Massage and Movement with Shakti Andrea Smith

Classes

CLASSES:

Coming Soon!:

Restorative Yoga in Prospect Heights

5:00PM, Fridays

Shambhala Yoga and Dance

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meanwhile, come visit me when I sub: Tuesday, August 31, at 7:00, Chakra Yoga and Friday, September 17 at 5:00. Both classes are at Shambhala: shambhalayogadance.com.

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Contact Improvisation:

September 12,19, & 26, 2010

Series of 3/4 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.

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Authentic Movement in April

Saturday, April 17, 2010

10:00-12:30

at Moving Body Resources in Chelsea, NYC

Pre-Registration Required: Please call to let me know that you are coming (917-405-5877)

Come join us at this gorgeous studio for a Saturday morning of dropping into your body, and opening up into Spring. We'll start with a guided warm-up, then drop deeply into this profound movement form. Moving, you will sense into your self, for your impulses to move, stretch, dance, be. Witnessing, you will watch while another does the same. This practice cultivates non judgmental witnessing of yourself and the other movers. We will draw and/or write to integrate the movement experience.

Authentic Movement is best known in the dance and therapy worlds--it is practiced by people who love to move/dance, by artists sourcing for material, and for personal growth and deeper understanding of the human psyche. This practice frees up your innate movement. It also cultivates the ability to listen and the qualities of compassion and acceptance.

It is an embodied moving meditation practice. There is no music. All are welcome.

Moving Body Resources is at 112 W 27th Street, Chelsea. See Movingbodyresources.org for more info. We'll be in the large studio, gorgeous floor, many windows, lots of plants.

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Shakti has been teaching Authentic Movement for 18 years. The practice continues to astound and move her. Previously she has taught Authentic at Earthdance Retreat Center, Dance New England, The Boston Living Center for HIV/Aids, Emerson Umbrella for the Arts, and at Burlington College. Shakti continues to practice the form with a fantastic group of women in Brooklyn. Her training includes certification in Authentic Movement through the Circus of the Human Experience, her Degree in Transpersonal Psychology, and her current pursuit of a certificate in Somatic Movement Therapy through Moving on Center/The Center for Kinesthetic Education.

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Experiences in Authentic Movement:

"For 14 months I was not able to dance, due to a foot injury. During this time I could still do authentic movement--I danced while sitting, and standing in place. It was such a relief, to be able to express my self through movement--it was a joy, and healing."--Shakti

"I had a long standing shoulder injury, and when I started Authentic Movement it was clearly the path for my healing. Now my injury is no longer in the forefront of my experience." Martha, Dancer/Movement Educator

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4/17 Class $30 if paid by 4/10

4/17 Class $35 if paid after 4/10

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 Shambhala Yoga and Dance Center

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

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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. Shambhalayogadance.com.

"Thai Yoga Massage offered by Shakti Smith, one of our Yoga teachers and a most gifted body worker. Don't miss this! Thai Yoga Massage is a luscious, deeply nourishing and balancing journey into the wisdom of your body." Cathy Calderone of Shambhala Yoga and Dance Studio

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

Feb 7, March 31

Wednesday Night

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, Earthdance Moving Arts Festival

Woods Dances--Internal Movement with the Trees, Earthdance Moving Arts Festival

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, taught with Lisa Schmidt/Lani Nahele, Weekend Workshop, Earthdance, in Boston, and in Northampton, MA.

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, Massage and Movement Workshop, taught with Sheila Carrol at The Muscular Therapy Institute, Cambridge, for CEU credit.