Asbury Park Middle School and Project Vision Coffee House performance at APDAY
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We cordially invite you to an evening of student produced talent featuring students from Asbury Park Middle School. Project Vision students will showcase their talents at the studio, on April 3rd at 7:00. This event will help raise funds to fund future excursions. About Project Vision: Project Vision is a state funded coummunity outreach grant program, and it's just one of many programs under the Prevention First umbrella. Project Vision administers the after school program at Asbury Park Middle School. Middle school students of all ages come to Project Vision because it offers a safe haven, trips out of Asbury Park, guidance, and advice about life lessons. |
Spoke and Art and Asbury Park Dance and Yoga team up for artsy shenanigans.
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Spoke and Art (you guys know I am a fun on bikes fan....this will be Rad like the movie) Spoke and Art is dedicated to getting folks out on their bikes, taking the road back a little bit for serious and not-so-serious self-propelled transport. We are riding in Asbury Park on Saturday March 20th in conjunction with the city's inaugural Night of the Arts. The ride will start @ 7pm on the corner of Mattison and Bond streets.A course map is posted under EVENTS on our website. We will be parading Asbury Park as both art and art gallery - there is a mail art project we'll be displaying during the ride. If you are interested in participating in the ride or the art project (or both!) |
Reflexology Workshop with Karen Mason
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We are pleased to welcome Karen Mason owner of Lotus Retreat and healing arts practitioner to our weekly Workshop hour this week. Bring a mat, an open mind and get ready to feel good and soak up some learning :-) Karen offers a full range of healing services in reflexology and jin shin jyutsu. Karen uses these same healing arts in the treatment of animals. Having dreamed of having a practice in her home for many years, Karen created Lotus Retreat in 2004. It is an idyllic setting composed of a comfortable treatment room and a backyard wildlife habitat, offering peace and a quiet exchange with nature. Lotus Retreat is located in New Jersey. |
NIA
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Nia is a cardiovascular movement practice that teaches you to be more JOYFUL, EXPRESSIVE and ALIVE in your body. Done barefoot to diverse and inspiring music, it is a holistic workout that engages your body, mind, emotions and spirit. Nia combines dance arts, martial arts and healing arts, creating improvement in flexibility, agility, strength, mobility and balance. So kick off your shoes and rock your body and soul into shape with ease! |
Sunday Salutations March 7th
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Sunday Salutations
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Arm Balance and Inversion Workshop with Christian Valeriani RYT, CYT
When: Feb 20th
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Cost: $40
Challenge yourself and get ready to let your spirit soar! Join us for a 3 hour Arm Balance and Inversion workshop with advanced instructor Christian Valeriani RYT, CYT. Learn to use leverage, flexibility and strength to enhance your personal practice.
Space is limited. Pre registration strongly suggested.
Sunday Salutations start Feb 21st
Feldenkrais Series
To Be or Not to Be - Symmetrical.
It would be a logical thought, wouldn’t it, that since we appear to have one of each thing on each side of our body, that we are symmetrical? After all, Leonardo DaVinci drew the perfect symmetrical human figure, the Vitruvian Man, that we’ve all seen, probably hundreds of times in our lives. Then there are those charts that accompany exercise machines at the gym - many of them show a squared-off symmetrical body working in flat planes.
In our search for symmetry, it is easy to overlook the fact that we are asymmetrical at our most basic level - that we have a dominant hand. Research suggests that hand dominance can be identified as early as 10 weeks in the womb. So, before you are even born, you are moving in an asymmetrical way.
Maybe another way to approach this question is not to attempt to hammer ourselves into symmetry, but to understand how we are not symmetrical. In that understanding, we might begin to “knit ourselves together” rather than keep dividing ourselves into two halves (often we think of ourselves as having a “good” side and a “bad" side).
If you are curious about why one shoulder has chronic discomfort, or you have pain in your toes on one foot but not the other . . .
Come explore how your inherent asymmetry shapes the path your body takes over the years - and begin to discover, through interesting and gentle movement, how to use yourself more fully, with more comfort and less effort.
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement classes consist of comfortable, easy movements that gradually evolve into movements of greater range and complexity.
Most of the “early” lessons are done lying on the floor. You will be verbally guided through a series of movements that will help you focus your attention on how you move - the differences between what’s easy and what’s not so easy for you. By the end of each lesson, many people find that they move much more easily and that they feel calmer and relaxed. These lessons begin to offer insight into how you move that may be causing continual discomfort.
All you need to bring with you are loose, comfortable clothing, a blanket to lie on, and layers to keep warm, if you tend to get chilly.
And, of course, an openness to being asymmetrical.
Students are welcome to attend the class on the 15th as a 'drop in' before commiting to the full 5 week session. If you wish to attend the 5 week session you must register here online.
The Feldenkrais Method – Thinking about Moving
Have you ever thought about how you move? Do you feel like a finely tuned, well-oiled instrument or a little more like a rickety bicycle whose gears are ‘not quite right’? Or maybe somewhere between the two?
Consider your body as a miracle of thousands of moving parts, supported by a wondrous network of ligaments. Your brain orchestrates how these thousands of parts work together – some supporting during movement, while others perform the action of a movement. In optimal conditions, the effort of movement is spread across all these moving parts, proportional to their strength.
As we go through life and are subjected to stress, injury and inactivity, our brains may develop movement habits that compensate for an injury, yet create secondary problems; Some working parts may begin to bear more of the workload than they were designed to – causing ‘wear and tear’ and pain that returns no matter how much self-care you do.
If you recognize yourself in any of the above - come join us for a series of Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement classes.
Awareness through Movement classes are different from traditional exercise classes in that they are slow and non-strenuous, bringing the student to the ability to detect small differences in his or her movement
The good news is that anybody with a nervous system can benefit from the Feldenkrais Method. The FM has helped individuals with chronic pain, Repetitive Stress Injuries, Multiple Sclerosis, as well as highly trained athletes - though that does not complete the list. The beauty of the Feldenkrais Method is that it takes each student from his or her own starting point, rather than attempting to impose a standard template of "correct" movement - anybody can improve or feel better. Any body.
We will host an intro class at 7pm on January 15th and then hold a series of classes on the four Fridays following.
Students are welcome to attend the class on the 15th as a 'drop in' before commiting to the full 5 week session. If you wish to attend the 5 week session you must register here online.
The series runs from Jan 15th to Feb 12th every Friday at 7pm.
Please bring a blanket to lie on (preferred over a yoga mat). Loose comfortable clothing is best, including a layer if you tend to get chilly.
Feel free to contact Linda directly at 848.218.0233 or lindanat@optonline.net if you have any questions.
Super Secret Holiday Session
