COURSES & WORKSHOPS

Date: Friday, 28 February 2025
Time: 10:30-13:30
Cost: R2025.00 per person
Venue: Core Concepts – Durbanville
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Date: Friday, 21 March 2025
Time: 11:30-14:30
Cost: R2025.00 per person
Venue: Core Concepts – Durbanville
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Date: Friday, 1 August 2025
Time: 14:00-17:00
Cost: R2025.00 per person
Venue: Core Concepts – Stellenbosch
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WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Duration: 3 hours

Difficulty: Intermediate

Overview:

Experience new movement sequences and progressions that will build strength and endurance, improve movement health and enhance athletic preparedness. Based on an understanding of the concepts of Activation, Conditioning, Endurance and Recovery, four key components of athletic conditioning, this workshop reviews traditional approaches to performance-based training, introduces and highlights newer methodology and concepts and explores how they can be combined with the STOTT PILATES® Movement System. Created by the Merrithew® Programming team, this workshop demonstrates innovative ways of structuring and designing a mat-based program for the everyday athlete and beyond.

Learning Objectives:

– Receive greater insight into various training methodologies and concepts that can complement the STOTT PILATES repertoire
– Gain greater understanding and clarification of commonly used terminology related to performance-based athletic conditioning
– Explore and experience movement patterns and sequences to activate, engage and integrate the whole body

Equipment used:
– Pilates Mat

Date:Friday, 1 August 2025
Time: 09:00-11:00
Cost: R1350.00 per person
Venue: Core Concepts – Stellenbosch
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WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Duration: 2 hours

Difficulty: Essential

Overview:

This workout, developed by the Merrithew® team, is designed specifically for golfers looking to increase club head speed and get more distance on the drive. Learn specifically chosen and modified STOTT PILATES® Matwork exercises, which work on increasing focus and body awareness, isolating crucial core muscles and combining the elements of strength with flexibility. Trainers can use this workout to benefit any level golfer from amateur to professional.

Learning Objectives:

– Apply the STOTT PILATES® Principles to specific exercises on the Mat.
– Learn specific exercises designed to challenge male clients.
– Understand how these exercises challenge strength, stability and coordination.
– Learn cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness.

Equipment used:
– Pilates Mat
– Maple Pole

Date:Friday, 1 August 2025
Time: 11:30-13:30
Cost: R1350.00 per person
Venue: Core Concepts – Stellenbosch
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WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Duration: 2 hours

Difficulty: Essential

Overview:

A movement as complex as a golf swing requires focus, strength, flexibility, balance, and power from the ground up. In this interactive level-2 workshop, developed by the Merrithew® team, learn how to use these specially designed intense Matwork exercises to help clients sharpen all of those areas. Focus on isolating key physical components that aid in increasing club head speed to send the ball further down the fairway and get that extra advantage on the green.

Learning Objectives:

– Apply the STOTT PILATES Principles to modified exercises on the Mat.
– Learn specific exercises designed for golf conditioning.
– Understand how these exercises challenge strength, stability and coordination.
– Learn cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness.

Equipment used:
– Pilates mat
– Toning balls

Date:Friday, 28 November 2025
Time: 09:00-11:30
Cost: R1035.00 per person
Venue: Core Concepts – Durbanville
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WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Duration: 2 hours

Difficulty: Essential

Overview:

The Stability Ball is a perfect tool to use with prenatal clients and adding resistance with the Flex-Band® exerciser delivers a safe and effective workout for moms-to-be. In this interactive seminar, developed by the Merrithew® team, apply the most current medical information, exercise guidelines and research available on pregnancy and movement to innovative STOTT PILATES® exercise adaptations. Learn programming concepts for teaching small groups and private clients specifically in the second trimester. Discuss anatomical and physiological changes, risk factors and movement considerations and leave with strategies for building new prenatal programs as well as enhancing those already in progress.

