Teaching
Math As a Fitness Language. My second set
of Math Programs is Teaching Math As a Fitness Language. It
works in conjunction with my language programs that teach English (and
other languages) through fun exercise classes (Teaching English
as a Fitness Language) described below in More Projects.
Teaching
Math As A Fitness Language teaches individuals and groups simple
number fun in movement programs of brain and body. Healthy movement skills
are used to make the abstract ideas of number, quantity, and space into
clear concrete movement activities.
Even
the youngest children enjoy following directions to hop walk squat jump
and more in specific numbers of steps, operations of adding and subtracting
a number and repeating the skill (for example, "hop 8 - 2 hops forward"),
learn simple fractions by jumping a quarter turn, half turn, jump a whole
turn around, and dozens of other specific needed number skills. Can be
developed into smoothly progressing activity times, with or without music.
Concepts
grow with level of participants - angles, tangents... (imagine - at advanced
levels, a Maths Olympics with participants having to run real equations
to show the curve, cooperation among participants to make matrices and
vectors...). As above, send your program ideas, including good names that
are friendly to people who pronounce it Math
or Maths.
Statistics Joke
From the Joke Collection of Garrison Keillor, PrarieHome.org
Three
statisticians go deer hunting.
They creep through the brush and find a good place to hide. Soon, a big
buck walks up – the first statistician hops up and shoots! Misses
10 feet to the right. The second statistician hops up and shoots, missing
10 feet to the left!
The third statistician jumps up and yells,
“We got him!”
5.
More Projects Still to Do
Are
you my next Director of Youth Programs,
Communications Liaison, Director
of Electronic Media Learning, or Healthy Aging?
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Communications
Director liaisons with press and distribution avenues
to increase awareness and fun for all.
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Director
of Electronic Learning writes and makes cool fun internet
and cloud based apps, DVDs, learning channels, more.
- Director
of Healthy Aging takes my Functional
Fitness as a LIfestyle skills and others, to elder
centers, residents and staff of convalescent and retirement homes, and
individuals.
_______
Your
Reality Show: I
am looking for the right people who successfully learned directly from
me and use my work for their own health, to take these innovative methods
to families and communities
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Come
Build Our Center
We are working to
develop the Academy as a non-profit charity with a fun healthy location
for you to come fix pain, learn healthy life techniques to bring to
your community, and more.
Contact us to add
your law, engineering, real estate, and management experience. See the
Progress in Progress:
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SHARE
"The
World Knows Nothing of Its Greatest People"
- Sir Henry Taylor
I
have done these all with zero budget. Come join in this great work.
Contact
me on the Projects page.
"Many
are called, but few get up"
- Oliver Herford
Practitioners
Selected by AFEM for Implementing Our Healthy Work. To Join, See How
To Be Involved.
Dr.
Clara Hsu, M.D. Board-certified in family medicine as well as hospice
and palliative medicine. Santa Monica CA.
David
Demets. Yoga teacher, Belgium.
www.hierennu.be. Developed and teaches an improved new yoga system.
He presented it at a world yoga congress. His system corrects for the widespread
pain syndromes from flexion overuse, and reduces the cause instead of adhering
to set ritual pose sequences.
Jim Morris, Mr. America. Venice, CA. Mr. Universe 1977.
Physical Fitness Hall Of Fame with Bill Pearl, Jack Lalanne 1978. Mr. Olympia
Masters 1996. More on his site www.gymmorris.com.
He encourages responsibility, lifelong fitness, and my Ab Revolution retraining
technique. A bit more about his work on the Nutrition
page.
Paul
Plevakas. Third degree Black Belt Shotokan Karate Sensei, Philadelphia.
www.PaulPlevakas.com.
Teaches healthy martial arts. International Black Belt Hall of Fame Inductee.
Featured on the cover of the textbook Healthy Martial
Arts. and Ab Revolution, No More Crunches No More
Back Pain. AFEM Personal Trainer. Runs the Academy's Martial Arts department.
To take class, see the CLASS page.
