Music. Movement. Emotion. Healing.
This transformative workshop will deepen your understanding of how music enhances Essentrics, allowing you to guide your students toward more profound movement and healing.
Begin to master both the musical and emotional narratives within a song to elevate your classes and teaching skills. Discover how emotionally resonant music can help your students deepen their stretches, release tension, promote holistic healing, and strengthen and tone their bodies. Essentrics incorporates various paces and musical styles within a class, and when these elements are used to their full potential, they create more profound results.
Through the power of music, help your students:
- Better release tension in their body
- Move more effectively
- Deepen their stretches
- Activate the healing synergy between music and Essentrics movements
- Access the hidden energy in music for additional healing benefits
Class Breakdown:
Jim, professor of music pedagogy and skilled pianist, will demystify the complexities of music’s rhythms, tones, melodies, and tempos, helping you, as an instructor, feel confident with every type of song used in Essentrics. Miranda will guide you in uncovering the emotional story within any song you choose and translating that emotion into Essentrics sequences and movements.
Host: Miranda Esmonde-White
Guest host: Jim Litzelman
Includes a Special Gathering at the Essentrics Head Office in Old Montreal where you will enjoy a Healthy Lunch Buffet!
Workshop Info
| LOCATION | |
| Studios GB | Les Grands Ballets 1435 Rue de Bleury Suite 400, Montreal, QC H3A 2H7 Studio B (Studio C Saturday afternoon) |
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| WHEN | |
| Friday, November 1, 2024 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, doors open at 6:15 pm | Studio B – Saturday, November 2, 2024 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, doors open at 8:45 am | Studio B 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm, doors open at 8:45 am | Working lunch at the Essentrics Head Office – Lunch will be provided by Essentrics 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm | Studio C – Sunday, November 3, 2024 9:00 am to 12:30 pm, doors open at 8:45 am | Studio B 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm | Lunch 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm | Studio B |
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| PRE-REQUISITE | |
| Suitable for all entry-levels, no specific background needed. | |
| Cancellation Policy: Click here. | |
| We highly recommend that you purchase travel insurance and/or choose refundable options when booking flights, etc. in case of any unforeseen circumstances. |
*Limited spots available. The workshop will be held with a minimum of 10 registered participants.
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Miranda Esmonde-White is a New York Times bestselling author of the Aging Backwards series, a world-renowned healthy aging educator and pioneer in the field of stretching. A former professional ballerina, Miranda created the globally-recognized and science-based fitness technique, Essentrics® in 1997—becoming a flexibility trainer to numerous high-performance athletes and celebrities. She is the Executive Producer, creator and host of the 20-year running fitness television show Classical Stretch, and the award-winning docuseries, Aging Backwards and Forever Painless—airing nationwide on PBS and American Public Television.
With a worldwide following amongst the 50+ market – Miranda’s fast track program is revolutionizing the way we understand the role that our cells, muscles, bones, connective tissue and joints play in slowing down the aging process while keeping our bodies feeling young, healthy and pain-free.
Based in Montreal, Miranda spends her time developing the technique, writing, and training new instructors. She also travels extensively giving lectures, leading teacher training sessions and hosting retreats.
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.
James (Jim) Litzelman, DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts), NCTM (Nationally Certified Teacher of Music), enjoys a successful career as a pianist, teacher, and lecturer, having performed in the US, Russia, Europe, China, and Mexico, and regularly presenting at state and national music conferences. Dr. Litzelman is a published writer, with numerous articles appearing in musical journals such as Keyboard Companion, Clavier Companion, American Music Teacher, and The Piano Magazine. Jim served as chairman of the editorial committee of the American Music Teacher magazine from 2011-2023, the official journal of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA).
Jim was adjunct professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, from 1993-2023, where he directed the graduate piano pedagogy program and taught applied piano and courses in piano pedagogy and musicians’ wellness. He was guest professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, teaching doctoral seminars in the music of Franz Liszt and piano pedagogy. Jim maintains an active independent studio at his home in Arlington, Virginia, where his students have been prizewinners in many local, state, and national competitions.
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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