The ELDOA Wellness Group Classes are designed to enhance a client’s home program, whether that be an ELDOA program or as part of their on-going soma-training program at Legacy.  Each class is structured to include ELDOA for each segment of the spine – lumbar, thoracic, cervical – and the exercises are beneficial to anyone and everyone taking the class.  The Wellness Group Classes are open to Legacy Center of Excellence Members and, if space permits, to non-Members wishing to drop-in for a class.  A Group Class Card can be purchased for a series of 5 or 10 Saturday ELDOA classes.  Go to the “eCommerce” tab to purchase on line or the Group Class Card may be purchased in the Center’s Business Office.  You can also purchase a single class at the Drop-In class fee on the eCommerce tab.

The ELDOA Specialized Group Classes are designed to focus on a specific area of the spine or a specific joint or set of  joints in the body.  They may also be formatted to enhance a specific sport, such as golf, tennis, hockey or rowing, by creating space in the areas of the body most affected by that sport.  This normalizes and reorganizes the tissue after the sport has unorganized the body.

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Group Exercise Class Descriptions

After concentrated research in the fields of physical exercise and osteopathy, Legacy’s Sport & Wellness Program was organized.

The exercise system we use for both Sport & Wellness clients at the Legacy Sport & Wellness Center can be described simply as “QUALITY EXERCISE” in that it respects the organization of the FASCIA and human bio-mechanics. All  group and semi-private training classes at the Center are based upon the work of Guy VOYER DO in his SomaTraining program and the Tensegrity model-

“Once you understand the fascial system as a whole, rather than as a series of parts, the body presents itself as an animated version of a tensegrity (tension-integrity) (Fuller 1975).”

In the Sport & Wellness Program, clients are taught how to perform exercises adapted to a specific problem or goal:  sports related, corrective, preventative, maintenance, or aesthetic.  The exercises are precise (analytical) and they respect the complexity of each person’s body and the paradigm of functional anatomy and tensegrity biomechanics.

Every client receives a home program specific to his or her needs.  Clients schedule appointments to work on their program with a skilled Practitioner and The Center offers weekly group and semi-private classes to supplement this work.

Types of exercise classes include, but are not limited to, the following:

ELDOA Wellness Workout

The ELDOA™ General Group Classes are designed to enhance a client’s home program, whether that be an ELDOA™ program or as part of their on-going training program at Legacy.  Each class is structured to include ELDOA™ for each segment of the spine – lumbar, thoracic, cervical – and the exercises are beneficial to anyone and everyone taking the class.  The General Group Classes are open to Legacy Center of Excellence Members and, if space permits, to non-Members wishing to drop-in for a class.

The ELDOA™ Specialized Group Classes are designed to focus on a specific area of the spine or a specific joint or set of  joints in the body.  They may also be formatted to enhance a specific sport, such as golf, tennis, hockey or rowing, by creating space in the areas of the body most affected by that sport.  This normalizes and reorganizes the tissue after the sport has unorganized the body.

Strength Group Exercise Classes

General Conditioning

Glutes & Abs

Pelvis & Pelvic Floor

Lower Body

Upper Body

Squat

Abdominal Training

FLO Session

A FLO Session is a 30-minute rhythmic, fluid movement session that targets specific regions of the body linking them together to improve function.

Myofascial Stretching (MFS)

Myo-fascial Stretching (MFS) – because a muscle is only one link in a global chain, everything is connected to everything by fasciae.  Fasciae is the connective tissue that encapsulates muscle, organs, bone, et cetera.

For a long time now, we believed we knew how to stretch muscles.  However, how do we stretch a muscle when it is sheathed in a leather casing?  Stretching a muscle is only effective once the “skin” that covers it is no longer dry and retracted.  Myofascial stretching respects the anatomy of the muscles, their aponeurosis as well as their own function.  At this point, the analytical study of the fascial chains allows for an incredibly effective stretch position.

Workout for Digestion

Digestion – Peristalsis is a rhythmic and symmetrical contraction and relaxation of the colon to move waste from the body.  Often, due to dehydration, over-use of laxatives, stress, or Colitis, Crohn’s or IBS, this movement doesn’t work in the way it should.

Learning the 9-Part Abdominal Exercises can restore this function resulting in regular bowel movements, release of gas and abdominal cramping, and relief from debilitating symptoms.

The colon has different segments:  the cecum, the ascending colon, the hepatic angle, the transverse colon, the splenic angle, the descending colon, and the sigmoid colon.  In the 9-Part Abs, one “massages” each segment separately in order to enable the parts to work seamlessly as a whole.

Sports Performance Training

The goals of an athlete training for sport or competition are not the same as exercising to be well. Legacy’s sport training program is for athletes and very active individuals who strive to perform at the highest level.  With every sport, there are injuries and in competitive athletics there is no time to lose. As a conditioning specialist with advanced training in corrective exercise and performance rehabilitation, Scott Herrera has worked with the most difficult of orthopedic cases.  For these cases, he uses Legacy’s innovative approach in conjunction with the medical team to maximize time and get results. Athletes who consult with the Center receive comprehensive programs custom-designed to address their goals using many of our sport specific exercises.

Circulatory & Active Recovery

Women's Health

Women’s Health

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Global Postural Stretching (GPS)

Global Postural Stretching (GPS) – which helps restore freedom of movement and comfort to a global part of the body, including bones, muscles, joints, veins, arteries, nerves, etc.

Other Class Types

Balance

Block Training Circuit

VO2 Max – Cardio Circuit

TVA Training

ELDOA SLO

Sauna