Academy Certification
"I
attended the Academy!"
When
I registered in this workshop I didn’t know how much information I lacked
despite my BA license in sports and my long experience. I advise everyone
to join the Academy.
- Sandra Basbous, Fitness Supervisor, Panacea Health Club, Beirut Lebanon.
The
only authorized Academy certificates are by training in person with me (Dr.
Bookspan). Distance learning, when done directly with me, is possible in
select cases with limited and short-term certification status. Students
completing courses are listed below.
Message
to Practitioners and Students from Head of the Academy Dr. Jolie Bookspan
"What
does the word '"master" mean in the title Headmaster?
Mastery over oneself. To be a skilled practitioner. To have qualified at
a high rank. The best use of that term is to be those things, and actively
work not that it does not mean to master others."
"Your
students and patients will watch you for healthy ways to live and move;
How you sit, bend, reach, lift, eat, and speak of others. Show them real
health with all your actions. Rather than mandate specific chair angles
for sitting, show how to sit in healthful ways no matter what you sit upon.
Get people off their chairs (and other sitting devices) if you want to call
the activity real exercise. Show how to control your own ankles, spine,
knees, and neck position when standing and moving. No exercises or muscle
strengthening will hold you properly--you do that--and that is exercise
as a lifestyle. Remember that in much of the world, people lift and carry
just to have food and water. It is not progress to do artificial motions
indoors on a machine, to do "fitness activities" in unhealthful
ways, or to exercise then return to unhealthful motions for daily life.
Live beautifully. Do good in the world. Laugh.
Certification
With The Academy Is Special
I
am not a certification business. I am willing to share my work
and teach you what I have spent years to develop. An Academy certificate
from me shows that you have understood my work and how to apply it intelligently
(not merely repeat), and demonstrated your own good work and understanding
to me personally.
How
To Apply for Certification Classes
Apply
in writing to Dr. Bookspan for admission to any class with the answers to
the following:
To
get accepted into a certification class, and during all your training,
learn what real Functional Exercise is - not exercises, but how you move
in real life all day every day. Click and read - Functional
Fitness as a Lifestyle - on this web site by the Head of the Academy,
Dr. Bookspan.
The
only authentic Academy certification is directly from me, Dr. Jolie
Bookspan. If you study with someone else, they may offer you their own certificate,
but it is not authorized certification, or through me, or Dr. Bookspan's
Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine. Please note that Georges Nackle
in Lebanon is not an Academy Instructor and never studied with me in person.
When
you apply for admission, show how you are already using Functional Movement
in real life as your daily stretching, strengthening, and injury
prevention and rehab. If you do not use healthful movement in your own life,
how can you lead others to health?
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Examples
of Community Functional Exercise and Fitness
are bending right to dig gardens with healthy squat and lunge to feed
communities and elders, healthy squatting to clean the floors, shovel
snow, and pick up litter, lifting boxes of food to give to the poor,
neutral spine when carrying things for people. Health care practitioners
use healthy standing, sitting, bending and lifting mechanics with patients,
leading musculoskeletal health by example.
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Examples
of Personal Functional Exercise and Fitness
include healthy bending (mechanically healthy squat and lunge) for reaching
and stooping to clean your living spaces, pick up clothes laundry and
children, sweep floors, and pick up things. Neutral spine for standing
and running and overhead reaching.
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Examples
of Functional Stretching
occur during healthy squatting where you gain built-in Achilles tendon
and lower back stretch, in addition to hip and leg strengthening. Using
neutral spine for built-in lower back stretch and preventing shortening
and compressing the lower back during standing, overhead lifting, and
running. Built-in functional shoulder stretch occurs when using neutral
spine during overhead reaching so that range of movement comes from
the shoulder rather than leaning back from the lower spine.
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Examples
of Functional Injury Rehab and Prevention for your discs and
spine are good bending with healthy squat and lunge instead of bending
over at the waist or hip to pick up any weights or objects. To fix and
prevent pain and compressive injury to the lower spine, use neutral
spine for standing, running, walking, and overhead lifting. For stopping
shoulder impingement, keep neutral neck position and keep shoulders
from rounding (or overly pulled back/ retracted) during arm movement.
