Oov/Balansit Study Session
Join Kate in person or via zoom for an Oov/Balansit study session.
We will be meeting at Studio 1002 Pilates in Chicago or you can request a zoom link to join remotely.
Come to have your questions answered, any confusion clarified, or to refine your approach with colleagues who have taken the Oov courses.
Oov Fundamentals Course: Chicago
Course Description:
This course will explore how using a device like the Oov can facilitate overall improvement in Functional Movement. This course will also take traditional pilates exercises and apply them to the Oov.
During this course, participants will explore the concept of creating stability through improving mobility, as well as, the role that Disassociation plays in enhancing stability training.
Balance Training will be utilised as a means to effectively enhance motor learning and improved performance.
Techniques such as Sequential Training, Proper Queuing, Regression/Progression, as well as an understanding of the concept of Tolerance and Effective Loading will be provided as a means to assist instructors in teaching complex multi-plane movements.
The “Four Pillars of Movement” and their relationship to efficient performance will be the corner stone to teaching Functional Movement. Faulty or inefficient Movement Patterns will be identified in regards to postural type.
Strength, speed, power and agility are more effectively achieved if the client can maintain Motor Control, Stability and Endurance, and these will be the basis of all exercises in the Oov Fundamentals Course.
Therefore, the focus of all the exercises presented will be on Eccentric Activation for Greater Strength and Control through Low Threshold, Slow Movement Training
Students will also be give information for the structure, as well as, the queuing techniques to facilitate a group Oov class.
The Oov Fundamentals course is the pre requisite to all other Oov courses, including 3D Assessment, Rehabilitation, Pilates Apparatus, Performance, Sport Specific and Manual Therapy.
This course gives the practitioner the ability to diagnose and address the individual’s movement through Proprioceptive Neuro-Plasticity at an unprecedented level. Students will learn the nuances of adding or removing load and resistance to increase mobility or to increase fine motor control.
This course will start to identify Direct Clinical Deficiencies, such as Axial Control of the Skeleton, Gait Pattern Dysfunction, 3 D Sling Deficiencies and Compromised Articular function. Detailed and Specific Exercises that address the Correction of these deficiencies will be covered.
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Demonstrate correct set up, safety and care of the Oov.
Understand how Balance training on the Oov can be a useful tool to identify faulty movement patterns and for enhancing motor learning.
Learn how to identify what parts of the body you are going to:
Move
Activate
Control
Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of Tolerance and Load in Balance Training.
Understand the importance of Sequential Training and demonstrate how to safely modify an exercise by using regression or progression.
Understand how the “Four Pillars of Movement – Axial Elongation: Core Control, Hip Mobilization, Shoulder Mobilization play and important role in efficient movement.
To demonstrate a knowledge of the various characteristics that identify faulty movement patterns.
Understand how the concepts and methods identified in this course can be used with any form of Functional Training.
Effectively teach the exercises described in this course to individuals and a large group.
Nominal Hours of Delivery
16 hours of practical labs and short lectures
Oov Workshop
Join Oov Educator, Kate Strozak, for an introductory Oov workshop designed for people looking for an introduction to the concepts and experience of this innovative device. The Oov helps realign the body spatially using natural geometric rations, employing balance, motor control and self awareness to improve physical health.
The Oov is made from highly durable foam to complement the natural curve of the spine. The work combines axial elongation, diaphragmatic breath, hip and pectoral girdle dissociation, and the emerging fields of fascial slings neuroplasticity on a 3D unstable, thoughtfully designed device.
Oov Group Class
Join Oov Educator, Kate Strozak, for an introductory Oov class designed to help you establish a home Oov routine. You’ll leave class understanding how to safely position yourself on the Oov along with take-home routines to help you accomplish your personal goals.
Oov LEVEL 2/3: Afferent/Efferent
OOV FUNDAMENTALS IS A PREREQUISITE TO THIS COURSE.
