Marian Geist, LPGATeaching and Club Professional Member, offers golf lessons, golf schools, winter golf programs, and practice sessions to golfers in the Annapolis/Baltimore area. Click here for Renditions Golf Course and Walden Country Club locations.

Marian Geist, LPGA "Class A" Teaching Professional, has been teaching locally for more than 14 years. Marian's education specialties are kinesiology, motor learning, and sport psychology. She earned a BS in Kinesiology at the University of Maryland at College Park and has completed all coursework towards an MS in Exercise Science and Physical Education at McDaniel College. She is currently working on her thesis.  Marian completed all three Golf Fitness Certifications with Dr. Greg Rose at Advantage Golf and spent an entire "off-season" receiving one-on-one coaching from him to improve her own swing. Dr. Rose is co-founder of the Titleist Performance Institute and appears regularly on THE GOLF CHANNEL.

The strength of Marian's teaching ability is steeped in her keen understanding of the form and function of the human musculoskeletal system and the discipline of motor learning - which simply means, the way people learn new or improve their movement skills. Marian spent a better part of a decade learning, investigating, training, and working with pain patterns using trigger point therapy and the St. John's Method of Neuromuscular Therapy. Her undergraduate thesis was "Posture and Pain in the Upper Quadrant", in which she drew connections between muscular imbalances around joints and resulting pain - specifically in the neck and shoulder region.

Marian interned with Aaron Mattes, Kinesiotherapist in Sarasota, FL, and originator of the Active, Isolated Stretching Program used widely among Olympic and professional athletes. So, when Marian watches you make a golf swing, she is also looking for muscles that are erroneously dominating your movement pattern or are under performing. Sometimes, golfers swing a certain way because of a muscle imbalance. When that is the case, no amount of lessons or practice will fix the swing without the imbalance being addressed. More often than not, though, golfers swing the way they swing because they do not really understand what they are trying to do. The first step always, in motor learning, is a cognitive or "thinking stage" in which one comes to understand the "what" (and sometimes the "why" for those really inquiring minds). It's better to not practice at all until one possesses a clear understanding.    

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