Host Ellie Herman

You can bring Ellie to your studio to teach a Pilates Teacher Training, Professional Workshops, or Public classes.

Email Ellie directly to schedule education@elliehermanpilates.com

Ellie’s Fees: $1500/day (or 65% of Gross whichever is greater) plus travel & accomodations

Pilates Teacher Training Modules: Anatomy, Mat, Reformer, Trap, Chair, Springboard, Barrels

Expanding Repertoire Workshops (on the Reformer, Chair, Trap Table, or Springboard)

Walk-ilates Workshop or Teacher Training or Public Class

Pilates Alphabet Workshop or Public Class

Propping Up Your Mat Class

Rehabiliation Protocols Using Props

Pilates Arc & Barrels Workshop

Pilates Arc on the Reformer Workshop

Cardio Pilates Workshop or Public Class

Physioball Workshop or Public Class

Pilates Ball (12″ Ball) Workshop

Descriptions

Walk-ilates Workshop Description
This class can be structured as an hour-long workout or a 2-3-hour workshop or up to a 6 hour teacher training.
Pilates+Walking= Walk-ilates
Developed by Ellie Herman, Walk-ilates uses Pilates-based exercises and props to address and correct gait imbalances and compensation patterns. The class begins with special releases and stretches using the ethafoam roller, followed by Pilates Mat exercises using the magic circle and finally standing balances. The class culminates in walking, outside if possible, where proper gait and optimal alignment are stressed.  The three-hour workshop will include more detailed teaching cues. Everyone will receive personal corrections to address their gait patterns.  MBT shoes are a great addition to this class, but are not required. MBT shoes can be provided for the class if shoe sizes are garnered in advance.

Equipment Needed: Mat, Magic Circle, Ethafoam Roller
Walk-ilates Class Outline
I.    Release/stretch overly tight muscles on Foam Roller
1.    Roll out IT bands, Quads, Glutes, hamstrings, calves
2.    Hip flexor stretch over roller into spinal twist
II.    Pilates Mat Exercises with Magic Circle
Deep Abdominal Cue
Upper Abdominal Curl
Bridge with magic ring between knees: roll heel / toe
Single leg bridges: roll heel toe
Balance Point
100’s
Roll Down: Pearl Button Variation
.    Rolling like a ball
.    Single Leg Roll Up with Magic Circle
III.    Standing Exercises to Integrate New Muscle Balance and Awareness
1.    Lunges:
2.    Standing Ring Squeeze in parallel with Magic Circle between ankles
3.    Rolling forward and back
4.    Rolling outside to in
5.    Prancing
IV.    Slow Motion Walking

V.     Walking with Imagery and Personalized Gait correction

Physioball
This class can be structured as a 1-hour workout or a 2- 3-hour workshop

Learn how to structure a physioball class with exercises that will condition every muscle in your body as well as give you a cardio workout and core stability challenge. One of Ellie’s favorite accessories cuz it’s just plain fun! This workshop will cover exercises from Ellie Herman’s Pilates Workbook on the Ball.

Equipment Needed: Physioballs

Prop up Your Mat Class
This class can be structured as 3 1-hour workshops OR 1 3-hour workshops, or up to a 6 hour teacher training.

Props are a great way to spice up any mat class. Learn Ellie’s favorite exercises using the Magic Circle, Ethafoam Roller, and Therabands from Ellie Herman’s Pilates Props Workbook.

Equipment Needed: Mat, Magic Circle, Roller ,Theraband

Rehabilitation with Props
This class can be structured as 3 1-hour workshops OR 1 3-hour workshops, or up to a 6 hour teacher training.

Props are a great way to give your clients a home program which they can use to rehabilitate specific injuries. Ellie will select the most important rehabilitation protocols from her book, Ellie Herman’s Pilates Props Workbook.
Equipment Needed: Mat, Magic Circle, Roller ,Theraband

Rehabilitation with Props Outline
Magic Circle:
Knee and Hip: Side-lying adductor, Standing Adductor, Bridges
Neck: Chin Squeezes
Spine: Deep Abdominal Cue, Upper Abominal Curl, Hundred
Roller:
Shoulder Series: Shoulder Slaps, Arm Reaches, Chicken Wings, Angels
Spine Stabilization Series: top taps, dying bug, pelvis stabilization
Theraband:
Shoulder Series: rotator, rhomboids, chest expansion, subscapularis,
Knee: VMO, hamstrings, standing adductor/abductor stabilization
Ankle and foot: foot strengthener

Ellie Herman’s Pilates Alphabet
This class can be structured as an hour-long workout or a 2-3-hour workshop.
Just as every word can be broken down into letters, so can every Pilates exercise be broken down into discrete parts. The Pilates alphabet is Ellie’s way to facilitate the learning process and demystify even the most complex Pilates exercises. Learn how to break down the Pilates repertoire into discrete, simple, easily digestible chunks. Ellie will take the class through the process of “peeling back” classic advanced exercises: Teaser, Jackknife, Rolling Like a Ball, Roll-Up.

