Man
stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark.
- Zen saying
These
classes are a rare chance to work directly with the master instructor
who developed these functional techniques. Most classes are only
given a few times a year, some only once. Each contains methods
worth thousands in doctor visits. Each has a "Syllabus"
link. Before your class, click "Syllabus" for valuable
preparation.
Next scheduled classes: Sports
Medicine & Trainer
| Fix Multi-Pain
| Stretching Smarter |
Swimming
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Yoga
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Self Defense
| Karate
All
classes: Trainer
| Fix Multi-Pain | Fix
Neck & Back
| Healthy Aging
| Stretching Smarter | Ab
Revolution™ |
Lower Body Revolution™
| Yoga
| Karate | Muay Thai & KickBoxing
| Thai Massage |
Aquatics | Home Repair |
Self Defense |
CPR | SCUBA,
Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine
Group
Workshops at Your Location: See Project
6.
Private
Appointments and Private Classes: See How
to do it- Appts and more.
"It
is an honor to know you! The best part about all of your work is
how you infuse it all with a sense of duty, honor, and commitment
to bringing out the best in all of us - I don't know how you do
it, but that is what makes you exceptional. I agree with that student
of yours who thought you were a superhero."
~ Linda Hsu, Massage Therapist, AFEM
Certified, Fixing Neck & Back Pain
Fix and Prevent Pain and
Injuries
"Despite
consultations with my orthopedist, two rehabilitation specialists, a sports
personal trainer, and a physical therapist, my best advice for post-operative
care of my knee has come from Dr. Jolie Bookspan, the brightest light in functional
sports medicine. If you want your life back, she is the door."
- Green Beret Lt. Colonel Kelly Hill, M.D., FACSM, SWAT Team Commander
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Locations and Dates:
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Pittsburgh,
PA - Top Ten Injury Prevention Techniques. Sun Nov 13,
2011. Special 1 hour practice. International Martial
Arts Black Belt Hall of Fame Global Leadership Conference.
By Invitation only.
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Philadelphia
PA, Friday June 24, 2011 5pm - 9pm. 2029 Frankford Ave.
Special 4 hour class concentrating on knee, back and neck
pain, plus some Ab Revolution (tm). e-mail
Cindy Monroy.
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Temple
U Center City, Philadelphia, PA - Saturday May 15, 2010, 9am-1:30pm.
Discount when you register together with the same-day workshop "Stretching
Smarter" 2pm-4:30pm, described below.
For next class or to bring this workshop to your location, e-mail
Rhonda Geyer interim director.
Downtown Philadelphia location.
Learn
to fix causes of your pain and keep pain away for the rest of your life.
Dr. Bookspan offers hours of priceless instruction costing less
than most doctor office visits lasting minutes. Fast moving, jam packed,
hands-on workshop of breakthrough, evidence-based innovations in sports
medicine - from a primary source, the researcher who developed the methods.
Learn and practice methods that work quickly to prevent and rehab ankle
sprains, arch dysfunction, knee, disc, shoulder, upper back, lower back,
SI joint, and mystery back pain, not just for the session but methods
to put in practice for a lifetime. This class is suitable for the general
public. Medical and allied health professionals get practice teaching
methods under supervision with feedback. Not alternative medicine, but
innovative validated sports medicine. This class is only for fun, empowered,
good students.
Gives
clinicians tools required to meet the Health Care Reform Initiatives to
reduce preventable hospitalizations, readmissions, emergency room visits,
and to improve health outcomes.
Class textbooks - Fix Your Own Pain Without Drugs
or Surgery and Health & Fitness THIRD ed--How to be Healthy
Happy and Fit for the Rest of your Life. Available in class at discount
for students or click the BOOKS page.
Class syllabus - Click
here for location map and materials to prepare before class and review
after. |
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Certified Personal and
Group Trainer, and Sports Medicine Curriculum
"Dr.
Bookspan is widely acclaimed for her work in human physiology and sports
medicine... known in scientific circles for successfully debunking traditional,
but ineffective or wrong ideas. For that reason some have compared her to
Galileo for changing the "held paradigm." She is known as a careful
and brilliant researcher who has found the reasons why things were not working,
and changed the paradigm to a more simple and more effective one. Her methods
to reverse pain and injury are gems of common sense management."