Functional knee pain fix and prevention is healthful knee position in
all planes during bending, walking, and running. Many more examples
to learn in classes.
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When
you teach these movements
in a training or gym setting, remember to lead by example and always
use good mechanics yourself, and explain to students and clients that
they need to apply the new healthy movement skills to whatever they
do - all their actions for home, sports, and exercise. The movements
are not to be mindless reps of squats or planks in a gym. That is missing
the point and most of the benefits.
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If
you do not use healthy functional movement in your own life
- to lift, bend, reach, walk, carry, sit, prevent injury in healthful
ways - how can you lead others? If you go back to unhealthful fitness
exercises, and unhealthful fad foods and sham products, that is your
choice, but your Academy certification is no longer in effect.
See
the Certified Student List below for photos that students before
you have sent to show how they use healthy movement mechanics for daily
functional fitness, fixing pain, and teaching.
When
you fix poor and unhealthful body mechanics, do not force or strain.
Craning your neck to "hold straight posture" or pinching shoulders
back is as uncomfortable and unhealthful as slouching. Make all your fixes
healthful fixes.
Fix
your own pain. Fix sources of your own pain and injury before leading
others. Be a role model of health. If you have back or knee pain, neck or
shoulder or biomechanical problems, use the free articles by Dr. Bookspan
on the Clinical page - http://drbookspan.com/clinical.
Read
and understand Bookspan Basics
so you can see how to use healthy movement in group and individual fitness
training.
Read
and understand, then use the Mental and Emotional
Fitness Training. When you apply for Academy training for any class,
include how you will use or are using what you learned on this page and
how you will apply it to your future in leading functional health.
See
all the work of the Academy
on page one - http://drbookspan.com/Academy -
See how we work for health and all the many ways you can best add your talents.
CPR
certification required. First Aid training encouraged.
Your
Textbooks. After learning from the many free summaries on this
web site, you can continue to learn more in-depth from several recommended
texts. Descriptions and information on the BOOKS
page: http://drbookspan.com/books
No
smoking by candidates or their own students. If you do not live
a healthy life as your own real life, how will you be a role model to others.
"You preach a better sermon with your life than your lips."
All
students pledge to be drug free. No illegal drugs, such as street
or recreational drugs. No illegal performance enhancing substances. Any
students who use at any time during or after certification will be banned
for life from the Academy. Your certification(s) will be permanently revoked.
How
to Renew Certification
Your
certificate expires one year from your completion date. Your knowledge needs
exercise. Recertifying is free and shows that you use real health.
To
renew each of your certifications, contact me (Dr. Bookspan). There are
several parts to showing your knowledge. Some of the parts include
sending me photos of your using what we taught you to make a healthier world
for people or communities, your success stories, and taking a multi-part
re-assessmentwhere you will have the opportunity to learn important information
from me and show it. You will show your work for your own health, your own
students and patients and/or through a Project.
Remember: Integrity, goodness, and honest healthy ways are your truest membership
in the Academy. Your renewal will be listed with your name and class on
this web page.
I
care about the progress and successes you will have with this education.
Join me for more classes and projects.
If
you have studied with someone else, they may offer you their own certificate,
but it is not Dr. Bookspan's Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine certification.
That is why each student gets the opportunity to show me what they know
and to learn more, with feedback directly from me (Dr. Bookspan).
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List of Academy
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Remember:
Fitness
is not from a gym. Health comes from all your actions.
With this honor comes the responsibility of continuing as a living example
of healthy movement, thought, and action. Always rise to this meaning.
How
to Know if Your Certification is Current
ALL
certificates expire one year after class completion.
Only students marked on this web site as renewed have done work qualifying
them to continue as certified by this Academy.
Students
may ONLY renew directly through Dr. Bookspan, to verify quality of work,
even if they took their certification with other instructors. Requirements
above in section on Getting Certified.
