The Dynamic Spine: Safe Movement for All Spines (and Hips)

Are you ready for whoever walks into your class, gym, or studio?

This is an exciting course that is based on my book, “Safe Movement for All Spines  – a Guide to Spinal Anatomy and How to Work with 21 Spine and Hip Conditions”, available from North Atlantic Books and Penguin/Random House. You may order your copy here, or from your local bookstore.  A copy is included with Dynamic Spine course enrollment.

Each module starts with a PowerPoint background lecture, detailed workbook, client assessment sheet, and quiz to complete at your own pace. Each module includes a live hybrid (in-person or Zoom) mentoring session that adds assessments, exercises, and movement guidelines for Pilates, yoga, general fitness and movement professionals.  The mentoring sessions are a collaborative learning environment to train the teachers eye and integrate the material into practice.

The complete course is approved for 72 CEC hours from American Council on Exercise (ACE), Yoga Alliance (YA), International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), and 60 hours from the National Pilates Certification Program (NPCP – formerly PMA). 

Enrollment is evergreen, so you may start at any point, and circle back the following year to attend any live courses missed.  Recordings of the live course are provided to currently enrolled students. Audits for returning students are complimentary.

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Mentoring

As a teacher trainee, you are invited to attend the courses you have successfully completed a second (and more!) time for free.

Advanced students have the opportunity to earn student teaching hours, observation hours, and personal practice hours as needed when they return to audit modules.

If you are a teacher or would like to be one, or you have questions, please send me an email.

Thank you SO much for your workshop today. You have a WEALTH of knowledge and I’m so appreciative that I met you.  See you soon and thank you again and my brain thanks you!
Darien Gold, Second Generation Pilates Instructor
Gwen Miller is one of the finest instructors I have ever had, as well as someone who brings grace, humor, and a keen intellect to all her classes, presentations, and day-to-day interactions.
Mary Terbush, Personal Trainer
I have functional scoliosis in my low back, and even after all my years of teaching and practicing yoga, she was able to give me information that has helped me personally and tips to pass on to my students.  Gwen teaches with knowledge, compassion and kindness for each and every student.  She has the ability to see each person as a unique individual.  In Gwen’s care you feel seen and heard for the individual you are.
Donna Connell, Integrative Yoga Therapist
I wanted to hear Gwen’s perspective on what a beneficial practice might look like.  I had completed Yoga Teacher Training and Yoga Therapy Training, so I wasn’t expecting to learn much more than I already knew.  Was I wrong!  Gwen spoke simply and clearly…then had all 20 of us on our feet learning smart, basic moves that I had never seen before.  I was given some…specific, doable moves that I could do everyday as part of my home practice – and that I could share with my students….It is rare to find an instructor, a therapist like Gwen who is thoroughly trained in both yoga and pilates; she has a big tool box from which to draw.  She is passionate and thorough about her field.
Ellen Kaplan Cheek, Yoga Therapist