Corso Metodo Mezieres ambito sportivo/preventivo

In-Person Course – 9 Training Days Across 3 Seminars

🧠 A new way to observe the body — and truly enhance performance.

🎯 Have you ever felt like the body isn’t responding the way it should?
You train an athlete, plan the exercises, correct their form… but something still feels off.
The movement looks “right,” but balance doesn’t improve, and precision doesn’t hold over time.

That’s normal. The body always adapts — but not always in a functional way.

👉 This course offers a new perspective:
a biomechanical model that helps you see more clearly, plan more coherently, and act more effectively.

🧠 Don’t expect “the usual posture work.”
The Mézières Method you’ll explore here is likely very different from what you’ve heard about.
It’s not a passive technique, nor a set of exercises to imitate.
It’s a systemic, scientific approach based on muscular biomechanics, force vectors, and physical principles.
It teaches you to read the body as a system — where every adaptation has meaning, and every well-designed exercise can restore function and precision.

✅ If you coach, correct, strengthen, or guide people in movement every day,
this course can give you the extra edge you’ve been looking for.

Observing surface movement isn’t enough:
you need a framework that connects what you see to what’s actually happening beneath the surface.

🎯 Do any of these situations sound familiar?

🔸 You train motivated clients or athletes, but sometimes it feels like their bodies are compensating rather than truly improving.
🔸 You notice movements that look correct on the outside, but don’t know how to intervene at a deeper level.
🔸 You’d like to propose more coherent, progressive exercises — but lack truly effective tools to read the body.
🔸 You have a solid understanding of movement, but feel that a systemic model is missing — one that logically connects it all.

👉 If you've ever thought this, this course can give you the tools you’ve been looking for.

The Mézières Method presented in this course is not a passive technique, nor a series of exercises to imitate.
It’s a systemic biomechanical model, based on:

• the vector analysis of muscular forces

• the body’s adaptive dynamics in motion

• the physical principles that regulate joint balance

A scientific and hands-on approach that enables you to:

✔️ detect early dysfunctions that limit performance
✔️ identify shortened muscular vectors that disrupt joint balance
✔️ design progressive, coherent paths for muscular reorganization

Throughout the course, you’ll see how these concepts are applied in practice:
through live demonstrations, guided case observations, and detailed explanations, you’ll develop new skills in biomechanical observation and planning.

As Françoise Mézières once said:

“In a healthy body, function governs structure. In a sick body, structure governs function.”

When an athletic gesture is performed by muscles in physiological balance — where work force prevails over resistant force —
the body moves more efficiently, joints are protected, and performance improves.

Conversely, when acting forces are imbalanced and resistant force dominates, the movement loses efficiency:
➡️ repetition doesn’t improve quality
➡️ function doesn’t unlock
➡️ and joint loads increase, potentially becoming harmful

Two opposing muscular forces are always active in the body:

🔹 Work Force
This is the muscular energy that generates movement.
Active, functional, and action-oriented.

🔸 Resistant Force
This is the force that opposes movement.
It results from muscle shortening, stiffness, or dysfunctional patterns.
It slows down, diverts, or blocks execution.

👉 When work force prevails, the movement is precise, coherent, and efficient.
👉 When resistant force dominates, the movement is compensated, performance becomes unstable, and joint load increases.

During the course, you’ll learn to recognize these forces through real cases, instructor-guided videos, and practical examples:
✅ to improve your observation skills
✅ to intervene with greater logic
✅ and to design exercises that are truly effective

During the course, you’ll personally experience all 10 standard sessions, presented in a taxonomic progression — from the simplest to the most complex exercises.

Each session is designed to rebalance muscular forces across different body regions, using active postures, isometric contractions, and verbal cues that enhance perception, precision, and coherence of movement.

This hands-on experience allows you to:

• feel the effectiveness of each session on your own body

• recognize the different levels of difficulty

• deeply understand the biomechanical logic behind each proposal

👉 These sessions can be reproduced with the same structure and content,
but they also serve as a solid and adaptable foundation to tailor your work to individuals or groups — with both creative flexibility and biomechanical rigor.

During the course, you’ll personally engage in one-on-one work, alternating between the roles of observer, practitioner, and subject.

Each session becomes an opportunity to:

• train your biomechanical eye, distinguishing what is merely visible from what is truly meaningful

• recognize early signs of dysfunction

• design targeted, personalized exercises based on the body’s actual alignment

You’ll observe and analyze the body both statically and dynamically, with special attention to:

• symmetries and asymmetries

• recurring compensations

• dominant vectors that affect movement precision

Direct interaction with instructors and fellow participants will help you develop a sharper, more conscious observational skillset — one you can immediately apply in your daily work.

The Mézières Method doesn’t offer a set of exercises to repeat — it offers a new logic for understanding human movement and rebalancing the forces that generate it.

In the in-person course, you won’t just study these principles:
you’ll experience them firsthand on your own body and observe them in others.
This will help you internalize a deeper, more systemic biomechanical framework.

The model is based on three core pillars:

🔹 Vector-Based Analysis of Muscles
Muscles are not isolated entities — they act as interdependent force vectors.
Every shortening alters global balance, creating both local and distant effects.
During the course, you’ll learn to recognize these patterns through guided, hands-on practice.

