Movement at Work Online CE Exam With Ebook

This package includes the following:

• Movement at Work: Your Guide to Pain-Free Productivity ebook
• Online continuing education exam

Spending eight or more hours a day sitting or standing at a desk is a major contributor to chronic pain, stiffness, fatigue, and stress. Movement at Work: Your Guide to Pain-Free Productivity provides you with solutions to your clients’ problems—moving throughout the workday.

Movement is good for the body, but with constraints on time and space, it can be challenging to incorporate meaningful movement into your client’s busy workday. Movement at Work provides a variety of exercises, breathing practices, and visualization techniques to break up long bouts of prolonged inactivity with both physical and mental breaks throughout the day. The ebook features the following:

• 76 exercises and movements to ease pain, alleviate stiffness, and build strength
• Try It Out activities to make use of the ideas about improving posture, mood, and range of motion
• Personal stories from real people who have incorporated exercises from the book
• Guidance on implementing techniques from the book
• Postural considerations for work requiring sitting or standing
• Simple plans to help cope with stress
• Practical sequences of 5 to 10 minutes or 10 to 20 minutes

The ebook explores the biomechanics behind the movement strategies to improve your client’s body awareness. Color-coded tabs throughout help you quickly find the movements you need. Using the Franklin Method and functional movement approaches, you’ll find a multitude of realistic, accessible ways your clients can easily incorporate intentional movement and reduce stress.

After reading the ebook, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Describe how posture and breathing influence one another.
• Demonstrate breathing techniques that support movement.
• Demonstrate movement techniques designed to improve mobility, reduce unnecessary tension, and improve sensory awareness.
• Describe movement and breathing methods to improve the function of the shoulders, chest, and upper back.
• Identify movement and breathing exercises to improve mobility, posture, relaxation, and functional movement in the lower back.
• Explain how muscles throughout the core support breathing, movement, and stability.
• Identify the core muscles and other structures of the core.
• Identify signs of stress and apply techniques to promote a calmer nervous system.

Audience

Worksite health professionals, personal trainers, and other certified fitness professionals.

Part I. Posture and Pain
Chapter 1. Posture Is More Than Sitting Up Straight
Chapter 2. Your Posture and Breathing Are Connected

Part II. Move With Ease
Chapter 3. Head, Neck, and Eyes
Chapter 4. Hands and Wrists
Chapter 5. Shoulders, Chest, and Upper Back
Chapter 6. Lower Back
Chapter 7. Hips
Chapter 8. Legs and Feet
Chapter 9. Core

Part III. Alleviate and Integrate
Chapter 10. Shake It Off
Chapter 11. Calm It Down
Chapter 12. Ease Pain With Practice

Alison Wesley believes in making movement accessible, creative, enjoyable, and functional. She started her company, Movement at Work, in 2008 as a way to help people incorporate movement where and when they work.

Wesley has coordinated and assisted teacher trainings in the Franklin Method, an evidence-based approach to movement education. She is the coauthor, with Eric Franklin, of Understanding the Pelvis: A Functional Approach to Yoga (published by Human Kinetics). She shares ongoing yoga and movement classes virtually through her online studio and with organizations such as the City of Portland, Guide Dogs for the Blind, eBay, Kaiser Permanente, Oregon School of Massage, and Schnitzer Properties. She also coleads in-person, hands-on cadaver dissection intensives as well as online experiential anatomy courses through EmbodyU.

When she’s not diving into movement, anatomy, or philosophy, you can find Wesley writing and producing work like her film, The Mural, and her solo musical albums; singing with her choir, Nocturne; salsa dancing; learning Spanish slowly; spending precious time with her one-of-a-kind husband and stepchildren; or training the family’s two wildly spoiled German shepherds.