- Dr. Ernest S Campbell, MD, FACS Board Certified, General Surgery
(Retired), Chairman Department of Surgery, Board of Directors Brookwood
Medical Center. Birmingham Alabama
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HOW
TO Apply for Rolling Admissions: All Candidates, read about the Academy
first, then see the Academy Honors
page for specific requirements to apply for classes and examples of
initiative by previous students to develop projects. When you write,
indicate what program(s) you want to study with Dr. Bookspan. Give
examples of your initiative and good heart, and how you already use
these methods with healthy results.
Be
familiar with requirements and educational materials on this web site
before contacting Dr. Bookspan asking for this information to be repeated
to you. If you have previously written, check the auto-reply you already
received, giving several answers. Then you have already passed lesson
one and will be able to successfully apply.
CPR
(cardiopulmonary resuscitation) certification should be current and
may be taken through any accredited sources. No other formal background
required, except Fellow candidates, as above.
Class textbooks - Fix Your Own Pain Without Drugs
or Surgery, Health & Fitness THIRD ed--How to be Healthy Happy
and Fit for the Rest of your Life, Stretching Smarter, Healthy Martial
Arts, and others. Available in classes at discount or click the
BOOKS page.
Class syllabus
- Click
and read the class syllabus with each class description on this page
for preparation.
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"If
Dr. Jolie Bookspan had not changed my methods of training, I would still be
hurting myself in the name of staying in shape.
I thank her for all her efforts. She is leading the way to sensibility."
– Ed Cargile, Military Special Operation Forces, seventh-degree Black
Belt, long-distance cyclist, US Marine Corp, Ret.
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Fix
and Prevent Neck & Back Pain – Medical
Breakthroughs in Non-Surgical Treatment
Taught by Dr. Jolie Bookspan, MEd, PhD,
FAWM, Sports medicine specialist, named "St. Jude of the Joints"
by Harvard Medical School clinicians. Full
course 4-6 hours. Shorter segments available.
Learn to fix sources of your own pain, right in class,
and keep pain away for the rest of your life.
Cheaper (and safer) than your Vioxx.
It would take years and fortunes for you to fix pain and learn this
amount of information through your doctor and PT visits. Certification
by Dr. Bookspan for top students through the Academy of Functional Exercise
Medicine (AFEM). Required
core course for AFEM Trainer certifications,
and for Academy Fellow advancement.
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Pittsburgh,
PA - Top Ten Injury Prevention Stretches and Exercises. Sun Nov
13, 2011. Special 1 hour practice. International Martial Arts
Black Belt Hall of Fame Global Leadership Conference. By Invitation
only.
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Philadelphia
PA, Friday June 24, 2011 5pm - 9pm. 2029 Frankford Ave. Special
4 hour class concentrating on knee, back and neck pain, plus some
Ab Revolution (tm). e-mail
Cindy Monroy.
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Temple
U Center City. Saturday Oct 16, 2010, 9:00-1:30 pm. Offered
together with the same-day workshop Stretching
Smarter 2pm-4:30pm, described below. 1515
Market St. Philadelphia, PA. Discount when you register for both,
or with a friend. Make it a whole day of starting a healthier life,
even career. Click the syllabus for class info.
For next class, e-mail Rhonda
Geyer interim director.
Hours
of fun, active, sometimes humorous instruction and evidence-based medical
information to stop your pain now and keep it away for the rest of your
life, costing less than most doctor visits lasting minutes. Learn to
stop neck and back pain and keep it from coming back. Fix stiffness,
aches, sciatica, herniated and degenerating discs, stenosis, arthritis,
upper crossed syndrome, numb fingers, forward head, hyper-lordosis,
swayback, spondylolisthesis, and facet pain. Pain when standing, pain
when sitting. Identify common injurious body mechanics, ergonomics,
and habits. Learn therapeutic muscle retraining, and how to not get
stiff and sore in the first place. Combination lecture and non-strenuous
practice. Suitable for the general public, the out-of-shape as well
as the athlete. Medical and allied health professionals get practice
teaching methods under supervision with feedback. Wear comfortable ordinary
clothing. If you have to change your clothes to fix back pain, how are
you supposed to have an ongoing normal life without pain? This is not
alternative medicine, it is innovative, validated sports medicine. This
class is for fun, empowered, good students.
Gives
clinicians tools required to meet the Health Care Reform Initiatives
to reduce preventable hospitalizations, readmissions, emergency room
visits, and to improve health outcomes.
