ACTIVE FLEXIBILITY
Laura Carolina Morelli
FLEXIBILITY SPECIALIST
Flexibility sessions designed specifically for the needs of figure skaters. These classes involve a mix of dynamic stretches, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation and other techniques of active flexibility designed to help skaters increase their range of motion, improve their performance, reduce muscle soreness and recovery time and reduce risk of injury. Skaters will not only improve their flexibility, but they will also learn how to apply each specific technique to any stretching exercise which will allow them to train their flexibility independently.
This class will touch on the basics of general flexibility as well as diving into detailed and sport-specific exercises geared towards achieving improved figure skating elements such as spirals, spirals variations, basic spin positions and spin positions difficult variations.
ABOUT THE PROFESSIONAL
LAURA CAROLINA MORELLI
Flexibility Speciliast
Is co-founder (alongside colleague Kristen Piche’) of ‘Skate to Soar’, a complete training method for Figure Skaters which focuses on the importance of a holistic view of high level training to achieve success.
Laura is a certified Skate Canada coach (since 2012), Personal Trainer and Ballet for Figure Skaters instructor. She is also a professional figure skater and former National Italian competitive skater who has trained and worked with some of the most accomplished European and North American coaches and choreographers.
Laura has a Bilingual B.A in Philosophy which she completed in Canada after years of touring Europe performing with ‘Holiday On Ice’.
She is passionate about high level training on and off the ice and her classes focus on both the athletic/technical and artistic components of the sport by use of precise and methodical cues in connection with music.
Talento sincerely thanks Laura Carolina Morelli for generously contributing their time, knowledge, and expertise to support youth athlete development through this initiative.