Informed Movement: Finding Balance Through Pregnancy
This workshop frames pregnancy as a time of rich, layered, and multi-system adaptations, not a collection of isolated symptoms or a set of rigid trimester rules.
Traditional prenatal movement education often relies on the categorization of “safe” versus “unsafe” exercises, prescribed progressions, and symptom checklists. While useful in certain contexts, these frameworks tend to flatten a process that is inherently dynamic, variable, and highly responsive to the individual.
Regarding Form’s approach shifts away from chasing “symptom antidotes,” and instead toward applying an understanding of the many overlapping changes occurring throughout the gestational period to movement adaptation. As in any movement practice, the guiding question becomes less about whether an exercise belongs or doesn’t belong, and more about how the person in front of us is organizing within it, but whether that organization is supportive, sustainable, and meaningful in the context of what they are navigating.
With this in mind, we believe that the role of the instructor is not to prescribe from a fixed set of rules, but to observe how the system is adapting under changing conditions, and to offer options that allow for supported, productive engagement in movement.
Workshop Structure: This 10-hour hybrid workshop unfolds over two days
Day 1 (Online)
We will walk through the major systems undergoing change during pregnancy, including the endocrine, cardiovascular, metabolic, nervous, respiratory, and musculoskeletal systems. We’ll detail the biomechanical shifts that influence the integrity of pressure management and posture. We will then consider how these shifts might shape one’s movement capacity and/or experience.
Day 2 (In-Studio)
We will move into application, covering scope of practice considerations, and practical modification strategies within Pilates mat and apparatus choreography.
Due to the intimate nature of the studio space, this workshop is limited to six participants.