class schedules

We love sharing our passion for Somatic Education with others. We'd be delighted to have you join us in a class or workshop. Our class schedule changes frequently as we're often inspired to create new learning opportunities. Join our mailing list to stay up to date. Unless otherwise noted, people of all "skill levels" are welcome to attend any of our classes. You might be an athlete, a couch potato, or anywhere in between, and you'll find life enhancing "aha!" moments and enjoyable learning opportunities. (Please note, however, that group classes are not recommended if you are in the acute phase of an injury. Contact us about private sessions if this is the case.) We recommend you wear comfortable clothing, bring padding so that you'll be comfortable on a hard floor (a blanket or fitness pad works well) and don't forget to bring an open mind and sense of humor, each of which can optimize your learning experience. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Empelvised, Embellied, Empowered an 8 week course for women with Erin @ Vitalize Studio Thursday from Jan 14-March 6 6-7:30 ($125 pre-registered)

Basics of Back Care (Through U of U Lifelong Learning) Sat. Jan. 30th 2-5pm @ Avenues Yoga

Couples Massage (Through U of U Lifelong Learning) Fri. Feb.5th, 7-10pm @ Avenues Yoga

Visiting Teacher Diana Razumny: The Power of the Pelvis Sat-Sun. Feb 20-21 @ Avenues Yoga (Saturday 1-6, Sunday 12-5) see www.movement-educators.com

Full Body Skiing: Improve Ski Skills with Feldenkrais - Sun. Feb.28, 1-4:30pm SLCJCC

Improve the Way You Run (short version): Sat. Mar.20, 2-5pm @ Avenues Yoga

Know Thyself- 5 Week Experiential Anatomy Course With Erin and Roz Newmark Thursday 6-7:30 @ Vitalize Studio

Improve the Way You Run (full workshop): Sat. April 10, 1-6pm @ Avenues Yoga

Further details and registration info will be posted in the next few days.
Contact us if you have questions:

Empelvised, Embellied, Empowered: An 8 week course
for Women begins Jan. 14th
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Thursdays, Jan.14-Mar.4 6-7:30pm
@ Vitalize Community Studio in Sugarhouse
2154 S. Highland Drive

In a warm and safe environment, through experiential anatomy exercises, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, and more, we will explore the experiential territory of the female pelvis. Focusing on the pelvic floor muscles specifically, we'll also be exploring how the organization of the pelvis is related to the functioning of the hips, lower back and abdomen.

This class is designed to introduce practical self-care solutions for all phases of a woman's life. In addition to increasing awareness, strength, flexibility and coordination, the learning that occurs through such explorations can lead to improved continence and sexual vitality. The class will also be a perfect introduction for women preparing for or recovering from childbirth or for those who work with birthing women. I'm very delighted to share this information. Handouts will be provided each week. Please bring a blanket or pad for your comfort on the floor.
Tuition for 8 weeks is $140

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The Art of Moving Well
(How do you know if you are?)
Mondays, 5:30-7pm @ Avenues Yoga
Feb.1-Mar.29

You'll notice that 9 of the classes listed in our Monday drop in classes above share a similar title: The Art of Moving Well. We're inspired to offer a series of classes emphasizing the practical, experiential understanding of some of the basic principles and tenets which underlie the whole of The Feldenkrais Method - and which can be so practical and helpful to learn and to personalize in your own life and your own ways of moving in the world. We're very excited to be offering this course!

This course will be teaching skills that can be learned at any age, in any condition. In fact, we all had the skills at one point when we were learning to move in the world, so it is more a process of re-learning what is already inside.

In this course we will not be offering rules to follow ie -"pull your abs in," "lengthen the neck," "drop your shoulders down" etc, but rather exploring experientially the principles of skillful, coordinated human movement. How do you know if your hip joints are free? What does it feel like to rest on the frame of the skeleton? How can gravity and ground forces make movement easier? What are the indicators that too much effort is being used in a movement?

You can still drop in to any class you like - but if you're inspired to sign up for the whole course, you'll save $25 ($110 for 9 classes.)

Don't Miss:
Visiting Teacher Diana Razumny, Feb. 20-21 @ Avenues Yoga, 68 K St.

Saturday, 1-6pm & Sunday 12-5pm
"Power of the Pelvis: Finding & Using It"

Diana is an internationally experienced Feldenkrais Practitioner and trainer of Feldenkrais professionals. She's a creative, dynamic instructor and one of our dear friends and beloved teachers. Join us for a transformative weekend of movement and self exploration. It will be fun!

diana teaching Cost is $200 (Visa/MC accepted) or $125 for an individual day.

Join us to find a new and revitalized sense of yourself through a weekend of Awareness Through Movement. Find out how movement can be the source to learn more about thinking, feeling, sensing and acting. Designed to evoke a more synergistic use of self, these movement lessons create greater comfort, ease, and quality of movement.

Perfect for: Athletes, Performing Artists, Yogis, Meditators, Seekers of Truth, PTs, OTs, LMTs and other health professionals, Visual Artists, Martial Artists, Old people, Young People, Everyone!

Full Body, Integrated Skiing through Feldenkrais
Sunday Feb. 28th, 1-4:30 at SLC JCC

Wouldn't it be great to study the mechanics of movement that could make skiing easier and more fluid without risking falling on your face as you experiment and try new things? In this workshop, we'll do just that. Through several Feldenkrais lessons you will have a chance to explore many movements specific to skiing while in the comfort and safety of a warm room with nowhere to fall, and as a result, watch your skiing improve dramatically. $45 prepaid, $50 drop in.

Improve the Way You Swim!