Class textbooks -
Fix Your Own Pain Without Drugs or Surgery and Health &
Fitness THIRD ed--How to be Healthy Happy and Fit for the Rest of your
Life. Available in class at discount for students or click BOOKS
page.
Class syllabus - Click
here for location map and your materials to prepare before class and
review after.
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Healthy Aging - Preventive
and Rehab Medicine
"Your
wonderful presentation on aging at the
ACSM NY Chapter meeting stays with me every day – and I teach those
exercises to my patients regularly."
- Dr. Stephen G. Rice, MD, PhD, FACSM, American College of Sports Medicine
Trustee
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Next
Locations and Dates:
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Wilderness
Medical World Congress. Sunday 15 July 2012, Whistler British Columbia.
One class only.
Conference info through WMS.
To register or request new classes, click online,
e-mail Teri,
or call 801-990-2988.
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Temple
U Center City, Philadelphia, PA. Discount when you register together
with the same-day workshop "Stretching Smarter"
described below. For next class or to bring this workshop to your
location, e-mail Rhonda Geyer
interim director. Downtown Philadelphia location.
- American
College of Sports Medicine Greater New York Chapter meeting. Dec 3,
2005.
Becoming
slower, stiffer, unsteadier, and weaker as years pass is more from lack
of specific healthful movement than an inescapable aging process. Although
chronological years increase, you can regain specific functional characteristics
of a chronologically younger person. This course teaches evidence based
musculo-skeletal sports medicine techniques to restore upper back mobility
and normal kyphosis, leg strength and balance, healthy knee and hip dynamics,
and disc spacing associated with functionally younger age. This is an
information resource for physicians, health care providers, exercise professionals,
and people who want to maintain and improve physical and mental ability
throughout their lives.
Gives
clinicians tools required to meet the Health Care Reform Initiatives to
reduce preventable hospitalizations, readmissions, emergency room visits,
and to improve health outcomes.
Class
textbooks - Health & Fitness THIRD ed--How to be Healthy
Happy and Fit for the Rest of your Life and Fix Your Own Pain
Without Drugs or Surgery. Available in class at discount for students
or click the BOOKS page.
Class
syllabus - Click here for
location map and materials to prepare before class and review after. |
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Muay
Thai KickBoxing and Advanced Kickboxing
"Jolie,
my highest regards and congratulations regarding your honor
as Master Instructor of the Year (as well as Black Belt Hall of Fame).
You have always been keenly active and scholarly in your dedication to the Martial
Arts
and I value the occasions when we have found the opportunity to converse."
- Joseph Estwanik MD FACSM, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Author of Sports Medicine for
the Combat Arts, Chairman of Ringside Physician's Course U.S. Olympic Training
Center
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Taught by Dr.
Jolie Bookspan, 4th degree black belt in Shotokan Karate, Undefeated
full-contact Muay Thai fighter, International Black Belt Hall of Fame,
Instructor rank of Master. Formats - Ongoing instruction, semesters,
and single master classes.
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Temple
U Center City.
1515
Market St, Philadelphia. Discounts
when you register with a friend. Click class syllabus below for class
info and to start learning now.
For next class contact Rhonda Geyer, Temple U center city coordinator
- rgeyer@temple.edu.
Learn mental and
physical discipline, self confidence, history and theory of martial
arts, sports medicine, good behavior, safer healthier movement and
life habits, and real martial arts skills. For men and women. Strenuous
workout. No experience needed, just a desire to truly improve, learn,
and change unhealthful movement patterns to healthy technique. Punching,
kicking, sparring, stretching, rope skipping, striking various target
baffles, and drills for body and mind. Music used, exercise class
style. We start at the beginning and build with each class. This class
is only for hard working, good students. Academy
certification can be earned. One
of electives for AFEM Trainer certifications.
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For
students completing the kick boxing class. Improve technique and fitness.
Muay Thai (Thai kick boxing) and other styles covered. Heavy bag and
partner work, speed work, ring and street defense techniques. Develop
the ferocious Thai roundhouse kick. Includes advanced ab and back conditioning,
rope skipping, drills, and kicking flexibility. Bring gloves. Wraps
provided.
Optional certification.
Class textbook - Healthy Martial
Arts.
Class syllabus - Class
photos, skills, vocabulary, and descriptions.
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Stretching Smarter Stretching
Healthier
"Your
exercises work, and are recognized as contributing significantly
to one of the most common problems in medicine, which is back pain.
