Awareness Through Movement starts February in Irving!

Thanks to a partnership with Elite Dance Company of Texas, I am proud to announce that we once again have live, in-person Awareness Through Movement classes in North Texas!

And the space is gorgeous.

This was not easy. Most establishments had to close during the Covid-19 pandemic, because they were too small to allow the social distancing required, too hard to clean between classes, or both — at a time when a lot of people who were at higher risk needed to shelter-in-place and minimize public contact. Most Feldenkrais Practitioners retreated online in order to survive.

Do I teach online? Yes! Every Sunday at 8pm, and if you’d like to wind down your weekend and clear out all the dross and stress while setting yourself up for a great work-week, I’d love to see you in that class.

But I have no plans to shift to a mostly-online teaching experience, and have been actively looking for a venue that was set up in such a way that in-person classes could be a thing. There’s little substitute for getting to smile at somebody across the room while practicing (or for everybody to do so when somebody snickers at my “Dad Jokes” during class). Safe Social Contact is a mandatory requirement for sane human beings.

And the space is gorgeous. It’s large, sunny-but-not-too-sunny, well-mirrored, and boasts a raised floor designed for dancers, so a single yoga mat or moving blanket is more than enough padding for most participants. The location is great, too, just off HWY 114 and O’Connor Rd. in Irving, and thus easily reached from almost anywhere in the Metroplex — click here for directions.

The one trick is that you park in the UPPER lot, which has lots of space.

Elite Dance was also founded during the pandemic, and thus has Covid-19 safety literally built into the business from the ground up. (But for now, please bring your own blanket or yoga mat, just to be sure)

Classes are every Sunday at 2pm: you can sign up for classes on Elite Dance’s website registration page. Please be sure to scroll down and select “Awareness Through Movement.”

It’s been a long year, and I cannot wait to help everybody move better, feel better, and think more clearly. See you there!

In Person Awareness Through Movement coming Soon!

Covid19 has upended so MANY things, and Irving Feldenkrais is no stranger to that. Most Awareness through Movement instructors have shifted to purely online classes, and that’s been a good thing, particularly as venue after venue closes. We’ve lost two of our venues as well — there was just no way to run classes in relatively small spaces with the social distancing people need to stay safe. Unfortunately, the price of that is that people who aren’t living with families or loved ones have wound up denied much of their sense of community and the intimacy people need to be healthy (regardless of type: a lover’s caress, a kid’s snuggle, a hug, sitting with somebody over tea, it all falls into what so many people call “connection.” And sadly, online connection is a real but sadly ersatz flavor of it.)
Binge-watching The Mandalorian has its limits, too.

Fortunately, if you miss Awareness Through Movement in-person, we’ve found a solution — a large, beautiful dance studio created during the Covid19 crisis and built from the ground-up with enough space and ventilation to hold classes in while maintaining the distancing everyone needs to stay safe. The location is great, too — right in Irving, near Las Colinas, and with excellent freeway access.

So if Awareness Through Movement is something you’re happier doing in-person, where you can hear somebody else giggling, complaining, or busting out with a snarky comment about yours-truly-the-instructor’s horrible Dad Jokes… options are coming. More news soon.