About the Live Teacher Training | Level 4
Building Strength and Helping Your Students Progress With Every Class
Strength is one of the most crucial—and often overlooked—aspects of the Essentrics workout. It’s vital for all ages, promoting cardiovascular health, balance, and resilience in muscles, bones, and tissues.
The Level 4 training ties everything together, helping you integrate all that you’ve learned so far. This is where you begin creating full-body, balancing routines that seamlessly combine strength and flexibility to meet all your students’ needs. Together we’ll break down strengthening exercises and sequences— standing, floor, and barre/chair exercises— so you can confidently design custom classes that promote stability, alignment, and strength.
This 3-day training delves deeper into the science of strengthening, exploring how to develop strong, elastic tissues that enhance movement efficiency, joint stability, and overall performance—all while keeping the body balanced and pain-free.
What You’ll Learn
In this comprehensive training, you’ll learn to provide expert-level classes for every age, fitness level and objective. Here’s what to expect:
- Hands-On Experience: Learn to teach and perfect every Essentrics strength-focused exercise, including standing, floor, and barre/chair sequences.
- Strengthening Principles: Explore the science of slow- and fast-twitch muscle fibers to better understand how muscles build strength and elasticity.
- Class Design: Gain confidence in designing classes for any objective, ensuring variety, balance, and effectiveness.
- Modifications: Learn how to adapt for diverse needs, from beginners to professional athletes.
- Teaching Skills: Expand your repertoire of verbal cues, imagery, and musicality to create engaging, effective classes.
- Anatomy: Deepen your knowledge of anatomy to enhance alignment, reduce tension, and improve movement efficiency.
Class Design
An entire day is dedicated to bringing everything together by breaking down a full Essentrics workout. You’ll focus on refining cueing, corrections, and musicality while practicing how to create balanced routines that address both strength and flexibility.
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 Level 4 teaching hours by attending this training.
Pre-Event Virtual Session: Level 4 Theory
Prepare for your live training with a 90-minute virtual theory session on Zoom, held two weeks before the live event. This session will help you feel ready to apply the foundational principles of Level 4 strengthening techniques, setting the stage for an immersive live training experience.
Take the final step in your journey to becoming a fully certified Essentrics instructor.
PRE-EVENT VIRTUAL SESSION: LEVEL 4 THEORY
Monday, July 14, 2025, 6:00–7:30 p.m. EDT
Location: Zoom. A recording will be available.
Duration: 75 minutes of theory + 15-minute Q&A
LIVE EVENT DATES & LOCATIONS
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Live Class & Introductions
5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 4:45 p.m.)
Location: Studios GB | Les Grands Ballets
1435, rue De Bleury Suite 400 – Studio 1
Montréal, Quebec H2L 2H2
Monday, July 28, 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
Tuesday, July 29, 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
CAPACITY
Limited to 25 participants maximum.
A minimum of 10 participants is required to hold the event.
REQUIRED MATERIAL
Level 4 Certification Package. Purchase now.
PRE-REQUISITE
You must be a Level 3 Certified Instructor.
OR
You must be a Level 2 Certified Instructor who has attended a Level 3 Live Teacher Training.
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.
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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.
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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