We
have received notice that our certifications are so sought after, that counterfeit
(bootleg) certifications have been found. Earned certifications are identified
by three characteristics: specific embossment and watermark that can be
verified through Headmaster Dr. Bookspan, and are named below. Please
note that Georges Nackle in Lebanon never studied with me. He did not answer
my evaluations, and did not submit photos to me to show he knows or practices
my work as intended. Certifications with him are not Academy certifications
and are only his own.
Some students of Mr. Nakhle did answer additional testing through me online,
and were given limited certification to indicate that testing:
Mireille
Harmouch
Personal Trainer - 21 September 2014 to 9 November 2014. 25 hrs. Expires 20
September 2015.
Instructor: George Nakhlé
Passed
all coursework and exams with highest test scores yet recorded at the
Academy,
Mireille
Harmouch demonstrates
changing swayback spine (left photo) to neutral (right photo) while indicating
general abdominal muscle length, which shortens to bring spine to neutral.
No tightening is done, only shortening to move the spine.
Mireille
Harmouch sent the photos above of the results of her
teaching good bending to one of her exercise students. Good bending is not
only for doing squats in a gym, but for all the time, including getting
your exercise equipment and putting it away. When you do this move
and teach this to others, make sure you know to keep knees back a little
further, with the lower leg more upright than shown on the right photo.
Mireille
Harmouch writes
"Dear Dr. Bookspan,
Frankly i was hesitating about taking the course until i logged into
your web site & read some of your articles. I consider your researches
& your web site a blessing for all people wanting to live healthy. I
practice weight lifting & i've been suffering myself from low back &
hip pain without knowing it is caused by hyperlordosis. i used to need physiotherapy
to adjust my hip and treat my sacro-iliac pain every time i did weight lifting.
Now I apply your method to fix my body posture, i've cancelled the wrong
exercises i was performing in gym and i'm trying to incorporate your functional
healthy exercises & stretches into my fitness classes & daily life
with my clients. i already feel the difference. i would like to thank you
and i wish i can help more people to exercise in a healthy way through applying
your methods. I already begin with my students."
"I
was looking forward to hold AFEM personal trainer certificate but now i
know it's not about the certificate, it is more about the knowledge i had
the chance to acquire through communicating with you. I look forward too,
to work with you in the future if this is possible."
Ohan
Shidanian
Personal Trainer - 21 September 2014 to 9 November 2014. 25 hrs. Expires 20
September 2015.
Instructor: George Nakhlé
Ohan Shidanian
writes:
"i really enjoyed this knowledge and started applying it in my lifestyle
and helping others also to enjoy it with me.
Thank you for your follow up and your feedback in every part.
i felt like I'm home learning something not obligatory, the journey was fun
and knowledgeable.
i just want to share my opinion about the course that i really learned a lot
of things and ideas that i have never thought about.
Thank you very much for your time and honesty."
Jessica
Lattouf
Personal Trainer - 21 September 2014 to 9 November 2014. 25 hrs. Expires 20
September 2015.
Instructor: George Nakhlé
Healthier
Nutrition Workshop - 16 November 2014. 4.5 hrs. Expires 15 November 2015.
Lecturers: George Nakhlé, and Nathalie Djabrayan, Registered Dietician
Jessica Lattouf demonstrates fixing
swayback (hyperlordosis, shown in photo #1 and #2) to neutral spine (photo
#3) during overhead lift.
Photo #2 (middle) is included to demonstrate that the hip can be "tucked"
to level, and belt-line level, but the upper body still overarched and tilted
forward.
Jessica Lattouf demonstrates neutral
ankle position (left photo #1) and unhealthy eversion (photo #2).
Stable neutral ankle position during movement (left photo #1) is important
to prevent ankle turns and sprains.
It is
also important to identify when toes of either or both feet shift toward
the small toes (shown in both photos above). Shifting toes and bunion are
sometimes (not always) a sign of tight shoes and / or bad gait, usually
turning the feet outward during walking (duck foot) and / or letting body
weight sag and flatten the arch of the foot. The large toes push sideways
during walking. Check for these easy-to-fix problems when shifted toes are
spotted.
