Studio Schedule Week of 8/30/2026 | Believe it or not, I had Fun with a capital
Image of Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka wearing his chestnut brown top hat, royal purple coat, and beige bowtie nearly ready to fly away. He is resting his hand on his temple with an impish grin on his face and a twinkle in his eye.
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THOUGHTS
After a full summer focusing on family, creative pursuits, and even a little Fun (with a capital F, even!), I’m looking forward to that fresh start September brings. I feel there’s a strong camp of us who forgo New Year’s resolutions on January 1st and thrive on the back-to-school-slash-harvest-time energy. I’m getting my proverbial barn ready for the winter, cleaning out cobwebs, completing a few small home repair projects, and getting organized before the winter darkness comes.
But the point of all of this isn’t to brace for wintertime. It’s to keep the lightness and joy from fading with the season.
Our family camp experience is the perfect microcosm of how our schedules fill up, but with much more levity. So many camp activities to choose from, all sounding so fun, but there is only so much time. It was as if we were touring the chocolate factory with Willy Wonka when he states, “We have so much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.”
All those have-to’s and should-do’s are reframed when the decisions are between surfing or kayaking, finding the right mix of pink gimp for a lanyard… or should it be green and gold? When these are the questions you’re asking yourself the decision isn’t unimportant, but it feels way less fraught with guilt.
For the first time I was able to see the plethora of choices as decision making practice for when I returned home. Prioritizing enjoyment, pacing myself through the mundane tasks, and building on the base layer of fun I built throughout the summer.
With that foundation in mind, we’ve added a new class format to the schedule: GYROTONIC® Foundations 1 available at both 9am Tuesday and 11am Sunday. This class is a natural progression after completing the Intro to GYROTONIC® class series or returning to your practice after a break, focusing on principles that are unique to the Gyrotonic method that you can apply throughout your other activities.
Class Spotlight — Foundations 1
GYROTONIC® Foundations 1
Tuesdays 9am with Harriet · Sundays 11am with Celeste
A 50-minute group equipment class on the GYROTONIC® Pulley Tower, built for movers who've completed the Intro series or are returning to practice after a break. You'll build fluency with the method's core principles — the ones that carry over into everything else you do — while growing more confident with terminology, setup, and coordination. Space is limited to four.
Drop-in $50 · 4-pack $190 · 8-pack $368 · Group Class Welcome Package accepted
A favor to ask
If you work with a health or wellness provider — physical therapist, chiropractor, acupuncturist, doctor — consider mentioning us. We'd love to host them for an open studio session to see and experience the GYROTONIC® method firsthand: what it’s like, what it addresses, who it helps. Have them reach out to Shellie at shellie.j@movementforeveryone.com to set a time.
What is WellHub?
A benefit you may already have
Wellhub is offered as a workplace benefit. Companies pay to provide the program, and individual employees can choose to sign up for a plan that fits their lifestyle and budget. Movement For Everyone participates in WellHub at the Diamond Plan level. If your employer offers WellHub, check with HR — you may already have access to classes here as part of your benefits.
WHAT I’M READING
Baltimore Will Turn 911 Into More Than Just an Emergency Number (NPR)
Baltimore is rebuilding part of its 911 system so that calls that don't need police — someone in crisis, someone who just needs a connection to services — get routed to people trained for that instead. It's a good example of a system getting reorganized around what's actually needed, not just what's always been done.
[Read it here →]
Who and What Was a Knocker-Upper? (JSTOR Daily)
Before alarm clocks, industrial Britain had a whole profession built around getting people back on schedule — workers paid to knock on windows and rouse their neighbors for the next shift. Feels apt for a September when we're all trying to get ourselves back into a routine.
[Read it here →]
Start With Yourself (Emma Grede)
Grede's new book is part memoir, part framework for auditing the "old thoughts" — outdated rules about work, money, and ambition — that quietly run our lives. Good timing for anyone doing their own fall audit right now.
[Read it here →]
Looking forward to shoring up foundations of fun with you this week.
Warmly,
Harriet
