Weekly Schedule 3/24/2024

Mar 24

image via Unsplash user David Becker @beckerworks

Black background with brightly colored yellow and pink clouds of dust concealing a brown-skinned person wearing a white t-shirt. They are covered in splashes of color from head downward, and the image shows them from the waist upward.

Image via Unsplash user David Becker @beckerworks

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Thoughts

Wishing everyone love, happiness, color, and light on Holi, and throughout the year. Learn a simplified explanation of the many aspects of this Hindu holiday via Parade.

Although one year out from the birth of my daughter, I'm still very dialed-in to the experience of becoming a parent. With good fortune, I'm still very early on the ride of a lifetime!

Although much more joyful this time around, I recall feeling completely adrift after I birthed my son in 2019. Quite frankly, much of the color and joy of sweet new life was covered by the stresses associated with IVF, the mystery and unknowable of childbirth, self doubt, and the self-imposed pressure of perfect parenting. I was so grateful for the community of parents I met in pre- and postnatal yoga and Pilates classes who helped me contextualized my experiences and to laugh about the inanity of early parenting.

Since I moved Movement For Everyone into our current space with Dance Training Center SF, I've planned to create a community to support people trying-to-conceive, parents, and care-givers so they have space to care for themselves through movement as they care for future generations. I'm excited to let you know that we are developing Pilates for Birthing People and New Parent Pilates classes to support this community. Those classes will launch in the next few months. If you know a new parent who you think could use support prior to then, please forward them this email and let them know they are not alone. We are here to answer their movement-related questions, provide a referral network of complimentary care providers, and aim to provide splashes of movement color and joy while they build their parenting community.

Housekeeping

Reminder: Harriet is away 3/27 through 4/3/2024.
Sophia is here with limited morning availability on Wednesday 3/27 and 4/3.
Please join us in welcoming Gyrotonic apprentice Maddie Friedman to our studio! Maddie will sub for Sophia when she travels for dance performance opportunities later this year.

Maddie is an Apprentice GYROTONIC® Instructor who began her deep practice with the method in 2018. Originally from New York, Maddie came to the Bay Area for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program, graduating in 2022. During her time in the program, Maddie built a strong, interconnected relationship between her dance training and the Gyrotonic Method. This intertwined pairing gave her more support, more trust, and more control within her body than she imagined possible. Maddie is still a dancer and youth dance teacher, and her foundation training with Master Trainer Debra Rose has given her a new appreciation for Gyrotonic exercise — approaching it as a human first and dancer second. Maddie is so excited to have opportunities to help people experience joy, connection, and freedom within their bodies.