AIS FOR THE WHOLE BODY:
A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM WITH DR. BEN BENJAMIN

Any professional concerned with enhancing musculoskeletal health — whether through massage therapy, physical therapy, fitness training, or other modalities — understands that the way people exercise has a profound impact on their overall health, mobility, resilience, and ability to recover from injuries. While many different types of exercise may be beneficial, one in particular stands out from the rest as a uniquely efficient and effective approach: Active
Isolated Stretching & Strengthening (AIS), developed by kinesiologist Aaron Mattes.

Why Practice AIS?

• To enhance your ability to treat and prevent injuries. AIS speeds the healing of muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and joints. Combining this technique with other forms of treatment can accelerate the recovery process by up to 50%. And by increasing flexibility, strength, and resilience, it can greatly reduce an individual’s vulnerability to future injuries. When minor strains or tears do occur, continued AIS work helps to prevent the buildup of scar tissue — a major contributor to stiffness, inflexibility, chronic injury, and pain conditions.
  
  • To help clients feel younger and healthier. As we grow older, many of us accept limitations to our body’s functioning (such as a reduced range of motion, decreased strength and flexibility, and impaired coordination or fine motor skills) as an inevitable result of the aging process. Through AIS, many of these declines can be successfully prevented or reversed, often dramatically improving a person’s well-being and quality of life.
  
  • To work with degenerative neuromuscular conditions. By stimulating neural growth, creating new neural pathways, and reducing muscle spasticity, AIS can successfully reduce the symptoms of various debilitating conditions — including Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and other diseases — that do not respond to other forms of manual treatment.
  

Benefits of AIS

• Healthier muscles, fascia, tendons, ligaments, and joints
• Increased flexibility, strength, and range of motion
• Optimal athletic performance
• Breakdown of adhesions caused by trauma or inflammation
• Reduced risk of muscle spasms, strains, and tears
• Improved circulation of blood and nutrients, which promotes tissue growth and repair
• Improved circulation and drainage of lymph, which helps eliminate waste

What You’ll Learn in this Program

This series of intensive trainings will give you a solid foundation in the principles of AIS and the skills to apply them to each area of the body. The small-group setting (class size limited to 12) ensures that each participant will receive ample personal attention from the instructor, with plenty of time to practice and refine each of the stretching and strengthening protocols. You’ll learn to:

• Assess the optimal range of motion for each joint in the body
• Maximize the flexibility of every major muscle in the body
• Stretch with precision the proximal and distal aspects of the muscle separately
• Take joints to their healthy maximum range of motion
• Efficiently increase strength in perfect alignment
• Use these techniques to speed recovery from injury
  
  

COST

$1200

COURSE LOCATION

175 Richdale Avenue
#106
Cambridge, MA

DATES


Training 1: The Neck and Shoulders: June 4-6, 2010
Training 2: Dates TBA
Training 3: July 30 - August 1, 2010
Training 4: Dates TBA

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Call 617-576-0555 to register or learn more about this learning opportunity.

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Note: Checks should be made payable directly to Ben Benjamin

Thank you for your interest in The Bodywork Education Project. We look forward to bringing you a first rate educational experience.  Please feel free to email us at if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns.

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