Senior Pilates Course for Allied Health Professionals

For Physiotherapists / Exercise Physiologists / Occupational Therapists

If you are a health practitioner working in Aged Care exercise provision, or you have a company that is onboarding new staff in Aged Care services we can expand your repertoire of exercises with our intensive 2 day course.

Aged specific exercise training workshop

Course contents for this practical dynamic workshop

• Matwork exercises that are suitable for seniors 
• Small apparatus exercises extrapolated from Pilates Large equipment that are senior’s friendly 
• Swiss balls, rollers, Theratubes and bands, sliders, balance pads, weights
• Clinical cases of commonly encountered conditions 

Our trainer

Jenny Birckel is an APA Titled Sports and Exercise physiotherapist.

Jenny has owned and operated the Pilates Institute of Queensland delivering courses for over 25 years to allied Health practitioners 

Jenny and her team provide exercise therapy to seniors on a daily basis at Agility Physiotherapy and Pilates. We have helped 100s of client be their physical best into advanced old age and have done so for over 25 years

We will be including:-  

• Balance exercises
• Stretching
• Gentle Bone loading
• Pelvic floor considerations – what to avoid, what to include 
• Shoulder appropriate exercises to cater for brittle shoulder tendons
• Leg strengthening  
• How to get up and down from the floor
• Discussion about exercises most beneficial for commonly encountered senior conditions 
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Our Assessment – participants will be required to work in small groups and design and deliver an Age appropriate Pilates based exercise class to the group

Entry requirements- Allied health practitioner with good working knowledge of anatomy and physiology 

Date: December 6th & 7th 2025, or January 10th & 11th 2026

Venue: Suite14/188 Nudgee Rd Ascot

Cost:  $1050