US 12,318,656 B2
Kinetic discipline and body positioning apparatus
Kathleen Conklin, Madison, WI (US)
Filed by Kathleen Conklin, Madison, WI (US)
Filed on Jan. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/732,968.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/787,971, filed on Jan. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0215378 A1, Jul. 9, 2020
Int. Cl. A63B 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 21/4037 (2015.10) [A63B 2210/50 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A body positioning apparatus made of a material sized and shaped to support at least one user body comprising a mat comprised of (a) an outer surface upon which at least part of the user body is supported, (b) a discrete head landmark comprised of an upraised head landmark plateau and configured to position a head of a user relative thereto, (c) a pair of spaced apart discrete shoulder landmarks each comprised of an upraised shoulder landmark plateau and configured to position a pair of shoulders of the user relative thereto, (d) a pair of spaced apart discrete hand landmarks each comprised of an upraised hand landmark plateau and configured to position a pair of hands of the user relative thereto; (e) a discrete foot landmark comprised of an upraised foot landmark plateau and configured to position a pair of feet of the user relative thereto, and (f) a discrete pelvis landmark arrangement comprising discrete first, second and third pelvis landmarks respectively comprised of upraised first, second and third pelvis landmark plateaus and configured to position a pelvis of the user relative thereto;
wherein the first and second pelvis landmarks are generally parallel to each other and spaced apart from one another in the widthwise direction;
wherein the first and second pelvis landmarks are each elongate and oriented with a respective lengthwise extent thereof extending in a lengthwise direction relative to the mat;
wherein the third pelvis landmark is disposed interjacent the first and second pelvis landmarks;
wherein the third pelvis landmark is elongate and oriented with a lengthwise extent thereof extending in the widthwise direction of the mat from one of the first and second pelvis landmarks to the other one of the first and second pelvis landmarks;
wherein the pair of hand landmarks are elongate, parallel, and configured to position a corresponding one of a pair of hands of a user on the outer surface of the mat adjacent a respective one of the hand landmarks; and
wherein the foot landmark is elongate and configured to position a pair of feet of the user body on the outer surface of the mat with the foot landmark disposed between the feet of the user during use of the body positioning apparatus.