HIP FLEXOR HAVOC:
Causes & Corrective Strategies!
Sunday October 19th, 9:00-10:30am (PT)
Are your hip flexors seeming to do everything? “Don’t use your hip flexors!” is a common cue in Pilates…but is that even possible or desirable? In this workshop, we’ll dive into the hip flexors' anatomy and function, understand why they seem to dominate movement and stabilization, and hope to restore muscular balance.
You’ll learn to identify signs of hip flexor imbalance in your practice or teaching, and discover practical strategies to develop balanced and useful connections.
Through mindful movement and functional strengthening, this workshop will help you:
· Understand the role of hip flexors and their common patterns of imbalance in Pilates
· Recognize compensations that limit core activation and proper hip function
· Explore techniques to restore healthy biomechanical tension
· Strengthen supporting muscles like the glutes, hamstrings, and deep abdominals
· Apply modifications and cueing to reduce strain and promote balanced movement
Perfect for instructors and students alike, this workshop is your guide to freeing the hips, deepening your core connection, and moving with greater ease and efficiency—both on and off the mat.
What You Get:
- Supplementary materials and session handout for tracking along with video.
- Full recording to the LIVE session (once complete) and 90 minutes of content with Shari.
- This live session comes with 1.5 NPCP CECs
- Indefinite access inside this course ticket! Come back anytime to review.
This session ALSO comes with 1.5 NPCP CECs, so don’t miss this one-of-a-kind opportunity to train with an expert on this topic.
Hip Flexor Havoc! Curriculum
About Shari Berkowitz
Shari Berkowitz – is a Pilates Teacher of Teachers and scientist holding a Master’s of Science in Ergonomics and Biomechanics from New York University (NYU). Through her company, The Vertical Workshop, she researches the human body, writes The Pilates Teacher Blog, creates Pilates continuing education products/tools, runs The Vertical Workshop Pilates Teacher Training Program, and teaches workshops and sessions in multiple exercise modalities. Though Shari’s vocabulary of Pilates exercises is Classical, her teaching tools, workshops and sessions are for everyone of every style of Pilates and modality of exercise. Shari’s Pilates teaching crosses all boundaries; well beyond her original training with Romana Kryzanowska and former teacher training for Power Pilates. Her combined work in science and movement gives her a rich base from which to share.