REBOOT THOSE GLUTES:
Build A Better Backside!
Sunday April 27, 2025 9:00-10:30am (PST Los Angeles, CA)
Join us for a dynamic workshop that explores the essential connection between your feet and the posterior chain. The foundation of our feet directly impacts the way we move, especially when it comes to activating and strengthening the glutes. In this session, we’ll dive deep into how your footwork supports your entire body’s alignment and relationship with gravity.
Through a series of Reformer and Chair exercises, Danica will guide you through intentional weight shifts and load-bearing movements that engage and integrate the whole body from the ground up. Whether you're looking to improve posture, enhance mobility, or strengthen your glutes, this workshop will provide you with the tools to create a solid, empowered foundation for every movement. Perfect for anyone looking to deepen their mind-body connection and elevate their movement practice.
What We’ll Learn:
💡 Understanding the connection between your feet and the rest of your body
👣 Techniques to improve foot strength and mobility
⚙️ Reformer and Chair exercises to engage and activate your glutes
↕️ A focus on alignment and posture to optimize movement
🌐 Practical tips to share with clients and classes
Come ready to move, learn, and feel the power of your feet!
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 Danica.
- 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.
REBOOT THOSE GLUTES CURRICULUM
About Danica Kalemdaroglu
Danica has been a Pilates practitioner and movement educator for over 20 years. She teaches to educate each body of their individual movement potential. Her studio, Pilates 804, is Richmond VA’s premier training center specializing in restorative Pilates for all bodies.
Danica is an NCPT and an advanced graduate of the Pilates Center, Boulder where she studied intensively under the Seigel sisters and numerous other master teachers. She holds an MFA from the University of Colorado and a BA from Goucher College; both in performance/choreography and somatics. Her injury plagued dance career brought her to Pilates. Where conventional physical therapy failed, Pilates restored her and prolonged her dancing.She has long retired from performing but continues to teach modern and contemporary to aspiring artists. She has held teaching positions at CU Boulder, Virginia Commonwealth University and currently teaches anatomy within the dance department of Old Dominion University.
Danica is the creator of the Somaphyx® Pilates Method offering continuing education and mentorship for movement professionals as well as in studio apprenticeships. Somaphyx is rooted in traditional Pilates, as created by Joseph Pilates, but detailed with contemporary movement science. Giving teachers an unparalleled skill set as Pilates practitioners. Learn more about Pilates 804 and Somaphyx by visiting Pilates804.com and stay connected on Instagram @pilates804.