There are many testimonials to their success – mine being one of them"
- Catherine G. R. Jackson, PhD, FACSM, Professor and former Chair of Kinesiology
at California State University, Fresno,
NASA Faculty Fellow, Twice Colorado State Women’s Fencing Champion.
This wonderful little
doll was made
for Dr. Bookspan by student Dana Chandler
Does it really look like Dr. Bookspan?
Click to find out.
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Not
The Same Old Stretches - Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier
Taught by Dr. Jolie Bookspan, MEd, PhD, FAWM
AFEM certification
option for top students. Required core course for
AFEM Trainer certifications,
and for Academy Fellow advancement. Full
course 4-6 hours.
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Pittsburgh,
PA - Top Stretching Changes for Healthier Training. Sun Nov
17, 2013. Special 1 hour practicum. Black Belt Hall of Fame
Global Leadership Conference. By Invitation only.
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Pittsburgh,
PA - Top Ten Injury Prevention Stretches and Exercises. 13 Nov,
2011. International Martial Arts Black Belt Hall of Fame Global
Leadership Conference. By Invitation only.
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Temple
U Center City, Phila. Saturday Oct 16, 2010. 2pm to 4:30pm Bring lunch
and take it together with the Fix Neck
& Back Pain workshop, described above. Discounts for taking
both. Make it the healthiest day you ever spent. For next class, e-mail
Rhonda Geyer interim director.
- Snowmass
Colorado - Wilderness Medical
Society Summer Medicine Conference. Wednesday July 28, 2010. 7:30-9:30am.
Also offered, Fix and Prevent Injuries,
and Ab Revolution Functional Core Training.
For info on each, scroll above and below. Conference
info through WMS link above. To register or request new classes, e-mail
Teri, or call 801-990-2988.
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Townsend
Tennessee - Wilderness Medical Elective for medical school students.
Feb. 19, 2008. Contact Dr.
Tom Kessler, Director.
- Other
locations by special arrangement: See Project
6.
Learn
how to stop pain producing habits and gain techniques and information
that would cost thousands through your PT and medical treatments. Fun,
fast-moving, hands-on workshop to identify injurious habits, restore healthy
resting muscle length, and transfer knowledge and skills to daily life.
Relieve aches on the spot, learn therapeutic, diagnostic, and innovative
stretches, and take home effective, state-of-the-art techniques to straighten
posture, restore functionally younger biomarkers, and have fun. Not the
same old stretches, these are innovations from a primary source, the researcher
who developed the methods. Lecture, demonstration, and participation.
Fun, rejuvenating class for body and mind. Come prepared to stretch your
brain.
Suitable
for the general public, for the out-of-shape, and the athlete, as long
as you are a good student. Medical and allied health professionals get
practice teaching under supervision with feedback.
Clinicians
learn methods required to meet the Health Care Reform Initiatives to reduce
preventable hospitalizations, readmissions, emergency room visits, and
to improve health outcomes.
Class textbook - Stretching Smarter
Stretching Healthier. Available for purchase in class at discount.
Class syllabus -
Click here for location map and materials to prepare for Stretching Smarter
Stretching Healthier. |
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The Ab Revolution™ and Lower
Body Revolution™
- Surprising Preventive Medicine
“I’ve
given The Ab Revolution to my physical therapists and trainers to use.
You have condensed things to a very workable format.”
~ Stanley A. Herring M.D., FACSM, Director of Spine, Sports and Musculoskeletal
Medicine for UW Medicine Health System, Former President of the North American
Spine Society
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The
Ab Revolution™
Functional Core Re-Training: No More Crunches No More Back
Pain
Taught by Dr. Jolie Bookspan, the scientist
who developed this breakthrough method
AFEM certification for top students.
Required core course for AFEM Trainer
certifications, and for Academy Fellow advancement
A
revolution in core training - using abdominal muscles functionally -
the way needed for actual healthy spine positioning during standing
and life activities. No forward bending that stresses discs. Special
workshop with Dr. Bookspan, the award winning scientist who developed
this method. Learn the way your abs need to work to hold healthy spine
positioning (neutral spine) for real life while standing and all activities.