Jessica Lattouf demonstrates (1) slouching with hyperextended knee, and
a more healthy neutral knee (2).
Changing
bad bending during real life activity to good bending with neutral spine
gives functional squats built into daily life.
Jessica Lattouf made this photo
set for the Healthier Nutrition certification. She writes, "First
photo shows a bad food choice like commercial burger and fries (chips) while
the lower photo shows a healthy easy and inexpensive recipe of salad which
is popular in my country, we name it "fattouch"
The ingredients for one person portion:
4 leaf romaine lettuce torn into bite-size pieces
1 diced cucumber
1 diced tomato
1 chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped fresh mint
1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
1 cup chopped purslane
2 radishes
1/2 green pepper
1 samll bread toasted and torn into small pieces
For the dressing mix:
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 lemon juice
1 cloves garlic minced
1 teaspoon sumac
salt to taste
In the
Healthier Nutrition course, students learn that healthier nutrition
includes how you choose, cook, and prepare food. Jessica Lattouf demonstrates
swayback (hyperlordosis) at the sink in the left photo, and stopping that
painful common habit on the right. You can stand closer to your work with
healthy and non-painful comfortable position.
Jessica
Lattouf demonstrates healthy bending is for all you do. Squats in the gym
will do as much for you as all the comfortable good bending for real life.
Jessica
Lattouf demonstrates fixing neck and upper back position for healthier
drinking and eating:
1. Craning
the neck and lifting the chin with a rounded upper back (upper left). At
upper right: correcting to healthier position.
2. Lower left shows forward head and rounded upper back, fixed to relaxed,
healthier neck and upper body (lower right) when eating from plates low
on a table:
Jessica
Lattouf writes,
"I am a fitness instructor and a physical education teacher. I
took many certifications in the fitness field and I had a good experience
in training techniques, but I found your medical and training methods more
interesting and healthy which convinced me and encouraged me to learn more
how to make life and exercise more healthy.
I used to do a lot of bad movement when working at home, and i was wondering
about the reason of my back and knee pain until i learned from your works
how to fix pain.
It is an honor to be a student in your academy."
Raymond
Gerges
Swedish Massage - 22 September 2014 to 12 October 2014. 10 hrs. Expires 11
October 2015.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. Certified by Georges Nahkle, not by Dr.
Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
Raymond
Gerges demonstrates poor standing (left photo) with swayback by leaning the
upper body backwards. The upper back rounds too much. In the right-hand photo,
he shows standing with less swayed spine (but not entirely neutral) for the
same activity.
He explains, "When we stand we have to use our abdominal muscles (to
move the spine, not tighten ) to stay straight and protect our lower back.
If not, it allows hyperlordosis and more pressure on the lower back."
Raymond
Gerges demonstrates
bending over in the left photo, and a more upright body shown in the right
photo.
Jean
Pierre Chalouhi
Thai Massage - Completed December 2012. 12 hours. Expires December 2013.
Instructor: George Nakhlé
Functional fitness practical work passed With Distinction.
Jean Pierre Chalouhi
prepared these photos showing functional fitness and injury prevention
Jean Pierre Chalouhi demonstrates overly arched lumbar spine (swayback/
hyperlordosis) for overhead work (left)
and correcting to neutral spine on right.
Tania
Alawi
Personal Trainer - Completed 6 Oct 2012. 25 hours. Expires 5 October 2013.
Instructor: Certified by Georges Nahkle, not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's
academy.
Final
written test passed with note for attempts for continued learning.
Tania
demonstrates using full squat with heels down to get functional stretch
of Achilles tendon and lower back during ordinary daily activities, knees
positioned to prevent knee compression, and using squat instead of bending
over for healthier discs.
Tania
demonstrates one of several techniques we teach to feel immediate change
from swayback posture (LEFT photo)
(hyperlordosis/ overarched lumbar spine) to more neutral spine (right photo).
