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elevatED Pole Level 1 Training (Pole Hale, Hawaii)


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ELEVATED POLE LEVEL 1 TEACHER TRAINING
Is your class your students’ favorite part of the week? How can you be the best for your students?

In the elevatED Level 1 Pole teacher training, you will learn how to cultivate a rich classroom experience your students will enjoy and appreciate.

You will learn how to apply training secrets from dance, gymnastics, and yoga to your beginner class with 90+ dance movements, strength techniques, floor skills, climbs, dismounts, spins, and basic inversions.

Additional topics of study include:
How to set up a studio for maximum success: design, equipment, and appearance
Legalities and liabilities: client releases, incident reports, insurance information, equipment directories, maintenance forms and more
What you do and say matters: your conduct as an instructor
Cueing through verbal, non-verbal, and kinesthetic commands
The anatomy and biomechanics of pole dance fitness
The art of alignment and opposition
How to use anchor points and points of contact
Creating a balanced class plan
How to build a warm-up
Classroom problem solving
The art of progression: how to gradually increase demands on the body for safe and optimal advancement
The role of pre-engagement in strength building and injury prevention
How to guide your students towards creative thinking
Understanding how limb and lever lengths affect the difficulty of pole moves
Working with overweight clients
TRAINING SCHEDULE
Day one: Get to know your group, receive your class materials, identify your goals for the weekend and learn how to create your ideal pole class. Your master trainer will lecture on subjects such as: equipment maintenance, creating an optimum classroom environment, body knowledge, alignment, muscle activation, and injury prevention.

Day two: Start the day with an elevatED warm-up. Your master trainer will continue lecturing on cueing, balancing a class, and progression. You will then participate in movement labs to refresh your verbal cueing skills. After, you will begin learning how to instruct body awareness, fluidity techniques, strength building techniques, climbs, and dismounts.

Day three: We begin day three with a master class. You master trainer will lead you through a sample level one pole dance fitness class so that you can experience the elevated format and philosophy in action. Continue learning classroom techniques such as spins, and basic on-and-off the pole inversions. Day three involves several movement labs. The first will help you further your verbal teaching skills as you learn to be specific, descriptive and imaginative. In the second, you will think creatively about creating unforgettable and transformative classroom experiences.

At the end of the third day you take both a written and practical exam. Everyone receives a certificate of completion and a tank top. Scores are sent by email within a week after the training.

COURSE MATERIALS
The manual: The level 1 manual is a 230-page designed book with 100s of color photos. The first 50 pages of the book are dedicated to explaining the elements of classroom excellence, studio design, sample liability forms, incident report forms, equipment maintenance logs, and more.

Each of the 90+ techniques are explained in detail and accompanied by movement observation exercises, movement labs, teaching, cueing and alignment tips.

The manual serves as a workbook throughout the training and as a living resource throughout your career to help you create the ideal curriculum and to get to know yourself as a teacher.

The BONUS Flash Drive: The custom elevatED flash drive has 10 close-up videos of each of the Level 1 techniques that has a physical spot. It will be your resource to refresh your spotting skills after the training.