Fitness Integrated Science is a fitness and health methodology that combines modern biomechanics principles rooted in a unique isometric strengthening approach to Hatha Yoga. We are also a Wellness Center in Louisville Kentucky which focuses on increasing our clients' strength, muscular balance, joint stability, and overall range of motion. We offer yoga classes, Pilates, personal training, and yoga teacher training from our studio in the heart of Louisville, Kentucky. We offer Certification Courses and Workshops in Yoga, Pilates, Fitness and Personal Training.
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Lauren Eirk is the creator of Fitness Integrated Science™, offering a unique, sound, biomechancial approach to Hatha Yoga designed to respect joint structure while improving muscle responsiveness and strength. She has spent her life teaching and studying in the health, fitness, and yoga communities, learning from some of the top minds of our time. Having worked in the health education field for over 30 years, Yoga I.S.® is her vision. Lauren’s training has made her highly sensitive to clients with complex, on-going neuro-muscular issues, helping her clients to navigate an effective exercise plan to accomplish their goals.
Lauren’s work has been featured in such magazines as Yoga Journal®, Self®, IDEA® Fitness Journal, American Fitness Magazine, ACE Fitness Magazine, American Fitness Magazine, Fitness First Quarterly Magazine, AKWA Aquatic Exercise Magazine, Business First, Natural Awakenings, and New Woman Magazine. Lauren has presented for such fitness-health organizations and education conferences as IDEA World, IDEA Personal Trainer, Inner IDEA, FACTfest, AFPA, DCAC Fitness, AFS Succeed! Conference, ACSM Fitness Summit, AEA/ IAFC, ECA, Can-FIT Pro, Fit in the City®, Fitour®, Resist-A-Ball®, and Sarah’s City Workout®
+ B.S. Physical Therapy, University of Louisville
+ M.S. Health Fitness Management
Lauren is a Certified E-RYT 500 Level Registered Yoga instructor and has studied Yoga with Master teachers David Swenson, Sianna Sherman, John Friend, Mitchel Bleier, Francois Rault, Doug Keller, Doug Swenson, Judy Rice, Rodney Yee, Beryl Bender Birch, John Schumacher, and Ramanand Patel. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist C-IAYT with the International Association of Yoga Therapy and a Yoga Alliance® Continuing Education Provider (YACEP), she is the developer of the Yoga I.S.® method for Yoga, Barre, and Pilates-based classes, including the Yoga I.S. Mechanix™ method. Lauren is a mentor for AFS Association of Fitness Studios.
Lauren is a Mastery Level Muscle Activation Techniques™ Certified Specialist and MATRx Certified Full-Body Specialist Full Body, including the Lower Leg & Foot as well as the Wrist & Hand. Lauren’s MATRx delineation makes her one of 57 world-wide leading experts in the treatment of muscular Imbalances. Lauren is an International Continuing Education Provider with an established personal training business since 2006, held in the Yoga Integrated Science™ Personal Training Studio. Lauren has been a certified group fitness instructor for nearly three decades and has run many group fitness programs. She is the creator of Yoga with Resist-A-Ball®, a former Resist-A-Ball® and FiTour® Master Trainer and the recipient of the ECA OBOW Award 2007 “Most Mindful Program”. Lauren has taught group and private classes in over 27 fitness centers since the start of her fitness career in the year 1988. She has many years of experience teaching in elementary schools, college universities, hospitals, fitness centers, and community centers in various local, national, and international venues. Lauren specializes in fitness rehabilitation, health fitness management, program development, and continuing education. Lauren is a published author with extensive television and video experience. Lauren is a brand influencer for Athleta® Brand clothing, a member of the Body Bar® Instructor Team with Yoga and Pilates programming, and an avid animal-rights advocate, partnering her business with the Kentucky Humane Society.
This collection is packed full of fun, effective, and intense barre fusion workouts to strengthen and tone your hips. Many standing barre exercises are themed in ballet, Pilates, strength and yoga. Using several small resistance props such as bands, free weights, thigh bands, and gliding disks, your hips will be challenged like never before! Workouts run from 30-60 minute using a variety of fitness modalities.
Video 175 | Glider Barre with Weights (35 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk
This challenging low-impact barre session is designed to be a complete workout for your muscular and cardiovascular systems while being kind to your joints! We will use Gliding Disks (link below) that can be substituted with paper plates or hand towels. Using friction, you can challenge our musc...
Video 077 | Standing Barre Workout for Strong Hips (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk
This workout is designed to strengthen muscles of the hips to improve the stability of the hip joints as well as range of motion. Using the ballet barre to support the body when standing on one leg or working the ankles, this routine will firm and tone the lower body. Some of the exercise posit...
Video 083 | 30 Minute Barre Workout for Hips and Thighs with Lauren Eirk
Lauren takes you through a quick 30 minute (mostly)standing workout using an elastic band to provide resistance to the hips and thighs while performing motions of hip extension, flexion, abduction, and rotation using the core muscles to maintain the positions. Work on muscular symmetry and balan...
Video 100 | Barre Burn for Hips and Core with Lauren Eirk
Lauren takes you through a full hour of creative exercises to target your hips, glutes, thighs, and core using the ballet barre to assist in balance for standing exercises. These exercises are enhanced by incorporating the Pilates Magic Circle into several common movements from Yoga, Pilates, an...
Video 156 | Barre Back, Shoulders, & Hips (60 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk
This circuit format barre workout can be done with any support, including a wall or chair. Practice segments of specific back and shoulder strengthening exercises using body weight and/or the theraband as well as standing barre hip exercise segments. Muscles that cross the hip are directly att...
Video 195 | Lower Body Barre (30 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk
Using a support like a barre or chair, you will experience some highly effective lower body exercises for the hips, thighs, ankles, and feet. The warm up is composed of some great ballet moves to get large lower body muscles fired up. Experience a mix of Barre work from a standing position plus...
