Sessions
Conference sessions are subject to change.
Saturday May 9
Sessions: Block 1
8:00-9:15 am
Barre HIIT - Jessica Power Cyr
Join Jess for an intense and fun Barre HIIT workshop. The workshop will include upper body barre inspired exercises with light weights and loop bands, sculpting lower body barre inspired exercises with body weight and loop bands and mix in short intense barre inspired cardio drills. She will provide you with class format ideas and lots of fun combos. (This session will rely on light weights, loop bands, and the ballet bar.
Shoulder 360 - HelenVanderburg
Explore the complexity of the shoulder in this workshop taking a 360 degree look at the shoulder. With so many clients struggling with shoulder issues how can we help them gain mobility and stability to enhance function, performance, and strength. We will discuss the anatomy and biomechanics of the shoulder and walk away with effective exercises and techniques to enhance shoulder movement efficiency.
Nervous System Strong: Coaching Regulation, Not Just Reps - Robin O’Grady
In a world of constant stress, your class isn’t just a workout, it’s a nervous system experience. Every choice you make as an instructor (music, pacing, cueing, intensity) either helps people feel safer and more grounded… or pushes them closer to overload. In this practical, eye-opening session, Robin O’Grady shows you how to design and coach classes that leave participants feeling regulated, energized, and safe in their bodies, not just sweaty and spent. You’ll learn how to move beyond “harder, faster” and step into your role as a true nervous system coach.
Sessions: Block 2
9:30-11:00 am
Unlock the Body: The Art & Science of Mobility Training - Helen Vanderburg
This instructor-focused training session explores the science and application of mobility training to improve functional performance, joint health, and overall movement quality for clients of all fitness levels. In this experiential workshop, you will learn how to assess common mobility restrictions, identify compensatory patterns, and apply targeted strategies that combine strength, flexibility, and motor control. We’ll break down mobility principles for major joints, explore dynamic drills and corrective sequences, and practice coaching techniques that enhance body awareness and movement efficiency.
Integrated Strength- Jessica Power Cyr
Join Jessica in this innovative and dynamic session based on current research on resistance training. Jessica will provide you with the tools to design and deliver creative resistance training combinations to keep your participants moving while allowing their body to engage in active recovery. This means your participants can do more in a shorter period of time and see the results they want to achieve. This session will integrate multi-joint and multi-planar exercises within multi-set combos to challenge the body as a whole.
Nutrition and Menopause – and all things hormones - Rory Hornstein
Menopause is one of the most significant hormonal transitions in a woman’s life, influencing metabolism, body composition, bone health, cardiovascular risk, mood, sleep, and energy. During perimenopause and menopause, fluctuating and declining estrogen levels can contribute to symptoms such as hot flashes, weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, and digestive changes.
In this 90-minute evidence-based session, we will explore the latest research on how nutrition, metabolism, gut health, and lifestyle influence hormonal health during midlife. Learn how diet quality, protein intake, strength training, and key nutrients such as calcium, vitamin D, omega-3s, and magnesium can support muscle mass, metabolic health, and symptom management.
This session will translate current science into practical strategies to help women support energy, maintain a healthy body composition, protect bone health, and navigate menopause with confidence.
Perfect for women in perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause, as well as fitness professionals who want to better understand the connection between nutrition, hormones, and midlife health.
Neural Interventions for the Fitness Professional - Naissa Preston
When relying on a toolbox of manual or joint specific interventions, we will often come up against a client who does not respond to the usual prescription of therapy (fascial release, flossing, stretching, stabilizing). By tapping into the neural pathways responsible for those movements, we can add risk-free mobility interventions to the recipe. We increase the probability that fitness professionals can help move people out of pain and back into a full life. We can support out clients with quick and easy self-administered patterns to include in a daily routine.
Sessions: Block 3
11:15 am-12:45 pm
101 Ways to Train the Core - Helen Vanderburg
Expand your core-training toolbox with this creative, high-energy workshop designed to redefine how you think about abdominal and trunk conditioning. “101 Ways to Train the Core” goes far beyond traditional exercises, giving instructors a comprehensive approach to building strength, stability, mobility, and functional power through innovative core-focused movement. You’ll walk away with a deep understanding of what truly defines core training—plus a wealth of new exercises, fresh ideas, and adaptable combinations to energize your group classes, private training sessions, or personal workouts.