Not just a bunch of exercises, this is a system to learn neutral spine,
stop hyper-lordosis, facet injury, SI joint pain, lower back pain from
long standing, walking, or running, and get healthier exercise. Learn
fun quick techniques to straighten posture, fix hyperlordotic lower
back pain, and functionally strengthen, from simple moves to the toughest
you can get. Combination lecture and increasingly strenuous practice.
Change old thinking about what abs do (and don't do). Used
by SEAL and law enforcement members, and the nation's top spine docs.
For lay
public and medical professional. This class is only for fun, empowered,
good students.
Two
Different Formats:
1. Lecture based, understanding and identifying neutral spine and stopping
hyperlordotic (and hypo-lordotic) lower back pain during daily life
and activities, with hands-on practice covering Part I in the class
textbook, plus sample Part II exercises. Required for health professionals.
Gives clinicians tools required to meet the Health Care Reform Initiatives
to reduce preventable hospitalizations, readmissions, emergency room
visits, and to improve health outcomes. Full
course 4 hours, up to 8 hours depending on level wanted.
Format 2 is the Ab Revolution™ exercise class. Starts with short
intro to neutral spine and student check, then non-stop exercise from
the textbook Parts I and II to music with instructor supervision. Certification
in class format 1 required before applying to learn to teach format
2.
Class
textbook - Class students can purchase new
third edition book at discount.
Class syllabus - Click
for class preparation for Ab Revolution™ Core Training.
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Special
weekly one hour Total Body and Abs
class at LA Fitness 15th and Walnut downtown Phila with Dr. Bookspan.
First half hour is fast fun good body mechanics to hot Latin music of
Lower Body Revolution lifting weights for the whole body - lots for
arms, hands, balance, back, everything. The music continues for 15 -
20 minutes of Ab
Revolution training. LA Fitness does not use bands
so all moves use hand weights. Last 10- 15 minutes is healthier smart
stretching. We are on break now. Class resumes Wednesday 6 March, 2013.
For a class pass, see the yoga class info below.
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Lower Body Revolution™
Taught by Dr. Jolie Bookspan, the scientist
who developed this breakthrough method
AFEM certification for top students.
One of optional electives for AFEM
Personal Trainer and required core course for
Group Instructor certification and for
Academy Fellow advancement.
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Temple University Center City. For next class, e-mail Rhonda
Geyer interim director.
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Master
classes by limited special arrangement: See Project
6.
Take
core training further to "foundation training" to retrain your
bending, walking, jumping, and moving habits for back, legs, abs, ankles,
feet, and knees. Gain strength and endurance. Understand how your lower
body needs to function during real life and the need for functional training.
Learn fun sports medicine exercises to get a workout at the same time
you specifically retrain posture and movement patterns for daily life
- Functional exercise and exercise as a lifestyle. Combination lecture
and increasingly strenuous practice, continuously to music. This class
will change the way you think about fitness and exercise.
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Yoga, Advanced
Yoga, Instructor Training, Partner Yoga
Prevent
Yoga Injuries, Learn Healthier Yoga
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Dr.
Bookspan is a Certified Yoga Instructor - RYT 500 level.
RYT 500 is granted to teachers who studied teaching for at
least 500 hours
in qualified schools, and taught a minimum of 5,000 hours,
plus requirements of the Yoga Alliance
"You
are a wonderful instructor, teacher, mentor
and have the rare ability to make people feel that the magic IS inside,
not worn around the neck"
- Stuart Wood, Director Community Projects AFEM
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Photo
of Dr. Bookspan by Paul Plevakas
Some of Dr.
Bookspan's great students
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Yoga - Warrior Mind, Warrior Body
With
Dr. Bookspan, Certified RYT
500 level yoga teacher. Studied and taught yoga in India,
China, North Africa, Thailand, and Japan.
LA
Fitness, formerly Bally Fitness
15th & Walnut, Phila.
NEW
TIME 11am began 24 MARCH 2012
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Saturdays
NEW TIME 11am - 12pm.
For members
and positive-thinking walk-ins with advance permission and free
pass below. Click class
syllabus for class info, photos, free readings, everything
explained. Description for my
Total Body and Abs
class at the same location is above.
Away
Dates - Check here periodically for when Dr. Bookspan
is away - substitute teacher (different method). Next away dates:
12 Jan to 5 March 2013. Classes resume Saturday 9 March.
Free
Pass. Click LA
Fitness 15th Street pass. Bring printed copy or download to
your handheld device and bring pass with ID proof of age over
18. Desk requires short waiver paperwork, then come up to class.
Without pass, guest fee $15. payable to LA fitness, not me, for
walk-ins.