Learning Objectives:

– Apply the STOTT PILATES® Principles to specific exercises on the Mat.
– Learn specific exercises designed to challenge male clients.
– Understand how these exercises challenge strength, stability and coordination.
– Learn cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness.

Equipment used:
– Pilates mat
– Stability ball
– Flex-Band
– Gripper mat

Date:Friday,28 November 2025
Time: 12:00-14:00
Cost: R1035.00 per person
Venue: Core Concepts – Durbanville
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WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Duration: 2 hours

Difficulty: Essential

Overview:

Most women are able to return to exercise four to six weeks after a regular birth or when they get clearance from their physician. Many of the exercises performed during the second and third trimester of pregnancy will be suitable now, but other exercises can be added to focus on reactivating and stabilizing the pelvic floor, transversus abdominis and obliques as well as developing lumbo-pelvic stability. This gentle but effective workout, developed by the Merrithew^® team, incorporates Toning Balls^™ to get new moms back on the right track.

Learning Objectives:

– Apply the STOTT PILATES Principles to exercises specific to the post-natal client
– Discover how to modify for the needs of this special population
– Understand how to incorporate Toning Balls in a post-natal workout
– Discuss special considerations for post-natal concerns

Equipment used:
– Pilates mat
– Toning ball
– Foam cushion ‘C’

Date:Friday, 28 November 2025
Time: 14:30-16:30
Cost: R1035.00 per person
Venue: Core Concepts – Durbanville
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WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Duration: 2 hours

Difficulty: Essential

Overview:

Learn the benefits of taking moms-to-be from traditional Matwork variations to select exercise modifications on the Reformer in this workshop, developed by the Merrithew® team. Using current exercise guidelines provided by the ACOG and bearing in mind common anatomical and physiological changes, appropriate STOTT PILATES® exercise adaptations are explored using the Reformer in innovative and beneficial ways. Workout safety and effectiveness remain paramount and the client’s risk factors, pre-pregnancy fitness level, health concerns and fitness goals are to be taken in to account when creating new and ongoing programs.

Learning Objectives:

– Apply the STOTT PILATES Principles to specific exercises on the Reformer
– Understand movement essence and exercise goals for the prenatal client
– Explore how exercise choices are made for the prenatal client and what modifications may need to be incorporated
– Hear cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness

Equipment used:
– Reformer
– Reformer box
– Jumpboard
– Padded platform extender
– Foam cushion ‘B’
– Foam cushion ‘C’

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– STOTT PILATES®️ Intense Sculpting Challenge Flex-Band®️
– STOTT PILATES®️ Arc Barrel Workshop
– STOTT PILATES®️ Foam Roller ONLINE Workshop
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– MAT-PLUS™ COURSE
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– STOTT PILATES® Interval Training on the Jumpboard or Cardio-Tramp®, Level 2 Workshop
– STOTT PILATES® Mat-Plus™ Evolved Workshop
– STOTT PILATES® Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™ Reformer, Level 1
– STOTT PILATES® Intermediate Stability Chair™: Functional Anatomy, Cueing & Correcting Online Workshop
– STOTT PILATES® Experience Movement to Improve Awareness & Teaching Online Workshop
– STOTT PILATES® Flexion Free Online Workshop
– STOTT PILATES® Athletic Conditioning: Performance Enhancing Progressions and Sequences Workshop
– STOTT PILATES® Total Body Toning
– STOTT PILATES® Reformer & Padded Platform Extender
– STOTT PILATES® Full Intermediate Matwork Workout
– STOTT PILATES® Postural Analysis Review
– STOTT PILATES® Ultimate Back Care
– STOTT PILATES® Beyond the Biomechanical Principles
– STOTT PILATES® Post-Natal Pilates
– STOTT PILATES® Prenatal Pilates on the Reformer
– STOTT PILATES® Pilates Matwork for Men
– STOTT PILATES® Reformer Workout for Men