THIS COURSE COMBINES OUR PREVIOUS LEVEL 2 AND LEVEL 3 COURSES INTO ONE 3 DAY COURSE.
IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED LEVEL 2, PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A $250 DISCOUNT TO ATTEND THIS COURSE.
Course Description:
This course shows movement professionals and practitioners how to identify and change multiple functional domains in the body using task based, kinaesthetic intelligence upregulating, movement based interventions. This course will build on the foundation of Level 1 and empower practitioners to assess clients and patients in a complete, whole body manner quickly and safely.
This course explains and provides interventions for an Efferent and an Afferent patient and presentation.
Specifically, this course will address the central organisational structures, the peripheral biomechanics and more importantly, their relationship to one another, what needs addressing first for the unique patient/client in front of the practitioner at that time and how to go about making that change.
This course explains the inextricable link between the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), Respiratory mechanics, axial kinaesthetic awareness and inflammatory patterns in the body and brain.
This course includes:
A unique philosophical framework for observing the human form.
Original diagnostic tests to guide practitioners down a thoughtful path in applying their pre-existing skill set, or the skill set offered and delivered in this course and other courses from OOV Education.
A new philosophy based Method to increase information to the body.
A new movement gamut and the ability to interpret these movements within the framework of the philosophy provided.
A clear and meaningful “map” from the tests/movements to the appropriate interventions to change the body quickly, safely and intelligently.
A definition of Hardware vs Software Efferent presentations.
An easy to follow general clearance test (as used in Level 2) with accompanying diagnostic tests for: V.O.R (Vestibular Ocular Reflex), The A.O (Atlanto-Occipital joint), Common spinal pathologies (Disc, Spondylolisthesis etc). The organisation of the Costals and lobes of the Diaphragm, the axial loading accuracy of the foot and ankle, the relationship between all the above and the force closure capabilities addressed in earlier course/s.
Solutions and movements to change the information ascertained in the above tests.
Course Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
Comprehend the body in a new philosophical paradigm – Perfection vs Disfunction.
Understand Bio-tensegrity and root of its manifestation: Information and Perception.
Understand Allostasis and Allostatic Load, Homeostasis and Form and Force Closure.
Demonstrate correct set up, safety and care of the Oov.
Demonstrate knowledge, implementation and pertinence of a Clearance Strategy Screen (Vertical Loading).
Understand and define Afferent vs Efferent influences.
Understand how Balancing on the Oov can be a useful tool to identify AFFERENT vs EFFERENT strategic parameters and suitably describe the significance of that at a diagnostic, intervention and medico-legal level.
Implement and INTERPRET a range of movement assessment screens.
Use the assessments to thoughtfully guide their direction of intervention on the patient/client.
Understand a new definition of Dis-function.
Demonstrate a complex understanding of: kinematic pairs and chains, Superficial chain preferences and Myo-fascial slings.
Understand how Joint position interacts with local joint complexes, function and global slings.
Demonstrate a high degree of comprehension of functional anatomical interrelatedness of multiple structures – fascial, articular, myo-neural and visceral.
Understand the METHODS employed in this course.
Understand WHY the methods are in the order that they are in.
Demonstrate how creative and deliberate use of peripheral holds (hand and foot positions) can influence global slings and strategies.
Demonstrate how Load can be utilised to influence different outcomes of Motor Control and explain WHY and HOW.
Understand basic concepts of Hormesis vs Compassion for intervention efficacy.
Understand how the concepts and methods identified in this course can be used with any form of Functional Training.
Understand the anatomy and function of the diaphragm, the AO joint and the efferent processing systems in the brain and spinal cord.
Understand respiratory physiology and its effects on muscle function, rigidity strategies and how breath can be a valuable tool in making biomechanical and neurological change in a patient.
Understand how to observe and appropriately and SAFELY utilise breath in movement.
Be able to integrate multiple systems, from head to toe, in a patient for maximal kinaesthetic up-regulation.
