BODY/MIND INTEGRATION

1.  Tai Chi/Feldenkrais Lessons

A balanced blend of Feldenkrais-awareness-through-movement and Tai Chi Calisthenics in a 60 minute work-out that will help you improve the flexibility and strength of your body.  Meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 am to 11:00 am.  New group session starting Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010.  Classes open to [...]

Yoga and Pilates

Teresa Palazzetti, certified teacher, offers

YOGA-PILATES CLASSES

Monday from 5 to 6pm
Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 10am
Friday from 4 to 5 pm

This Method is a fusion of eastern and western, modern and ancient techniques to strengthen your body and focus your mind.
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Apparatus/Fun and Games Fitness Class

Pamela Pankratz
Does the idea of hitting the treadmill make your brain go numb and your body flinch? Do traditional exercise classes produce feelings of fear and dread? Does the notion of lifting weights with the muscle boys make you scoff and say, “yeah, right…”?

Who says exercise has to be traditional, [...]

Feldenkrais, Alexandra and Rubenfeld

Gilberto Barria Vallarino

The Feldenkrais Approach
The Feldenkrais approach to wellness is facilitated in two formats:  a group format and a one-on-one modality.
The group version consists of movement sequences designed to heighten awareness of the range of motion of the joints and how muscles have been organized by an individual.  The process involves the repetition [...]

4 effective exercises/disciplines for Arthritis

Sonia Jones ND

FELDENKRAIS METHOD “Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself” — Moshe Feldenkrais.
The Feldenkrais Method is recognised for its demonstrated ability to improve posture, flexibility, coordination, self-image and to alleviate muscular tension and pain. The effectiveness of the Feldenkrais Method is [...]

7 Benefits of Pilates in Bullet Form

* Better posture and alignment
* Improved co-ordination, agility and balance
* Good mental focus
* Increased muscular strength and flexibility
* Better fitness level and muscle tone
* Firmer flatter abdominal muscles
* A body that look thinner and feels younger

Classes, Courses, Talks, and Workshops

This is by no means a full menu - this is just a sample of what will be available
CLASSES
Classes will be help throughout the year on a weekly or twice weekly basis - Pilates, yoga, dance, ballet, strengthen exercises, aqua classes, Tai chi and much more.
SHORT TALKS
Talks will be held on a [...]

Pilates for the young and old

In the 1920s Pilates was devised by physical trainer Joseph Pilates as a way of helping injured athletes and dancers return to exercise and maintain their fitness. Since then, Pilates has really become well known as can be adapted to suit any age and level of fitness.
Pilates requires concentration and focus, because [...]

Pilates as you get older, with or without arthritis

More emphasis these day is on self-help, more on health and certain being as active as possible for as long as possible. Many baby boomers are turning to exercise classes like yoga, and Pilates. As we age we begin to give up jogging, or high impact sports, or aerobic classes for the low impact exercises, [...]

Pilates or Yoga, whats the difference?

Both Pilates and Yoga will help manage the various forms of arthritis, Pilates or Yoga.
Pilates and Yoga are similar and at the same time very different, like Pilates from the West and Yoga from the East.
Yoga is centuries old, its roots are in Eastern philosophy, and ancient healing with almost meditative states of exercise. It [...]