InnerDance    Fall 2004

Continuum Movement Explorations:

With Val Leoffler

   Continuum Movement & Jungle Gym Instructor

                        

   Continuum Movement Classes

Explore breaths, movement & sound: awaken to the fullness of what it means to be alive! Weaving Continuum, yoga & fluid healing arts we explore fluidity around the spine, breath & joint spaces with wave motion, gentle & expansive movements that enliven, increase mobility & self discovery

Mondays 7:30-9:00pm:

Sept 13,20,27  Oct  11,18,25  Nov 8,15,22

   Tuesdays 10:30am-Noon:

Sept 14,21,28  Oct 12,19, 26  Nov 9,16,23  Dec 7,14

     Jungle Gym:  Suspend, Elongate & Soar

     Fridays 10:30am-Noon

                    Sept 10,17,24  Oct 8,15,22  Nov 5,12,19  Dec 3,10 17

Held in spacious Westside SC studio         Join any month!

$36/3 classes  Wear comfortable clothes.  Newcomers welcome!   

      Rich diverse music!

 

 

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Moving On:

Fusion Movement Class: Embodied sweat, stretch & strengthen:  faster paced   dynamic movement through space emphasizing agility & fluidity, core alignment & play! Ongoing!

Mondays 5:30-6:45pm held downtown SC

Wednesdays 5:30pm-6:45pm Westside Swift St.

Val Leoffler is a bodywork &Trager practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist & movement educator who, at 52, is celebrating 27 years of private practice in healing & bodywork , teaching movement to individuals, classes & groups. She is nationally certified , is an Authorized Continuum Movement & Jungle Gym Instructor, has taught forTwin lakes College, UCSC, Cabrillo, & private organizations. Her training includes 20 years of experience with Emilie Conrad & Susan Harper, founders of Continuum, developmental movement systems with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, training with Dr. Milton Trager, creative arts with the Tamalpa Institute, 22 years of yoga (Iyengar & Tri-Yoga), a blackbelt in Judo, studies with Gabrielle Roth, improv theatre, Craniosacral Therapy with Upledger Institute, Zero Balancing with Dr. Fritz Smith, perception & movement studies with Hubert Godard, women’s health and an extensive background in working with injury & healing. She is continually interested & delighted in how the fluid worlds of bodywork and movement arts influence & inform each other & brings this passion & vitality to her teaching.

Private Sessions Available

Call for class registration/info or for appt.:

831 426-2063 www.innerdance.com

All Continuum & Jungle Classes held in a spacious  Westside studio fully  equipped with Exploreboards, small & large physioballs, rollers, chairs, ties, pelvic swing, cushions & other props for optional use & comfort.

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            Rivers & Streams:

                   Fall Saturday workshops :

www.innerdance.com  for schedule of upcoming Fall workshops

    Moving With: Saturday June 19th 12-2pm

     Exploring movement in partnership, intended for couples who want ways of being together in support & fluidity                                                                                        

     Cradling the Emergent: Saturday January 31st 12-5pm

Wave, spiral, radiant star, cellular globe: these are patterns that emerge & dissolve in the inner terrain of our tissues, psyche & lives. Join me as we enter a new year, Chinese Year of the Monkey, in  discovering what wishes to shed, dissolve & reappear in new form. We will be guided by images & sounds of nature. Discover how our movement supports & nourishes our new growth: Plant & nourish a new movement seed for yourself!

What participants have said:

·          “these classes bring me into myself, my internal processes. I’m learning new ways of moving, new ways of perceiving...it’s about renewal.”

·          “...as a psychotherapist, this work & its practice is deeply valuable not only for it’s intrinsic pleasure & the results I experience in terms of my growing strength, endurance & flexibility, but also the way it supports experientially the trust in creative emergence that I want to bring to my work with clients.”

·          “there has been an integration of pre-verbal movement & sensation with current emotional issues.”

·          “Val has taught me so much about my body, touching every part of my life!”

·          “Extremely focused, extremely fluid, extremely fun!”

 

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 & psyche;  we explore these elemental commonalities & mysteries with the global & beyond.  Come rest, breathe, arch, rediscover your waves & fluid origins: move, be moved,  touch, be touched, explore your fluidity & fire in a supportive environment.  Allow your animal body the embrace of movement that listens, explores  & challenges while creating core strength & flexibility.