From Fear to Flow: Navigating pain conversations with Movement

Kimberley Garlick, Australian Pilates Educator of the Year 2023, Senior Polestar Educator, and PAA President.

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Kimberley Garlick

Anytime, Anywhere

$275 (incl. GST)

120 mins

This workshop focuses on supporting clients who express pain, fear, or hesitation around movement. Learn how to read the body as it communicates concern, and how to respond with clarity, confidence, and appropriate movement strategies.

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FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS

“A massive thanks to Maree, Andrew and Kimberley for organising such an incredible weekend of education and movement. One of the reasons I chose to study with Polestar was the incredible mentorship and on going education, this weekend was another superb example of this.

Each workshop was delivered with incredible knowledge, energy and skill. So many takeaways from the weekend.” Morag Gurnsey, The Pilates Room, Cambridge

“I really appreciated being able to do some studio based CPD utilising the chair & trapeze table, as a comprehensively trained practitioner who practices mostly in a studio setting, this was incredibly valuable and often few & far between offerings, so thank you again & I would love to attend more studio/apparatus-based workshops where possible. Kimberley was an excellent, practical educator who has a great deal of knowledge and expertly guided our bodies through the movements. I have picked up many new ideas and feel refreshed. It was also great to catch up with the South Island practitioners again.” Laura Hayes, Back In Motion Pilates – Christchurch

“Kimberley is an amazing teacher. I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop as well as the mat class and I will be practicing some of the material she demonstrated over the next few weeks to include into my repertoire. Definitely a Polestar Educator I would love to learn more from.” Katrin Gravley, Centred Pilates – Christchurch

From Fear to Flow: Navigating Pain Conversations with Movement

This workshop focuses on supporting clients who express pain, fear, or hesitation around movement. Learn how to read the body as it communicates concern, and how to respond with clarity, confidence, and appropriate movement strategies.

Blending NLP-informed communication with practical movement exploration, this session uses small apparatus and full studio equipment to develop tools for challenging moments – helping clients move from fear toward trust, flow, and embodied confidence.

Key focus areas are:

  • How language shapes movement and perception
  • Reading protective patterns and hesitation in the body
  • Supporting confidence without reinforcing pain narratives
  • Practical strategies for restoring movement options

Please note: an automatic credit card surcharge of 3% gets added when you pay via Visa or Mastercard.

Workshop Educator

Kimberley Garlick Polestar Pilates Course and Training Educator
Kimberley Garlick

Kimberley Garlick is a part of the Australian Polestar Educator team. She is the current President of the PAA (Pilates Association Australia) and Australian Pilates Educator of the Year 2023.

Kimberley’s Pilates related background began with full time dancing. She studied sports science at the Australian Catholic University, while simultaneously pursuing her Nutrition Diploma and teaching dance.

Kimberley managed Sports centres, teaching all styles of classes and personal training, and ran her own nutrition centre. In 1996 she completed her first mat and reformer courses and began teaching Pilates in sports centres along with her other classes. In 2003 Kimberley completed the Polestar Studio training and simultaneously finished a Diploma of Pilates through Sydney University. Since then Kimberley has completed the Polestar Diploma, Certificate 4, Mat and Reformer training.

Kimberley has done many other courses including Myer Briggs Personality Profiling, AcuEnergetics (AcuEnergetics® is a modern healing modality, that integrates Chinese, Judaic, Indian and western healing traditions into an accurate energy medicine) and Life Coaching. She is a Life style presenter for large business firms and has her own studios in Sydney and Byron Bay.

Registration Policies

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