Classes & Workshops
Classes resume in the New Year!
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Awareness Through Movement ® Classes
Awareness Through Movement® Classes are a dynamic approach to learning through movement. You’ll learn to skillfully use your attention to sense where you get stuck, lost or use excess effort as you move. As your awareness grows, your ability to move with greater ease, elegance & fluidity will become easier and easier.
In each class I verbally guide you through a series of gentle movement sequences that are done lying on the floor, sitting or sometimes standing. Each lesson is precisely crafted to improve basic functions in everyday movements such as, reaching, rolling, flexing, extending, twisting, side-bending, sitting, standing or walking. Awareness Through Movement lessons vary in difficulty and generally last from 45 to 60 minutes. All ages and movement abilities are welcome to attend class.
(Prerequisite: must be able to safely lie down on the floor and return to standing.)
“About a year ago, I found Sarah’s class at Velocity Dance and started attending more regularly. For me, she strikes a nice balance between leading me through the movements and yet challenging me to interpret it on my own. Her voice is soothing, easy to listen to. Her attitude is open and encouraging. After each session, I feel taller and lighter; my head and shoulders are stacked more over my hips and feet. My posture feels upright and easy to maintain. The longer I attend, the more natural and easy movement becomes. This seems to be the kind of practice one can do indefinitely into the future, and one that will benefit me even more as I continue to age.”
~P.S
Benefits of Awareness Through Movement® Classes
- Experience greater flexibility, balance and coordination.
- Stand taller & move more efficiently with less effort or strain.
- Learn to reduce and recover from tension and pain caused by injury or over use.
- Develop internal strength through ideal organization.
- Learn to refine and improve your favorite activities in a new way.
- Reduce anxiety and tap into a more quiet state of mind and body.
- learn to use your attention more skillfully and become more self-aware.
- Experience a renewed sense of vitality and joy.
- Learn to sense habitual movement patterns that get in your way and create new options that support you.
- Become more curious, resourceful and skilled at improving the way you move, care for yourself and live your life.
- Experience a profound sense of calm, presence and aliveness as you learn to come home to your body.
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one you in all time, this expression is unique. And, if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”
~Martha Graham