Equipment Needed: Mat (Magic Circle or small ball would be great too!)

Ellie’s Pilates Alphabet Class Outline
-Neutral Spine/ Flat Back
-Abdominal Scoop
-Door Frame Arms
-Torso Stability
-Squeeze a Tangerine
-Pilates Abdominal Positioning
-Balance Point
-Bridge
-C-Curve
-Hip-Up
-Levitation
-Pilates “V” (Pilates First Position)
-Rosebud
-Stacking the Spine
-Table Top Legs/Diamond Legs

Expanding Repertoire on the Reformer
This class can be structured as an hour-long workout or a 2-3-hour workshop, or up to a 8-hour teacher training.
Ellie Herman will teach advanced repertoire and original exercises created by herself or her staff over the last fifteen years. Ellie will also review her favorite cues to help students deeply understand the initiation and muscle sequencing involved in each exercise. In the 3-hour version Ellie will talk about teaching cues, alignment, modifications, etc.

Expanding Repertoire on the Reformer Class Outline
- Warm-up with original Footwork variations:
Single Leg on Toe, Ballet Combo, Sleeper
- Teaching the Overhead from Beginning Level to Super Advanced Variations
Lat Pull, Overhead I, II, III, into Jackknife and the “J”
- Teaching the Teaser from Beginning Level to Super Advanced Variations
Reverse Teaser, The Queen, Balance Point, Modified Teaser, Full Teaser, Dead Hang Teaser, Salute
-Reverse Knees Stretches: “The kindler, gentler Knee Stretch”
Flat Back, Round Back, Obliques
-Jumpboard: Aerobic Conditioning on the Reformer
Parallel Combo, Turn-out Combo
-Side Split Variations for Extra fun and Knee Stability
Bonnie Blair, Skating
-Bridging until you Burn: new variations to strengthen glutes and hamstrings
Bottom Lift in first and second position, Snake, Single Bridging on Heel, Arches

Flowing on the Wunda Chair
This class can be structured as an hour-long workout or a 2-3-hour workshop.
It’s not easy to flow on the Wunda Chair, but Ellie has come up with a few full body flow series that can be done with one spring setting. Ellie Herman will teach advanced repertoire and original exercises created by herself or her staff over the last fifteen years. Ellie will also review her favorite cues to help students deeply understand the initiation and muscle sequencing involved in each exercise.

Wunda Chair Flow Class Outline
1 Spring Flow:
Roll Downs Against the Wall
Frog Legs, Obliques,
Twisted Teaser
Prep, Table Top Legs, Full Teaser
Side Sit ups:
One Arm Legs Split/Legs Together, Two Arms Legs Split/Legs Together
Push Up Series
Handstand, Leg Pulls, See Saw, Piece de Resistance

2 Spring Flow:
Up Stretch Series
Up Stretch, Up Stretch Oblique, Up Stretch Arabesque, Up Stretch Single Leg Extension
Lunge Series
Front Lunges, Side Lunges, Climbing up the Mountain
Upper Body
Dips, Frogs, Bridge Pumps
Tendon Stretch
Double Leg, Single Leg Around the World

Spring Flow
(Wall Unit/Springboard or Cadillac)
This class can be structured as an hour-long workout or a 2-3-hour workshop.

Ellie Herman will teach advanced repertoire and original exercises created by herself or her staff over the last fifteen years. Ellie will also review her favorite cues to help students deeply understand the initiation and muscle sequencing involved in each exercise. For the 3-hour version Ellie will spend more time on teaching cues, modifications, functions, etc.
Equipment Needed: Wall Unit, Springboard or Cadillac

Spring Flow Class Outline

Roll Back Bar: Double Leg Lowers, Hip Ups, Parkaeet, Leg Pulls, Rolling Like a Ball, Roll Downs (with variations), Jackknife, Teasers, Lunging Tricep Presses, Squats, Jumping
Leg Springs: Leg Series, Magician Series
Arm Springs: Rowing Series, Standing Series, Hundred, Coordination, Supine Arm Springs

Roll Back Bar Flow
1 hour workout
See how many exercises can be done with one simple piece of equipment! Ellie Herman will teach advanced repertoire and original exercises created by herself or her staff over the last fifteen years. Ellie will also review her favorite cues to help students deeply understand the initiation and muscle sequencing involved in each exercise.

Equipment Needed: Roll Back Bars from Springboard, Cadillac or Wall Units
Exercises
Double Leg Lowers, Hip Ups, Parkaeet, Leg Pulls, Rolling Like a Ball, Roll Downs (with variations), Jackknife, Teasers, Lunging Tricep Presses, Squats, Jumping

Reformer, Cadillac, Springboard, Wunda Chair, Pilates Mat

Any of these modalities can be structured into a 1-hour workout, 2-8 hour teacher training.