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Temple University Center City (TUCC)
1515
Market St. Phila.
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Series
of 8 classes. For motivated students to learn, not only follow
along. Next dates to be announced. To secure a place in next Temple
U yoga with Dr. Bookspan, e-mail Rhonda
Geyer, Temple coordinator.
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Master
classes for instructors or for you or
your group |
By limited special arrangement through Dr. Bookspan. For groups,
see Project 6. For Private Appointments,
see Appointments. |
Instructor
Training |
Come
to class. Work so I see you have respect and good habits. After
class show your serious intent to learn and understand and we will
arrange your training. General course is 200 hours: Includes attending
my class at least once a week, syllabus and textbook readings, demonstrating
understanding and use of readings in each class, individual homework
and class assignments, community service (karma yoga) through an
Academy Project, student teaching
under my guidance. Certification through AFEM. |
If
you are strong and brave --or want to be-- come learn the most physical
and empowering yoga you will ever do. Joyful, often humorous fusion of
ancient tradition, sports medicine, and beautiful movement, based on Ashtanga.
A teaching class, not just "do" poses. No experience needed,
just a desire to actually use mind and body at the same time and learn
to change body mechanics to healthy ways. This is "Warrior"
not "worrier" yoga. Learn to discard complaining (before you
come to class). Learn how to prevent injuries and change common but injurious
yoga poses to healthful movement habits. AFEM Academy
certification option for top students. One of optional electives for AFEM
Trainer certifications.
Class textbooks
- Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier and
Healthy Martial Arts. Available online or in
class. Check with Dr. Bookspan.
Class syllabus - Click to prepare for each class, and
materials for instructor candidates - Yoga
description, photos, theory and practice, free readings and short movies
of healthier, intelligent yoga. |
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This
Class page is a Favored Web Site by HealthAndYogaDotCom
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Partner
Yoga
Learn healthy movement with a friend. We cover yoga benefits
and pitfalls, along with injury prevention. Learn wonderful partner
strength and stretch moves that can be done singly or as part of a flowing
series called Vinyasa. Spend a rewarding evening learning something
great you can do together. One
of optional electives for
AFEM Trainer certifications.
Registration and class info, e-mail rgeyer@temple.edu.
Advanced
Warrior Yoga with Dr. Bookspan
Each class includes injury prevention, yoga myths, Zen stories, teaching
skills and spotting injury-producing movement in your students, and
how to transfer yoga skills to daily life.
Dates
to be announced. e-mail Rhonda Geyer.
Class textbooks - Health
& Fitness THIRD edition How to be Healthy Happy and Fit for the
Rest of Your Life, Stretching
Smarter and Healthy Martial Arts. Click
BOOKS page.
Class syllabus -
Class description, photos, theory and practice, free readings (many
with short movies) of healthier, more intelligent yoga.
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Thai Massage
"I
am very grateful and thankful to you about you helping to this lo-kunphen school."
- Lama Tenzin, Lo-Kumphen Medical School, Choede Monastery, Mustang Nepal
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Sharing techniques
with Lama Tenzin
Dr. Tenjing Bista, Senior Monk
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Thai
Yoga Massage and Tok Sen
AFEM
Certification option through Dr.
Bookspan
Learn
from Paul and Jolie, certified in China, Japan, the United States, and
Thailand in systems of medical massage.
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Thai Massage Courses:
Course #1, learn front lying techniques. #2 Second
Course to learn side technique. #3 Third Course to
learn back series. #4 Sitting techniques. #5 and
#6, Continuing courses for top students. Can attend courses separately,
not required to take all to take one. Private and group instruction
possible. Certification possible, hours customized for need and purpose.
Register with a friend and have a wonderful time giving and receiving
massage, and learning techniques to take home.
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Introductory
classes
for those who want to do home massage can be arranged with three hours
per course.
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Professional
Massage Certification
begins at 10 hours and up for each course, with 3-4 hour pre-course
workshop: Understanding Musculo-Skeletal Pain and Injury. Then you
will know which techniques to use and when, and importantly, why.
- Tok Sen
by individual arrangement.
