About the Live Teacher Training | Level 1
Are you ready to jump-start your journey to becoming a certified Essentrics instructor?
Join us for an immersive 3-day training designed to give you the skills to teach your first 30 Essentrics apprentice classes with ease and submit your Level 1 exam with confidence.
In this intensive training, you’ll benefit from hands-on learning, real-time feedback, and expert guidance, allowing you to discover the techniques, alignment, and flow that make Essentrics so unique.
What You’ll Learn
This training will introduce you to the foundational principles of the Essentrics program while equipping you with the tools to lead effective, safe, and engaging classes. Here’s what to expect:
- Exercise Breakdowns: Detailed breakdown of every exercise in Pre-Choreographed Workout 1, including proper form and technique.
- Alignment: Understand how alignment impacts safety and effectiveness.
- Teaching Skills: Develop skills to guide a smooth, engaging 1-hour class with confidence.
- Cueing: Techniques for clear and impactful cueing using imagery and precise language.
- Musicality: Practice using music as a tool to enhance movement and energy.
- Common Mistakes: How to identify common mistakes and offer simple, effective adjustments.
- Modifications: Ways to adapt PCW1 to make it more challenging or gentle to meet your students’ needs.
- Equipment: Best practices for using equipment to make exercises more accessible.
You will not only deepen your understanding of Essentrics for your personal practice but also come away prepared to lead classes with professionalism and confidence.
Daily Live Classes
Led by expert instructors, daily live classes provide an engaging way to experience new cues, music and teaching styles – offering inspiration to bring back to your own students.
Bonus
Earn 2 hours of credit per day towards your required apprentice teaching hours by attending this training.
Virtual Follow-Up Session
Keep your momentum going with a 90-minute group follow-up session on Zoom. Scheduled six weeks after your live training, this follow-up helps you navigate the next steps in your Level 1 certification journey. We’ll review the exam process, check in on your Apprentice Hours, and leave plenty of time for questions so that you feel confident moving forward. It’s a great way to stay on track and connected with your fellow Apprentices. If you can’t attend live, a recording will be available.
Start your 4-level certification journey
LIVE EVENT DATES & LOCATIONS
Friday, April 11, 2025
Live Class & Introductions
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (doors open at 5:45 p.m.)
Location: Studios GB | Les Grands Ballets
1435, rue De Bleury Suite 400 – Studio 1
Montréal, Quebec H2L 2H2
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Training 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (doors open at 9:15 a.m.)
Location: Studios GB | Les Grands Ballets
1435, rue De Bleury Suite 400 – Studio 1
Montréal, Quebec H2L 2H2
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Training 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (doors open at 9:15 a.m.)
Location: Studios GB | Les Grands Ballets
1435, rue De Bleury Suite 400 – Studio 1
Montréal, Quebec H2L 2H2
Tea Time
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Location: Essentrics Head Office
360, rue Saint-François-Xavier, #501
Montréal, Quebec H2Y 2S8
VIRTUAL FOLLOW-UP SESSION
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 6:00–7:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Zoom. A recording will be available.
CAPACITY
Limited to 25 participants maximum.
A minimum of 10 participants is required to hold the event.
PRE-REQUISITE
No background in movement or teaching is required.
REQUIRED MATERIAL
Level 1 Certification Package. Purchase now.
CANCELLATION POLICY
Read our Cancellation Policy here
We highly recommend that you purchase travel insurance and/or choose refundable options when booking flights, etc. in case of any unforeseen circumstances.
You do not need a background in health, fitness, dance, anatomy or physiology.
Some of our best instructors have never taught prior to Essentrics.
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Gail Garceau is an Essentrics® Master Trainer and Essentrics TV workout host. Gail joined the Teacher Training department at the Essentrics Head Office in 2014, where she works closely with Miranda Esmonde-White on scientific research and the development of the Essentrics program and instructor curriculum.
Growing up a competitive athlete, Gail was originally drawn to Essentrics after experiencing how it improved her power in sports and relieved her sciatic pain. In her work coaching professional and Olympic athletes, Gail draws on her innate understanding of the athlete mindset to instill in them the value of Essentrics flexibility training for injury prevention and improved performance.
Passionate about educating people of all ages and fitness levels on the benefits of Essentrics, Gail leads live teacher trainings, workshops and retreats worldwide. She also teaches regular Essentrics group classes at studios, community shelters and hospitals in Montreal.
Essentrics reserves the right to have a substitute Educator teach the workshop if the scheduled Educator is unavailable due to unforeseen circumstances. This change may be made without notice. Please know that we always make every effort to hold our events as planned.
Ellyn Ochs is a Level 4 Essentrics Instructor and Essentrics TV workout host who has been teaching in Montreal since 2016. She is passionate about sharing this innovative program that supports a vibrant and balanced body and makes fitness enjoyable and accessible for all. She first became interested in movement and well-being growing up in her hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. She studied liberal arts and French at Grinnell College and earned a master’s degree in translation from the University of Western Brittany in France. In 2020, Ellyn joined the Teacher Training department at the Essentrics Head Office, where she works on writing and editing projects for the certification program to support the instructor community.
Essentrics reserves the right to have a substitute Educator teach the workshop if the scheduled Educator is unavailable due to unforeseen circumstances. This change may be made without notice. Please know that we always make every effort to hold our events as planned.
Why take a live training?
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Every training I go to, I learn more about myself, about my body and about how to help other people with their bodies. Then the icing on the cake: connecting with other teachers: for support, ideas, possible gnashing of teeth at times and celebration!
- Susan
The level 1 live training is the best money I have spent! I honestly don’t know if I could or would have finished. The training is not only so educational, it is so inspiring! For me the training made all the difference.
- Lynne
I thoroughly enjoy the live trainings especially meeting all the master instructors with all the expertise with cueing and watching us to correct us. And all the wonderful people you meet from all over Ontario!
- Peri-Lynn
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