Text Box: INNER DANCE: Continuum movement explorations : Move, be moved, touch, be touched, explore your fluidity & fire in a supportive, meditative environment. Breathe, arch, elongate, rediscover your waves & fluid origins. Each class includes gentle & expansive natural developmental movements, the elements of water, fire, earth & air that enliven, increase mobility, self-discovery & expression. Instruction includes support from props such as chairs, large & small balls, rollers, pillows , partnering & witnessing. Come to your senses: allow your animal body the  embrace of movement that listens, explores & challenges. As we breathe, elongate, suspend & soar, we inquire about what it means to be a human body in these times. Movement is life, life is movement : from the tiniest cellular quiverings in our organs to the larger dynamic expressions of fascia & bone; we explore these elemental commonalities & mysteries with the global & beyond. Mondays 7:30-9:00pm :  Sept 9,16,23 Oct 7,14,21  Nov 4,11,18 Tuesdays 10:30am-noon: Sept 10,17,24 Oct 8,15,22  Nov 5,12,19

Text Box: JUNGLE GYM  “expresses the intelligence of the body. Its dance becomes contagious.”                                                                    YOGA JOURNAL Emilie Conrad’s Continuum Movement’s innovative approach to resiliency & strength:  Allow your animal body the soft embrace of a class that listens, inspires and challenges while inviting more strength & flexibility! Includes instruction in use of weights, balls, chairs & Exploreboards  with rich & diverse music. Because of the highly individualized nature of this work, people with special needs such as chronic injuries are benefited as well as yoga practitioners, athletes and anyone who desires more core strength & fluidity. It is helpful, but not mandatory to have had some Yoga, Continuum or Inner Dance movement experience..  Fridays 10:30am –noon:  Sept 13,20,27 Oct 11,18,25 Nov 8,15,22 Dec 6,13,20 “My zillions of cells. Seem to undulate of their own accord with amazing aquatic fluidity.  My joints loosen up, my body  unleashes its own exotic  rhythms, my thoughts float free from their predictable moorings…. Jungle Gym .. Unlocks true power.”   SHAPE magazine.

Text Box: Beginners welcome at the beginning of the month. Held in a new spacious Westside SC studio & Downtown SC. Wear comfortable clothes . Call for info or to register, these classes fill rapidly. $36/3 classes. Private sessions available www.innerdance.com 426-2063 Also offered this Fall:Moving on: Mondays 5:30-6:45pm: Agility, fluidity & core strength Call for Couples class & workshop info!

Text Box: Val Leoffler is a bodywork & Trager practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist & movement educator who has had an innovative & lively bodywork practice in Santa Cruz for 23 years.  She is nationally certified & facilitates workshops in healing through movement, is an authorized Continuum Movement &  Continuum Jungle Gym instructor, leads weekly Inner Dance & Moving On classes, has taught at Twin Lakes College, UCSC, Cabrillo & throughout the SC community. She has extensively trained with Emilie Conrad & Susan Harper, founders of Continuum, for 20 years, studied developmental movement systems with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen & creative arts with the Tamalpa Institiute. Her training also includes 22 years of yoga (Iyengar & TriYoga), a blackbelt in Judo, women’s health and an extensive background in working with injury & recovery.   “world peace, one body at a time…”… Milton Trager, MD

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