Swayback
(hyperlordosis) is a common major cause of lower back pain during standing,
walking, and running.
Postural change to stop swayback is simple movement, not requiring exercises,
treatments, or strengthening.
Tania
Alawi says:
"Dear Dr. Bookspan, I cannot describe my surprise when I discovered
throughout the classes I am taking with Mr. George Nakhle ...
the simple ways you developed to avoid the wrong movements and to fix our
own pain.
I am very glad and also thrilled to attend your course and I can't wait to
put what I am learning into practice, for the benefit of others and mine."
Sandy
Zein -
Final written test passed with distinction, October 2012.
Chadi Zein --
Final practical test passed with distinction, October 2012.
Instructor: Certified by Georges Nahkle, not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's
academy.
1-
Balance Training 5 hrs. Completed 6 Oct 2012. Expires 5 October 2013.
2- Cardiovascular Training 5 hrs. Completed 12 Oct 2012. Expires 11 October
2013.
Chadi demonstrates simple improvement
to sit in healthier way.
Even though he was not taking a "posture" class or a class specifically
teaching sitting,
all Academy students are asked to learn healthy ways for all they do and use
it for real in their own life.
Chadi
says:
"I had back pain before taking your courses. I am feeling much
better now, i think the cause was
sitting for a long period in class with wrong posture...Of course i don't
feel pain after your exercises,
in contrary i am building a stronger body in the right way.
I am always in contact with Mr. Nakhlé and checking Dr. Bookspan's
web site to stay up to date."
Sandy demonstrates
bad bending (left)
and a partially-helpful fix (right).
On the right, Sandy demonstrates what it looks like to strain and let knees
slide forward, which can be unhealthy too.
Instead, bend lower with ease with knees further back over feet.
Sandy
Zein writes us:
"Mr Nakhle show us how to do good
bending
and when we do it right, it becomes more easy and we do it unconsciously every
time we want to bend.
That's how we reduce chance of getting an injury."
Nahy
Milad Bassil
Studied Several Courses. All expire 5 May, 2013.
Instructor: Certified by Georges Nahkle, not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's
academy.
1-
Stretching Smarter 6 hrs. Completed 18 March 2012. Plus two additional practical
hours.
2- Functional Weight Lifting 6 hrs - Completed 8 April 2012. Plus two additional
practical hours.
3- Functional Core Training 3.5 hrs. Plus four additional practical
hours. Completed 22 April, 2012
4- Balance Training 3 hrs. Completed 22 April, 2012
5- Cardiovascular Training 3.5 hrs. Completed 29 April, 2012. Plus five
additional practical hours.
6- Personal Training 25 hours plus practice hours. Completed 6 May, 2012
Mr. Bassil
demonstrates fixing swayback / hyperlordosis (circled in red in each left-hand
photo of pair)
to neutral spine (green circled on right) for lifting rear leg while balancing,
and carrying anterior loads (above) and lunging for learning good bending
and anterior hip and leg stretch (below left). He demonstrates unhealthful
practice to avoid in photo below right.
See
more of Mr. Bassil's work on Project #1
Nahy
Milad Bassil says:
"Thank
you Dr. Bookspan, you're making me a real trainer to 'lead health for people
and communities.'
I'm so lucky because I met you through Mr. Nakhle. I'm making training more
functional."
Marwa
Philippe El Hage, who also holds the Bachelor degree in physical
and sports education.
Swedish Massage. Completed 27 April 2012. 20 hours. Expires
26 April, 2013.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. Certified by George Nahkle,
not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
NOTE:
"Swedish Massage" is not a recognized Academy course.
Edward Nasr
Six courses with Instructor: George Nakhlé.
Certified by George Nahkle, not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
All expire 26 November 2012.
1-
Stretching Smarter 8 hrs. Completed 18 October, 2011
2- Functional Weight Lifting 8 hrs. Completed 30 October, 2011
3- Functional Core Training 4 hrs. Completed 6 Nov, 2011
4- Balance Training 5 hrs. Completed 13 Nov, 2011
5- Cardiovascular Training 5 hrs. Completed 20 Nov, 2011
6- Personal Training. Completed 27 Nov, 2011
Mr. Nasr demonstrates a neutral spine wall handstand and agility/balance drills
Edward
Nasr says:
"Interesting & useful courses. I have learned many new techniques,
which i used to do incorrectly.