Strength Flow - Krista Popowych
Join Krista for a dynamic session that blends strength with movement into a seamless training experience. In this workshop, you’ll explore purposeful movement patterning that helps participants transition smoothly between exercises while building strength, stability, and endurance. Using bodyweight training and small equipment, Krista will guide you through creative conditioning sequences designed to keep classes engaging, efficient, and effective. You’ll discover how to layer movement patterns and design workouts that flow and challenge participants from start to finish.
Understanding GLP-1 and exercise - Gisele Tennant
GLP-1 medications are reshaping your clients and class participants. This session will provide a synthesis of the latest research on GLP-1 therapy, covering its effects on appetite, metabolism, and body composition, as well as its potential to cause lean mass loss. Join us to learn how physical activity can protect muscle function. You will leave with an understanding of how to support your clients and class participants who are taking GLP-1 medications while respecting your scope of practice.
Yoga for Athletes and the Non-Yogi - Jessica Power Cyr
Join Jessica for an athletic yoga practice that will draw out the athlete within you and support the design of a simple yoga inspired class. Perfect flowing sequences that challenge balance, strength and stability await you; all linked with mindfulness of movement, understanding breath work and empower and create a calming series. We will discuss breath work, standing and seated postures. We’ll put it all together with tips on design and delivery of your Yoga class for athletes and the non yogi's alike. Get ready to unleash your inner warrior.
Lunch 12:45 - 1:15pm
On your own
Sessions: Block 4
1:15-2:45 pm
Pilates Fusion Sculpt: Strength, Stability & Mobility - Helen Vanderburg
Enhance your Pilates mat teaching with the creative and effective use of props. This
dynamic workshop explores how tools such as the BOSU®, small ball, weighted ball and
resistance bands can add variety, challenge, and support to traditional Pilates mat
exercises. Whether you are looking to expand your repertoire, add variety to group classes,
or refine your one-on-one programming, this workshop will equip you with practical tools,
adaptable sequences, and new inspiration to elevate every Pilates mat session.
Coaching Confidence: Cueing, Presence, and Owning the Room - Robin O’Grady
Choreography and programming matter, but how you coach them is what your participants actually feel. This session is the evolution of Robin’s choreography work: less about steps, more about you as the leader at the front of the room. O’Grady Fitness In this high-energy, hands-on session, you’ll sharpen your cueing, presence, and problem solving so you can walk into any room, any format, any crowd, and feel solid, grounded, and in charge (in the best way).
Mindfulness and your practice - Nicole Libin
Join Nicole as she unravels the mindfulness practice exercise leaders to support ourselves and our participants through practice. This session will share tools and ideas on how we can support meaningful practice in our services.
The Science of Breathwork for Metabolism, Performance and Wellbeing - Elaine Jagielski
Unlock the power of your breath to enhance energy, recovery, metabolic health, and overall well- being. This workshop blends the most effective research-based and traditional breathwork practices, highlighting how each technique influences fat metabolism, oxygen efficiency, nervous system (stress and anxiety) regulation, vagal tone, and deep relaxation. You will explore how breathwork can improve HRV, reduce stress, sharpen focus, support immune function, and promote healthy fat oxidation, CO2 elimination, and brainwave states. You’ll learn practical tools to integrate into mind-body practices, cooldowns, and daily routines to boost endurance, improve recovery, enhance overall well-being and relaxation.
Cycle: The VO₂ Max Accelerator: Hit the Peak! - Krista Popowych
Take your coaching—and your riders’ results—to the max with the V02 Max Accelerator! With VO2 the hot trend, this high-octane workshop is all about boosting VO₂ max and power output through targeted, high-intensity intervals. Learn how to push aerobic limits, accelerate recovery, and build unstoppable endurance. Help your classes break through performance plateaus and achieve their goals every session. Perfect for instructors ready to deliver next-level results and lead classes that leave a lasting impact.
