Franklin Method® Workshop · One Day
Essential
Movement Skills
The missing foundation for Pilates, yoga, and dance.
Taught by Eric Franklin
Sun · August 30, 2026 | 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Most movement professionals are trained to teach exercises. Fewer are taught the principles underneath them.
Without the why, an exercise becomes mechanical — performed correctly, but doing far less than it could.
In this workshop Eric Franklin introduces the essential movement skills that form the foundation of all effective physical training. Before Pilates, yoga, or dance technique can reach its full potential, the body has to understand the rules it was designed to move by.
These principles give the nervous system a better way to organize movement — more coordinated, more efficient, and with far less effort.
Five principles of the Franklin Method®
- 1
Anatomy. How the body is actually built to move — and what changes the moment you picture it accurately.
- 2
Bone Rhythms. The coordinated counter-movement of bones at every joint, and how to feel it happening.
- 3
Fascia elasticity. Using the body’s built-in spring and rebound instead of muscling through the movement.
- 4
Breathing. Organizing movement from the inside out, so breath supports the work rather than fighting it.
- 5
Dynamic Neuro-Cognitive Imagery (DNI™). Training the nervous system to coordinate the movement before a single muscle is cued.
Techniques you can use the next morning
We work through practical movement and imagery exercises that address the issues you already see every week — in Pilates, yoga, dance, and ordinary daily movement.