What I learned made me more professional and distinguished among other trainers."
Abdo
Boutros Salame
Zarmig Melkonian
Swedish
Massage 20 hours. Completed October 30, 2011. Expires 29 October,
2012.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. Certified by George Nahkle, not by Dr.
Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
NOTE:
"Swedish Massage" is not a recognized Academy course.
Mona
Claude Pashia
Personal Trainer. Completed August 13, 2011. 30 hours.
Expires 12 August, 2012.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. Certified by George Nahkle,
not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
Congratulations
to Ms. Pashia who completed a portion of the class
on Dr. Bookspan's Honor Roll because of her good e-mail dialog about her
understanding and application of this work.
Mohammad
Issam Ghazale
Swedish Massage. Completed August 6, 2011. 30 hours. Expires
5 August, 2012.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. Certified by George Nahkle, not by Dr.
Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
NOTE:
"Swedish Massage" is not a recognized Academy course.
Nada
Bou Zein el Din
Three massage courses with Instructor: George
Nakhlé. Certified by George Nahkle, not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's
academy.
Completed
September 1, 2010. Expires 31 August, 2011.
1-
Thai Yoga Massage 35 hours,
2 -Swedish Massage 30 hours,
3 -Ashiatsu Massage 20 hours.
NOTE: Ashiatsu is not a recognized Academy
course.
Chady
Yammine
Fitness Instructor. Completed Aug 8, 2010.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. Certified by George Nahkle, not by Dr.
Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
Personal
Trainer
Completed July 24, 2010. Expires 23 July, 2011.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. The following are Certified by George
Nahkle, not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
1-
Rola Morsel
2- Omar El Asmar
3- Maher Mohammad
4- Najat Saliba
5- Chady Yammine - "Fitness Trainer"
Students:
Remember that health screenings are required before all personal and fitness
training sessions, and periodically throughout patient contact.
Najat Saliba says:
"This was an important course, I learned many new things especially
how to avoid bad exercises.
I loved it and don't regret taking it."
Sandra
Moujally
Thai Massage, Completed May 22, 2010. 30 hrs. Expires 21
May, 2011.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. Certified by George Nahkle,
not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
Elias
Antoine Saliba - with distinction for understanding scientific
issues easily, and Violette Badr Saliba.
Balance
Training 8 hrs. Completed April 25, 2010. Expires
24 April, 2011.
Instructor: George Nakhle. Certified
by George Nahkle, not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
Pamela
el Murr and Zeina Kazan
Stretching
Smarter and Healthier 8 hrs. Completed April 18, 2010. Expires 17 April,
2011.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. Certified by George Nahkle, not by Dr.
Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
Dalya
Sobh
Thai Massage 30 hrs, Foot and Leg Massage, 12 hrs. Completed March
15, 2010. Expires 14 March 2011.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. Certified by George Nahkle, not by Dr.
Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
NOTE: "Foot and Leg Massage" is not a recognized Academy course.
Stretching
Smarter and Healthier
10 hrs. Completed March 14, 2010. Expires 13 March 2011.
The following are certified by George Nahkle only, not by Dr. Bookspan or
Dr. Bookspan's Academy. Instructor: George Nakhlé.
1-
Beatrice Karaki
2- Roula Morsel
3- Thaer Haskour
4- Roula Aad
5- Omar El Asmar
Balance
Training, From Theory To Practice
6 hrs. Completed Nov 14, 2009. Expires 13 November 2010.
The following are certified by George Nahkle only, not by Dr. Bookspan or
Dr. Bookspan's academy. Instructor: George Nakhlé.
