Massage and Movement

with Shakti Andrea Smith

Classes
Classes

CLASSES:

Authentic Movement:

Series of 4 Classes, meeting once per week

Winter/Spring class in Manhattan, details tba


Contact Improvisation:

Series of 4 classes, offered twice per year through Movement Research.

Sunday Nights, 6:45-9:00PM, $14

Eden's Expressway, 635 Broadway, Manhattan

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"Wake up your Improviser, Soften your Body, Hone your Skills.

This class is an open level class, for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. In a safe and grounded space we'll visit some fundamental Contact skills and awareness exercises. We'll cultivate these with enough subtlety for the seasoned dancer of Contact.

Classes will include long, luscious warm-ups and plenty of dancing. Deepening our connection with the form, we'll find greater ease in being upside down and explore new possibilities for lifts and ledges. These explorations will be supported by experiential anatomy, which develops our structural understanding of the body."

See Movementresearch.org for more information.


Yoga:

Metta Yoga

Tuesdays, 1:30-3:00, $13

Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

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This is an Iyengar Slow Flow class. We'll be cultivating Metta (loving kindness) for self, others, and all beings through meditation, chanting, and asana. Come join us in this practice. Shambhalayogadance.com 


Benefit Thai Yoga Massage Workshop:

Sunday, March 21, 2010

2:45 Registration

3:00-5:00 Class

$25-45, sliding scale

All Proceeds go to benefit Shambhala Yoga and Dance Center

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Class is limited to 16 Participants. To Pre-register, send you check by 3/15 to:

Shakti Smith/770 Washington Ave, #2/Brooklyn/11238

After 3/15, call Shakti to Pre-Register

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Come learn a flowing Massage form to share with friends and family. Come alone (we'll match you with a partner) or with a friend for your introduction to Thai Yoga Massage. Please come on time. Shambalayogadance.com 



Inner Body Dancing:

Saturday, March 27, 2010

8:30-9:30 class, followed by 9:30-11:30 Barefoot Boogie

$10-15 sliding scale admission gives you entrance to the class, followed by 2 hours of Dj'd dancing at the Insight Meditation Center in Chelsea, Manhattan

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We'll be blending Heart Centered Meditation with Breathing foci, Experiential Anatomy, Authentic Movement, and other practices that aid us in surfing the landscape of our Inner Bodies--gradually flowing into a state of Full On dancing, on your own and with others.

Enliven your Cells, Embody your Movement, Dance BIG

 See Barefootboogie.org

 

Inner Body Dancing-Dance Meditation Dance Party

February 3, Wednesday Night and Stay Tuned for future Dates!!!

7-8:30 PM

Greenpoint/Williamsburg

$10-20 sliding scale

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Come to this beautiful center in Greenpoint, imbued with the energy of Amma--this space is lovingly held. In this environment of beauty and light, we'll dive into our practice.

Come for 90 minutes of Meditation and Dancing! We'll start in stillness:  blending Heart Centered Meditation with Breathing awareness, Experiential Anatomy, Authentic Movement, and other practices that aid us in surfing the landscape of our Inner Bodies.  We will meet the moment, gradually flowing into a state of Full ON embodied dancing, on your own and with others.

Dance Big, Free the Wierd, Celebrate

Shakti Andrea Smith has been guiding others into deep inner places, then outwards into celebration since leading her first meditation class on Maui in 1990. She brigs Meditation and Movement together. This practice is infused by her movement research in the embodied disciplines of Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, Dance Meditations, and Body Mind Centering. See MassageandMovement.com for more information.


97 green street apt g3 
the G train to greenpoint Ave, walk north on manhattan, turn left on Green. we are the cream colored warehouse on the left.

 

Partial Listing of PAST CLASSES:

Authentic Movement Outside: Annual Weekend Retreat, in Concord, Emerson Umbrella, MA

Authentic Movement Weekend Workshops, at Earthdance Retreat Center, MA

Authentic Movement, at the Boston Living Center for Hiv/Aids

Authentic Movement in the Afternoon, Weekly class in Park Slope, Brooklyn and at Shambhala Yoga and Dance, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

Authentic Movement: Deep Listening to Body and Nature

Woods Dances--Internal Movement with the Trees

Contact Improvisation for Beginners, Weekend Workshop, at Earthdance and in Boston

Continued Explorations of Contact, Weekend Workshop, at Earthdance and in Boston

Contact Improvisation for Women, Weekend Workshop, Earthdance and in Boston

Contact Improvisation, 5 day series of classes, Dance New England, Portland, ME

Yoga, Weekly Class, at Earthdance and The Muscular Therapy Institute, Cambridge

Dance of the Hands, Weekly Massage and Movement class, The Muscular Therapy Institute, Cambridge, for CEU credit.