Mbodies Pilates Instructor Training Academy

  This post is the follow-up to the last post titled 'The first face-to-face Mbodies, post-rehab breast cancer course, since lockdown - the prequel. Freeland Village Hall Freeland   Ready and Waiting To recap - It is Saturday morning 8am on 26th June 2021 and Mbodies Training Academy events team is set up in Freeland Village Hall, Oxfordshire for their first face-to-face larger group education since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The course is Mbodies 16 hour Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer  running over the weekend titled  Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Post Operative Rehab Course The venue was rated as COVID-19 enabled for 16 people and was fully booked with 15 students plus course tutor Imelda Noble. The course build-up, communication, and on-the-day procedures and flow had, like so many businesses around the world, been re-imagined and re-designed:  The pandemic-ready individual teaching and learning station with social distancing was the new normal and the requirements

  ‘Spot the difference’ As we prepared on Saturday Morning 26 th June 2021 for Mbodies Training Academy’s  first face-to-face education since lockdown, it felt a bit like setting up a 'spot the difference' game:  6 Physiotherapists, 7 Pilates Instructors a Yoga specialist instructor and an advanced fitness professional were about to arrive for two days of Pink Ribbon Post-Rehab Instructor Training and what would in 2019 have been just a routine set-up was anything but that today. The arrival The Arrival No more lonely sign-in Sheet to greet you – instead ‘Lateral-Flow’ Covid 19 tests for those who had not brought photographic proof of their own negative test earlier that morning. .  Type IIR medical-grade disposable masks: the new requirement to be admitted to the course; as well as the compulsory sanitiser to use when entering and leaving the premises! The sign-in The Disclaimers and Waivers Added to the normal disclaimer and permission  forms covering liability, data-prote