🔹 Biomechanical Interpretation of Dysfunctions
You’ll learn to observe the body both statically and dynamically, in order to detect:
– axial deviations
– compensatory patterns
– early signs of muscular disorganization
All guided through real cases and step-by-step supervision.

🔹 Active Postures and Isometric Contractions in Maximal Elongation
Practical tools to reduce resistant force, free up movement, and restore joint coherence.
You won’t just study them — you’ll experience them directly, to fully understand their effectiveness and practical application.

The method integrates two levels of analysis:

🔸 Linear Physics
To study muscular vectors and joint misalignments in a logical and measurable way.

🔸 Nonlinear Physics
To interpret the body as a complex, interdependent, adaptive system with emergent behaviors.

A scientific and practical language, designed for professionals who work with movement every day and want to grow in precision, coherence, and observational ability.

This course doesn’t just offer theoretical knowledge:
it gives you practical tools to observe, guide, and design movement with greater precision, coherence, and effectiveness.

✅ Integrate the Mézières model into your professional practice
You’ll learn to apply its principles to create muscle rebalancing programs suited to your context —
whether you work in a gym, a studio, or with small groups.

✅ Assess the body through a systemic lens
The body is not a sum of parts — it’s an interconnected system.
You’ll develop the ability to detect axial deviations, compensations, and early signs of functional disorganization, even in movements that appear correct.

✅ Identify dominant forces and shortened vectors
You’ll learn a method to detect active dysfunctions, distinguish them from secondary ones, and direct your work toward the true biomechanical priorities.

✅ Guide movement execution with more precision
Through practical experience, you’ll learn to propose exercises not based on maximal strength, but on movement precision and neuromuscular efficiency.
You’ll develop a clear, functional language that respects each subject’s actual joint physiology.

✅ Plan with coherence, adapt with creativity
By experiencing and discussing the 10 standard sessions with the group, you’ll build a solid framework —
a foundation to effectively adapt each proposal, in both individual and group settings.

💡 This is real professional growth:
training your eye, your mind, and your sensitivity to read the body systemically, and support it with effective, personalized strategies that respect joint balance.

🎯 By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

• design interventions based on solid biomechanical logic

• stand out for your ability to assess and guide movement

• communicate with greater authority, thanks to the hands-on experience in class and the strength of the model you’ve learned

If you work every day to improve movement — with athletes, active individuals, or those in functional recovery — this course provides practical, scientific, and immediately applicable tools.

It is designed for:

🔹 Graduates and students in Movement Science (from the 3rd year onward)
🔹 Kinesiologists, posturologists, ISEF graduates
🔹 MCB-certified professionals, athletic trainers, personal trainers
🔹 Movement specialists with documented training in motor or preventive fields

📌 The course is fully compliant with current regulations and does not include clinical or healthcare activities.

✅ AIFiMM Certificate
For the application of the Mézières Method in sport and prevention contexts, recognized nationally (non-clinical)

✅ Real Operational Skills
Postural evaluation, biomechanical analysis, and guided program design for functional rebalancing

✅ Immediate Integration into Your Practice
You’ll be able to apply what you’ve learned in your training programs, postural education, motor re-education, and prevention work

✅ Direct Experience and Immersive Learning
Every session is experienced, discussed, analyzed, and then applied in small groups with supervision

✅ Access to the AIFiMM Network
Join the national Mézières community: ongoing updates, professional exchange, and inclusion in the AIFiMM practitioners registry

The course is led by one of AIFiMM’s two senior instructors: Mauro Lastrico or Laura Manni, both of whom trained in Paris with Françoise Mézières.
With over 40 years of combined experience and 25 years of teaching, they are recognized nationally as key figures in applying the Mézières Method in the field of movement and prevention.

📌 Each edition is led by one of the two, ensuring consistency in teaching and high educational quality.

💳 Enrollment fee: €1,400 + VAT
📆 Payment in installments available

🎯 Discounts available for:
Early registrations, students, and group enrollments

📌 Is this a rehabilitation or clinical course?
No. This course is designed exclusively for movement and prevention settings.
It does not teach rehabilitative techniques and is intended for graduates in Physical Education, kinesiologists, and movement professionals.

📌 Can I use it to lead group sessions?
Yes. The 10 standard sessions are designed to be applied in both group and individual settings, with progressions that can be adapted to participants’ goals and characteristics.

📌 Does it include one-on-one work?
Yes. Individual work is one of the course’s main strengths.
You’ll learn to observe the body in both static and dynamic conditions, design personalized exercises, and recognize signs that may require clinical attention — always within the boundaries of your professional role.

📌 What are the advantages of the in-person course compared to the online version?
The in-person format allows you to experience every session firsthand, receive direct feedback from instructors, interact with peers face-to-face, and train your biomechanical eye in a guided and progressive way.

For those who prefer to study independently, an asynchronous online version is available, offering the same theoretical and practical content.

🎥 9 on-demand video lessons (21.5 hours)
📁 12 months of unlimited access
📚 Up-to-date scientific content
📜 AIFiMM certificate for sport/prevention applications
💰 Price: €350 + VAT