Classes will continue on Zoom in 2022. I am scheduling limited on site sessions in the office for vaccinated clients.
Classes 2022
Our theme in these movement classes is Connection. Dynamic movement processes bring to our attention poor habitual patterns we created both pre-verbally and thru pain, injury and accidents. Using natural relational movements we “pre-exercised” embryologically, we have the opportunity to renew, open to more of our potential and create physical comfort and well being. Learn to move in new directions enhancing thinking, sensing and feeling to bring into daily living. Whether your habits are experienced as tension, poor posture, balance, pain, anxiety or lack of energy paying attention to how you move is the key to change. There are two class possibilities:
1. Online ZOOM* Feldenkrais Tuesdays
Dates: February 1, 15, 22, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Investment: 3 classes $45**
Drop in: $18 see note
Ongoing Classes Continue: March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 ($75) ; April 5, 12, 19, 26 ($60)
Investment: $15/class for each monthly registration or $18 drop in.
Note: These classes are now being recorded. You can opt out of the recording. To attend by Zoom visually or in class you must sign a release to be recorded. Please allow 24 hours to sign and return the release by email. A Zoom option is to take the class with no video during the actual class time. As a teacher, I do take my cues from seeing you move.
**If you are out of work use the sliding scale that works for you, or join the class for free. I need a 24 hour advance notice to send out the Zoom links.
Click here to pay with PayPal or go to Registration and Payments on this website
2. Online Women's Only ZOOM Feldenkrais and Bones for Life Wednesdays
Dates: February 2, 16, 23, 2022
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Investment: 3 classes $45**
Drop in: $18 see note
Ongoing Classes continue: March 2, 9, 16, 23, 20 ($75); April 6, 13, 20, 27 ($60)
Note: These classes are now being recorded. You can opt out of being recorded. To attend by Zoom visually or in class you must sign a release to be recorded. Please allow 24 hours to sign and return the release by email. A Zoom option is to take the class with no video during the actual class time., using As a teacher, I do take my cues from seeing you move.
**If you are out of work use the sliding scale that works for you, or join the class for free. I need a 24 hour advance notice to send out the Zoom links.
Click here to pay with PayPal or go to Registration and Payments on this website
For Payments on PayPal:
Select individual class or number of classes to be prepaid
Then press Add to Cart to prepay through PayPal
(You do NOT need a PayPal account to process payments)
*ZOOM information:
You do not need a Zoom account to join the classes but you DO need to download the Zoom app. To do so:
1. You can click on the link I send you for class and it automatically takes you to the zoom app to download. Otherwise, Go to zoom.us to install on your computer/ipad/mobile phone Do this prior to class.
2. You only need to sign up for a free account at Zoom to take classes
3. They will prompt you when to download the app
4. Join with Video and Audio
5. When I send you an email, click on the link under the heading: Join Zoom Meeting
Rediscover your inborn capacity for efficient movement at any age. Learn to inhabit your body in a more supportive and less taxing way. There are hundreds of class possibilities, varying in difficulty and complexity for all levels of movement ability. Both Feldenkrais movement explorations and the Movement Intelligence Processes of Ruthy Alon from Bones for Life and Movement Solutions are offered in this class.
It is important in class to find HOW you engage with each movement process, and to stay within your range of comfort. Please contact the teacher before dropping in if you have never taken a class.
Online Fridays with Paula Alonso, GCFP
Contact: PaulaAlonsoMovement@gmail.com 704-905-8594
for information on the Zoom classes
Dates: Ongoing
Time: 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Punch Card with 6 classes: $72
Drop in: $15 per class
Payment in cash or check made out to Paula Alonso
This is an ongoing weekly class suitable both for beginners and experienced students. Explore new possibilities for easy, pleasurable movement. Refine your ability to listen to yourself -- become your own movement authority.
Bones for Life
Bone Strength and Weight Bearing Posture
CLASSES
Dates: See above Zoom class on Wednesdays
Bones for Life Certification Program organizing for March 2022
Qigong and Feldenkrais
Dates TBA
Guided by Brenda Sorkin, GCFP
Brenda@MovementDialogues.com or 704.650.7252
In 2002 I was certified by Chan Zhang to teach what I consider a more feminine qigong form called Dance of the Phoenix. I was interested in studying with a woman because all of my previous qigong forms had been developed by men.
This form has 5 sets of movements aimed at harmonizing energy, massaging your organs, centering your chakras and auras and breaking up negativity. The figure eight, a symbol of infinity, is prominently used in the movements.
You will receive written notes for each set at the end of class to help you with your practice so that you will have the full set by the end of the series. We will enhance the series by drawing from Feldenkrais and Bones for Life for our warm up, increasing the potential of the qigong sets.
Classes are small and can last from 1 to 1 ½ hours. A class can be started with 8 of your friends and consensus on day and time.
Child'Space Charlotte
A Training in the Chava Shelhav Method
Click here for more information
or contact Brenda@MovementDialogues.com or 704.650.7252
Training professionals to provide Classes and private sessions to include include:
hands-on instructive touch to stimulate baby’s proprioception and brain development
face to face play to encourage bonding, social interaction, early conversation and language
sensorimotor activities to support baby’s emerging developmental stage
techniques for calming, holding and bonding
music, song and age appropriate play to stimulate rhythm and facilitate social relationships
Private lessons available for Preemies, Late Bloomers and Babies with Special Needs
To offer the following classes:
Newborn - 3 months
Pre-Crawlers - ages 4 months to crawling
Crawlers - Any age crawling baby
Standing and Cruisers - Any age beginning to stand or cruise
"Because touch, more than any other sense, has such ready access to young babies brains, it offers perhaps the best possible opportunity, and one of the easiest, for molding their emotional and mental well-being.” -Lise Eliot, Ph.D. from What's Going On In There