Saturday March 6, 2-5pm
@ Avenues Yoga, 68 K St
$40 prepaid, $45 drop in

Enjoy an afternoon exploring how you can improve swim-specific movements and learn ways of making swimming more efficient, less likely to cause injury and strain, and more fun! In Feldenkrais lessons, we do this not through swimming advice, but through testing and exploring how different movements and patterns affect the qualities of ease and strength. The most valuable advice we can give is not a specific technique, but to help you to experience for yourself how you can improve your quality of comfort and form every time you swim. You may have guessed that Avenues Yoga doesn't have a pool - we'll be doing these lessons on the ground and invite you to take them for a swim soon afterward.

Improve the Way You Bike!
Sat. March 13, 2-5pm
@ Avenues Yoga, 68 K St.
$40 prepaid, $45 drop in

Imagine what it would be like to bike without neck pain, without the shoulders being sore, without feeling like a turtle afterwards...

In this workshop we will explore ways to find more ease and efficiency in biking. From the head and neck to the knees, ankles and feet we will see how to find the most power with the least amount of strain and the most amount of pleasure and enjoyment. Whether you're a novice or a racer, you'll find practical information which can help your form every time you climb on your bike. As always, our medium for exploration will be Awareness Through Movement.

Improve the Way You Run!

Saturday March 20th 2-5pm (the short version) $40 prepaid, $45 drop in
and
Saturday April 10th, 1-6pm (the complete version) $75 prepaid, $80 drop in
Both at Avenues Yoga, 68 K St.

For many of us the way we develop our running style is by starting to run - we just "run the way we run." Rarely is there a context where we can return to exploring our running to see if it is as economical, as powerful or as enjoyable as it could be. We might attempt to follow instructions from the experts on the "best" foot strikes or arm swings or vary the shoes we wear - but is there a way we could we find an internal compass which could reliably lead us to strong, efficient, and graceful running, directed from the inside by our own experience and awareness?
In this workshop we will do several Awareness Through Movement® lessons which can both clarify our experience of the mechanics of running as well as awaken our capacity to attend to many details of ourselves as we run.

As Moshe Feldenkrais often said, "When you know what you are doing, you can do what you want." Do you know what you are doing as you run? In your hip joints? In your ribs? With your arms? Your abs? Your toes? With your attention?
This workshop is open to those who compete in races, those who have never run, those who used to run but it hurt too much, and those who think that running is impossible.

The short running parts of the workshop are optional for those with injuries, or who do not run, and the learning and discoveries in the floor lessons (like most things Feldenkrais) can be applied to myriad aspects of life beyond running.

If you'd like to repeat this workshop, ask us about a discount for repeat students.

Know Thyself: Experiential Anatomy Course with Erin & Roz Newmark
Thursdays, 6-7:30pm March 11-April 8
@ Vitalize Community Studio

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Join me and my dear friend Roz Newmark for 5 classes in Experiential Anatomy and get to know your self in an intimate, personal, visceral, beautiful way.
Roz will be guiding us in movement and awareness explorations from the perspective of Body Mind Centering while I'll be teaching from the Feldenkrais perspective. Over 5 weeks we'll explore many body systems from the inside out. Rather than learning about your body through looking at images in books, we'll be learning about ourselves through direct experience. We've been dreaming of offering a course like this for years and are so excited that now is the time! We hope you'll join us.
$75 for the course.

Spring is Here! Restorative Retreat Day at Snowbird's Cliff Spa
Sat. Mar.27, 12:30-4pm

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to the Cliff Spa to offer another day of restoration in their beautiful mountain setting. I'm also very excited to be offering something new - rather than the standard restorative yoga practice I've offered in the past, this time we'll be working with Restorative plus Feldenkrais. I believe working in this way will allow the relaxation cultivated through the workshop to be more easily integrated into daily life, as well as offering a very nurturing self-care experience. Enjoy 3 and a half hours of deep relaxation at the Cliff Spa. In addition to enjoying quiet time allowing the bodymind to melt into the supportive yoga bolsters and blankets, we'll also be treating ourselves to small gentle movement sequences which can be incredibly powerful in allowing the resolution of long standing (and often unconscious) tension patterns - leaving you feeling open, fresh, and new.

"Make me sweet again, fragrant and fresh and wild, and thankful for any small event," wrote Rumi. It's my aspiration that this weekend retreat leaves each participant feeling just that way.

Before or after the practice, you're welcome (and encouraged) to enjoy the world-class amenities at the Cliff Spa, including the eucalyptus steam room, the rooftop Jacuzzi and heated chlorine-free pool with stunning mountain views, the sauna, the workout equipment and more. Of course, when the weather permits, you may enjoy an early morning or late afternoon ski or snowboard, or even a hike or snowshoe in the beauty of the mountains. Towels and a locker are provided for your use, and you can pay $5 to upgrade and receive spa sandals and a robe. You may wish to make a day (or a full weekend) of it and book a room in one of Snowbird's many lodges so you needn't hurry back down the canyon but can steep yourself in the pristine mountain setting, enjoying your own relaxed embodiment. No experience is necessary for you or a loved one to enjoy the benefits of this practice. You're invited to bring your own props if you have them, but additional bolsters, blankets and blocks will also be provided.
Once you register, you'll receive an email with additional information on what to bring, where to park, and etc.

The retreat will be limited to 18 participants. Please register in advance - these workshops always fill!
Cost is $50 when paid in advance, $55 when paid on the day of class. For more info on the Cliff Spa, click here. If you plan to come with a friend or loved one(s) please register at the same time, as these workshops tend to fill quickly. If you have any questions, feel free to call me at 801-898-0478 or email me.
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Returning to presence begins with the radical act of pausing. It is radical both personally and socially: personally because it means going through the temporary discomfort that arises as one returns to the living moment and socially because one is stepping out of the cultural trance. Is there a greater gift we can give to each other or to ourselves? - Russell Delman

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