PILATES & AERIAL YOGA
Welcome to Embody Therapeutics, offering therapeutic and fitness clinical Pilates studio classes, Aerial Yoga Therapeutics, and online (On-Demand) classes.
Catherine Nicholas is an integrative movement practitioner and Principal Level Pilates instructor (Pilates Alliance Australasia) with a passion for improving movement, whatever your needs. NDIS clients are invited for both physical and mental health support.
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Catherine Nicholas
Bachelor of Arts (University of Melbourne)
Diploma of Professional Pilates Instruction
Advanced Diploma of the Pilates Method
150 hour Aerial Yoga Therapeutics postgraduate training
Catherine is an integrative movement practitioner , Aerial Yoga Therapeutics instructor, and Principle Level Pilates instructor (Pilates Alliance Australasia) with over 10 000 hours of Pilates teaching since 2003 in London, Melbourne, Hawaii & Central Victoria. Catherine has worked in both therapeutic & fitness settings, including working for Physiotherapists in Harley St (London) & Melbourne. Catherine mentors Pilates instructors, and health professionals for ongoing education and professional development.
Catherine will support you to facilitate health and wellbeing and bring transformative change. She is passionate about fascia, neuroplacticity, stress management, trauma informed movement practice and mind-body wellness.
Catherine has taught people from 9-91yrs young, of all fitness levels and goals, and lives in Castlemaine with her husband and two daughters. She brings a rare dedication & joy to her work & loves watching bodies change & learn to move better, & the transformation that comes from breath & movement!!
Aerial Yoga Therapeutics is offered either in combination with Pilates or as a separate movement experience. Aerial Yoga Therapeutics is a new branch of Aerial Yoga that uses aerial yoga hammock apparatus based exercise which aligns with progressive exercise based rehabilitation and trauma-informed frameworks. The aerial hammock is a sensory medium that enhances neural integration and offers the restorative benefits of zero-compression inversions, incorporating joint and viscera decompression while developing three dimensional spacial awareness.
Dec 2019 Pilates Alliance 'Instructor in Focus' READ ARTICLE HERE
Pilates Alliance (PAA) members can accrue PDP points from classes with Cat.
Bachelor of Arts (University of Melbourne)
Diploma of Professional Pilates Instruction
Advanced Diploma of the Pilates Method
150 hour Aerial Yoga Therapeutics postgraduate training
Catherine is an integrative movement practitioner , Aerial Yoga Therapeutics instructor, and Principle Level Pilates instructor (Pilates Alliance Australasia) with over 10 000 hours of Pilates teaching since 2003 in London, Melbourne, Hawaii & Central Victoria. Catherine has worked in both therapeutic & fitness settings, including working for Physiotherapists in Harley St (London) & Melbourne. Catherine mentors Pilates instructors, and health professionals for ongoing education and professional development.
Catherine will support you to facilitate health and wellbeing and bring transformative change. She is passionate about fascia, neuroplacticity, stress management, trauma informed movement practice and mind-body wellness.
Catherine has taught people from 9-91yrs young, of all fitness levels and goals, and lives in Castlemaine with her husband and two daughters. She brings a rare dedication & joy to her work & loves watching bodies change & learn to move better, & the transformation that comes from breath & movement!!
Aerial Yoga Therapeutics is offered either in combination with Pilates or as a separate movement experience. Aerial Yoga Therapeutics is a new branch of Aerial Yoga that uses aerial yoga hammock apparatus based exercise which aligns with progressive exercise based rehabilitation and trauma-informed frameworks. The aerial hammock is a sensory medium that enhances neural integration and offers the restorative benefits of zero-compression inversions, incorporating joint and viscera decompression while developing three dimensional spacial awareness.
Dec 2019 Pilates Alliance 'Instructor in Focus' READ ARTICLE HERE
Pilates Alliance (PAA) members can accrue PDP points from classes with Cat.
BENEFITS
AERIAL YOGA THERAPEUTICS
Aerial Yoga Therapetuics is an emerging modality developed from Aerial Yoga. The aerial yoga hammock is integrated with the principals of progressive exercise based rehabilitation and trauma-informed frameworks to create a personalised movement experience that benefits both the rehabilitation of biomechanical conditions and for mental wellbeing. Posture and alignment are addressed by encouraging multidirectional movement whilst alleviating compressive forces in the spine and joints through traction and inversion.
This has enormous benefits for a wide range of conditions.
Mental health is also supported by regulating and calming the nervous and endochrine systems.
BENEFITS OF AERIAL YOGA THERAPEUTICS INCLUDE
* Supports mental health recovery
* Supports injury rehabiltation
* Alieviates joint and viscera compression
* Applies gravity assisted mobility & gravity resisted strengthening techniques
* Allows controlled spinal traction and suspension
* Conditions the muscles of respiration
* Aid parasympathetic functioning and improves sleep
* Enhances sensory integration and movement re-education
* Develops mind-body awareness
* Facilitates freedom in three dimensional movement
* Regulation of nervous system & endochrine system
Aerial Yoga Therapetuics is an emerging modality developed from Aerial Yoga. The aerial yoga hammock is integrated with the principals of progressive exercise based rehabilitation and trauma-informed frameworks to create a personalised movement experience that benefits both the rehabilitation of biomechanical conditions and for mental wellbeing. Posture and alignment are addressed by encouraging multidirectional movement whilst alleviating compressive forces in the spine and joints through traction and inversion.
This has enormous benefits for a wide range of conditions.
Mental health is also supported by regulating and calming the nervous and endochrine systems.
BENEFITS OF AERIAL YOGA THERAPEUTICS INCLUDE
* Supports mental health recovery
* Supports injury rehabiltation
* Alieviates joint and viscera compression
* Applies gravity assisted mobility & gravity resisted strengthening techniques
* Allows controlled spinal traction and suspension
* Conditions the muscles of respiration
* Aid parasympathetic functioning and improves sleep
* Enhances sensory integration and movement re-education
* Develops mind-body awareness
* Facilitates freedom in three dimensional movement
* Regulation of nervous system & endochrine system
PILATES THERAPEUTICS
Pilates is a safe, low impact exercise system which promotes spinal fitness and addresses muscular & postural imbalances in the body. Joseph Pilates developed his system of floor work & spring based apparatus exercises in the 1920s. Focus is placed on breath, alignment & controlled, precise movement. It is suitable for people of all ages and fitness levels and is an effective system for physical conditioning, injury rehabilitation & prevention.
BENEFITS OF PILATES INCLUDE
* Focussing breath and mindful movement reduces stress and assists ease of movement.
* Resistance and load from apparatus and props increase strength.
* Intelligent focus on joint movement promotes core stability and increases mobility in the joints.
* Rolling, spinal articulation, pushing and pulling through the limbs stimulates digestion, aids lymphatic and blood circulation and improves spinal mobility.
* Use of rollers, wobble boards, balls and springs to destabilise increases proprioception through the joints and fascial web, improves balance and promotes organic organisation throughout the body.
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Instructors who are PAA members can accrue PDP points by taking classes with Cat (Principal level instructor). Four points in each PDP period or up to 6 for rural instructors. emBODY Pilates Castlemaine is an affiliate studio of the National Pilates Training in Melbourne & is a Work Experience Facilitation Site for the comprehensive Certificate IV, Diploma & Advanced Diplomas of Pilates Instruction at National Pilates Training & Pilates International Training Centre. Hours and observation for Polestar Pilates training certification is also available.
