These classes are a rare chance to work directly with the master instructor. Many of these 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 classes: Fix Neck & Back Pain and Stretching Smarter CLOSED! Self Defense 8 Thursdays beginning Sept 23, 2010. KickBoxing and Yoga 8 Tuesdays beginning Sept 21, 2010. Home Repair begins Sept 25th. Ongoing now in Philadelphia: Yoga and KarateAll classes: Trainer | Fix Multi-Pain | Fix Neck & Back | Stretching Smarter | Ab Revolution | Yoga | Karate | KickBox | Thai Massage | Aquatics | Home Repair | Self Defense | Diving Medicine
"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
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Your
ACADEMY Certification
HereCertification as Personal Trainer, Group Exercise and Health Instructor, Plus Other Certifications To Lead Health for People and Communities
Taught by Dr. Jolie Bookspan, MEd, PhD, FAWM.Academy of Functional Exercise Medicine (AFEM) certifications in individual disciplines (classes on this page) and the Trainer and Instructor Certifications are earned directly through Dr. Bookspan.
For Personal or Group Trainer Certification, complete 4 core and 3 elective classes, below, with Dr. Bookspan, work on an existing Project, take initiative to develop a new one, or other guided study with Dr. Bookspan. Read about the Academy first, then see the Academy Honors page for examples of initiative by two students to develop projects, resulting in appointments as Directors. Individual classes may be taken for certification by themselves, structured toward your goals.Candidates must possess initiative and good heart, and already use Dr. Bookspan's methods with healthy results. Be familiar with requirements and 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.
CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) certification should be current. No other formal background required.
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 each class syllabus below for helpful materials.
Fix and Prevent Pain and Injuries
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Prevent - Ankle, Arches, Discs, Knee, Back, & Neck Pain Next Locations and Dates:
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 - for benefit of the world.
Fast moving, jam packed, hands-on workshop of breakthrough, evidence-based
innovations in sports medicine. 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. This class is
suitable for the general public. Medical and allied health professionals
get practice teaching methods under supervision with feedback. This class
is only for fun, empowered, good students. Required
core course for AFEM Personal Training certification.
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Fix Neck & Back Pain
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Neck & Back Pain – Medical Breakthroughs
in Non-Surgical Treatment
Hours
of fun, active, sometimes humorous instruction to stop your pain 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, lordosis,
swayback, "spondys," 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 class
is only for fun, empowered, good students.
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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.
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. Class
textbook - Healthy Martial Arts -
Winner of the EUSA Martial Arts Hall of Fame Readers Choice Award.
Class syllabus - Class photos, skills, and readings to prepare for each week. |
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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. |
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Not The Same Old Stretches - Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier taught by Dr. Jolie Bookspan, MEd, PhD, FAWMAFEM certification option for top students. Required core course for AFEM Trainer certifications.
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. Lecture, demonstration, and participation. 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. Fun, rejuvenating class
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The
Ab Revolution
Functional Core Re-Training:
No More Crunches No More Back Pain
A revolution in core training - 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 you can use to restore 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. Class
textbook - Class students can purchase new
third edition book at discount. |
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Lower Body Revolution™
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. Learn fun sports medicine
exercises to get a workout at the same time you specifically retrain posture
and movement patterns for daily life. Combination lecture and increasingly
strenuous practice. This class will change the way you think about fitness
and exercise.
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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 |
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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.
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 real teaching class, not just "do" poses. No experience needed,
just a desire to really 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). Yoga instructors, learn how to prevent injuries for your own
students. Individual
AFEM
Academy certification
possible for top students. One of optional electives for AFEM
Trainer certifications. |
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Partner
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Warrior Yoga with Jolie
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Thai
Yoga Massage Learn from Paul and Jolie, both certified in several styles of medical massage in China, Japan, the United States, and Thailand.
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. |
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Swimming, 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,
international conferences and seminars, and work developing SCUBA and diving medicine textbooks and teaching materials.Dr. Tom Kessler 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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Fun
Aquatics Skill Classes
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Physicians, military, and smart students of the July 2010 WMS medical conference Advanced Diving Medicine class. |
Diving
and Hyperbaric Physiology and Medicine
Diving and Hyperbaric Research and Information: click here for Dr. Bookspan's work. Class textbooks, Click BOOKS page:
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Fun SCUBA classes - Left to right: teaching on Halloween, in México, in the rain, doing karate
Shotokan
Karate
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 Fall, 2010. Students - study and practice! Class
textbook - Healthy Martial Arts. |
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Self
Defense
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. |
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Private
consulting and instruction available |
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.
Class syllabus - Home Repair class photos, description, equipment, and a fun Mythbusters video of a malfunctioning water heater. |
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