Overall Objectives for our Pilates Kids
Our objectives are reached through a series of active-learning classroom/group sessions where students experience the following:
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- Body Positioning & Awareness Skills (focused awareness, attention, and concentration) to shift one's focus from external stimuli to internal awareness of where the body is in space
- Healthful Breathing to promote slowing down, reflecting and becoming present
- Coordinated Breathing to sequence breathing patterns with movement, and then identify how the breath can make movements easier/harder
- Core Strengthening to support healthy growth and development of the trunk and extremities. Core strengthening exercises also provide opportunities for understanding how using the core muscles can assist with a variety of other physical sport and non-sport related activities
- Flexibility to demonstrate and identify the absence/presence of flexibility in key muscle groups which contribute to a healthy postural balance within the body
- Concentration & Coordination exercises, to assist in the development of focused movement and concentration by means of choreographed movement sequences with changing tempos
- Relaxation to promote balance and calm
- Socialization and Leadership a social environment as well where kids will do partner work and demonstrate learned skills to help co-teach when they are ready
- Group discussion to allow students an opportunity for inquiry and comment
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