Foundation Training is a mindful practice teaching you a series of exercises designed to promote healthy posture and functional movement patterns. You will practice conscious breathing, powerful poses, and learn how to integrate quality movement patterns into your daily activities. With regular practice you will learn to move towards feeling and performing better both in your daily living and recreational or athletic pursuits.
Remember the fun we had at the February Jam and open house at Midtown Moves? Well, we do, even though allot has changed, we still think about this wonderful gathering and the positive energy shared, along with the beginnings of a growing mind-body movement community. Midtown Moves was just starting to create a wonderful community of movers leading up to and following the open house in February. We are adapting to being a new fitness business in the year of the pandemic, and since late March, a selection of classes are being offered virtually using Zoom. Christy Cantrell has been offering an abundance morning of Nia classes. Kathy deWet-Oleson, has offered Nia Nuggets, Explore Your Core, and is now offering Rhythmic Fusion on Thursdays at 1:30pm. Bob Andre recently started a Monday Yoga class at 4:30pm. Descriptions of our current classes have been updated on the Classes page. Midtown moves wishes to support you in this difficult situation by providing a variety of movement and community experiences. Staying connected to our physical and emotional body, and to a community while having to practice physically distancing, is now an important element for all of our wellbeing. There is nothing quite like the joy of movement in the beautiful setting of Midtown Moves, yet until the world is a healing, we will continue to do our best sharing music movement with you with our growing abilities with technology. To receive links to the weekly class schedule be sure you are on the contacts list which you can join through our Contacts page. Hope you will join us on Zoom soon. Keeping in alignment with the latest news and precautions to protect our health and wellness during this time, out of love, Midtown Moves will suspend classes in the studio through March. We will keep you updated on the potential of staying connected through use of technology. Kathy would like to present her Saturday “Explore Your Core” class via Zoom video. Right now these systems are overloaded with the sudden increased demand, we will reach out to you as new things like this may develop. Stay well in mind, body, emotions and spirit. Dear Midtown Movers, With the current state of the world and the concerns of the Coronavirus COVID19, we are doing our part to be proactive with additional cleaning and disinfecting of the studio. We are also monitoring information from our local government and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in regards to any spread in our area. We will keep you posted of any schedule changes if necessary. As we take precautions, we ask you to do your part by being vigilant as well, by washing your hands after touching surfaces. If you are feeling unwell, do not come to the studio, this should be the case at all times. The CDC also has recommendations for practicing social distancing, which includes avoiding direct physical contact, such as hand shaking, holding hands, and hugging. While these recommendations are in place, we ask you to honor them, so that all who voluntarily come into the studio feel that it is a safe space with regards to this recommendation for social distancing. We invite you to come up with other friendly greetings and acknowledgments for each other through eye contact, gestures, and kind words, embrace this concept and make it fun. If you are feeling well we hope that you will move/continue with your regular activity, at the studio or at home. We have some ideas for you about that here: Nia Technique is offering one month free for NiaTV so you can dance at home! Check it out. You can also search YouTube for Nia Technique Routines as well. This is a worldwide public health issue, you can stay connected to local and national information with these links; vcemergency.com Ventura County Public Health (VCPH) Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) Please continue to move well and be well. Sincerely, Midtown Moves According to Dr. James Levine, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, the chair is a major threat to our health. Levine is credited with coining the phrase “sitting is the new smoking.“ We’ve known it for a while. We’re sitting wrong and far too long, but Kathy is out to help us address this problem of the digital age in “Explore Your Core.” At the new studio, Midtown Moves, an intrepid group of us, representing a variety of ages and abilities, began this exploration. Teachers, retirees, athletic types, and couch potatoes, we shared the common aim of wanting to move more comfortably, whether in sports or everyday activities. Happily, this didn’t require dramatic change; in fact we didn’t even work up a sweat! Kathy taught us several simple moves that can provide easy exercise breaks from the periods of non-activity we often find ourselves in. We also learned ways of befriending the chair. where-by making simple adjustments-we could increase blood flow and vitality. Taking frequent breaks from sitting, restoring healthy hip function, and improving functional core strength have clear benefits-increased lifespan, reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, with the added assurance that we can prevent ourselves from a debilitating fall. So, in the interests of not winding up like the obese chair-bound earthlings of the future from the movie, WALL-E, who watched an endless feed of TV and sipped their meals through a straw, come join us, there are still 3 more Explore Your Core offerings this Month (March 14th, 21st, and 28th) where you can double the your fitness fun by taking both Nia, and then stay for Core or an additional $5.00. if attending a single class the $10.00 rate applies. The Leap Day Jam at Midtown Moves was a true celebration of the joy of movement with elements from Nia, Body Groove, and Primal Feat led by seven different teachers. As participants arrived each was asked to pick from a selection of beautiful hand made glass pendants crafted by studio owner Nikki Jump, each pendant was embossed with an iridescent frog symbolizing Leap Day. By 9:00am the dance floor was packed as Nia teacher Christy Cantrell welcomed everyone, and shared the vision that Midtown Moves is projecting by providing a space where people can come together to experience many types of mind, body, spirit classes that enhance wellness, happiness, and build a sense of community. Rhythm, sound, and music, pulsed through the room for a full hour and a half of expressive movement. A group from the Fillmore ReGen Yoga and Movement studio decided to car pool to Ventura, cancelling a Nia class at their own studio so all could attend the Leap Day Jam. That was a great example of how like minded communities support each other. The music was soul stirring with songs ranging from electronic, pop, rock, world, and soundtracks. Sometimes movers were synchronized to instructor led moves, and at other times moved more freely while guided by the instructor as they explored connecting moves based on how the music made them feel. All in all it was a great Leap Day morning full of collective joy. If you attended, thank you, and if you missed it and it sounds like fun, be sure to check out one or more of our classes, and stay tuned for more fun events. |
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