To sign up for a CE course, follow the link to our learning community: Revocycle Mind and Body Education
Our online learning community for fitness professionals, created by Michael Hosking, Ph.D.; biology professor, cyclist, musician, mindful movement pioneer, exercise for mental health leader, and creator of Revocycle Mind and Body Cycling, the world’s first and only mindfulness-based indoor cycling program.
“The focus of our educational community is holistic health through mindful movement and merging fitness with spiritual, emotional, intellectual and physical well-being. It is, then, also about shifting from fitness culture away from the extrinsic and body-based messaging and moving toward holistic, mindbody wellbeing.” -Michael Hosking, Ph.D.
The course Talking About Mental Health-For Fitness Professionals is offered monthly and is approved by both ACE and NASM for continuing education. Clink the link above see the next date and to join us.
The course includes:
-assigned readings on how fitness professionals are thinking about their
role in helping clients with their mental health and the John W. Brick report on 30 years of research on exercise and mental health
-a look at the new fitness customer interested in exercise for mental health
-the mechanisms underlying the connection between exercise and improved mental health
Michael Hosking, Ph.D. (Indiana University, Bloomington) has taught at Indiana University and Davidson College and is the creator of Revocycle Mind and Body Cycling, a mindfulness-based indoor cycling program.
Michael has studied exercise and the brain through Harvard University with John Ratey, M.D. (Harvard University Medical School; author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain) and teaches how exercise can promote mental health through neurogenesis and reduction of the stress response.
Michael currently serves on the Program Advisory Board of the John W. Brick Mental Health Foundation.