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Marie Jose Lawrence is an Icon... LBDC is the best Pilates education.

Date of Posting: 01 September 2011
Posted By: Wendy Ellis

After an amazing experience this past weekend in the LBDC Mat 1 teacher training course, I am thoroughly inspired to take the second module Aug 5-7th.

Date of Posting: 27 July 2011
Posted By: Emily Ambrose
Athletic Trainer

I read with interest your 2011 training programs and with envy for those who will take them.

I can honestly say of all the training programs or workshops I've taken, what you present at LBDC is, without doubt, the BEST; thorough, accurate, supportive. The knowledge and content of your trainings has helped me all these years with my teaching. Although at this point my studio is a small home studio, my clientele is diverse (several excellent dressage trainers, a lawyer with severe scoliosis, a dancer, and the "normal" client), what I teach I learned from you. Thank you.

Since my trips to California from Colorado are few, I would be interested in ANY future weekend master workshops you will be planning. Summer is the best time for me to travel (partly due to weather and my other teaching commitments).
Lately, I've been re-emphasizing the feet and their relationship to the pelvis/spine. Often clients come to me with diagnosed "issues" and have been told to strengthen the core or stretch. When I look at their feet, gait and all that goes up the chain, the problem seems to be elsewhere. They are improving and pain free. I use the Smart Spine information and props all the time.

I think I mentioned in my Christmas card, I'm teaching 6 ballet classes a week at Ballet Nouveau Colorado. The studio is very high caliber, concerned about the health and well-being of their dancers. I'm able to apply my body knowledge to the ballet teaching, help to educate the younger dancers about good bio-mechanics and body use. And, I turned 70 this Dec...so am an excellent example of good body use, still take my own ballet classes and feel great.

My admiration goes to you for re-directing your studio training more akin to your teaching philosophy. Truth and integrity in the long run pay off.

Date of Posting: 03 February 2011
Posted By: Karen Shanley

I haven't been in much contact with Long Beach Dance Conditioning since way back when I did my pilates training some 10 years ago. I think it was that long ago now! I taught pilates for a number of years after the training and then
continued on and taught yoga full time at Exhale, Center for Sacred Movement in Venice, CA.

All the while, I had a small studio where I saw yoga privates and pilates privates. In the last couple of years I've transitioned in to traveling and teaching full time. My husband and I live on a sail boat, currently in FL so the traveling to teach is conducive with our life. All this to say, I owe Marie Jose a very long over due thank you for the training that I took with you. I didn't know it at the time, but your training was and has been the best training that I've had in anatomy as it applies to movement.

Along with workshops and classes, I focus on training teachers to teach to beginners, continued education workshops for teachers, but my favorite is teaching anatomy, safety and injury education in yoga teacher trainings. The "yoga world" needs a lot more of the anatomy training that you give in your pilates training. I always credit you when people as me where I learned what I know when it comes to anatomy. I was so lucky to have trained with you first. That lens has been the foundation for me for sure. I hope to bring more of it to the
yoga world. Little by little! My background, like so many of us is in dance so I love to move. I've also been injured more times than I can count. Yoga has my heart and my hope is to teach people the love of movement while staying safe and stable.

I can't tell you how what I learned from you is in my every day life and in every single training I'm a part of across the country. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Date of Posting: 02 February 2011
Posted By: Jamie Elmer

I am very happy to know you will be teaching the US based programs, as I have studied with many of your students and am impressed with their knowledge and application.

Date of Posting: 02 February 2011
Posted By: Jennifer Beamer Fernandez

I've just read your newsletter. Good for you to take the teacher trainings in your own hands again. During my education I also preferred to go the place where it started, for that was Toronto so you got the best teacher trainers who were closely monitored.

You've developed such a unique approach to the work and the human body. But it is very personal and difficult to properly pass on to others. It's all in the "fingers" as we say in Dutch and you either have it or not. Looking at the progress that my clients are making over the last half year I believe in your way of working and hope that my hands-on work is ok.

see you in the spring!

Date of Posting: 02 February 2011
Posted By: Ilse Verbruggen

I appreciate deeply your words about your own experience and goals and aims of your teacher training program. It sounds completely right to me. Best wishes as you continue your own considered approach. You are a gift.

Date of Posting: 02 February 2011
Posted By: Mary Bowen

Marie Jose is an ever flowing source of inspiration, clarity and excellence in education. As I was fortunate enough to have my pilates instructor training through a chiropractic physician, it left me with a constant thirst for more detailed arthrokinematic and osteokinematic advanced training. It was not until I took my first workshop with Marie Jose that I truly felt satiated in a richer realm of knowledge. I prefer to attend pilates conferences where she is offering workshops to ensure that I won’t be left unfulfilled. Each experience from her leads to further expansion of my vision and renewed passion for the pilates system of regeneration. I am a student of biomechanics first, so I am continually in search of other authors, lecturers and educators both in and outside of pilates. I always find myself in awe of Marie Jose. She has an unparalleled ability to appeal to my discriminating and meticulous side, yet impart such depth in simplicity to pass onto my clients.

Date of Posting: 15 January 2010
Posted By: Armando Garcia
Co-founder of Regeneration - Pilates and Progressive Exercise Center, Grants Pass, Oregon

This course should be a prerequisite for every new teacher. The depth of the work is profound.

Date of Posting: 15 November 2009
Posted By: Melissa Macourek
Pilates Teacher, Washington
SamsaraPilates.com

I wanted to thank Marie-Jose for everything she taught me in the Pilates Certification Program. I am now going for my Doctorate in Physical Therapy and feel well prepared for the material because of the training I did with MJ years ago. As I sit in class I often hear the frantic frenzy of the other students because everything is brand new for them. And I keep thinking to myself, I have done this before... it's Pilates! Today we discussed Janda's pelvic crossed syndrome and I immediately thought of MJ because she introduced me to the concept of "locked long and short" muscles. This principle guides my daily practice with clients and created the lens by which I see movement and compensatory patterns. I am grateful that I was taught more than just Pilates exercises with MJ's program, but rather how to understand the body.

Date of Posting: 15 November 2009
Posted By: Andrea Cordova-Caddes
PMA CPT, SPT, CLMA, California

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