Shari Berkowitz & The Vertical Workshop

Shari Berkowitz & The Vertical Workshop Shari Berkowitz & The Vertical Workshop provides continuing education. Biomechanics & teaching tools for all physical modalities & Pilates technique.
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06/11/2026

TVW Teaching Tip ~ Eccentric Contractions in Spine Stretch

Eccentric Contractions are everywhere if you know where to find them! And...it's even important to know why you would want to find them! Why? Because Eccentric Contractions increase both strength and range of motion/flexibility! Let's seek them out in Spine Stretch Forward on the Mat!

Full YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJxRHVawz8E

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Join workshops and workouts (live and on demand), read articles, watch videos! If you want to learn, I want to share!⁠
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Want to work with Shari in person? Check out the upcoming 2026 live workshop schedule and let's play!  - SEPTEMBER 11-13...
06/10/2026

Want to work with Shari in person? Check out the upcoming 2026 live workshop schedule and let's play!
- SEPTEMBER 11-13: Pilates Engel in Berlin, Germany
- OCTOBER 9-11: Pilates on Tour in Sacramento, California, USA
- NOVEMBER 6-8: Simple Form Pilates in Binghamton, New York, USA
- DECEMBER 4-6: Apex Pilates in Apex, North Carolina, USA

See all info and register at:⁠ https://www.theverticalworkshop.com/schedule
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When doing Balance-focused exercises (Standing Magic Circle Legs, Teaser on the Long Box...), remember to share with you...
06/09/2026

When doing Balance-focused exercises (Standing Magic Circle Legs, Teaser on the Long Box...), remember to share with your clients "Save yourself, not the Exercise".⁠

Meaning...if you need to stop and rebalance, then do! Clients hurt themselves when they commit themselves to saving the exercise! No repetition is worth getting hurt! ⁠
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Monday Motivation: "The most important aspect of love is not in the giving or receiving, it's in the being."  -Ram Das**...
06/08/2026

Monday Motivation: "The most important aspect of love is not in the giving or receiving, it's in the being." -Ram Das
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This is a comprehensive continuing education program for teachers of any style of Pilates. It is what you’ve been waitin...
06/07/2026

This is a comprehensive continuing education program for teachers of any style of Pilates. It is what you’ve been waiting for! And it’s On Demand!⁠

The Pilates Teacher Intensives (PTI) is a continuing education program for Pilates teachers of all styles. It is not about exercises, but about everything else!⁠

- Biomechanics with applications to Pilates⁠
- Studying your particular method/style of Pilates and recognizing what each level needs based on what we discovered in biomechanics.⁠
- Incredible teaching tools⁠
- Deep understanding of the apparatus and how to make the most of it⁠
- Injuries, ailments, imbalances and weird aches and pains and how to adapt to these in our work and so so so much more.⁠
- This is not about the individual exercises, though we do a lot of physical work.⁠
- This is not a Bridge program. This program, The Intensives, is designed for any style of Pilates. It’s all of the information and work that one needs that isn’t covered in teacher training programs, but is essential.⁠

While this is a comprehensive program ultimately designed to do all of the seminars with their associated projects, you can do each seminar separately. I want you to get what you need!⁠

For full information, look at the TVW PTI Information Packet (link in IG Linktree) or visit: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5be07ea7620b855e23a2b928/t/6328ec0afc832e2b4ebb4593/1663626720847/TVW+PTI+Info+Packet+Web+and+In+Person.pdf⁠

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Shari is traveling to teach and will have a modified group class schedule coming up. The Intermediate/Advanced Mat and M...
06/06/2026

Shari is traveling to teach and will have a modified group class schedule coming up. The Intermediate/Advanced Mat and Mat Class for Everyone classes *will* take place June 8 - 9.

Shari will then be on hiatus from June 10 - 16, and will return to the Livestream studio for Int./Adv. Reformer on Wednesday, June 17.

Check out the On-Demand video platform while Shari's away to get your workouts in!⁠

https://www.theverticalworkshop.com/on-demand-workouts
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On-Demand/Pre-Recorded Workshop ~ Basics of AnatomyAre you like most people and have a hard time “connecting” to the bas...
06/05/2026

On-Demand/Pre-Recorded Workshop ~ Basics of Anatomy

Are you like most people and have a hard time “connecting” to the basic foundation of anatomy? Can’t remember what is what and why?
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Do you need a refresher and want to hear from a biomechanist’s perspective? (That’s me! Shari!)
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Maybe something else! Join me for Basics of Anatomy. We’ll dig into and seek to understand everything from planes of movement, anatomical terms, and the parts of the musculoskeletal system that are vital for our work in Pilates, yoga, personal training, dance…movement! You’ll be a much more confident teacher if you can “see under the skin” and understand a bit of what is and isn’t happening!

We’ll use my proven techniques of understanding all of this! And…we’ll make it fun! Yes! It can be fun!

Workshop info & rental link: https://www.theverticalworkshop.com/basics-of-anatomy/v/basics-of-anatomy-part-1
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06/04/2026

TVW Teaching Tip ~ Socks Need Sticky Pads

If your clients are wearing socks and are about to put their feet on a foot bar or a pedal...there's something important you've got to do! I explain it all in this short little video!

Full YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weCKgkr-RF0

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Join workshops and workouts (live and on demand), read articles, watch videos! If you want to learn, I want to share!⁠
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Want to work with Shari in person? Check out the upcoming 2026 live workshop schedule and let's play!  ⁠- SEPTEMBER 11-1...
06/03/2026

Want to work with Shari in person? Check out the upcoming 2026 live workshop schedule and let's play! ⁠
- SEPTEMBER 11-13: Pilates Engel in Berlin, Germany⁠
- OCTOBER 9-11: Pilates on Tour in Sacramento, California, USA⁠
- NOVEMBER 6-8: Simple Form Pilates in Binghamton, New York, USA⁠
- DECEMBER 4-6: Apex Pilates in Apex, North Carolina, USA⁠

See all info and register at:⁠ https://www.theverticalworkshop.com/schedule
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0000 Maple Avenue (And All Over The World)
Peekskill, NY
10056

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