Understand Software vs Hardware in pathology and strategy.
Effectively teach the exercises described in this course to individuals and a large group.
Nominal Hours of Delivery:
24 hours of practical, workshops and short lectures, Viva Voce Final Assessment
Oov Fundamentals Course
Course Description:
This course will explore how using a device like the Oov can facilitate overall improvement in Functional Movement. This course will also take traditional pilates exercises and apply them to the Oov.
During this course, participants will explore the concept of creating stability through improving mobility, as well as, the role that Disassociation plays in enhancing stability training.
Balance Training will be utilised as a means to effectively enhance motor learning and improved performance.
Techniques such as Sequential Training, Proper Queuing, Regression/Progression, as well as an understanding of the concept of Tolerance and Effective Loading will be provided as a means to assist instructors in teaching complex multi-plane movements.
The “Four Pillars of Movement” and their relationship to efficient performance will be the corner stone to teaching Functional Movement. Faulty or inefficient Movement Patterns will be identified in regards to postural type.
Strength, speed, power and agility are more effectively achieved if the client can maintain Motor Control, Stability and Endurance, and these will be the basis of all exercises in the Oov Fundamentals Course.
Therefore, the focus of all the exercises presented will be on Eccentric Activation for Greater Strength and Control through Low Threshold, Slow Movement Training
Students will also be give information for the structure, as well as, the queuing techniques to facilitate a group Oov class.
The Oov Fundamentals course is the pre requisite to all other Oov courses, including 3D Assessment, Rehabilitation, Pilates Apparatus, Performance, Sport Specific and Manual Therapy.
This course gives the practitioner the ability to diagnose and address the individual’s movement through Proprioceptive Neuro-Plasticity at an unprecedented level. Students will learn the nuances of adding or removing load and resistance to increase mobility or to increase fine motor control.
This course will start to identify Direct Clinical Deficiencies, such as Axial Control of the Skeleton, Gait Pattern Dysfunction, 3 D Sling Deficiencies and Compromised Articular function. Detailed and Specific Exercises that address the Correction of these deficiencies will be covered.
Course Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Demonstrate correct set up, safety and care of the Oov.
Understand how Balance training on the Oov can be a useful tool to identify faulty movement patterns and for enhancing motor learning.
Learn how to identify what parts of the body you are going to:
Move
Activate
Control
Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of Tolerance and Load in Balance Training.
Understand the importance of Sequential Training and demonstrate how to safely modify an exercise by using regression or progression.
Understand how the “Four Pillars of Movement – Axial Elongation: Core Control, Hip Mobilization, Shoulder Mobilization play and important role in efficient movement.
To demonstrate a knowledge of the various characteristics that identify faulty movement patterns.
Understand how the concepts and methods identified in this course can be used with any form of Functional Training.
Effectively teach the exercises described in this course to individuals and a large group.
Nominal Hours of Delivery
16 hours of practical labs and short lectures
Oov Apparatus
Course Description:
OOV FUNDAMENTALS IS A PRE REQUISITE FOR THIS COURSE!
The Oov Pilates Apparatus course is a Comprehensive bridge between the Oov Fundamentals course and higher movement performance.
The Inclusion of traditional Pilates apparatus gives the practitioner the ability to diagnose and address the individual’s movement through Proprioceptive Neuro- Plasticity at an unprecedented level. Students will learn the nuances of adding or removing load and resistance to increase mobility or to increase fine motor control.
Course Outline
Introduction and short Discussion about Oov with Pilates Equipment
Practical – Group Class with the Oov
Practical – Reformer Leg Series
Practical – Reformer Leg Strap Series
Practical – Reformer Jumping Series
Practical – Reformer Arm Strap Series
Practical – Cadillac Leg Spring Series
Practical – Cadillac Arm Spring Series
Recap of the Workshop – Questions
Evaluation
1 Day Course – 8 hours of practical labs and short lectures
This Course is registered for 8 NCPT credits