it!Jeffrey does a phenomenal job representing the U.S. and critiquing it in a rainbow 🌈 of colors.Afterwards, we had dinner at @girlandthegoatla and enjoyed the best of focaccia we’ve ever had in our life!The older I get the more I realize how important it is to slow down and make time to celebrate birthdays with friends and loved ones.Here’s to my 53rd trip around the sun ☀️
#jeffreygibson #thebroad #girlandthegoat #downtownlosangeles #birthdaycelebrations
My client Sarita @goose_face_killah went from back My client Sarita @goose_face_killah went from back squatting 53 pounds when she first started training with me in 2023 and now she’s doubled that and back squats 98 pounds!We thought we’d celebrate her accomplishment by memorializing the event with this video.There’s something very satisfying about being stronger than you were when you were younger.We automatically assume that the reverse will happen, but it doesn’t have to.You can build strength at any age.When what you do in your weightlifting sessions is 2 to 3 times heavier than anything you need to do in your regular life, your regular life feels easy.You don’t hesitate before picking up your 50 pound suitcase and putting it in the trunk of your car.You don’t worry that some part of your body might hurt when you pick up 2-4 heavy bags of groceries and carry them up a couple flights of stairs.Being strong brings a sense of freedom into every aspect of your life.Not just physically, but also emotionally.If you’re curious about the emotional benefits of weightlifting, I highly recommend @laurakhoudari ‘s book called Lifting Heavy Things.It’s one of a few books I regularly lend to my personal training clients.I’d love to know …are you stronger than you were when you were younger?
It’s been fun filled weekend in Las Vegas with @ It’s been fun filled weekend in Las Vegas with @julesyoga and @chelseadanaeyoga 💙💃🏼!Gym time, dinners out for sushi & pizza plus plenty of down time to catch up on life stuff.And icing on the cake was the @acdctour2025 concert last night ⚡️🤘#acdc #acdc⚡️ #friends #yogafriends #gno #80srock
Tight hip flexors? Try this instead of stretching. Tight hip flexors? Try this instead of stretching.Do 3-4 sets of 5-10 reps per side holding a weight.Once you can do 3 sets of 10 reps at that weight, bump up the weight by 2-5 lbs and start with 3 sets of 5 reps.Once you can do 3 sets of 10 reps at the new heavier weight, bump up the weight again by 2 to 5 pounds and cut the reps down to three sets of five.Repeat on and on and this is progressive overload!I have my bottom foot hooked into a 60 pound kettlebell.you could also use a heavy dumbbell.I like having a box to tap my head on, but it’s not necessary.if keeping the gesture leg straight is too challenging, keep your knee bent.Try not to do a backbend!This is meant to be done with a hollow body hold.# hipmobility #tighthips #mobilitytraining #strengthandconditioning #yogainspo #mobilityexercises #stremgthtraining
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