Sessions: Block 5
3:00-4:15 pm
Core Harmony - Simone Hodgkinson
Find your feet, spread your base, lift the inner ankle, ignite the inner thighs, connect to the pelvic floor and line up the shoulder blades and head – a harmonious alignment that creates deep stability and inner core connection. Experience the Iyengar approach to Core Training and breathe new life into your traditional fitness core workouts.
Rhythm, Flow, and Feel: Making Any Class More Musical (Without Choreo Overwhelm)- Robin O’Grady
You don’t have to be a dancer to teach a class that feels amazing in the music. This session is about using rhythm and musicality to elevate any format, strength, conditioning, step, dance, or hybrid, without drowning in complex choreography. Robin O’Grady will show you how to work with the music instead of fighting it, turning simple movements into memorable, feel-good experiences your participants will want to come back to.
I see YOU! How to Create an Impact on Others - Jessica Power Cyr
Everyone wants to feel valued, seen and respected. Individuals who make a positive impact understand the
power of relationships and the importance of building connections. In this session, Jessica will discuss tips on
how to make meaningful connections with others and review how to give care to others through our
actions. She will provide you with guidance on self-awareness to strengthen your people skills and tools to
build sustainable relationships through open and honest communication. Ready to create a positive impact
on others?
Pilates Mat for Active Agers - Helen Vanderburg
Discover how Pilates mat work can help active agers build strength, mobility, balance, and confidence for everyday life. This workshop explores the unique needs of aging bodies and how to adapt Pilates mat exercises to support longevity, independence, and functional movement. Whether you teach group classes or one-on-one sessions, you’ll leave with practical tools, creative variations, and evidence-informed programming ideas to help your active-aging clients feel strong, capable, and energized.
Cycle: Rebel Ride! Beat the Beat - Krista Popowych
Break the beat and unleash your inner rebel with Rebel Ride! This energizing, rhythm-based workshop combines powerful music, epic climbs, and boundary-pushing intervals. Learn how to put together rides that are as fun as they are challenging—where creative expression fuels motivation and every instructor finds their unique edge. Reimagine indoor cycling with music that combines rpm with bpm, and workout profiles designed to be vibrant, motivating and results-driven. Create experiences that appeal to every fitness level and every rider, one beat at a time.
Aquatic: 3:30-4:45 pm - Core on the Wall - Patty Grant
Fire up the core with this creative workout that uses both the deep and the shallow walls (with emphasis on the deep). The pool wall will become our playground as we find anchor points and touch points to explore traditional movement patterns with a twist! These engaging sequences will demand stability and challenge your participants to find their inner focus, strength and core.
Sessions: Block 6
4:30-5:30 pm
Wall Pilates - Jessica Power Cyr
Pilates is all the rage right now but let's move it away from our traditional mat classes. Wall Pilates incorporates Pilates exercises with the support of a wall. Jessica will review standing, seated and floor exercises using the wall and show you combo's that will give your participants sculpted abs, legs and glutes plus a strong core.
Root to Rise Mobility - Simone Hodgkinson
Let’s mobilize, let’s move, let’s awaken, let’s strengthen. Enjoy a mix of Mobility & Yoga for an impactful mobility class. Explore ranges of motion with control, to support true, lasting mobility. Suitable for all levels. This session will begin with a meditation and end with a savasana. Options will be offered throughout. No experience necessary.
Why Talk About Happiness - Gisele Tennant
As fitness professionals, we influence far more than physical health; our work shapes identity, self-esteem and daily habits. While many of us pursue external achievements with the belief, "I’ll be happy when...," research suggests this mindset can actually keep happiness out of reach. With the current state of the World, let’s take a moment for ourselves and look at strategies to find the silver lining in every situation
Aquatic: 5:00-6:15 pm - Aqua Line Fitness: Shallow Water Walls, Lines & Fun! - Patty Grant
Have you ever tried Line Dance? How about Line Dance in the pool? Discover a fresh approach to shallow water fitness using the natural structure of the pool. Using the lines on the pool floor and the pool walls for direction and orientation we will create clear exercise patterns that up the fun factor! By working with the unique properties of the water this class adds a new energy dynamic that can stand alone as an entire class or a portion of the class.