Thai
massage has been a medical specialty of Thailand since the time of the
Buddha. It has been called "The Yoga Done For You" for the
application of therapeutic pressing and stretching while you rest comfortably
on the floor, clothed, except for bare feet. Singles and couples can
learn the basics of this delightfully beneficial and physical technique,
that is called Nuat Borarn – The Ancient Massage. Bring a cloth
and items to wash your feet, and a towel or soft mat.
Class textbooks - Health & Fitness THIRD edition
How to be Healthy Happy and Fit for the Rest of Your Life, Stretching
Smarter and Healthy Martial Arts. Click BOOKS
page.
Next
class with Dr. Bookspan: For Temple U class with dates to
be announced. e-mail Rhonda Geyer
For training for your group at your location, see Project
6. For private training for individual or small groups here with
Dr. Bookspan, see Private Appointment information,
which includes location, maps, and more.
Private
Thai Massage Appointment, Scheduling, location, map, photos,
appointment and Thai Massage info, and more, click Thai
Massage.
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Dive Medicine, Swimming, CPR, Water Safety, SCUBA, Hyperbarics
Dr.
Bookspan is a former Navy researcher and NAUI scuba instructor, inducted into
the NAUI Hall
Of Honor
for outstanding contributions to diving education, dive medicine and physiology
research leading to safer diving,
running international conferences and seminars, and work developing SCUBA
and diving medicine textbooks and teaching materials.
Tom
Kessler MD, MSPH, FAAFP, FAWM, writes, "So glad to learn of your
recognition by peers.
Not that you need it! Your commitment to truth is what all of us should
have....
Stay warm. TK"
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CPR
- Including AED (Automated External Defibrillator)
Red
Cross Certification class with Dr.
Bookspan,
Red Cross CPR Instructor
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Next
class at the Red Cross chapter building 23 and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia.
Wednesday 7 December, 6pm-10pm. For those with current Red Cross CPR
to update and renew. I teach this class as a volunteer. Fees go to
Red Cross.
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Fun
Aquatics Skill Classes
with Dr.
Bookspan,
Certified Red Cross Water Safety Instructor, Water Exercise Certified,
SCUBA instructor, and former national-class competition swimmer. One
of optional electives for
AFEM Trainer certifications.
Classes by request at your local pool, mail: SwimmingLessons AT DrBookspan
DOT com
- Adult
Beginning Swim teaches adults who are afraid of the water,
even those with lifelong fear, using an innovative common sense
approach that will have you happy, confident, and succeeding starting
with the first class (no throwing anyone in deep water).
- Intermediate
Swim develops the several interesting swimming and competition
strokes from crawl to butterfly, treading, flip turns, starts, dives,
self-rescue, basic rescue of others, and topics selected by students.
Red Cross certification available.
- Stroke
Mechanics Clinics are short fun workshops for quick gains
in stroke efficiency and speed. Great for racers.
- Water
Exercise.
No swimming ability needed to get fun effective exercise in your
pool.
- Life
Guarding. Red Cross Certification classes in pool, waterfront,
and beach front guarding. Includes professional Red Cross CPR certification.
- SCUBA.
Learn to SCUBA dive intelligently and safely. NAUI Certification
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Physicians,
military, and smart students of the July 2010 WMS medical conference Advanced
Diving Medicine class. |
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Diving
and Hyperbaric Physiology and Medicine
Taught by Dr.
Bookspan
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Wilderness
Medical Elective in Townsend
Tennessee Feb. 19, 2008. Primarily for 3rd and 4th year medical
students fulfilling an elective in Wilderness Medicine. Covers
all three CME and FAWM units. Contact Dr.
Tom Kessler, Director. 1-4 hours each topic:
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Other
lectures and locations by arrangement. Bring us to your dive resort,
live-aboard boat, or cruise.
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Diving
Physiology in Plain English
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Diving
and Hyperbaric Medicine Review For Physicians
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Hyperbaric
Medical Review For Board Certification Exams, CHT/CHR
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Fun
SCUBA classes - Left to right: teaching on Halloween, in México,
in the rain, doing karate
Karate
and Self Defense with Paul Plevakas, Karate Sensei
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Shotokan
Karate
Taught by third degree black belt Paul Plevakas, Sensei, Black
Belt Hall of Fame, International Martial Arts Association 2004 Man
of the Year and 2009 Instructor of the Year.
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Ongoing
classes at our
dojo (school) in Center
City Phila. Entrance on 21st Street between Chestnut and Sansom,
2nd Floor. Mondays 8pm - 9:30pm and Thursdays 7:30pm – 9pm.