1-
Ghada Jaber
2- Ali Zeitoun
3- Chadi Yammine
4- Laian Ziad Najjar
5- Joyce Maasri
6- Mohammad Baydoun
Students
learn to recognize bad movement habits - not to round the spine (demonstrated
by student in white shirt left)
or slouch in hyperlordosis (blue stripes) while balancing
They learn to stand and move in healthier straighter position instead.
LInda
Hsu, Boston MA
Medical Breakthroughs in Fixing Neck and Back Pain
Certification is CURRENT through Dr. Bookspan because of high level recertification
efforts annually.
Completed Oct 3, 2009. Temple University, Philadelphia.
Instructor: Dr. Jolie Bookspan
- Congratulations
Ms. Hsu, the only student to complete certification by course end.
- Ms.
Hsu has continued intelligent and successful recertification work each
year, and is currently certified through October 2015.
- Congratulations
on her new work with Parkinson patients
- She
continues work applying methods for benefit of others
Therapist
LInda Hsu says: "It was a true pleasure and honor to experience
Dr. Bookspan "live" and to see her embody everything she
teaches and writes about. I have finally found a teacher who knows
the "whys" of chronic pain, and is willing to take the time
to explain and investigate causes and solutions. I am grateful that
you have taken so much time and care to present such invaluable information
in such an accessible way. Everything taught in this class was backed
by research and science and can be immediately applied to activities
of daily living - Brilliant!
Thai
Massage
25 hrs. Completed Oct 10, 2009. Expires 9 October, 2010.
Instructor: George Nakhlé. The following are certified by George
Nahkle, not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
1
- Joyce Assaad Maasry - Finished first in the class, plus Stretch Certification
2 - Darine Fouad El Hajj
3 - Patricia Anis Bou Jaoude
4 - Wael Antonios Dagher
5 - Pierre Josef Mardini - Distinguished himself as good student.
6 - Wafaa El Haybe Sarkis
7 - Mohammad Fayez Allaw
8 - Marwan Sami Nasr
Stretching
Smarter and Healthier
12 hrs. Completed May 30, 2009. Expires 29 May 2010.
Lecturer: George Nakhlé. The following are certified by George Nahkle
only, not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
1
- Khaled Taher
2 - Maha Marzouk
3 - Rina Mansour
4 - Heggy Edoyan
5 - Amira Khourchid
6 - Jackeline Yazbeck
7 - Moussa Ghazaly
8 - Mireille Makhraz
9 - Elie Saba
10 - Firas Samir Nassif
11 - Béninia Elias Nasr
12 - Rola Rachid Maalouf
13 - Firas Badawi Yazbeck
Student
Khaled Taher, physical therapist, says:
"This course is very useful.
I changed many wrong knowledge learned at university!
Ruth
Baez
1.
Fix and Prevent Injuries
2. Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier
Completed May 16, 2009 at Temple University in Philadelphia. Instructor:
Dr. Jolie Bookspan
Congratulations
Ms. Baez, the only student in these classes to complete both certifications
by course end.
Swedish
Massage
25 hours, March 28 to May 16, 2009. Expires 15 May 2010.
Multiple Instructors. Swedish Massage is not a recognized Academy course.
The following are certified by George Nahkle only, not by Dr. Bookspan or
Dr. Bookspan's academy.
1-
Chady Albert Yammine
2- Joseph Antoine Srour
3- Wael Antonios Dagher
4- Pierre Josef Mardini
5- Firas Samir Nassif
6- Mohamad Fayez Allaw
7- Rony Khalil Abi Hayla
Stretching
Smarter and Healthier
12 hours, February 28 and March 7, 2009. Expires March 2010.
Lecturer: George Nakhlé. The following are certified by George Nahkle,
not by Dr. Bookspan or Dr. Bookspan's academy.
1-
Sandra Basbous
2- Chady Albert Yammine
3- Wael Dagher
4- Pierre Mardini
5- Ali Zeitoun
6- Mohammad Baydoun
7- Patrick Bejjani
8- Dima Ajouz
9- Lina Itani
10- Ghada Jaber
11- Roy Ghaleb
13- Joe Srour
14- Reine Antoun
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