$75.00 monthly.
Trial class $20. Call (215) 778-0272, e-mail Paul@PaulPlevakas.com,
or come to class.
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Temple U Center City. 8
Thursdays, Sept. 23 to Nov. 11, 2010. 7:30pm to 9pm. Get back into
shape or start for the first time. Self defense techniques, strength
and confidence, and traditional Japanese karate with patient gentle
teacher. Open to all levels. Continuing students can advance belt
rank. Discounted textbook is available in class. Held at our karate
dojo with padded floor for your safety and comfort. For next class,
email Rhonda Geyer
interim director, or call (215) 204-6565.
Learn real Karate
with gentle patient teacher. Shotokan martial arts taught in a kind
and fun environment. Learn full katas (forms) and self defense. Develop
kicks, punches, blocks, strikes, self-defense, partner drills. Ranking
testing available. No experience necessary. Dan Belts welcome. One
of optional electives for
AFEM Trainer certifications.
Next
belt rank testing 29 Nov, 2012. Students - study and practice!
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Self
Defense
Taught by third degree black belt Paul Plevakas. Inductee, Black
Belt Hall of Fame
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Ongoing
classes at our dojo (school) in Center City Phila. Entrance on 21st
Street between Chestnut and Sansom, 2nd Floor. Mondays 8pm - 9:30pm
and Thursdays 7:30pm – 9pm. $75.00 monthly. Trial class $20.
Call (215) 778-0272, e-mail Paul@PaulPlevakas.com,
or come to class.
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Next
class through Temple U Center City, 8 Thursdays, Sept. 30 to Nov.
18, 2010. 7:30-9pm. Held at our karate dojo on 21st Street. Click
syllabus for map and directions. Padded floor for your safety and
comfort. For next class, email Rhonda
Geyer or call (215) 204-6565.
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Special
seminars for your group. Contact Paul.
Don't
be afraid! Protect yourself, build confidence, and fend off attackers.
Learn armed and unarmed defenses against armed and unarmed attackers.
Gentle instructor will teach you how to use hands, feet, handbags, coins,
umbrellas, cell phones, and other ordinary objects against all kinds of
bad situations at home and in the street. Learn legal rights and how to
spot and avoid trouble. For men and women, all abilities, all ages. Wear
your everyday clothing for realistic practice.
Class textbook - Healthy Martial
Arts.
Class syllabus - Class
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Not
only is PAUL PLEVAKAS an experienced and gentle Martial Arts
teacher,
he is a LICENSED GENERAL CONTRACTOR, member of NARI - National Association of
Remodeling Industry, EPA
Certified "lead-safe" remodeler.
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Private
consulting and instruction available
with Paul as your personal repair trainer.
e-mail Paul@PaulPlevakas.com |
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Do-It-Yourself
Home Repair - Learn to fix it all: walls, outlets, plumbing,
doors, installing ceiling fans, everything you need around the house.
Save
money and say "I did it myself." Knowledgeable and patient teacher
and craftsman Paul will teach you exactly how to handle practical repairs
and improvements. These hands-on workshops will give you the step-by-step
instructions you need and the vocabulary that goes with it.
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Learn
It All. 5 Saturdays, 10:00 AM-1:30 PM. Temple Center City.
1515 Market St. Downtown Philadelphia.
For next
class, email Rhonda Geyer,
interim director, (215) 204-6946.
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One-Day
Basic Plumbing Saturday Seminar - Learn to fix leaks,
faucets, connections, and fixtures yourself, be safe, and save thousands.
For next
class, contact
Rhonda Geyer, rgeyer@temple.edu
(267) 468-8500.
Do-It-Yourself
Home Repair GREEN. Clean, Earth Friendly, Renovations
and Product Use.
- Temple
Center City. 1515 Market St. Downtown Philadelphia. See Temple Center
City "Learn-It-All" class above.
For next class, e-mail Rhonda Geyer,
or call (215) 204-6946.
Specialty Private Classes, Personal Coaching in Your
Home, Consulting
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Inspection, Design, ADA, Home Safety, Renovation, Carpentry. Electricity,
Flooring, Wall and Ceilings, Plumbing, Kitchen and Bath.
e-mail Paul@PaulPlevakas.com
Class syllabus
- Home Repair
class photos, description, equipment, and a fun Mythbusters video of a
malfunctioning water heater on Paul;s web site. |
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